... In this assessment you will write an essay that is both informational and persuasive on a given topic. You are not expected to have any prior research on the topics. You should be able to compose a cohesive essay using information you already know as well as ideas and preferences you already have. For the persuasive part of the essay, your evidence or support may be in the form of examples, details, or elaboration on the idea that you present. Topics: Note: Choose only one of the following topics for your essay. You are planning to adopt a pet. What type of pet (dog, cat, lizard, bird, etc.) will you choose and why? Persuade a friend or relative to adopt a pet as well. You considered many factors when deciding to enroll at WGU. Describe your reasons for choosing to become a WGU student, and persuade a friend to enroll at WGU. You have decided to splurge on a dream vacation with your family. Explain why this vacation is worth the expense, and persuade your family to vacation at your preferred location. Explain one of your hobbies, and persuade a friend to take up this hobby. A close friend of yours is beginning the process of adopting a child and has asked you to provide a letter of recommendation to the adoption agency that speaks to his or her ability to provide a loving home for a child. Describe your friend, and persuade the agency that your friend would be a suitable parent. Task: Write an essay (suggested length of 750-1,000 words) that...
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...Persuasive Essay Comm/215 Persuasive Essay Having an Abortion Is Not an Option Thousands of woman all around the world have abortions every day. Women believe there are several reasons to abort a child such as being a young mother, no money, or being forced to have sex. Whatever has happen there is always a better way than abortion. Human values, and your since of mothering instincts should prevent this not to mention your conscience. The first reason for not having an abortion is human responsibility. Women should consider the feelings of the unborn child who have no idea what is going on. These unborn children are not responsible for their situation. These unborn children should be allowed the opportunity to grow and have a chance at life. Women should apply there motherly instincts when it comes to these unborn children. There are several options available to these women such as adoption, county agencies, and private parties with good back grounds wanting to adopt unborn child. The second reason why women should not have an abortion has to do with a wide variety of religious beliefs. Many religions will punish women or treat them very badly including not being able to participate in church activities. In many churches some form of penitence is required before they will be allowed to continue in church activities. It is not a necessary thing to kill unborn child with today’s options. The third and most important reason for not having an abortion is related...
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...International adoption Nurman Assima (ID:20110635) Academic Reading and Writing 1 Anna Bondarenko November 11, 2011 Outline Essay question: Whether or not international adoption should be banned? I Introduction Thesis statement: Although there is plenty persuasive evidence supporting the benefits for children to be placed in adoptive homes rather than to be left in orphanages, many negative effects can arise as a result of international adoptions, such as loss of culture or family identity, child trafficking, deceit and kidnapping. II Body A. International adoption is detrimental to the adopted children. 1. National distinctions of children from their adoptive parents lead to the loss of their cultural, physical and psychological identity. 2. Negative social attitude and the stigma attached to adoption is psychologically damaging to adopted children. B. International adoption has transformed from a noble cause into underground profitable business. 1. During the adoption process agencies and advocates are driven by financial incentives. 2. International adoption is accompanied with abuses, crimes and other immoral actions on the part of adoptive parents. C. International adoption gives orphans all over the world a possibility to obtain a family. 1. Adoption gives a possibility to an orphan to obtain a better life. 2. Adoptive parents provide diseased orphans with high-quality...
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...Vita Kellett Kate Hamm English 050 November 4, 2012 Audience My audiences are the people who think about adopting internationally and people who just might be interested in finding out more about adoption outside of the United States. I will try to use many examples of international adoption and how that affects the child. Anyone could read this paper but I believe that this information would be more interesting for those who want to find some answers about international adoption. Purpose The purpose of my paper is to inform and to those who want to adopt internationally about straggles they might have and what’s the better way to deal with them and how to find answers. Also I will try to persuade my audience to adopt more and to change lives of those who aren’t so luck and happened to not have any family. Thesis statement If the U. S. department of state international adoption services would provide classes on what to expect when you adopt independently overseas then the families that are adopting would be more prepared. Content: Background of the Problem When you adopt overseas you are indeed changing not only your life but the life of the adopted children. You are showing them what it is like to have a lovely home and a family that takes care about you. But why do some of these children still have a hard time adapting to it? It is obvious that they will have to learn new ways in the new country but there is more to that. Some of the adopted children...
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... New Year’s - Birthday, Quince, Anniversary 11. San Antonio Events / Non-Profits Literary Examples: 1. Jurgis 2. Eli Weisel 3. Equality 4. Atticus Finch 5. Frederick Douglass 6. Ivan Denisovich Words that support Excellent Examples in the Persuasive Essay: - courage -discipline - resilience - leader - vision - journey - strength - support - organize - perseverance - duty/joy - fearless Excellent Examples: 1. Gandhi 2. Malala 3. Nelson Mandela 4. Cesar Chavez 5. Nikoli Tesla 6. Frederick Douglass 7. Susan B. Anthony 8. Harriet Tubman 9. Dr. Martin Luther King 10. Rosa Parks 11. Helen Keller / Anne Sullivan 12. Facebook / Google / Instagram 13. Syrian Refugees 14. Steve Jobs / Bill Gates / Mark Zuckerberg 15. Spurs / Coach Pop (prompt about teamwork) Good Matches: - Gandhi / MLK (in that order!) - Frederick Douglass / Harriet Tubman / Susan B. Anthony - Steve Jobs / Nikoli Tesla - Eli Wiesel / Frederick Douglasss - Cesar Chavez / Ema Tenayuca - Facebook / Mark Zuckerberg - Bernie Sanders / Jurgis - Jurgis / Jonas / Atticus Finch - Ivan Denisovich / Eli Wiesel - Jurgis / Syrian Refugees - Syrian Refugees / Steve Jobs (his father was a Syrian Refugee who attended university in America, Jobs was put up for adoption by his mother) - Elie Wiesel / Ivan Denisovich - Syrian Refugees / Habitat for Humanity - Habitat for Humanity / Kim’s Kids - San Antonio...
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...COM 120 Entire Course http://homeworkgallery.com/index.php/product/com-120-entire-course/ http://homeworkgallery.com/index.php/product/com-120-entire-course/ COM 120 Week 1 Single Mother Single mothers in America” is the title that I have chosen for my persuasive essay. I feel that being a single mother myself I can relate to them on the same ground as I am living a life walking in the same shoes as them. “With great power comes great responsibility” is a well known line from the movie Spider man. COM 120 Week 1 Capital Letters 103 1. – At the turn of a new century and a new Millennium, many people are reflecting on the historical changes that have taken place during the past hundred years. – At the turn of a new century and a new millennium, many people are reflecting on the historical changes that have taken place during the past hundred years. 2. – In the late 1990s, Americans began making lists reflecting their choices of the greatest Events, Literature, People, and Films of the century. – In the late 1990s, Americans began making lists reflecting their choices of the greatest events, literature, people, and films of the century. 3. – Most Americans would agree that the two World Wars shaped the twentieth century and this country’s role in it. – Most Americans would agree that the two world wars shaped the twentieth century and this country’s role in it. COM 120 Week 1 Comma Splices and Fused Sentences 562 1. Most people are familiar...
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...You are welcome to search thousands of free research papers and essays. Search for your research paper topic now! Research paper topic: Premarital Sex - 1551 words NOTE: The research paper or essay you see on this page is a free essay, available to anyone. You can use any paper as a sample on how to write research papers or as a source of information. We strongly discourage you to directly copy/paste any essay and turn it in for credit. If your school uses any plagiarism detecting software, you might be caught and accused of plagiarism. If you need a custom term paper, research paper or essay, written from scratch exclusively for you, please, use our paid research papers writing service! Premarital Sex Premarital Sex and Religion The Catholic Church teaches that premarital sex is wrong, yet it is still widely practiced around the world. The reason marriage was created was to join two people of the opposite sex together in a holy sacrament that would make the couple one. God's reason for marriage is quoted in the bible when he said, "For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh" . The Sacrament of marriage is one of the most sacred Sacraments in the Catholic Religion. By performing premarital sex, the couple is breaking a covenant with God and is performing a sin. Marriage is the joining of a couple in the eyes of God and in the eyes of the State. When two people are joined into marriage they become...
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...Qn. Write an argumentative/ persuasive essay on; why abortion should be legalized or not? The most basic definition of abortion is termination of pregnancy. According to Wikipedia ‘abortion is the termination of pregnancy by the removal or expulsion from the uterus of the fetus or embryo resulting in or cause of death.’ Over several centuries and in different cultures, there is a rich history of women helping each other to abort. The first recorded evidence of induced abortion was from the Egyptian Ebers Papyrus in 1550 BC. The history of abortion goes back as we can see but it is not until the 1800’s that laws forbade the act after 16 weeks of conception. By the early 1900’s the act was completely outlawed but even at that women were still having abortions. The discussion of whether abortion should or shouldn’t be legalized is a very sensitive. Currently, Kenya is going through the process of acquiring a new constitution, one of the contentious issues in the draft is the issue on whether the constitution is legalizing abortion or not. The issue of legalization of abortion is very controversial. Even though many people take the side of anti- abortion or pro-life i.e. they believe it should not be legalized, there are just as many who believe it should. The decision on whether to keep an unwanted pregnancy or not is one that strikes ethics, religion, morality, norms and most of all judgment from the society. A society that dictates what is right and wrong and sets the limits...
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...projects for social welfare (Sharma, et al. 2009). An example of CSR would be companies respect employees’ basic human rights or firms donate money to society for charity. There are several incentives for companies to establish CSR and it can also have an impact on improving the relationship with employees and consumers. There are some who would argue that top priority should be given to corporate social responsibility, then company improves their public image and as result, their profits. There are others who would insist that it is pointless in building CSR, and guaranteeing shareholders a profit should always be the top priority. Finally, there are others who would argue that there is a middle ground, however cynical the motive. This essay will attempt to demonstrate why making social responsibilities’ benefits outweigh drawbacks. Firstly, establishing corporate social responsibility can attract more skilled people to work for the company. For example, Johnson and Johnson “Balancing Work and Family” program which reflects company’s credo commitment to help employees well manage their work and family...
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...Saint Gabriel Academy Araneta Avenue Corner Road, Caloocan City Highschool Department “Fourth Year students’ performance in relation to their family issues” In partial fulfilment of the requirements in English IV Submitted to: Ms. Jhazmyn Reyes English Teacher Submitted by: VIRAY, Patricia Rose A. IV – Saint Augustine February 21, 2012 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to express my deepest gratitude for the fourth year students who serve as the respondent of my surveying to fulfil this study. Despite their busy schedule, they manage to answer my questionnaire properly and relevantly. Because of them, I can think of more realization with the help of their own personal opinion and experiences. Also with their help my study would be relevant because it is based on their real-life experiences. I would also like to thank Ms. Jhazmyn Reyes, my English teacher, for making me do this study because of this experience doing a thesis, it would be a big help for me when I get to college and do another thesis a my requirement. Thank you, for the time you spend to teach me how I will do this step-by-step and for the patience and effort you have exerted every time I will ask questions. To my family, for supporting me in everything I do as long it is in favour of the Almighty God, for being my strength and inspiration, and for teaching me what is wrong from right. God blessed me with a good family so I can be a good person and be a responsible steward of God. ABSTRACT ...
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...[pic] JPPSS ELA COURSE GUIDE 2011-2012 ENGLISH I The JPPSS Instructional Sequence Guides are aligned with the LA Comprehensive Curriculum. JPPSS Implementation of Activities in the Classroom Incorporation of activities into lesson plans is critical to the successful implementation of the Louisiana Comprehensive Curriculum. The Comprehensive Curriculum indicates one way to align instruction with Louisiana standards, benchmarks, and grade-level expectations. The curriculum is aligned with state content standards, as defined by grade-level expectations (GLEs), and organized into coherent, time-bound units with sample activities and classroom assessments to guide teaching and learning. The units in the curriculum have been arranged so that the content to be assessed will be taught before the state testing dates. While teachers may substitute equivalent activities and assessments based on the instructional needs, learning styles, and interests of their students, the Comprehensive Curriculum should be a primary resource when planning instruction. Grade level expectations—not the textbook—should determine the content to be taught. Textbooks and other instructional materials should be used as resource in teaching the grade level expectations...
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... PROCREATIVE RESPONSIBILITY, AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF HARM Seana Valentine Shiffrin University of California at Los Angeles I. A wrongful life suit is an unusual civil suit brought by a child (typically a congenitally disabled child)1 who seeks damages for burdens he suffers that result from his creation. Typically, the child charges that he has been born into an unwanted or miserable life.2 These suits offer the prospect of financial relief for some disabled or neglected children and have some theoretical advantages over alternative causes of action.3 But they have had 1. In these cases, the disability is not usually caused by events after conception, such as prenatal damage. Rather, the disability, the underlying genetic condition, or the relevant circumstances of conception are essentially linked to the child’s identity or existence. So, he must claim that his life was wrongfully caused, not only his disability. Jeff McMahan argues that some significant prenatal damage, occurring early in pregnancy, may affect the identity of the child. If he is correct, then such cases should be classified with the cases typically associated with wrongful life litigation. Jeff McMahan, Wrongful Life: Paradoxes in the Morality of Causing People to Exist, in RATIONAL COMMITMENT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE: ESSAYS FOR GREGORY KAVKA 208–47 (J. Coleman & C. Morris eds., 1998). 2. Usually these suits are brought on behalf of children and allege that their parents’ doctors were at fault for failing to inform...
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...this situation sounds familiar, you may find it reassuring to know that many professionals undergo these same strange compulsions before they begin writing. Jean Kerr, author of Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, admits that she often finds herself in the kitchen reading soup-can labels—or anything—in order to prolong the moments before taking pen in hand. John C. Calhoun, vice president under Andrew Jackson, insisted he had to plow his fields before he could write, and Joseph Conrad, author of Lord Jim and other novels, is said to have cried on occasion from the sheer dread of sitting down to compose his stories. To spare you as much hand-wringing as possible, this chapter presents some practical suggestions on how to begin writing your short essay. Although all writers must find the methods that work best for them, you may find some of the following ideas helpful. But no matter how you actually begin putting words on paper, it is absolutely essential to maintain two basic ideas concerning your writing task. Before you write a single sentence, you should always remind yourself that 1. You have some valuable ideas to tell your reader, and 2. More than anything, you want to communicate those ideas to your reader. These reminders may seem obvious to you, but without a solid commitment to your own opinions as well as to your reader, your prose will be lifeless and boring. If you don’t care about your subject, you can’t very well expect anyone else to. Have confidence that your ideas are...
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...RESEARCH and WRITING CUSTOM EDITION Taken from: Writing Research Papers: A Complete Guide, Eleventh Edition by James D. Lester and James D. Lester, Jr. To the Point: Reading and Writing Short Arguments by Gilbert H. Muller and Harvey S. Wiener ISBN 0-558-55519-5 Research and Writing, Custom Edition. Published by Pearson Custom Publishing. Copyright © 2006 by Pearson Custom Publishing. Taken from: Writing Research Papers: A Complete Guide, Eleventh Edition by James D. Lester and James D. Lester, Jr. Copyright © 2005 by Pearson Education, Inc. Published by Pearson Longman, Inc. New York, New York 10036 To the Point: Reading and Writing Short Arguments by Gilbert H. Muller and Harvey S. Wiener Copyright © 2005 by Pearson Education, Inc. Published by Pearson Longman, Inc. Copyright © 2006 by Pearson Custom Publishing All rights reserved. Permission in writing must be obtained from the publisher before any part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system. All trademarks, service marks, registered trademarks, and registered service marks are the property of their respective owners and are used herein for identification purposes only. Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN 0-536-97722-4 2005240359 AP Please visit our web site at www.pearsoncustom.com ISBN 0-558-55519-5 PEARSON CUSTOM PUBLISHING ...
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...The Purchase of Moral Satisfaction ( Richard O. Zerbe Jr. Abstract The debate over whether moral sentiments should be included in normative economic analysis offers the arguments that inclusion is unnecessary as results are the same, that inclusion can result in double counting and will result in acceptance of projects that fail to pass a potential compensation test. I show that these arguments are unpersuasive or incorrect. Instead the inclusion of moral sentiments has potential to improve normative analysis. This is illustrated by comparing the standard criteria for benefit cost analysis (Kaldor-Hicks) that does not include moral sentiments with a modification (KHZ) that does. KHZ dominates KH even by the principles of KH itself. JEL Codes: Q20, D6, D63, D64 I. Introduction The practical criteria for economic efficiency, the Kaldor-Hicks (KH) criteria, have existed for over sixty years, without the profession fully facing the issue of whether or not moral sentiments should be included in normative economic analysis. In part this is due to historical reasons, in part to normal inertia associated with any academic discipline, in part because of the recent interest in moral sentiments in the form of existence values and in part because of objections raised to inclusion of moral sentiments. This paper concerns two issues. The first is whether or not it is desirable to include moral sentiments in welfare analysis. The answer to this question...
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