...quote this early in the essay? Explain (1)I feel that Emerson’s quote “Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to its own string,” Is implying, whatever you set your mind too you can accomplish. “Every heart vibrates to its own Iron string,” Is implying that everyone is different; we go about doing things in different ways, but it doesn’t mean that it’s wrong. (2) I feel he placed this quote so early in the essay because; he wanted to attract the reader’s attention with such a unique passage. He tried grabbing their attention, early in the passage. 2. In paragraph 4, Emerson says, “it is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own” (as cited in Langan, 2014). What does he mean by this quote? What is his purpose in making this statement? Explain. (1) “It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion”, basically it’s saying that it is easy for other people to justify your life, doing what’s good in the eyes of society. Letting what other people think, affect the way you live your life. “It’s is easy in solitude to live after our own,” Is saying to live in solitude, you can easily live, doing the things that you want to do. (2) To shed light on the situation, of people caring, what other people think. Live by your own path; don’t let people influence what you do. It would be easy living in both situation, but living for your own self-interest, would be easier. 4. At the end of the essay, Gregory shifts his focus...
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...aspects of life, no matter how old they are. Language is another field that proves the existence of sexual lines. It`s so easy to notice the line between men and women when it comes to the use of language, and such kind of sex difference seems to be a reasonable choice. In her essay The Party Line, the author Rachel Rafelman starts with the gender split in party and sets out to explore the social dynamic of men and women in conversation by combining the ideas of plenty of writers, editors and friends with hers. According to her, women get personal and are more interesting than men, who limit their talking in business, in conversation. “Given a chance, everyone prefers talking to women (317)”. Nevertheless, men are instinctively blowing their horns when talking while women have no such “instrument”—they even depreciate themselves. However, on the basis of another essay about this gender issue, Sex Differences by Ronald Macaulay, men and women do not acquire and use differently. Macaulay claims that differences showed in research reports are not large enough to be statistically significant, people should focus more on what men and women have in common. Both writers consolidate their thesis in their own way, but generally I think Rafelman's essay strike a chord with me. I mean, I prefer her opinion to Macaulay's. The notion that the two sexes use...
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...aspects of life, no matter how old they are. Language is another field that proves the existence of sexual lines. It`s so easy to notice the line between men and women when it comes to the use of language, and such kind of sex difference seems to be a reasonable choice. In her essay The Party Line, the author Rachel Rafelman starts with the gender split in party and sets out to explore the social dynamic of men and women in conversation by combining the ideas of plenty of writers, editors and friends with hers. According to her, women get personal and are more interesting than men, who limit their talking in business, in conversation. “Given a chance, everyone prefers talking to women (317)”. Nevertheless, men are instinctively blowing their horns when talking while women have no such “instrument”—they even depreciate themselves. However, on the basis of another essay about this gender issue, Sex Differences by Ronald Macaulay, men and women do not acquire and use differently. Macaulay claims that differences showed in research reports are not large enough to be statistically significant, people should focus more on what men and women have in common. Both writers consolidate their thesis in their own way, but generally I think Rafelman's essay strike a chord with me. I mean, I prefer her opinion to Macaulay's. The notion that the two sexes use...
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...boys think Liz is cute. She has long red hair, cascading over her shoulders. She laughs about everything and when she does, you see about a hundred white teeth – so bright, you almost need sunglasses. When she laughs, her eyes grow wide, glowing emerald green. Liz likes to dress kind of skater-ish, in camouflage pants, sweatshirts, and wristbands. But, she’s unpredictable, too. Sometimes she’ll wear overalls or a fancy dress. She must have three closets full of clothes, because she barely ever wears the same outfit twice. Liz is the most lively, animated character I’ve ever known. She’s always rushing around, trying to get the latest scoop on everybody. It’s like she’s in the FBI. Right before she shares important news, Liz tosses back her hair, takes a deep breath, and quickly looks side to side, to be sure the coast is clear. She never says anything mean about people, she just wants to know what’s going on. She always supports me in everything I want to do. Not many girls in our group of friends play sports, but when I told Liz I wanted to go out for basketball, she said “Go for it.” Now, she comes to see almost every game I play and cheer me on. Not only is Liz a tremendous supporter, she also trusts me to give her my honest opinion and to say what I feel. Last year, she thought Mrs. Jones gave her a lower math grade than she deserved. I told her the truth – that Liz handed everything in late and what did she expect? Next marking period, Liz got...
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...Does the identity of a person survive if that person succumbs to dementia? In his essay, Matthews, explores the different views, of Locke, Parfit and Merleau-Ponty, and how they define the identity of a person and how that definition applies to a person suffering from dementia. In this essay, I will summarize Merleau-Ponty’s definition and give his ideas on how to treat a person with dementia. I will then do the same for Locke and Parfit. Finally, I will compare both theories. In this essay, I will argue that Merleau-Ponty gives better advice on how to treat demented patients than does Locke and Parfit. The philosophical problem that Matthews is trying to solve is what is the best way to define personal identity and how it applies to the treatment of a person suffering from dementia. Dementia is a very serious disease, where one loses their experiential memory, their self-consciousness and has a hard time recognizing themselves and family and friends. Merleau-Ponty defines a person as an “actual human being, with whom we can have certain kinds of dealings and relationships- someone like ourselves, to whom we can relate as ‘another self’” (pg 172). The “someone like ourselves” that he is referring too is another biological organism in our own species with whom we can communicate with and cooperate with. Merleau-Ponty is saying that persons are embodied biological organisms that are capable of thought and reflection on their “experience and of communicating these...
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...ENC 1101: Written Communication I Cause & Effect Essay Peer Review Guidelines I’ve always found it helpful to have someone read my writing and give me feedback. I know what I wanted to write, but is that what I actually wrote? Sometimes, I need someone else to tell me. A reviewer can offer valuable comments on the direction and flow of my essay. Is the thesis clear? Do I support it with reasonable arguments and examples? Have I included enough detail, or have I strayed from the main idea? Read and comment on your classmates’ essays using the following questions as a guide. Please be thoughtful in your responses; be honest and offer only constructive (helpful) criticism. You are not expected to “edit” your classmates’ work for errors. At the same time, offering nothing but praise does not give the writer any suggestions for improvement. Name of the Reviewer: Pal Khan Name of Writer: Leanna Flores-Machado Read the opening TWO paragraphs of the essay first and answer the following questions. Title of Essay: “Not Here” Is the title interesting? Why or why not? Yes because it makes me question what should I not do. Based on the title, what do you think the essay is about? I thought it was going to talk about what not to do in a certain situation. Does the writer open the essay with a descriptive / narrative hook? Narrative Hook What do you learn about the writer from the hook? I learned that she went to Honduras over the summer and that she almost forgot that the people in...
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...primary school. I have written hundreds of essays for tests, homework, and practices for almost 10 years and I am still writing now. At the beginning of the third year of my primary school my teacher asked us to write a journal every day. For the first few days I am interested in it, but as time went through, it really drived me crazy, because the life was almost the same during 24 hours one day and seven days one week. Most of my classmates complained it is hard to write different journals every day, it was easy, however, our teacher said you can do some observations around you and your community and do not limit yourself. So I got the first key element of the writing-observation. My journal was admired by my teacher as I did good observations and I was introverted when I was a child, that is easy for me to express my emotion into the paper. Journals also made me understand that “practice makes perfert”. After years of growth, my writing skill was updated, but the standard of writing was also uping. The teacher in middle school was more strict with students’ essays than the one did in primary school. I felt unprecedented pressure from each class, especially writing class. Seldom can I get appropriate ideas for an essay even I did a lot of surveies. I consulted my teacher what I need to do. She said “reading’, then I got the second key element for writing which is reading. After reading several books which contain sample essays there is still not a great step in my writing...
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...I have learned that judgment is very important when evaluating. Evaluation is another important lesson that I have learned. This has also helped me become better at evaluating essays. Amitai Etzioni’s essay, Working at McDonald’s has helped me understand what evaluation simply is. Etzioni uses examples such as “McDonald’s is bad for your kids.” (par. 1) “We know that’s a strong topic sentence to start with. A few more examples are, “Closer examination, however, finds the McDonald’s kind of job highly uneducational in several ways. Far from providing opportunities for entrepreneurship (the lemonade stand) or self-discipline, self-supervision, and self-scheduling (the paper route), most teen jobs these days are highly structured — what social scientists call “highly routinized.” (par.6) “The hours are often long. Among those 14 to 17, a third of fast-food employees (including some school dropouts) labor more than 30 hours per week, according to the Charper-Fraser study. Only 20 percent work 15 hours or less. The rest: between 15 and 30 hours.” (par. 12) If we look at these few examples, we should have learned that he almost has a [powerful] topic sentence which follows detailed details after. Etzioni is trying to show his point that working at McDonalds is bad for your children. I have also learned from the first writing activity on page 254, that we would start of analyzing his writing. Then we had learned how to use factual details. On the next activity we had learned reasoning/shared...
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...are really the only two terms that I will have to define. Yes I will be using compare and contrast paragraphs. I will be comparing the same benefits between buying a house and renting an apartment. There are not many similarities between the two. The only thing I can think that would be the same would be the fact they both supply a roof over your head. When comparing these two I will have to look for some similarities between the both. The contrasting part of the essay will not be that hard. There a lot of differences between renting and buying a home. This part will be easy to do. The hardest part will be comparing the two. I will be contrasting the difference between renting and buying a house. When you rent there are things that you can technically get by with. When you buy the more things that you have do and there are certain things that you can do. When you rent there are certain thing that you cannot do. Which when you rent there are all kinds of rules that you have follow set by your landlord. When you buy a house you set your own rules. When you buy a house there are all kinds of taxes that you have to pay that you do not have to pay when you rent. I will use definitions if I need to and only if I think I need to define them. My whole essay is basically a compare and contrast essay as well a persuasion. I have two different essays in one. I will use whatever I have to use in order to write...
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...thing I have learned from reading many books is to have my writing authentic and unique because those are the writings that stick with you. I have written a research paper, persuasive essays, book reports, and a reflection paper. One of my mistakes in writing is that I don’t know how to stop. I used to write very long stories in elementary school and my teacher had told my parents that I ramble a lot in my writing. Ever since, I’ve tried to control that and I try to write clearly and concisely without making it too repetitive or redundant. I like when I can essentially “hear my voice” when I read my writing, which is why as much as I do respect and appreciate criticism on my papers, sometimes I find it hard to change my writing because I want it to sound the most like me....
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...DESCRIPTION QUESTIONS: (Strategy: divide into 2 or 3 parts) Sample answer Tell me something about your hometown? Well as you can probably guess I come from Taipei and I have lived here all my life, although at the moment I’m studying in another city – Taizhong. I suppose if I had to describe Taipei, the first thing I would say is that it’s very crowded, maybe even one of the biggest cities in Asia I guess. It’s so congested that even the locals have problems finding their way around! Another significant characteristic is that it offers splendid examples of contemporary architecture. Actually some of the renowned landmarks are in the middle of Taipei, such as the Taipei 101, the second tallest building in the world. | Well, the main thing you need to know is that…(1) + (details)… On top of that I can also add that (2)…+ (details)… Something else that I need to say is that (3)…so actually…(detail) Starting-off Ok, then; actually; alright; well, you know; Point 1 The first thing I’d like to mention is … The main thing you need to know is … I’d like to begin by highlighting the fact … Point 2 In addition I suppose I should say … Another interesting point … Not only that, but _______is also exceedingly ….. Point 3 And I shouldn’t forget to mention that… I guess I could also say that (it’s) sort-of …….. Finally I’d also like to mention …….. Practice: Tell me something about your hometown? What does your neighborhood look like? What does...
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...diagnosed with cancer every day, and according to the statistics one out of three people will be affected with cancer at least once in their life. Cancer is one of the most deadliest killers in the U.S. and other countries as well. As you read my essay you can tell that this is all facts, in this essay I will discuss cancer and the effects it had on my aunt Millie and my family, symptoms, and risks. My aunt’s struggle with cancer was one of the many things I couldn’t stand to watch, but then at the same time I had to. My aunt’s daily activities after she found out about the cancer did not change she still cooked and cleaned even though sometimes she needed some help. My aunt never felt sad or angry that she had gotten cancer she would wake up every day and make the best of it she was always happy no matter what. The day my aunt Millie passed away was one of the saddest days our family has ever went through. Everyone in our family loved her so much and never wanted to see her go, but every day when I think of her I know that she is in a better place. Cancer today is one of the most deadly killers in the world. There are many different types of cancer lung cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer, prostate cancer, etc. There are many different signs of having cancer a change in bowl/bladder habits, sore throat that does not heal, unusual bleeding or discharge, lump in the breast or testicles, indigestion or difficulty swallowing, change in size, shape, or color of mole, and nagging cough...
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...Reflective Essay Two I have learned a lot from being at NCOA from the past week. II am going to take this vast knowledge back to my work center and hopefully I will be able to improve the work environment there. We covered a lot I am going to discuss my “aha” moment, what I have learned from individual projects, and what I could change about my leadership. My “aha” moment was when we covered the four lenses. Especially when we learned what the four colors mean. I realized that by me being and orange I am very outgoing but I am also a gold and green. The orange and the gold are opposites and the green I tend to ask a lot of questions and panic over small things. Based on this lesson I realize why me and my supervisor tend to not get along its cause he is a blue and I am an orange. He is a true blue too he wears his emotions on his shirt sleeve. He is also very much into family. What I have learned from individual projects are that I can apply the lessons learned here to the reflective essay from last week and what kind of leader I perceive myself to be. While writing that essay was hard for me cause it is really hard to judge yourself. Plus then you have to perceive how your subordinates perceive you. I tried to be biased in that and it worked out I found that I am not much different than the other NCO’s in my. What I could change about my leadership is how I approach diversity. I have to take in to account the temperament of people, I have been bad about that...
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...required essays I have realized that having the length requirement met does not mean that it is to the best of my ability. That with more writing assignments and classes gave me a better understanding about what kind of writer I really am. As a writer in college my writings have become better due to self-improvement. My weaknesses have become strengths by utilizing every writing assignment given and trying to improve every weak spot. When I was younger and trying to write an essay I would write down some sentences, reread what I wrote and if I didn't like it, I would throw the paper...
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...Dog Food Fried, Flipped and Devoured Eating dog food may not be seen as the easiest thing to stomach because the smell, texture and by-products found within the mixture are thought of as awful and revolting. In Ann Hodgman’s “No Wonder They Call Me a Bitch”, although the title may suggest otherwise, different types of dog food are discussed. In this essay, Hodgman aims to inform her readers about the inequality in different types of dog food, as well as to entertain and amuse. Hodgman is writing to a broad audience, one of dog lovers and owners, as well as those that may be curious as to what is really in dog food, or more generally the packaging and processing of mass-produced food of any kind. Language, description and humor are techniques Hodgman skillfully uses to create a strong, convincing essay. Within this essay, Hodgman continually uses diction and syntax that a diverse audience can understand and relate to. In the beginning, the reader feels repulsed by what is written. However, through a light tone of voice and sentence structure, the levity of the experiences and feelings occurring throughout the experiment is conveyed. The personal anecdotes and thoughts make the tone feel less formal and much more story-like. In this way, Hodgman produces a piece that connects the information and readers Shortly after capturing interest through stating questions, Hodgman begins using large amounts of description. Each type of dog food is explained and illustrated so well that...
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