engages the reader by clearly announcing the issue under examination, the writer’s thesis, and the angle he or she will take on this topic. * An explanation of the current event or issue that reviews what happened and the ongoing conversation about it. * An argument for a specific position that includes reasoning, evidence, examples, and observations. * A clarification that qualifies the argument, avoiding the tendency to overgeneralize or oversimplify the topic. * A conclusion that
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American history. During the first half of the seventeenth-century, the Puritans, a group of English Protestants, came to America to build communities based on religious ideals. In the New World, they encountered the Indians, whose culture, belief, and language is unknown to them and who make them feel insecure. The whites lay claim to 'their' new discovered country that was predestined for them by God. Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie (1827), set in seventeenth-century New England, deals with
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important. This will allow me to show what I have been taught and relay it to the audience in a way that they understand. From a professional standpoint I must write facts on what the field is about. I must be able to research the field that I am writing about to be able to allow the audience to learn about the field. I must make sure that I am using the facts that I find to be able to
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dominating language function is the expressive one, and the primary message of the article is to correct the media’s misinterpretations of Kathy and her husband’s attitude to child rearing. The article was written as a result of the media’s unusually large interest not just to express the family’s opinions in general. Therefore Witterick’s receivers are the people who read about her family in the first place. The article is written in long sentences with a fairly complicated language. The language
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Teaching Philosophy for Business Teaching especially in Business, I am always strain to move forward the simple expressing of facts and knowledge or even the training of certain skills. Instead, teachers in a liberal arts environment have the broad responsibility of serving as guide and mentor on an intellectual journey, opening and extending curious minds by exposing them to new thoughts and ideas. As education helps expand the students’ horizon and forces them to critically examine their values
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life, as an American, in a different perspective. Miner used cultural relativism and qualitative research methodology to explain why the Naciremain culture uses magic to maintain their physical conditioning and why magic is prevalent in their lives. Cultural relativism (the viewing of people's behavior from the perspective of their own culture) and use of qualitative research methodology (research that relies on what is seen in the field or naturalistic settings more than on statistical date) are
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Leading scientists such as Neil deGrasse Tyson wrote articles about this exact topic. In the favorite of his works, the Principa, Tyson concludes after reading it several times over that Newton believed that God must be the reason for the perfection in the solar system, even though the physics of it all, with the knowledge
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In the March 2018 issue of The New York Times, Ronan Samarajiva, in “Banning Social Media Won’t Stop Hate Speech,” examines how preventative and regulatory measures from media companies triumph as the solution to decreasing the spread of hate speech rather than the ban of the platform itself. The article first begins by describing an incident in Sra Lanka in which Buddhist chauvinist group congregated near an area where a Sinhalese Buddhist truck driver was killed in a road-rage accident. Their meeting
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‘The Suicide Epidemic,’ detailing a local bit of news about the recent rise in both attempted and successful suicides. With an uncanny ability of vivid descriptions with only forty three words at their disposal, the article describes that numerous cases of suicide, or attempted suicide, were reported on Monday (the same day as the publication). It goes on to list both the types of people this epidemic was associated with and how they went about committing these acts. All of the ‘humbler’ part of society
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Clarification of your argument, Conclusion 3. Begin by listening, good topic – a topic you care about and is interesting to you 4. Online sources, Print sources, Empirical Sources 5. Below: a. Introduction: State your purpose, state your main point or thesis statement b. Explain your Current Event or Issue: Explain what has happened already and summarize the ongoing conversation about the event. Provide enough background information to help the readers understand the event or issue
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