Descriptive Paragraph One of the things that I treasure in summertime is my weekends. I start my day early‚ getting ready to ride in my boyfriend’s car‚ to pick up the boat from a friend. The boat is a camouflaged‚ flat bottom‚ twelve feet long; spray painted on one side is the name for the boat “Esox Lucius”. We get to the creek and Jake dismounts the boat‚ I help by bringing the fishing poles‚ tackle boxes and my bag down to the bank. The familiar creek where we go is not too wide‚ covered on
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NARRATIVE PARAGRAPH The toddler climbed laboriously up onto the stool‚ determined to “help” her mother. But her mother did not notice; she was far too busy with the frantic preparations for the birthday party. Ten three-year-olds and their mothers coming for an afternoon of treats‚ games and face painting: a herald of another party‚ ten years from now‚ when make up would be the order of the day‚ the child’s father had observed. As the mixer whirred and the dishwasher swished and the oven beeped
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AP Lit‚ Period 7 Hamlet Paragraph In the classic play Hamlet‚ Shakespeare uses diction and imagery to help align the reader with Hamlet and the Ghost’s hatred towards King Claudius and Queen Gertrude. ! In this passage of the play Hamlet‚ Shakespeare uses an abundance of negative diction to clearly let the reader see how much hatred there was‚ coming from Hamlet and the Ghost and directed to the King and the Queen. “Ay‚ that incestuous‚ that adulterate beast‚” (13-14). This quote
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Developing Unified and Coherent Paragraphs A paragraph is unified when every sentence develops the point made in the topic sentence. It must have a single focus and it must contain no irrelevant facts. Every sentence must contribute to the paragraph by explaining‚ exemplifying‚ or expanding the topic sentence. In order to determine whether a paragraph is well developed or not‚ ask yourself: "What main point am I trying to convey here?" (Topic sentence) and then "Does every sentence clearly relate
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Joshua Wilson ENL 095-206 Illustration Paragraph I think my biggest fear this semester would have to be the fear of failure. Don’t misunderstand me it’s not the everyday little things that I’m afraid of failing at. I guess more than anything it’s the fear of failing at college as a whole. Now I realize that a select group of you guys will shrug and have a good laugh about how someone could be afraid of that. Okay tough guys let’s see if I can’t shake you up a little. Picture yourself
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Body Paragraph: CESL 1003 Professor: Cecilia Parkes Name: Dengli Pan Student number: 100963196 Tourism is an important‚ even vital‚ source of income for many countries. Its importance was recognized in the Manila Declaration on World Tourism of 1980 as "an activity essential to the life of nations because of its direct effects on the social‚ cultural‚ educational‚ and economic sectors of national societies and on their international relations." According to the
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A T E X A S paragraph based on the MAIN IDEA in Bred in South Auckland by Glenn Colquhoun ‘Bred in South Auckland’ by Glenn Colquhoun‚ is a poem that outlines and identifies how society labels different racial groups and residents in South Auckland‚ which is considered‚ the ‘slum’ of Auckland. It bluntly tells you how stereotyping has become so common and the effect that it has on our society. There are many examples of stereotypes‚ prejudice and racism in this poem. The examples show how
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So‚ let ’s suppose that you have done some brainstorming to develop your thesis. What else should you keep in mind as you begin to create paragraphs? Every paragraph in a paper should be Unified—All of the sentences in a single paragraph should be related to a single controlling idea (often expressed in the topic sentence of the paragraph). Clearly related to the thesis—The sentences should all refer to the central idea‚ or thesis‚ of the paper (Rosen and Behrens 119). Coherent—The sentences
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Walden Questions on Rhetoric and Style 7. What paradox does Thoreau develop concerning the railroad in paragraph 2? 8. Paragraph 3 begins with a rhetorical question. How effectively does the rest of the paragraph answer it? 9. Discuss the meaning of the phrase “starved before we are hungry” in sentence 2 of paragraph 3. 10. Compare the probable rhetorical effect of paragraph 4 at the time it was written (1854—pre-Civil War‚ pre-technological communication) with its effect today
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2_01Revolutionary_Ideas Alex Wasko 4-20-13 Mr. Walsh The Declaration of Independence|Use this panel to provide a paragraph overview of the purpose and structure of the Declaration of Independence.The Declariation of Independence is a statement adopted by the Contenial Congress on July 4‚ 1776‚ which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britan‚ regarded themselves as independent states‚ and no longer a part of the British Empire. Instead they
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