interesting than life on the farm‚ and therefore drew them away from rural communities. Notice how each supporting sentence is a cause that explains the effect mentioned in the topic sentence. In the chart below are the main ideas of the above paragraph‚ to help you understand the relationships better: EFFECT (Topic Sentence) CAUSES (Supporting Sentences) Cities have grown very large. [There are several reasons for this.] Factory jobs attracted people. (Cities have grown very large
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Essays #1: Rough Draft Language & Power in “Mother Tongue” A higher level of sophistication and articulation in one’s speech portrays one as a very well educated person. Such a person’s "language" makes them an admirable individual that can lead people and hold power with ease. In the article “Mother Tongue”‚ Amy Tan emphasizes the idea that we all speak different languages unconsciously
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In the article “Unteaching the Five-Paragraph Essay”‚ Marie Foley argues that the five-paragraph formula restrains students from actively thinking. The five-paragraph structure is still used today because teachers are continuing to teach students the formula. The formula is said to be easier to teach to a class rather than to teach individual students different patterns of organization. Foley says that the formula being taught is easier on them to teach and to grade because of how crowded the English
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PATTERNS OF PARAGRAPH DEVELOPMENT 1) Narrative - An account of a sequence of events‚ usually in chronological order. Example : "The barber was cutting our hair‚ and our eyes were closed--as they are so likely to be. . . . Deep in a world of our own‚ he heard‚ from far away‚ a voice saying goodbye. It was a customer of the shop‚ leaving. ’Goodbye‚’ he said to the barbers. ’Goodbye‚’ echoed the barbers. And without ever returning to consciousness‚ or opening our eyes‚ or thinking‚ we joined in
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sometimes affects my family. For example‚ my ten years child asked me a while ago why I work and not stand stay at home. I was surprised from the question but after a brief analysis‚ I found what made him think so .The many of my son’s classmates mothers
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Mother of Parliaments Great Britain is known as Mother of Parliaments. This is because in the Western world since the downfall of Rome‚ she was the first to introduce a workable body‚ an assembly of elected representatives of the people with the authority to resolve social and economic problems by free debate leading to the making of law. The Parliament‚ consisting of the House of Commons and the House of Lords‚ is the centre of British politics. One of the fundamental principles of the unwritten
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Sign Up Help (/faq) Log in (/login) Book Reviews : Mahasweta Devi‚ Mother of 1084. Translated with an Introductory Essay by Samik Bandyopadhyay. Calcutta: Seagull Books‚ 1997. 130 pages. Rs 160. Mahasweta Devi and Usha Ganguli‚ Rudali—From Fiction to Performance. Translated with an Introductory Essay by Anjum Katyal. Calcutta: Seagull Books‚ 1997. 156 pages‚ Rs 175. Mahasweta Devi‚ Five Plays. Translated by Samik Bandyopadhyay. Cal cutta : Seagull Books‚ 1997. 149 pages. Rs 150. Mahasweta
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Name: Date: Class: “One Sentence at a Time” Analytical Essay Organizer Essential Question of the assignment: Introductory Paragraph: 1. Introductory sentence that grabs your attention: a bold‚ somewhat broad statement that will draw the reader into your topic‚ and it’s relation to the text. What can you pose that will peak the interest of your reader? Ex: Throughout time the media typically portrays various lovers’ desired paths to “happily ever after” which
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Why not a “Tiger Mother” Nowadays‚ numerous parents connected their strict Asian-American parenting style with their children’s academic success‚ but is this narrow definition of success sufficient for raising an effective member in the society and have the parents pondered the consequences of this kind of parenting? “Tiger mother” refers to Amy Chua‚ a Chinese-American Yale law professor and author of the book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”. Her book documents her motherhood experiences
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“Congratulations‚ you have a beautiful baby boy!” my mother said as she rubbed my head with the biggest smile I think I had ever seen. Last year I would have never thought that I would be a mother a year later‚ especially not at the age of 16. I could still remember when my brother and sister were little and I would have to take care of them all the time. At least with them the responsibility was not all mines. This was “my child.” I would have to make sure he was fed‚ bathed‚ changed‚ and happy
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