The Truth Behind a Lie Lena Madison Axia College of the University of Phoenix COM 120 Effective Persuasive Writing Pamela Strunk October 1‚ 2006 Sports are among the greatest of human pleasures‚ [and] one of the U.S.’ biggest industries…”(Sheed‚ 1995‚ p. 10). Success is considered by many to be the most important goal of sports‚ and at the level of professional sports‚ winning is the ultimate goal. Because winning is so important‚ athletes‚ whether they are young or old‚ professional or
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Walls are like guardians for a person’s privacy. Walls are built to hid away from society and to either keep people in or out of someone’s life. They come in different sizes‚ color‚ and shape. People can also build an invisible wall in their life to isolate themselves from others that might hurt them and prevent from anyone coming into their life. "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost uses tone‚ setting‚ and imagery to tell the story of two neighbors who come together to fix a wall and discover the reason
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Ashley McCluskey English 1 Mrs. Luehrs October 26‚ 2010 Meanings Behind Animal Farm By: Ashley McCluskey Animal Farm is a book that represents many different things. The book has three levels of meaning. Animal farm is a childerns book because it has talking animals. It is a Satire of Communist Russia because a lot of the problems and characters represented in the story are like the problems and people of Communist Russia. Also‚ in this story it shows the different ways to abuse power
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All human societies‚ past and present‚ have had a keen interest in education; some have claimed that teaching is the second oldest profession. While not all societies hold sufficient resources for educational activities and institutions‚ all at the very least‚ acknowledge the significance of an education‚ of learning lessons—and for good reasons. For one thing‚ it is obvious that every child‚ despite sex‚ race or rank‚ is born illiterate and innumerate‚ and every child is born ignorant of the cultural
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Dead people. Not exactly my first choice of topics to read about‚ but the writing style displayed on the first page‚ and in fact in the first couple of sentences pulled me in. Jessica Mitford‚ the author‚ describes in this essay the process corpses go through while at the funeral parlor. Her word choice is strong‚ taking you visually‚ step by step‚ through that process. She uses vivid imagery‚ describing scenes in detail so you can picture it as if you were there. Considering the topic of the
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Wal-Mart Lack of compassion Tip of the iceberg can describe the story below. Wal-Mart is company No. 1 in the world. It has the most revenue over any other company ($421 Billion). But its riches equal its controversies. This story is probably the most apt at describing the unethical treatment of its workers‚ because of the sheer senselessness of it. In 2000‚ a collision with a semi-trailer left 52-year-old Deborah Shank with permanent brain damage and in a wheelchair. Her husband and three
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Great Wall of China is a monument that has been globally recognised as a symbol of China for years. This essay discusses the Great Wall of China from three aspects. Firstly we’ll discuss the historical aspect including who built The Great Wall of China and the man-power behind the project. Secondly‚ we’ll look at the political reasons behind why it was built and thirdly we’ll examine the cultural significance in terms of tourism‚ legends and other topics that have been associated with the wall.
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The wall is more than just a lawn decoration‚ but rather a symbol of separation‚ and division between two neighbors. From the first few lines in the poem Mending Walls by Robert Frost‚ you will gather a sense of mistrust or even isolation and separation. Frost starts the poem with two neighbors meet up as a yearly tradition to mend their broken wall. Robert never quite understood the need for such wall. But the neighbor insists a good wall makes a great neighbor. But Robert could not disagree more
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facing a wall with an X on it. In front of the X marked wall is a middle age man looking backwards‚ and in front of him is another wall with an X on it. In front of that X marked wall is an old man facing forward. I believe this all has to do with change with in our own existence. Who we were as children and teenagers are not who we are as middle age‚ and old adults. Our reality is always changing and each stage in life is divided by some unseen force like nothingness. The X marked walls is that
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Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall‚” through its depiction of neighbors coming together to build a wall between each other out of tradition‚ suggests that though there may be hope for progressive thinking‚ Americans generally possess unoriginal views and act in opposition to fundamental patterns of nature. While the neighbor blindly follows tradition and justifies the wall-building with clichéd phrases‚ the speaker is portrayed as dynamic regarding his stance on the concept of wall-building. Frost depicts
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