American University of Sharjah Department of Writing Studies WRI 101: Academic Writing Spring 2014 Instructor: C. Horger Meeting Times: Mon/Wed 8:00‚ 9:30‚ 11:00‚ 12:30 E-mail: chorger@aus.edu Meeting Location: Lang 102 and 109 Telephone: 515-2717 Office: Lang. 220 Office Hours: 10:00-12:00 S/T Course Description Academic Writing challenges students to recognize‚ understand‚ and
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Two Kinds "Two Kinds" is truly an amazing work; it captivates readers by telling a story of a young girl trying to find herself. Amy Tan does a phenomenal job‚ not only by portraying a very real mother-daughter relationship‚ but at showing how much a young girl can change. Jing-Mei evolves throughout the story in a way that many people can relate to; crushed hopes‚ obeying your parents even if it means doing something you don ’t want to do‚ and finally standing up for what you believe in
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to explain why “I exist because I think” is false and explain “I think because I exist” is true. Let me first explain why ‘I exist because I think’ is false. If ‘I exist because I think’ is true‚ every time when I think I exist and when I do not think‚ I do not exist. As I mentioned‚ “Think” seems to be the cause of my existence in this case. How can my thinking exist before my existence and cause my existence. Therefore‚ I must exist first‚ then I can think about “I exist” or not. In fact‚ every
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Do you want to be famous? Being a celebrity/famous person comes with its’ advantages and disadvantages which can make living life very difficult at times. Let’s look at some of the advantages and disadvantages of being a celebrity/famous person. Some of the advantages of being a famous person are as follows: Famous people have everything they can possibly want such as fast cars‚ big houses‚ money‚ women etc. They can go wherever they want on holidays or any other day of the week and do not
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2014 Mackinder Rhetorical Analysis “Do you know what you are getting yourself into?”(L.5) Stated by Matt Theissen‚ the author of the song‚ “Getting Into You‚” and also lead vocalist of the Christian rock band‚ Relient K. Relient K was formed in 1998 in Canton‚ Ohio. “Getting Into You” was published on March 11‚ 2003. ((www.wikipedia.org). Relient_K) The purpose of this rhetorical analysis is to present the meaning behind the argument of “Getting Into You‚” by Relient K. If we examine the text
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Do you believe in ghosts? Ghosts‚ a hypothetical subject widely opened to the skepticism of us humans. In reference to Wikipedia‚ the definition of ghosts is “a ghost is the soul or spirit of a deceased person or animal that can appear‚ in visible form or other manifestation‚ to the living.” In my opinion‚ ghosts do exist. Of course they do. The existence of ghosts can be proved by unexplainable paranormal activities. Nevertheless‚ they have a strong connection with religions‚ explaining the
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Why are humans so obsessed with screens? Every day people are spending their time playing on their mobile phones‚ watching television and sitting in front of their computer. How larger the screen‚ how bigger the fun‚ phones are getting larger and larger and watching TV is no fun on a small television‚ and why else would you go to the cinema if it’s not because they have an enormous screen? In the first place‚ people want to escape from the reality for a moment‚ so than they can watch a movie
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Expectations and hopes – these words contain lots of emotions and sensibility. It can bring enjoy-ment if you fulfil the expectation or it can lead to disappointment if you don’t. Every individual will not get through life without having some sort of expectation to something‚ and this as well include parents too. The short story ’Two Kinds’ written by Amy Tan is from 1989‚ and it delineates a mother’s attempt to push her daughter into achieving a prodigious lifestyle. The mother is an immi-grant
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Something that I learned to do non academic is a to play cymbals. Why cymbals you may ask? Well I was never really interested in band even though I was in it for a year. I wasn’t interested in playing a wood‚ horn‚ or drum. I never knew that my school had cymbals cause my class period there were none. The first time that I ever seen actual cymbal players was at TSU football game. I saw how they twirled and danced as they played the instruments. My cousin was in the drum line he bounced around to
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What Would You Do? Scenario 1- Della the Delinquent Cat Lady As the president of the board of directors of the cat shelter‚ I am faced with rather or not Ms. Della should remain as part of the staff at the cat shelter. There are several problems that have been brought to my attention and I feel that now is the time to figure out exactly what should be done regarding the matter. After‚ evaluating the situation and giving it a great deal of consideration‚ I have come up several solutions to
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