Bryan Smith English 120 The Things That Can Happen My name is Bryan Smith and my story begins back in the year 2007 when I joined the military during my junior year of high school. Since then life hasn’t been the same. First off you need to know growing up for me was never easy. My mother never believed that medically there could be anything wrong with me and if there was‚ I must have made it up. Anyway‚ on one miserable day in late 2009‚ things changed in a devastating way when I was diagnosed
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besides the main points. After reading something you want to summarize type down your own thoughts and words and what the writing says to you. Focusing a main point is the objective. Try to avoid referring to the writing and use only your thoughts to write. Words from the original are okay to include. If direct quotes or exact words are used put parenthesis and pages numbers. Paraphrasing is a longer then a summary. It does not just state the main point. It tells exactly what the original writing
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What are my expectations from this course? “Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” Benjamin Franklin. Reading is essential for everyday living‚ regardless of my insufficient skills. At the University of the Virgin Islands‚ English 101 class I’m determine to enhance my love for reading and build a stronger vocabulary foundation. I’ve never had a passion for reading. I was never surrounded by peers or family that influenced to me read. I always preferred to watch a movie
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English 101 Writing Assignment 1: Exploring the Five-Paragraph Essay Writing Genre We’ve been exploring the concept of genre and the many‚ many different types of texts that exist in the world. As you know‚ there are multiple genres of writing and there are more being developed because of the technology we’re using to read and write online. Further another concept we’ve been discussing is that there are many ways to approach reading and writing. You’ve been reading about professional author’s
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I took English 160: Writing in Academic and Public Contexts;Communities‚Cultures and Environments this semester. This course showed us how to engage in academic writing not only by exploring and asking questions‚ but by expressing ourselves clearly. We read and discussed about issues concerning our communities and writing about a prominent member in the community. The projects I’ll talk about are writing project 111: Manifesto and writing project IV: the argumentative essay. English 160 have helped
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Ruby Tracy Dawn Silmon ENGL101‚ MWF @ 8 a.m. Wednesday‚ October‚ 8‚ 2014 Unfair Judging of Individuals Sight being one of the most important senses a person has and one of the strongest form of communication that a person will probably use. So‚ it’s no wonder that a person will judge another person within the first thirty seconds of laying eyes upon them. Unfortunately‚ being judged by your appearance is by no means an effective way of determining what a person is like on the inside. Although
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The snow had all but melted away and the smell of spring filled the air. Just a few months of school were left; it was my eighth grade year. Much preparation and months of work had been done to get ready for the last dance of the year. It was the last dance of our middle school career and the excitement was building. It all began with shopping. First with my girlfriends over the years‚ goofing off on trips to the mall trying on gorgeous flowing gowns for fun‚ and then it was finally time for
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English101/ Narrative Essay I never thought the day would come where I’d have to admit to myself I had an addiction. The hardest part was to except the fact I was an addict of painkillers and admitting it to my family so that I could get the help and support needed to get clean. The road leading to my addiction started with the factors of my childhood‚ always trying to fit in and not being supported emotionally from my parents. Having a child at the age of sixteen was the second factor‚ which
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Suffering the Oedipus complex I agree with the fact that Sophocles’ Oedipus had suffered from the Oedipus complex because Oedipus has shown that he is part of the triangle of being the young child who is “in love with one parent and hating the other” (Freud 472). If a person is one to not get over this stage in his childhood‚ to detach from his mother and forgive his father‚ then the conflict of the triangle has not been resolved leading him to be psychoneurotic. In the next paragraphs‚
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Mr. Yarbrough English101-52 December 3‚ 2014 Is Capital Punishment necessary? What is death penalty? Death penalty is when a state or the government issues the punishment of execution to some one who has committed a crime. It has always been one of the most highly debated issues in the United States. Many Americans are against the capital punishment or commonly knows as the death penalty because they fear its too expensive or there are religious reasons to oppose the death penalty or some other
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