"invention that has influenced modern society" Top of Form Jan 6‚ 2009‚ 01:27pm #1 Hi‚ I wrote another essay for CLEP practice. Any comments are appreciated‚ but I’m mostly interested in this: Is my thesis sentence clear? Are my closing remarks clear and appropriate? Are there any places that seem off topic? Anyone have any CLEP essay tips? Thanks! ------- "Choose one invention or discovery that has significantly influenced modern society. Show either the positive and/or negative
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most of us‚ a type of shorthand that makes it easy to carry on a conversation. Columnist Ellen Goodman wrote that to those born since the baby boom of the late ‘40s‚ “All history begins with television.” We compare ourselves to those on TV; we change how we dress and cut our hair and talk based on the latest television trend. Viewers pick up catch phrases and turn them into side-splitting party parodies that in turn become part of our culture. For decades‚ almost ever since the inception of the television
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Struggle‚ desperation‚ perseverance; these themes and more seem to be the central thesis of Harriet Jacobs’ novel Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Based around the personal struggles of a slave’s individual quest for freedom‚ this novel also details the incidents and lives of those whom she comes into contact with. The series of events that transpire over the course of the main character‚ Linda’s‚ life as a slave define for herself and her audience not only what slavery means‚ but also what
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Influenced by Magazines Women ranging from thirteen through eighteen years of age feel they don¡¦t have the ideal body image because of the influence of magazines. We believe that a magazine has the biggest influence on women because they provide fashion and style. Every month they pull out what is "it" and not. Magazines typically create an image of young women in thin bodies or in beautiful skin. Most magazines have pictures of models with bathing suit and provide dieting and exercise
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300: More Fact than Fiction “300” begins by setting the vivid stage of what was to become one of the most inspiring battles of Greek history. Leonidas‚ the Spartan “king‚” is warned by messengers from the Persian empire to kneel before Xerxes‚ the Persian god-king‚ or to see his beloved Sparta be destroyed and it’s loyal people be captured as slaves. Leonidas denies these requests as a free man who will kneel to no one. Xerxes‚ seeing this as a threat to his newly established empire‚ wages war
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In "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"‚ Harriet Jacobs writes‚ "Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women" (64). Jacobs’ work presents the evils of slavery as being worse in a woman’s case due to the tenets of gender identity. Jacobs elucidates the disparity between societal dictates of what the proper roles were for Nineteenth century women and the manner that slavery prevented a woman from fulfilling these roles. The book illustrates the double standard of for white
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Music is more than entertainment. Music is more of an art form. It is a way to speak to others about life struggles and achievements‚ love‚ religion‚ and government. Although some forms of music is for entertainment such as such party songs there are motivational artist that began movements around world whether it is politics‚ fashion‚ and social etiquette. Some artists include Michael Jackson‚ Aretha Franklin‚ Public Enemy‚ Bob Marley‚ Tupac‚ and U2. All formed unity throughout the world and impacted
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LenNee’ Kimbell Professor O’Roark ENGL 210-103 13 March 2014 More than just “Brownies” “Brownies‚” by ZZ Packer is about a Brownie troop of fourth-grade African American girls from suburban Atlanta‚ Georgia‚ who go to summer camp. (Gale) At the camp‚ they have an altercation with another troop called troop 909 which were all white girls. They believed that one of the white girls addressed them with a racial insult by calling one of them the “N” word. Apparently they feel offended and seek revenge
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Slavery‚ in my eyes‚ is an institution that has always been ridiculed on behalf of the physical demands of the practice‚ but few know the extreme mental hardships that all slaves faced. In Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl‚ Harriet Jacobs writes autobiographically about her families’ and her personal struggles as a maturing "mullatto" child in the South. Throughout this engulfing memoir of Harriet Jacobs life‚ this brave woman tells of many trying times
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since I began. Each and every one of my peer editors‚ as well as Mr. Catalfano‚ has influenced me‚ and aided me in making my writing have a more mature tone to it. By each of them taking the time to critique my works then‚ whether I am revising for my final draft‚ or preparing for another essay‚ I take each and every one of their comments into account to make my writing better. I also believe that I started to use more mature vocabulary‚ in my essays‚ as the semester went on. For example‚ in my description
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