Writing Center Should I Use “I”? Like Be the first of your friends to like this. What this handout is about This handout is about determining when to use first person pronouns (“I”‚ “we‚” “me‚” “us‚” “my‚” and “our”) and personal experience in academic writing. “First person” and “personal experience” might sound like two ways of saying the same thing‚ but first person and personal experience can work in very different ways in your writing. You might choose to use “I” but not make any reference
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War Had Not Happened The Spanish American War played a very important role in the future of the United States. Each and every event that happens in life shapes the future. However‚ the question in life is always what if this event had not happened. If the Spanish American War had not happened America would have been completely different. If the war had not happened America would not have had several social programs that benefit the poor as well as the sick and elderly. Also if this war had not
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Good afternoon‚ ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for considering me to be your next class president. Since freshman year‚ I have been a passionate advocate for our student body. When a food poisoning epidemic broke out on campus‚ I crafted the petition to demand better service from our food providers and better oversight from school administrators. It was unacceptable for the health of our peers to be compromised by consuming the food in our own cafeteria. Many of you agreed with me‚ and the petition
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lives and will continue to evolve. During this paper I will discuss five different types of technology that I consider to be breakthrough and changed the way society lives in a positive manner. It is hard to pinpoint the exact date because of the different prototypes and first generation versions but in the 60’s and 70’s two companies IBM and Apple began producing desktop/personal computers to the public. The computer changed the way almost everything is done for the world. It made calculations
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The Man Who Was Almost a Man is a about a poor black family in a southern town during a time when black-white criticism was more prominent. The author‚ Richard Wright‚ shares quite a few similarities with his main character‚ like being born and raised in the south and struggling to find himself. He clearly uses the selective third person point of view as he gives thoughts and actions from Dave while only giving actions from others‚ but also narration from a narrator. There is a very interesting southern
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Richard White’s short story‚ “The Man Who Was Almost a Man‚” portrays the internal struggles of a yearning for power and manhood while also shedding light on the inherent immaturity that accompanies such a forced desire. The protagonist‚ Dave Saunders‚ is an African-American teenager struggling with his desires to be viewed as a man. He works as a field hand for Mr. Hawkins and is teased by the older men who work alongside him. Such ridicule drives Dave to buy a gun after convincing his mother that
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It was a good few weeks into the summer holidays of three years ago‚ and I was eleven years of age. I was with my family on a vacation in North Wales‚ situated right near the sunny beaches of a town called "Pwllheli". That summer we had rented out a wooden lodge from a dear friend of my mothers and we couldn’t have been staying in a more beautiful place. Around the lodge were towering trees with the hot‚ glorious sunshine creeping through the brittle branches and elegant little flowers swaying in
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Robin Sharma provides a striking illustration on what it takes to become a leader in his book‚ The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success In Business and In Life. The book relies on charismatic and endearing characters that take the reader through a touching story in order to establish the ideas and beliefs on how leadership can be developed. The Leader Who Had No Title centers on Blake Davis‚ a man who has lost confidence‚ focus‚ and meaning in his life after losing his father at
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how Germany would pay for the damages that World War I had caused. The German people were very unhappy about the treaty and thought that it was too harsh. They then voted for a man who would have ripped the treaty apart. This led to the second reason which was Adolf Hitler’s action (see figure 1). Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. Almost immediately he began secretly building up Germany’s army and weapons. In 1934 he had increased the size of the army; he began building warships
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President Abraham Lincoln had already made plans for the Reconstruction and getting the South back into the Union. With the South in disarray and tensions growing against the North‚ Lincoln knew how to handle the situation. However before the war even ended‚ in 1865 he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth‚ a loyal Southerner. With the South in cheers for his death‚ they fail to realize that he was their only hope for a better Reconstruction. If he had lived‚ he would had been so much lenient towards
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