These are thesis statements from student essays in a previous course I taught. After reading them over‚ consider what works or doesn’t work about each of them‚ specifically as interpretative claims regarding social practices or visual texts. While analyzing each thesis statement‚ ignore any grammatical errors or factual inaccuracies. Please print this page and bring it with you to our next class meeting. “Valentine’s Day as an American holiday is one that truly documents how this nation has both
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Although the Immigration Act of 1924 was mainly the unfortunate result of discriminatory racial theories of nativism and antiforeignism‚ other factors influenced also Congress to pass the restrictive act‚ including the rising Red Scare and the spread of the new Ku Klux Klan. The largest factor in the Congressional passing of the Immigration Act of 1920 was the fundamental American belief that native Americans were superior to foreigners‚ including the 800‚000 immigrants who flooded the country in
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Thesis Statement for Reflective Essays Should contain: 1. Event/ topic of focus 2. Event’s impact on you Example / A friend’s forgetfulness helped me see beyond my contempt of my great grandmother to contempt of myself for loving so conditionally. Are these thesis statements or not?? This past summer’s lesson was perhaps the most memorable one yet. Gazing from across the pasture to the creek‚ I realized that love is universal among earth’s creatures‚ that they all possess the
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Demar Jones English 116-118 4-14-13 Immigration Essay Immigration is Our Nation For decades‚ immigration has been one of the biggest issues in America’s society. Their has been big debates on whether it has really helped America or if it has really been the reason for its downfall. Immigration has caused the population to increase dramatically in the United States. In fact‚ it is the largest factor contributing to population growth in the U.S. . . . Because of population climbing
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When understanding immigration to the United States thee groups of people often represent the not only the reasons people make this decision but also the realities they find once they arrive. The reasons vary from high taxation‚ famine‚ war‚ to a need for more space and commonly a desire to provide a better life for families. The realities they each group experiences one on the shores is as varied as well ranging from acceptance initially to an initial distrust of the group arriving. For America
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Within my topic‚ there are many important factors on immigration such as: why individuals shame Mexicans who come to America‚ and why we do not let those immigrants stay in America after finishing college‚ and why immigration is important to me. Mexican immigration has been a problem since as far back as the 1920s.recently Barack Obama has passed laws helping immigration and Donald Trump has brought ideas that would kill many chances for illegal aliens to come to America for a better life. This is
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Immigration jumped from a low of 3.5 million in 1890 to a high of 9 million in the first decade of the new century. Immigrants went on a journey to America due to escaping religious‚ racial and political persecution or seeking relief from a lack of economic opportunity or famine pushing many immigrants out of their homelands. Hungarians‚ Poles‚ Slovaks‚ Bohemians and Italians went to find work in a new country such as America. However‚ the vast majority of immigrants crowded into the growing cities
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In 1924 the congress passed a new Immigration Act effectively ending all Japanese immigration to the U.S.‚ but this did not violate the right of the Japanese Americans in World War II. (Doc A) Document A‚ C‚ D‚ E‚ and F all support on why the U.S. government did not violate their rights. There were several causes of the internment but the main cause of the internment was that the “Japanese naval and air forces attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor‚ Hawaii‚ bringing the U.S. into World
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fulfilled. The most important of these is the thesis statement‚ which commits the writer to a specific focus. In effect‚ it provides the reader with an accurate expectation of what the writer plans to do-the main idea that the writer plans to develop. In general‚ a good introduction accomplishes three purposes: 1. It attracts the reader’s interest. 2. It provides the reader with background information. 3. It focuses the reader’s attention on the main idea of the essay. GENERAL SUGGESTIONS 1. Be clear and
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Is Third World Immigration a Threat to America’s Way of Life? Many people from third world countries leave to seek a better life for them and most of all their children. They can be moving away from war‚ religious‚ gender‚ economic‚ and educational oppression. America was developed off immigration and it was and still is the land off freedom and opportunity. People from third world countries look to the United States as a light of hope. What is really the American way of life? To me that would just
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