imagined that before reading this narrative. The poor eat plain food everyday if the eat at all. Anna Quindlen‚ author of the descriptive essay “Homeless” paints a picture based on what she considered homeless people. Although she delivers several good points on homelessness she does not make a clear thesis statement that gives her audience a question to answer in the beginning of her essay. Quindlen begins her descriptive essay by eluding her audience to envision what appears to be a homeless person
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The thesis of On Compassion by Barbara Lazear Ascher is: we can’t deny that homelessness exists when it hits us in the face everyday. Compassion is not a trait that we inherit‚ it is a learned experience. The thesis from Homeless by Anna Quindlen is the homeless were once just like us but something happened to them that made them lose their homes. In On Compassion‚ Ascher presents us with three scenarios as I have mentioned before. A man who is walking down the street when a woman hands him a
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secondary education. “Sex Ed” by Anna Quindlen: Quindlen remembers being taught at a young age that teenage pregnancy rates can lower just by learning basic information. However‚ she explains it is in the nature of teenagers to have sex to be accepted in today’s society. Teenage pregnancies are no longer a “shock factor” in these adolescent stages of life. Ultimately‚ Quindlen believes sex ed should be taught at home within families. Comprehension: Quindlen does approve of sex education‚ but only
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Hallways"‚ Anna Quindlen claims that teenage killings can be prevented by drawing attention to mental health. Quindlen supports her claim by giving examples of individual cases in great detail‚ and stating information relating to the issue of mental health. The author’s purpose is to persuade readers so that they should treat mental illness instead of dismissing it as a "character flaw". She speaks in a serious but derisive tone to address parents‚ schools and healthcare providers. Quindlen begins her
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In the story Quilt Of A Country Quindlen states that “Today the citizens of the united states have come together once more because of armed conflict and enemy attack. In the story it says“It is an improbable idea when it actually works‚ it is a wonder. According to my topic sentence Quindlen is someone else that does believe that our community can come as one.This is why I also say that our community can always
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is only being hungry‚ naked‚ and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.” People are progressively being victimized for being homeless. Anna Quindlen‚ 1992’s Pulitzer Prize winner‚ for her New York Times column‚ “Public and Private”‚ evaluates the life of a homeless woman in her essay‚ “Homeless” (1998). She soon realizes that all homeless people have a different story and urges the reader not
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they were given an opportunity to communicate? In her article “Between the Sexes‚ A Great Divide”‚ Anna Quindlen shows the differences between the genders‚ like sun and moon‚ and the divide that exists between them‚ which starts from the first high school dance‚ where boys and girls are far away from each other‚ and all the game is about who is going to do the first move. I mainly agree with Quindlen‚ that “it is the dance that’s important‚ not the difference‚” but there are some points that I have a
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Cited: “Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.” Shippensberg University Website. Sept. 2005: 2-3 Cline‚ Austin. “Karl Marx on Religion.” About.com. 5 Apr. 2006: n.pag. Web. 16 June 2009. Quindlen‚ Anna. “A New Kind of Poverty.” Newsweek. 1 Dec. 2003: 1-2. Web. 16 June 2009. Quindlen‚ Anna. “The War We Haven’t Won.” Newsweek. 20 Sep. 2004: 1-2. Web. 16 June 2009. U.S Census Bureau. 2005 Poverty Press Release. 30 Aug. 2005: n.pag. 16 June 2009. Sep. 1996: 1-3. Web. 16 June 2009.
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The Change of Down Time Anna Quindlen is an author of novels and children’s books and she won a Pulitzer Prize for her column in the New York Times entitled “Public and Private.” She wrote an essay “Doing Nothing is Something.” In her essay‚ she describes how children are so overscheduled that they do not have time for down time. While I agree with Quindlen that the down time she grew up with no longer happens‚ it is important to understand that today down time can be achieved in other ways that
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Driving to the Funeral by Anna Quindlen “It’s become a sad rite of passage in many American communities‚ the services held for teenagers killed in auto accidents before they’ve even scored a tassel to hang from the rearview mirror”. Anna Quindlen wrote the article ‚”Driving to the Funeral” in June 11‚ 2007 issue of news week to make parents think twice before allowing their 16 year-old drive a car. Anna discusses issue on how too often teens are killed in car accidents and why something should
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