examples to illustrate and clarify your analysis. What conclusion can you draw about the power of this text? 1. Look back at the list of hook techniques. Which two techniques could you use to introduce your essay effectively? I could use quotation and anecdote. 2. Choose one of those techniques for your HOOK and briefly explain why you chose that technique. For my hook I will choose to use a anecdote . I chose an anecdote because it is the most interesting to me to capture a readers attention with
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hopeless romantic‚ I am deeply intrigued by Bells Hooks writing. Bell Hooks born Gloria Jean Watkins was born September 25‚ 1952 in a black neighborhood in Hopkinsville a small‚ segregated town in rural Kentucky. With her father who worked as a janitor‚ and her mother‚ Rosa Bell Oldham Watkins‚ who worked as a maid in the homes of white families‚ Hooks used her experience of rural living‚ poverty‚ racial segregation‚ and resistance struggle in her works. Hooks wrote in an essay “Keeping Close to Home”
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was written by Bell Hooks. Bell hooks whose original name was Gloria Watkins was born in 1952. Hooks is one of the top leading cultural and educational theorists in America. In education she Hooks has received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Ph.D. from Stanford University. In this essay hooks talk about her journey to educate herself and not losing her sense of where she came from as African-American woman from a working class background (Bell Hooks‚ Keeping close to home)
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October 29‚ 2012 Hurricane Sandy a category 2 made landfall in New Jersey. Sandy had + 96 mph winds and a 6ft-8ft storm surge. Force winds extend 175 miles out from Sandy’s eye‚ making it much larger than most storms. Before the storm hit many of residence were without power due to sever winds and rain. Many people did not know how to prepare for such a storm in the North East states. Hurricane Sandy weakened to a post-tropical cyclone in the evening before it hit the southern coast of New Jersey
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The shooting that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14 prompted extensive news coverage throughout the world‚ including wide attention in the British media. In the aftermath debate in the US about the need for increased gun control laws has been reignited‚ posing the question: will this be the moment that America makes a change in terms of its gun laws? Certainly there is a momentum to enact this change. President Obama has said that he will support a new bill to ban assault
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Analyzing: “The Victims” by Sharon Olds “The Victims” by Sharon Olds is a poem‚ which gives us an elaborated and refined view of a tortured family in our modern society. It describes the immature resentment of the young speaker and her family towards the father‚ and the more mature expression of sympathy of the grown up speaker. The poem is divided into two parts‚ easy to spot due to a sudden change in the verb tenses‚ speaker‚ tone and purpose. The first part of the poem‚ transmits to the reader
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Katie Dugan Final Paper Conley 12/3/13 The Politics of Katrina and Sandy Devastation. Loss. Starvation. Desperation. The victims of natural disasters all over the world know what it is like to feel completely and utterly hopeless. The rest of us are lucky‚ we have never experienced the pain of losing next to everything from a real-life nightmare. Most of us cannot imagine something like that ever happening. But it did. And when it happened‚ there was panic‚ and no time for messing around with
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was $ 108 billion dollars. On October 27‚ 2012 Hurricane Sandy made landfall. Hurricane Sandy affected 24 states‚ including the entire eastern seaboard from Florida to Maine. It made more damage in New Jersey and New York. Its storm surge hit New York City on October 29‚ flooding streets‚ tunnels and subway lines and cutting power in and around the city. Damage in the US is estimated at over $63 billion Both Katrina and Sandy were extremely destructive Atlantic hurricanes. They were the costliest
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the weather pattern became apparent that we were not going to escape this one. On October 29‚ Hurricane Sandy began to embrace and ravish everything impeding its chosen path. Instead of soccer and candy giving‚ the days were complete with continued damage from the storm‚ school cancellations‚ and gas lines. For my creative project‚ I decided to investigate the ramifications of Hurricane Sandy to understand and reflect on the occurrences.
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Super Storm Hurricane Sandy Widespread loss of electric power and subway shutdowns the associated press reports that more than 13‚500 flights were canceled and in New York three major airports were shut down. Super storm Sandy the second most expensive storm in U.S. history‚ according to Eqecat. That ranks it right behind Hurricane Katrina. Eqecat stated that the damage from the storm would likely be far worse than it previously predicted. The storm also brought a huge economic loss by flooding
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