ALCETM May-June 2011 Writing Prompts Choose ONE of the two writing tasks below. You should write between 225 and 250 words. Your essay will be marked down if it falls below this range. You have 30 minutes for this task. Your writing will be assessed on its range and accuracy of language‚ organization‚ and topic development. Task A Unhealthy weight gain is rapidly becoming an issue for many children and teenagers. Some people believe that teachers should directly address these children and teenagers
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Raleigh Patterson Professor Perkins Rhet/Comp 1302 6 May 2013 Cosmetic Surgery: Does it help or hurt you? Everyone has seen that picture perfect model on a billboard or in a magazine that seems to be flawless in every way. These types of things convince people that they need to alter their appearance in order to become what is perceived as beautiful. There are approaches to attaining the designated look they are trying to reach; cosmetic surgery is one of them. Cosmetic surgery continues to
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Both Kathryn Stockett’s The Help‚ and Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman contain characters with similar opinions on black slaves‚ politics‚ and women’s rights in the south. These women show courage when they stand up for what they think is right and are stubborn when it comes to proving their point to others. In Go Set a Watchman‚ Jean Louise leave her hometown of Maycomb to go to college in New York and learn about the world outside of her little town. In The Help‚ Skeeter begins her career as a writer
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still shows the world that it is never to late to help someone in need. Ellen DeGeneres‚ a comedian‚ shows people how to help others that need it. She has made many donations‚ and has helped many people in need. She has made many donations to schools in need of school supplies‚ to charity homes‚ so they can find curse to cancer‚ and other illnesses. The military needs the support that they need to fight for us. Finally‚ the homeless needs the most help because they don’t have the money to get what they
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In an article titled ?Why People Don?t Help in a Crisis? by John Darley and Bibb Latene they explain why people don?t involve themselves when emergencies occur. They gave three reasons why people why people react the way they do. As Americans we have been taught to respect the privacy of others. We fear that we might look like fools if we do help. If we do decide to help we well make little to no difference. Darley and Bibb also give examples on how to help the situation. The first thing is to notice
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To discuss why people help others we must consider whether people are by nature selfless or selfish. The dominant view today in psychology is of universal egoism; that we are fundamentally selfish‚ and that altruism (helping motivated by the wish to benefit another person) an impossibility.<br><br>One form of universal egoism is Piliavin et al’s "arousal: cost-reward" model‚ whereby faced with a potential helping situation we weigh the probable costs and rewards of alternative courses of action‚
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think that colored folks are not as good as whites. (Columbus & Taylor‚ 2011)” Much like this message that was delivered in the movie The Help‚ it has always been a challenge for producers to create films that portray controversial themes‚ namely racism. Especially recently‚ viewers are quick to cross-examine movies and vocalize any issues they discover. The Help (Columbus & Taylor‚ 2011) and The Color Purple (Spielberg‚ 1985) are two films that are notorious for receiving an intense amount of backlash
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Unheard Cry for Help According to (“Merriam-Webster.com”) the definition of disability is‚ “a condition (such as an illness or an injury) that damages or limits a person’s physical or mental abilities.” In the book Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes‚ a 32 year old man named Charlie Gordon has a severe intellectual disability. He undergoes an experimental operation to become smarter and raise his IQ of 68. After his operation‚ Charlie begins to realize how impudent the world really treats him because
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Dose the advertising help or harm us? Since the media has been coming in this age‚ advertising is growth very fast such as advertising about food‚ computer‚ beer etc. Because of population is increasing in differences way from year to year‚ advertisers try to persuade and support their products to buyers. Manu people are happy to know about advertising. For my idea‚ advertising really help and harm us. Advertising can help us many points. You can get new information about products from many
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Comparative Essay “The Help” and “To kill a Mockingbird” are two astonishing reads. These novels are a must read because they hold Multitude amounts of knowledge.The Two books have numerous amounts of similarities. These novels possess heaps of morals in which plenty could acquire knowledge from. “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “The Help” are two marvelous literatures in which character similarities are delineated through the novels‚ how poverty is portrayed through characters‚ and also ultimately how
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