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    from Great Britain. The document was based on the principles fought for in the American Revolutionary War. It was signed between the thirteen original colonies and established them all as an alliance of sovereign states. The document served as the first constitution of the United States. A committee appointed by the Second Continental Congress in 1776 drafted the Articles‚ and an improved version of the documents was sent to all states for approval in the later months of 1777. All states had formally

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    Chesterfield to his son who is traveling away‚ Lord Chesterfield successfully doles out advice with an underlying persuasive tone. Chesterfield skillfully includes his own values and experiences as a way to connect his son to the advice given. While Lord Chesterfield uses a variety of tactics in order to persuade his son the first thing he uses is guilt. He sets a tone of guilt in the first couple of sentences as the father explains he loves to write to his son‚ but he wonders if there is a purpose‚ and

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    Thoreau and Hawthorne are two vastly different authors. Thoreau was known for his transcendentalist writing style. Transcendentalist writing is a style of writing that gives nature a whole new meaning. Essentially saying that there are spiritual connections to nature. Thoreau’s story “Walden” shows Thoreau’s love for nature. While Hawthorne was known for romanticism writing style. Hawthorne was an Anti- Transcendentalist. In other words‚ Hawthorne was known for his power of blackness. He uses evil

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    of paragraph A classification paragraph begins a main idea and discusses the subcategories of that topic‚ comparing and contrasting them with each other. Following are some examples of classification paragraphs. Here are a couple of short classification paragraphs‚ in order to get you started with learning about how they should be formed and what they are. Remember: Classification paragraphs start with a main idea‚ using the rest of the paragraph to explain a series of secondary ideas. First Dates

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    professional Journalist as well as his fan‚ and make more people concerned about his new book. So my tone should as professional as a journalist‚ but also casual since I am his fan and I want to know more about him. My Purpose is to let people become more aware of Goldman and read The Princess Bride with strong interest. If possible‚ I also hope my interview helps my readers look up other Goldman’s

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    BUILDING A PARAGRAPH LOGICAL ORDER A well constructed paragraph contains sentences that are logically arranged and flow smoothly. Logical arrangement refers to the order of your sentences and ideas. There are various ways to order your sentences‚ depending on your purpose. For example‚ if you want to describe historical background to an event or something that happened in a time in the past‚ you would need to arrange your sentences according to the sequence of action‚ from beginning to end. However

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    PAAGRAPH WHAT IS A PARAGRAPH? Paragraphs are the building blocks of papers. A paragraph is a group of sentences that develops one main idea. A paragraph may stand by itself as a complete piece of writing‚ or it may be a section of a longer piece of writing‚ such as an essay. No single rule can prescribe how long a paragraph should be the unity and coherence of ideas among sentences is what constitutes a paragraph‚ but a paragraph that is too short can make a reader think that some basic information

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    Both Duhigg and Thoreau express their thoughts on habits that are definitely insightful‚ but whats interesting is the similarities and differences between them. The Writers were from different time periods and you can see how that plays affect on their ideas‚ with Duhiggs being much more modern and scientific‚ and with Thoreau having much more of a spiritual and personal approach to the topic. According to Thoreau‚ walking allows us to escape the burdens of modern society‚ including its obsession

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    Process Paragraph What is a process? A process is continuous series of steps that produces a result. When you write a process analysis paragraph‚ you explain how to do something or how something works. Therefore‚ there are two actual processes: directional process and informational process. In both cases process analysis explains the process by breaking it down into a fixed order of detailed steps. Your process analysis paragraph should: 1- have a title 2- begin with the introduction

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    PARAGRAPH BY ANALOGY A paragraph by analogy compares two different things on the basis of their similarities in certain aspects. This kind of paragraph development premises its explanation on the familiar or known‚ so that the logical order (from the familiar to the unfamiliar) is presumed to be the best paragraph order.\ PARAGRAPH OF ANALOGY A.FALLING IN LOVE AND SKYDIVING Falling in love is like skydiving. Skydiving is a risk because you are never 100% certain that you will survive the fall

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