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    ILLUSTRATION PARAGRAPH FINAL TEMPLATE Step 5: Illustration Paragraph Final Draft Directions: Turn off the “Track Changes” feature. Copy and paste your edited draft. Highlight it and choose “Accept Changes” if the document does not automatically make the changes for you. Save the changes to this document. Then use the link provided in Blackboard to submit that document to your instructor. The instructor should then be able to see the entire process you took to create your final draft Many college

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    suggests that one’s fate cannot be altered‚ but if an individual’s pride and arrogance make the individual try to change his/her fate‚ the person becomes hubristic and at the end the person realizes fate cannot be changed and the person’s fate happens the way it was supposed to happen. If people belief in fate and at some point in people’s life an individual discovers what his/her fate is‚ the person should just accept their fate and not try to change destiny. Oedipus’s ability to solve problems

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    Emerson and Thoreau encouraged by analysing details from several works of literature. Transcendental authors‚ Ralph Emerson and David Thoreau expressed their thoughts about the relationship between people and Nature. In the essay‚ “Nature”‚ by Emerson and the essay‚ “Walden”‚ by Thoreau both explain how important it is to have a relationship with Nature. In “Nature”‚ Emerson stated‚ “I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I

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    Henry Thoreau -- Civil Disobedience Historians‚ philosophers‚ and authors have spent decades contemplating the relation between government and citizens. Though the question sparks many thought s‚ it is rarely met with sufficient answers. However‚ a theorist known as Henry Thoreau has offered many works that have shown deep insight on viewing man as an individual instead of a subject‚ through analyzing the ways citizens should live out their lives. Thoreau ‘s most famous work Civil Disobedience

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    Hahshshshshhshshshdhdjdjdhdhdbbddbdbdddbdndbbdbdbsbsjsjshdjh- ejdndbdhdjdjjdnnddbdbdndnndndnndndndnndnndndn Although at its most basic level a synthesis involves combining two or more summaries‚ synthesis writing is more difficult than it might at first appear because this combining must be done in a meaningful way and the final essay must generally be thesis-driven. In composition courses‚ “synthesis” commonly refers to writing about printed texts‚ drawing together particular themes or traits that

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    Sample Paragraphs If your score in the Midterm Exam is 0‚ 1‚ 2‚ or 3‚ this extra credit will earn you a passing score in the Home Works‚ and if your score in the Midterm Exam is 4 or 5‚ you will earn 10 points in the Home Works. Those who scored 6 in the Midterm Exam is exempted for this activity. This extra credit requires you to look for four (4) sample paragraphs from any textbook. These paragraphs are narration‚ description‚ exposition‚ and persuasion. Look for a sample paragraph that contains

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    One of the elements that Nosich mentions in Learning to Think Things Through is Purpose. Nosich correctly claims that basically all the things that we do have a purpose (50). Purpose is the reason we have for doing certain things. It is the intention of something. An example of purpose is me making the snapchat while driving‚ I was making it so I would seem cool to my friends and to fit in with everyone else. Purpose is like a goal someone sets to get their point across to others. When I decided

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    When I was eight years old‚ I peered through a telescope for the first time in my life. It was a small device‚ no more than two metres long‚ and yet it let me glimpse a brilliant view of Jupiter: it was the size of a marble‚ magnificently striated in hues of brown‚ red and orange. Then‚ when I was 13‚ I went to the Birla Planetarium in Hyderabad‚ where I revisited my five-year old fascination with Jupiter as I sat spellbound in the arena as a cosmic dance played out in the canvas stretched above

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    Higher Arithmetic Higher arithmetic‚ also known as the theory of numbers‚ is known for its basics of the natural numbers‚ simple numbers. The numbers‚ 1‚ 2‚ and 3 are numbers that are known as natural numbers. H. Davenport of Cambridge University once said “…in all the records of ancient civilizations there is evidence of some preoccupation with arithmetic over and above the needs of everyday life” (Introduction). The theory of numbers being a science‚ is simply just a creation invented for the

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    Higher Education Although none of them have ever said so directly‚ my teachers have often given me the impression that four-year institutions are more educational and beneficial than two-year community colleges. In the discussion of higher education‚ one controversial issue has been which is more beneficial to young adults trying to get their feet on the ground‚ a four-year institution or a two-year community college. On the one hand‚ people in favor of four-year institutions argue that four years

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