ESSAYS BEGIN WITH A THESIS STATEMENT What is a thesis statement? A single sentence that summarizes your main idea How do you create a thesis statement? Two Parts: (1) Topic + (2) Opinion = Thesis Statement The good‚ the bad‚ the ugly… Good thesis statements are clear‚ to the point sentences with enough detail to make the main idea of the essay unmistakable and the writer’s opinions obvious. Bad thesis statements may make the main idea and writer’s opinion obvious‚ but the
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"Forgiveness in Families" was a very deep touching story written by Alice Munro. It talked about the author’s mother who had gone unconscious on the bathroom floor when her brother‚ Cam‚ was supposed to take care of her due to she was vomiting before. His sister‚ Val‚ which was the author‚ had waited in the hospital hour and hour‚ waiting for the good news from the doctor. Although she didn’t expect her mom would survive. "They haven’t said anything to give me hope‚ Cam. She is dying." (Munro 114)
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THE WORLD That’s a rather vague question. The earliest true humans were Homo erectus. These early humans only used stones to begin with. Their earliest technology was called Oldowan and involved breaking smooth‚ rounded pebbles from rivers in rather a crude fashion to get a sharp edge to cut with. Later they developed a more sophisticated technique‚ creating a large‚ hand-held item shaped rather like a teardrop. It had two sharp sides coming to a point and one dull‚ rounded side which the
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Six Sentence Patterns Sentence Patterns #1 - Noun / Verb The most basic sentence pattern is a noun followed by a verb. It’s important to remember that only verbs that do not require objects are used in this sentence pattern. Examples: People work. Frank eats. This basic sentence pattern can be modified by adding a noun phrase‚ possessive adjective‚ as well as other elements. This is true for all the sentence patterns that follow. Examples: People work. -> Our employees work. Frank eats
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Forgiveness is a major theme that is developed throughout The Sunflower‚ Herbert Marcuse being a philosopher told what he would do if asked to forgive. Born 19 July 1898‚ in Berlin‚ Germany‚ he became an American political philosopher. Marcuse went to the University of Freiburg and got a doctoral degree in German literature when he was 24. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1940 and served as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services for three years. He taught at Columbia
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THESIS TITLE: Selfie Culture Among 4th Year High School Students Of La Consolacion College And Its Effect On Self-perception INTRODUCTION: The term “selfie” is defined in the Merriam Webster dictionary as an image of oneself taken by oneself using a digital camera especially for posting on social networks. Other definitions enumerate using camera phones‚ tablets‚ and other devices to take self-portraits‚ and specify relevant online network sites such as Facebook‚ Twitter‚
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Using Basic Sentence Structure Within a Paragraph Abstract This paper displays basic sentence structure by the comparison and contrasting of two different style paragraphs. The first is the opening of a resume and the second the introduction of a web site. I will then go on to explain the difference of the two in regards to sentence length and style. Using Basic sentence structure within paragraphs RESUME PARAGRAPH Please accept
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creature + when I get home + when it grunted again so violently + [PAST(she looked down into its face in some alarm)]. The passage has five main sentences (shown by +) and two doubly embedded sentences (shown by the brackets). One embedded sentence is transformed into an –ing structure. This passage is composed of many clauses forming a highly complex sentence. - Main clause: Alice was just beginning to think to herself - Independent clause set off as a quotation: “Now what am I to do with this
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make clear what we want to say. Punctuation marks are just as important in number sentences as they are in English sentences. Without being told by a symbol or some other means‚ we do not know whether to do the multiplication or the addition first. To avoid the confusion of such an expression naming two different numbers‚ let us use parentheses to indicate which operation is to be first. When part of a number sentence is enclosed within parentheses‚ think of that as naming one number. It is commonly
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Type I or Type II Decide whether the following Conditional Sentences are Type I or Type II. 1. If they go to Australia‚ they will go whale-watching. Type I Type II 2. If she had a mobile‚ I would call her. Type I Type II 3. If Bob were here‚ he would have a solution for our problem. Type I Type II 4. If you move here‚ we will see each other more often. Type I Type II 5. You’ll live longer if you stop smoking. Type I Type II 6. If Sarah didn’t go with John
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