If you study the form of traditional grammar‚ the rules of classical languages were followed considering that English did not have grammar of its own. English followed Latin grammar. Let’s start off with: Mechanics: Proper Punctuation Traditional grammar is characterized by proper punctuation. The basic rule of punctuation requires that each sentence conclude with a punctuation mark‚ whether a period‚ a question mark or an exclamation point. Beyond ending punctuation marks‚ sentences should use
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Social Media Have we lost our individuality? Communication is an essential part of our everyday human life‚ from drawing on a wall in a cave to now sending an email or a text message. I have chosen to write my essay on the effects social media has on all our lives. It has been said that the one thing in society that can survive a nuclear attack is individuality? Well that may have been true until the world of social media took over our lives. Why do we depend so much on
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Paradise Lost While watching the HBO Documentary “Paradise Lost”‚ I saw the horrific murder cases of three second grade boys at West Memphis Arkansas. The suspected murderers were Jessie Misskelley‚ Jr.‚ Jason Baldwin‚ and Damien Echols‚ their ages were seventeen‚ sixteen‚ and eighteen. As a motive for the murders the prosecution believed they were performed as a satanic ritual. After an intense trial each of the teenagers were found guilty by the jury‚ although there was a fairly large lack
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biblical proportions”(Corbett‚ 2001). These refugees were dubbed “The Lost Boy” due to the many similarities they had with the Peter Pan’s followers in the story Neverland. Like the fictional characters in the story‚ most of these boys‚ whose ages were all below 18‚ had no parents due to being orphaned by the civil war. As I continue discussing this particular migration case‚ I will talk about what led to the move of these “Lost Boys” in order for you to gain a better understanding of their predicament
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her neighbor‚ Mr. Harvey. Peter Jackson shows his audience through eight years that Susie and especially her family are not ready to accept the reality of Susie’s fate. Jackson demonstrates Susie’s denial of death shortly after her murder‚ “I wasn ’t lost‚ or frozen‚ or gone... I was alive; I was alive in my own perfect world” (The Lovely Bones). The next theme in the grieving process is anger. Anger can appear in many different ways after the loss of a loved one. The character in the film that portrayed
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sending a wrong-doer to jail greater than the benefits that the individual receives and the protection it offers to the general public? Simply‚ a prison is seen as a building to which people are legally sent to as a punishment for the crimes that they have committed. The core aims of a prison are not only to keep society safe‚ but also to rehabilitate and reintegrate offenders into the community and to deter others from committing the same or similar crimes. However‚ could it be argued that locking a
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"In "The Lost Boy‚" the story describes the period in which the bewildered child‚ haunted by the fear of being returned to his mad and alcoholic mother‚ is passed between foster care homes. For six years‚ David Pelzer was sent to over ten different foster homes; sometimes returning to the same home twice. David’s desperate attempts to be accepted by his peers led him into a life of petty crime‚ which‚ including cruel tricks his "friends" played on him‚ included stealing‚ and ending up going to "The
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Filipino Traditional Games for Kids While I was walking yesterday‚ I saw a group of children playing ‘luksong baka’. They were having fun while enjoying the game. Then I remember my childhood days twenty five years ago. I also use to play that kind of game with my neighboring kids especially on weekends. As years went by‚ these Filipino traditional games for kids are slowly disappearing. You can rarely see Filipino kids playing patintero‚ tumbang preso‚ luksong tinik‚ luksong baka‚ taguan‚ syato
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could Phillips 2 no longer write. To the surprise of high officials he wrote the epic Paradise Lost: A poem in ten books. It sold millions of copies‚ and is still considered the greatest piece of English literature ever written. On the 8th of November 1674 Milton died at the age of 66‚ due to gout-fever. He was buried the next Thursday beside his father. As stated in the first book of Paradise Lost‚ Milton ’s intentions for writing his religious epic are to "assert Eternal Providence/And justify
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Hilton‚ James. Lost Horizon. New York: William Morrow and Company‚1939. I read Lost Horizon for my book report. The main characters in this story are Conway‚ Mallinson‚ Barnard‚ and Miss Brinklow. Conway was a man of thirty-seven years old who didn’t have a wife or any other family. Mallinson was a young man of about twenty or so who was not married yet either. Barnard was a middle-aged man that was without a wife or family also. Miss Brinklow was a woman of around the age of fifty. This
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