Like training wheels, the five-paragraph essay may help you get started, but it will very soon begin to hinder any further progress and it virtually ensures that you will never win any races. In the context of writing college essays, it can be very limiting, and easily fails to engage the reader. ... Also, because the structure of the essay is set in stone, it precludes any attempt at global revision. ... In conclusion, a good writer would be wise to steer clear of the five-paragraph essay. ... Finally, the essay stifles the imagination with its excessive attention on format. ...

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There are similarities as well as differences between a CDA essay and multimodal text. ... When starting my multimodal text project I came across the problem of finding what topic to do my whole project on considering that social media had to tie in with it as well. ... After figuring out my topic, I wanted to get started on my website but didn't know which site to use to create my website. ... Multimodal composing has become very important given that it helps us write in a whole different way. ... Multimodal composing has helped me express my argument in a much more creative way to not o...

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The Federalist Paper was a collection of eighty-five essays that were published anonymously, under the pen name "Publius," in numerous of New York state newspapers of the time such as The New York Packet and The Independent Journal, and much more. ... Hamilton and Madison were hard working men who both wrote four essays per week. Although he wasn't as popular as the other two men, John Jay also contributed to the establishment of five of the eighty-five essays. ... Hamilton, who had been famous due to his aid for George Washington during the Revolutionary War, asked Madison and Jay to j...

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Throughout Males' essay he uses cause/effect, argumentation, and emotional appeal with occasional fallacies to prove his points. ... The inmates were being abused as children, therfore they started abusing others around them. ... Throughout the essay, Males uses emotional appeal and how abusive relationships affect Americans each day. WHen he gives reports to show how much abusive violence goes on in society, on can't help but feel sorry for both the victim and the offender, appealing to the reader's emotions, and not just for the victims. ... THe writing patterns and emotio...

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Mary Louise Pratt discusses a relatively foreign concept, the contact zone, in her essay "Arts of the Contact Zone." ... This "contact zone" that Pratt describes helps link together two cultures without the knowledge of doing so. ... Sam started to eat, breathe, and sleep baseball. Almost a decade later, Sam and his friend Willie can start a conversation with an adult and they can understand everything discussed, even if it does not directly relate to baseball. A little later in the essay, Pratt tells us that the contact zone plays such an important role in autoethnographic text, text in w...

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In this essay I will try to reveal how media is used to manipulate us in order to buy a certain product or use a service. ... Nevertheless, the expansion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries and the foundation of the first British advertising agency, Reynell and sons in the 17th century, started the gradual escalation of the use of advertisements. ... Things such as catchy phrases should also be used to advertise a product or campaign, for example: "A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play." ... I have also learnt, while writing this essay, that advertising needs various techniqu...

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She will develop breasts, her hips will grow and widen, she will grow pubic hair and most importantly she will start her menstrual cycle, meaning, like the sexually maturing male, she will have attained full reproductive capacity. So therefore, it seems that it is testosterone what gives man his masculinity and it is oestrogen that helps establish womens femininity. ... Mead concuded, that it was a "classical gender role reversal" This study helps to prove, that how we are raised and other environmental factors, help shape our sexuality/gender. ... The first part of this essay argued that, sex...

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College is a new chapter in everybody's life, you need to start off from the bottom and leave all the bad habits behind, for example, procrastination and laziness. ... I think that this method will help me develop new critical thinking skills but if I really want to develop new ones, I need to apply Freire's method of education which consists of becoming part of the lecture and ask questions, start discussions and interact with your teacher. ... College is where students start living their dream of finally getting out of the house and doing whatever they want without anyone having to...

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It means if your children are writing and essay and watching a TV show "simultaneously", the quality of the essay would decline significantly, compared to if they just thought about the essay. ... There is a solution to how you can help your children learn to focus, complete tasks in less time and start getting better grades. Although changing multitasking habits and giving up devices, when they have become vital in your children's life is a challenge, you can help them to acquire new healthy pattern of studying. ... Your second step is to help children get organized and comfort...

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My central thesis in addressing this question is that Chinese Confucian culture is more important because it can help our younger generation learn to keep a good relationship with each other. The essay thus aims to encourage people in Hong Kong, younger generation especially, to concern their relatives. ... I start from the premise that we should teach the younger generation to be considerate and filial, assuming that they are necessary to the prompt the development of the society as a whole. ... The central theory on which I draw in this essay is that we are all living as a society. ... In th...

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When your teen shows signs of depression or seems to be pulling away take the signs seriously and seek help immediately. ... If your son or daughter develops an obsession with death such as explicit drawings, poems, and/or essays that refer to death you should take those signs as a warning your teen may have stronger feelings about suicide. ... Feelings of hopelessness and loneliness leave them scared and unable to determine where to go for help. It's important as a close friend or family member to pay attention to the emotional pattern of the teen, and if they start to show ...

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This essay is firstly going to define what market segmentation is, it is then going to describe the stages of the segmentation, targeting and positioning model. To explain the STP model this essay will put it into context by applying it to the Arcadia group, and then going through the stages of the model in terms of how the Arcadia would use it. ... When the list of target markets is made, a company will start to decide on the marketing mix they use for each segment. ... The STP model helps a firm differentiate marketing mixes for each of their segments. Even though it is an expensive process...

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In each essay, the authors separate their styles using varying literary inclinations such as structure, tone and perspective. ... Such is the case with society today, men have been forced away from being sensitive and caring according to Kanner and instead, " A cigar and Martini may be the new symbols to reach those who are starting to reject white wine and Perrier" (162). ... The use of these literary techniques helps to give a solid foundation to the theme. ... Kanner employs an informative essay structure, a bias tone, and a third person perspective in depicting the roles of women in to...

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The selection I picked for my essay is a song written and performed by Metallica titled "Nothing Else Matters", which is actually their remade version that includes performances by the London Symphony Orchestra which offers a refined "twist" to Metallica's ordinarily heavy sounding, hardcore, "heavy metal" genre. ... Now this is when the dynamics start to build, with the drums beating louder and the orchestra starting to respond in harmony with violin and flute, the tempo is increased along with the volume at which point the guitar changes its pattern to a strum which adds contrast and rh...

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This information helps to build the appeal of ethos as the Cato Institute being an established American public policy research organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., shows the proof of his credibility. ... Balko's opinion in the essay is that people's diets and personal health should be left personal, and that the government needs to find a way to encourage people to live healthy. ... Balko includes in his essay that government restricting diets and having socialist insurance is not helping the obesity problem, but it is only making it worse because it is not allowing people...

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History Extra Credit Essay It has been said that,Early United States foreign policy was primarily a defensive reaction to perceived or actual threats from Europe.? ... In 1778 America signed an alliance with France saying that they would help France defend the Western Indies during times of war in exchange for their helping the United States gain it's freedom. France called for our help because the British were attacking the West Indies. ... By doing this manufacturers in America are threatened and call upon the government for help. ... The tariff was a twenty to twenty-five perc...

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As the essay goes deeper into the problems, one will realise how much society has contributed to prostitution in reality. ... Hence, as a result to find the answers to the questions raised in the above, gender inequalities, religious interpretations of women and men, economic factors and social discourses will be the key elements which will be discussed in depth throughout the essay. ... Therefore, this essay tries to argue that gender inequality is an important underlying cause which leads to economic inequalities in the end as well. Gender inequality, the stereotyped image of women and thei...

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In this essay I will explain the differences and similarities between the two art and literary movements Dada and Surrealism. To help show you the differences between these two movements I will use one example of each movement, as a Dada example I will use Marcel Duchamp and his work "The Fountain" and for Surrealism, Salvador Dali and his painting "The Persistence Of Memory". Dada was a movement around the time of the First World War, it started around 1915 and ended at about 1922, Surrealism followed Dada and was practised from around 1924 right through to about 1939. ... The reason tha...

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Bok's view briefly is that although the First Amendment protects speech, it does not necessarily mean that it is right, proper or civil His essay was prompted by the display of Confederate flags hung from a window of a Harvard dormitory. ... Bok explains that offensive communication is much more difficult to judge because you have to be careful at where you draw the line because if flags are to be ruled offensive, it is a matter of time before other things start being deemed offensive such as offensive speakers, and that if you restrict what people say they will only go out and get th...

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This essay is going to look at the causes of this "unnecessary" state of the world. ... This essay is going to firstly look at traditional explanations such as environmental and population growth. ... The factors that make regions susceptible to these triggers are far more serious and deep rooted in the structural political and historical processes in that region, and this will be the main area of study in my essay. ... In the final part of my essay I am going to look at what has been done to try and resolve situations of hunger and malnutrition. ... However more damaging than this was t...

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Although both economies started as mostly agricultural, the North, unlike the South, began developing industry and commerce. The growth of industry in the North helped lead to the rapid growth of Northern cities. ... The South developed annoyance and resentment towards the North as the early abolitionist movements, started protesting the spread of slavery, which in fact was protesting the Southern economy. ... As appose to Southern states, politically, the Northern states tended to focus on a stronger national government that would finance and regulate infrastructure programs to help industry....

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These are just a few questions many people may wonder that will be answered in more detail in this essay. ... It also helps managers and workers analyze problems, visualize complex subjects, and create new products. ... The relationship IS and the organization becomes critical when management starts to plan for the future. ... For example, the use of videoconferencing and electronic meetings to help a group in the decision-making process. ... MIS are the decision-making element that helps plan and decide where the organization wants to go in the future. ...

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Enron started life as a regional gas pipeline company in 1985, but by 2001 it had become the world's largest energy trading company. ... These matters, however interesting, are not the focus of this essay and will play no further part. The rest of this essay will now concentrate on the role played by Enron's auditors Anderson, and their position in relation to the possible cover up of Enron's vast losses and their possible negligence and lack of professional independence. ... There are a number of suggestions that can help independence in general and would have helped in the...

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Over the course of this essay I intend to use these two filmmakers use the documentary film serves as a vehicle for the promotion of self. ... Moore had built up a growing fan base over the 90's starting with his successful documentary "Roger and Me" in 1989 and continuing with his books and television shows. ... However while the film may appear to begin as an essay film initially it soon becomes clear that Moore is using the film and the quest to confront GM chairman Roger Smith as a platform to promote his political views and his own brand of media activism. ... The format aligns th...

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The Philadelphia proposal was intended for a fresh start. ... This was directed to help childcare, protective services for children and adults, foster care, services related to management and maintenance of the home, transportation services, and more. ... In this essay, Hamilton elaborates heavily on the positive consequences from our constitutional provisions. ... Alberto Gonzalez, the first Latino justice, will currently be starting his position. ... From 1787 to 1788 Hamilton, Madison, and Jay wrote these controversial essays to advocate popular belief in the ratification of the United ...

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