This was the first research paper that I had ever been assigned, so I did not know how or where to get started. ... I began trying to write, but I still found myself struggling to put quality ideas and words on the paper. ... I found that my thesis was easy to work off of. ... I concluded the introduction with my thesis. ... I found it much easier to write now that I had a plan for my paper. ...

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She is a microbiologist and when writing, whether it be a research paper or her honors thesis, a great amount of research is involved. ... I interviewed Whitney to find out how she manages the research aspect of the writing process because the research before a major paper can be a daunting task and it is helpful to see how a professional accomplishes it. ... Each paper a scientist writes is referred to as a story of how things happen in that biological field, so the paper must be organized in a story like fashion. ... To clarify what Whitney was saying, I asked how she decides on what re...

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Fromm also explains how human history began with an act of disobedience; however Fromm did not adequately explain how the world can possibly end by an act of obedience. Overall, I agreed with the presentation of the essay, however I disagreed with part of the thesis. ... History did exist before it was even written down on any form of paper, before any form of writing was even established. ... Overall, I disagreed partially with the essay's thesis, however I did not disagree with the article overall. ... For example, throughout the course of the essay, from is explaining how and why peopl...

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Appleby shows how the Americans changed and developed over the years by using real autobiographies of some of the people who lived in this time. ... Appleby explains how "Jefferson and his supporters democratized American politics" (27). ... Shoemaking was also a job that came to be popular and Northerners began manufacturing boots, textiles, hats, paper, and woolens (76). ... Since Appleby writes with both historical facts and peoples actual personal experiences, I think that she doesn't really bias his thesis or his handling. For example one part of her thesis is that new jobs were b...

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This is the argument that challenges the lingering "nature vs. nurture" notion and how an individual's identity can be influenced that I am putting forth throughout this paper. ... How is this tackled by society? ... How do we go about this and who holds the rights to determining another human's sex and gender? ... Pifer writes for the American Academy of Pediatrics (2002) and states that "early genital surgery may be best for intersex babies". ... In The Rolling Stone (1997) John Colapinto writes an article titled The Story of John/Joan describing how other intersex adults prote...

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He is not teaching math, he is not teaching how to read, and he is not teaching how the human body works, but what he is teaching is with passion. ... The novel begins with a flashback of Mitch's graduation, where he discusses how close he was to Morrie and how he promised to keep in touch with Morrie. ... With his teacher's inspiration, Mitch writes his last thesis?a paper about the last class Morrie taught, which was held every Tuesday and with only one student, Mitch; his thesis was called Tuesdays with Morrie. ... At the begging of my paper I useis? ...

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Stampp, Fogel, Engerman, and Genovese are among those who have analyzed and wrote about American slavery during that time period, and their works have included the attitudes of American slaves toward their own experiences and I will also discuss that thesis based on what those authors have wrote. ... Kennith Stampp, said throughout his paper that slaves were, in some cases, content with their lives because those who were born into slavery had no way of knowing the morality or ethics behind their position due to only knowing slavery from their first breath. ... This quote demonstrates the autho...

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The Moral Structure in Flannery O"Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find Thesis: Flannery O"Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" expresses how people know what is morally and ethically wrong, but in their mind they are right; it just takes something more for them to see the difference. ... Description of how different values might have changed things. ... Self Evaluation The biggest problem I had writing this paper was integrating my secondary sources into the text. ... The thing that amazed me the most about this paper was that it was very easy to write. ... I used to n...

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Read an essay, analyze the ideas, and write a paper using your analysis to bring the text to a new light. ... She explains to us as readers how exactly the new advertising techniques of naked male models (similar to how females have presented themselves in advertisements before) changed the way certain groups of people viewed advertising. ... Besides style and opinion, the way in which a body of text is organized can be crucial to how a reader approaches an author's ideas. ... Bordo's Organization After her initial thesis, Bordo organizes her ideas into subsections, in which each bo...

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Searle made the argument in rejection of the Strong AI thesis, which states that a computer/robot that passes the Turing Test should be thereby assumed to be a conscious thinker. ... By the logic of the Strong AI Thesis, Searle would be a Chinese thinker. ... It is for that exact reason that I am to write this last portion of this paper, to demonstrate my understanding of the subject of computer consciousness. ... However, I do not think that computers that can simulate consciousness will likely be truly conscious, because no matter how realistic the simulation of consciousness may be, it will...

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As for the few who were privileged enough to handle such firearms, well, they had not a clue how to even care for these pieces of steel, let alone shoot them. ... It wasn't, in Bellesiles facts, until Samuel Colt was able to combine the advantages of marketing, with his easier to use, and much cheaper guns that our country became this " invented world" (Bellesiles) He tries to prove his thesis by shooting a gun of a different kind, the gun of numbers; a gun now pointed back at him by the many critics who have stood in line waiting, praying for someone to say something, anything that cou...

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This paper is in contrast to Magdalena Kay's article "A New Course". She proposes a new course, well this paper will address the right course in regards to higher education and how to embrace utilitarianism in universities. ... Robin Barrow writes in Giving Teaching Back to Teachers, "A view will not die, although it has been killed more than it knows, is that the solution to the problem of establishing a worthwhile curriculum lies in seeking out content that is useful or relevant.... How can someone say this is the way teachings have to be done if they themselves have not ...

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Thesis statement: Eva Luna by Isabel Allende is an example of a novel that depicts a great variety of women characters that come together in their struggle to survive in a politically torn and male-dominated country. ... Melesio's obsession with becoming a woman is remarkable, his discovery of a woman within himself reminds me of how powerful a woman can be if she knows how to use the gifts of her body and intelligence. ... She introduces Eva to the world of good wine, classical music, art, but the highest sign of Mimi's appreciation of Eva's company, talent, and...

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One type of knowledge is propter quid, which ask the question why or how. In this paper, I will demonstrate how Socrates, Hume and Aristotle, three well known philosophers, would explain how I acquired this knowledge in relation to the principles of right and wrong. ... Since Socrates did not write anything down, Socrates thinking is told through his student, Plato, who wrote his teachers" thoughts. ... This thesis allows a man to have ideas of which he later becomes conscious by recollection; thereby overcoming the sharp division between not-knowing and knowing, and justifying inq...

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This paper highlights some important key discoveries that were necessary for us to understand some key processes today. ... A few years earlier in 1517 Martin Luther had posted his 95 thesis. ... In 1735 Carolus Linnaeus builds upon what has come before and writes "System Naturae" which explaines how to classify life on the planet. ... Today we have a vast knowledge of how plants work through photosynthesis but this wasn't always the case. ... This would lead to the finer understanding of how electrons where transported and bonds broken to move around necessary com...

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