...Compare and Contrast Essay 5/12/2014 Ashford University English 121-AXC1415E Instructor: Jamie Cooper Student: Katherin Wheat When it comes to writing the compare and contrast essay style, it is one of the more difficult ones to achieve. The differences between these two essays “How to say nothing in 500 words” by: Paul McHenry Roberts and “caged bird” by: Maya Angelou is easy to pick out. As far as the similarities goes that proved to a little harder to give a lot of examples. In the following paragraphs there will be plenty of examples of compare and contrast, give summaries, a couple of quotes and a paraphrase will be included in this essay. While how to say nothing in 500 words and Caged Bird are both well-written essays, caged Bird was more visual than How to say nothing in 500 words because the author painted a more detailed picture which kept the reader’s attention, the attended audience was more overly open to more people than that of how to say nothing in 500 words essay, and the author of caged bird had a bigger and deeper impact on the readers then the author of how to say nothing in 500 words did. Caged Bird was more visual than How to say nothing in 500 words because the author painted a more detailed picture which kept the reader’s attention. Maya Angelou’s descriptive essay “Caged bird” tells a story of a caged bird and a free bird. The caged bird signifies a person with the skin color darker than that of a peach colored crayon, held down by the paralyzing...
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...Mack Storey Reflection on Choose Your Own Topic essay Janet Willman November 24, 2012 Choose your own topic essay has been one of my best essays so far. The feedback I got is I made simple errors like using brackets instead of parenthesis, and few comma errors. With this essay I was allowed to pick my own and I was passionate about the topic I choose. For my career I want to be a criminologist so understanding why people do things especially why they commit crimes intrigues me. The easiest part of this essay was choosing the topic, and knowing what I wanted to say. I finished prewriting it in no time at all and I all had to do is go over it and make all flow and sound professional. The hardest part for me was actually staying in the 500 word maximum. I had so much to say about this topic that it was hard for me to limit myself to 500 words I had to cut out a lot of facts. The part of the essay I liked is the whole essay because I got to choose and it is something I enjoy writing about. The part I didn’t like about was really nothing except for the 500 word limit. The part I had to revise was my in text citations, some comma errors, and I went through it again and added and subtracted words where it needed to be done. If I had to revise this again I would not know what to revise I think this is a good essay and doesn’t need any more...
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...| Censored in America: The War on Free Speech ESSAY CONTEST 125 CASH PRIZES for students, totaling $15,500! ESSAY TOPIC: Is Free Speech becoming more limited in America? John Stossel considers that in his recent Fox News hour, "Censored in America." Words can wound, so should we have increased limits around free speech? Why or why not? Does free speech have a special role in a free society? "Censored in America" says that students are sometimes kept away from words and ideas they might find disturbing. What do you think? Are there areas in society today where we should allow more free speech? Are there areas where we should restrict free speech? Please write a 500-1000 word essay on this topic. You should include your own examples of free speech controversies, and you must include at least one reference to the TV special or Stossel's book, "No They Can't.". • 125 students will receive CASH PRIZES totaling $15,500. • 1st and 2nd place students will also win an all-expense-paid trip to New York City for themselves, a chaperone, and the teachers who submitted their essays to see a live taping of STOSSEL. • Teachers whose students receive at least an honorable mention will receive an autographed copy of one of John Stossel's best-selling books. • Each teacher may submit an unlimited number of student essays (500-1000 words) on our web site between now and the Feb. 17th deadline. FOR COMPLETE CONTEST RULES, PRIZE DETAILS, AND SUBMISSION INFO, VISIT: ...
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...A majority of the scholarship essays that are out there don’t have to be very long, mostly 500 to 1500 words, and Mr. Evans taught us how to fit a lot of detail into 500 words. He also taught us how the structure of such essay should be and what we shouldn’t put in that type of an essay, like not putting any sob stories in them. A college doesn’t want to read about how one of your family members passed away recently, they want you to answer the underlying question that is in nearly all of the prompts a scholarship essay would...
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...Write: Respond to Food, Inc. prompt in BB Discussion Board. Due Apr. 11 by 11:59pm. Respond to 2 (or more) classmates by Apr. 14 by 11:59pm. 3. Write: Response 3: Minimum Word Count: 500 words. Due Apr. 14 by 11:59pm in Assignments, R3. 4. Write: Essay 2 Rough Draft: Analysis. Due Apr. 17 by 11:59pm. Turn in under E2R in Assignments. Specifics for Response 3: 1. Prompt: Further the research of one topic in Food, Inc. (for example, you might further research cloned foods and the law regarding labeling, illegal immigrants' status in the meatpacking industry, or the level of chemical additives in foods...) Give an updated view of the issue, along with further analysis into that issue through your research. 2. Your research should come from EKU databases only. Of course, you can use the free web to get more background information, but that information can not be used as an outside source. 3. Your sources should be no older than 3 years, so anything published before 2010 is not allowed. 3. Minimum Word Count is 500 words (the word count is for essay text alone, not the word count of the works cited page). Minimum Sources: 3. Due: Apr. 14 by 11:59pm in Assignments, R3. 4. The purpose of this assignment is to practice analysis and focus on advanced & time-sensitive research. Specifics for Essay 2: 1. An analysis is an argument in which you study the parts of something to understand how it works, what it means, or why it might be significant. As shown in the documentary, the...
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...of 2 Business Management Essay COMPANY: Starbucks Subject; “Discuss the impact macro factors may place upon your chosen organisation in the future (1-5 years) and how the organisation may positively manage this”. When speak from macro and micro perspective we must bear in mind that these are two different phenomenon’s. Micro factors can be described as factors that people and businesses keep in mind when making decisions concerning the allocation of resources, whereas macro factors can be described as the factors that are kept in mind when making decisions regarding not only specific companies but industries as a whole and economies, more over micro environmental factors are the one’s over which the business has control for example price, product and promotion whereas macro environmental factors are the one’s over which the business has no control as such as social, cultural, technological and political factors. Businesses operate in markets keeping in mind changing situations not only of their market conditions but also the trends of the economies that they operate in, so that they can adjust and survive in accordance with new situations because adaptation is a must for a business to survive and prosper otherwise a business might be forced to cease operations and shut down. Starbucks is one of top five(Caribou coffee, Tully’s ,Coffee bean and tea leaf, Peet’s Coffee) businesses in a $11 billion industry. The coffee house industry grew from merely 500 stores in 1991 to over 40...
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...Student Disability Services Essay Writing in 8 Steps Step 1:Get to grips with the scale of the task This is important because it’s much harder to cut down to the required word count if you have written too much than to plan carefully and write the right amount in the first place. Scale is also important because it will dictate the amount of detail you can include. Think about the word limit (2,000 words, 3,000 words?). How many typed pages will there be (about 500 words per page with single spacing)? Roughly how many sections do you think there will be (e.g. 6 including introduction and conclusion)? For example, each section for a 2,000 word essay would be in the range of 300 – 350 words. Think about the number of words per page (500, font 12, single spaced or 250 double spaced). A 2,000 word essay will fill about 4 (or 8) pages. If you visualise and work within a framework like this, you will be more likely to produce a piece of writing that is of about the right length. No time wasted chopping bits out. Step 2: Consider the subject of the essay / the essay title Read the essay title carefully, as every word will be important. It may be helpful to identify two different sorts of words: Content words and Instruction words. Content words relate to the subject you will be writing about. The area about which you will be demonstrating your knowledge and understanding, be it cognition, anatomy, French history, Descartes or post-impressionism. Instruction words are those that tell...
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...Student Disability Services Essay Writing in 8 Steps Step 1:Get to grips with the scale of the task This is important because it’s much harder to cut down to the required word count if you have written too much than to plan carefully and write the right amount in the first place. Scale is also important because it will dictate the amount of detail you can include. Think about the word limit (2,000 words, 3,000 words?). How many typed pages will there be (about 500 words per page with single spacing)? Roughly how many sections do you think there will be (e.g. 6 including introduction and conclusion)? For example, each section for a 2,000 word essay would be in the range of 300 – 350 words. Think about the number of words per page (500, font 12, single spaced or 250 double spaced). A 2,000 word essay will fill about 4 (or 8) pages. If you visualise and work within a framework like this, you will be more likely to produce a piece of writing that is of about the right length. No time wasted chopping bits out. Step 2: Consider the subject of the essay / the essay title Read the essay title carefully, as every word will be important. It may be helpful to identify two different sorts of words: Content words and Instruction words. Content words relate to the subject you will be writing about. The area about which you will be demonstrating your knowledge and understanding, be it cognition, anatomy, French history, Descartes or post-impressionism. Instruction words are those that...
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...Student Disability Services Essay Writing in 8 Steps Step 1:Get to grips with the scale of the task This is important because it’s much harder to cut down to the required word count if you have written too much than to plan carefully and write the right amount in the first place. Scale is also important because it will dictate the amount of detail you can include. Think about the word limit (2,000 words, 3,000 words?). How many typed pages will there be (about 500 words per page with single spacing)? Roughly how many sections do you think there will be (e.g. 6 including introduction and conclusion)? For example, each section for a 2,000 word essay would be in the range of 300 – 350 words. Think about the number of words per page (500, font 12, single spaced or 250 double spaced). A 2,000 word essay will fill about 4 (or 8) pages. If you visualise and work within a framework like this, you will be more likely to produce a piece of writing that is of about the right length. No time wasted chopping bits out. Step 2: Consider the subject of the essay / the essay title Read the essay title carefully, as every word will be important. It may be helpful to identify two different sorts of words: Content words and Instruction words. Content words relate to the subject you will be writing about. The area about which you will be demonstrating your knowledge and understanding, be it cognition, anatomy, French history, Descartes or post-impressionism. Instruction words are those that tell...
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...2015 Quantity and quality summary In this essay the thesis is, "There are many unspoken postulates in literary criticism, one being that the more one writes, the less remarkable one’s work is apt to be." (King paragraph 1) This thesis is trying to tell us what the author is going to talk about throughout the whole essay (as for every thesis). He wants us to know that there are many assumptions in literary criticism but the one he will be talking about is the more authors write the worse their writing is. This author is trying to use different authors to show that the assumption is true sometimes and sometimes it isn't. He states, " Certainly no one is going to induct the mystery novelist John Creasey, author of 564 novels under 21 different pseudonyms, into the Literary Hall of Heroes; both he and his creations (the Toff, Inspector Roger West, Sexton Blake, etc.) have largely been forgotten." (King paragraph 2) In this quote he is trying to tell us that this author had hundreds of books and all of those have been forgotten. He had quantity but his quality wasn't as good. The author also claims, " Donna Tartt, one of the best American novelists to emerge in the last 50 years, has published just three novels since 1992." (King paragraph 8) This quote is showing us that this author only has a few books, but yet he is still one of the best American novelists. Here there was little quantity and very good quality. The author also reveals...
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...Simple Interest Unit 4: Instructor Graded Assignment In these questions, you will need to use the date that unit 4 starts for your class. List the date that Unit 4 started for your class: * Unit 4 start date: May 7, 2014 Question 1 1. You decide to take out a simple interest loan for $5000, at 7% yearly interest on the date that unit 4 starts for you. If you repay the loan on December 31st (at the end of the current year)... a) How much do you pay total when you pay off the loan? R= 7% =0.07 T= 238/365 = 0.65 A= P (1 + rt) A = 5,000 (1 + (0.07 X 0.65) ) A= 5,000 X 1.0455 A= $5,227.50 b) How much interest do you pay? Amount Accured – Principal = Interest 5,227.50 – 5,000 = $227.50 or I = PRT I = 5,000 X 0.07 X 0.65 I = $227.50 Question 2 2. You decide to take out a $20,000 simple interest loan at 4%, on the date unit 4 started for you. a) In 45 days you decide to pay off $8000 of the loan. What is your new principal? Explain how you got the answer. I = PRT I = 20,000 X 0.04 X (45/365) I = 20,000 X 0.00493 I = $98.63 Payment = Principal – Interest $ 7,901.37 = 8,000 – 98.63 New Balance = Previous Balance – Principal payment $12, 098.63 = 20,000 – 7,901.37 To get the new principal, I need to go get the interest and the payment to get the new balance. b) 30 days after the first payment, you pay another $6000. What is your new principal? Explain how you got the answer you did. I=PRT I= 12...
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...Review of Chapter 11 Econ 101 Sections 1 & 4 This is for you exam preparation. Answers are on the last two pages. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the question. 1) In a perfectly competitive market that is in long-run equilibrium, a permanent leftward shift in the market demand curve will cause A) firms to leave the industry in the long run. B) profits to fall in the short run. C) the price to fall in the short run. D) all of the above [pic] 2) In the above figure, if the price is $4 per unit, how many units will a profit maximizing perfectly competitive firm produce? A) 20 B) 0 C) 5 D) 30 3) In the long run, perfectly competitive firms earn zero economic profit. This result is due mainly to the assumption of A) a perfectly elastic market demand. B) unrestricted entry and exit. C) price taking by the firms. D) few buyers and sellers. 4) Which of the following conditions allows perfect competition to arise? A) Attempts by each firm to make their product different from products produced by other firms reinforces competition between firms. B) Sellers and buyers are well informed about available quantity but not prices. C) New firms must operate more efficiently in order to overcome the competitive advantage of existing firms. D) The minimum efficient scale of a single producer is small relative to the demand for the good or service. [pic] 5) The figure above shows a perfectly...
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...presenting research from the communication science and rhetorical approaches. This assignment is designed to help you learn how to read and understand communication research from the variety of methodological approaches that communication researchers use. You should concentrate on identifying the key questions/thesis, key findings/key arguments, and conclusions of the research article. The paper should be written in your own language. Don't feel as though you have to repeat every detail verbatim; rather, try to provide a coherent summary in your own words of the key points asked of you in each paragraph. Because being concise is an important feature of this assignment, you are required to accomplish this assignment within 500 words. Exceeding 500 words will result in point deductions. Due Dates • RS#1 should evaluate the reading by Brummett & Steuber by Monday, September 28th at noon • RS#2 should evaluate the reading by Sims, due by Wednesday October 14th at noon • RS#3 should evaluate the reading by VanHaitsma, due by Monday, November 9th at noon • RS#4 should evaluate the reading by Nelson, due by Monday, December 7th at noon Communication Science Paper (RS1 & RS2) How to compose a research synthesis in exactly 4 paragraphs Paragraph 1 should synthesize all of the following pieces of information that can be found in the research report. • The rationale or purpose of the research. • The general areas of existing scholarship that the researcher/s builds upon...
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...According to Kyle Wiens, a person must be able to know proper grammar in order to stock shelves or labeling parts (Wiens, p. 500). Wiens is a businessman and writer who is also the founder of iFixit and Dozuki (Wiens, p. 499). He provides an abundance of claims as to why he doesn’t hire people with bad grammar. While reading this essay, I wasn’t moved by Wiens statements and claims that job-seekers must be proficient in grammar for their resume to be relevant. As a result, Wiens lacks a credible stance in his essay by failing to add research and studies of grammar importance in the workforce. Wiens says, “I have a ‘zero tolerance approach’ to grammar mistakes that make people look stupid.” (p. 499) Immediately, the inappropriate use of his...
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...Announcing the $10,000 Evo Scholarship Winners for 2012! * by inkblot * Posted October 24, 2012 at 3:34 pm It took longer than we expected, but we have finally awarded the first ever Evo College Scholarship! The response was enormous; in our first year we received over 500 applications. Thankfully, the number of PPV viewers for Evo 2012 have allowed us to add one additional scholarship. So for 2012 we will grant two $10,000 awards, along with a special $500 creative grant! An enormous THANK YOU goes out to all our online viewers and to Capcom, Namco, Warner Bros, and Atlus for allowing us to run the PPV. Students, this was an enormously difficult decision, so congratulations to our 2012 winners. Dillon Jay Hageman Dillon is a local Las Vegas player and a freshman at UNLV. He plans to major in Engineering or Computer Science and apply his education to designing games. In his essay, Dillon talked about how games have given him a positive outlet when dealing with some tough personal circumstances. There are a million different reasons to play games, and everyone has their own unique story. I’ve had a tough childhood. My parents got divorced when I was just six years old and my dad hasn’t been in my life worth mentioning ever since. … Throughout my younger years I was one of the most athletic people I’ve ever known. Injuries and family issues caught up to me, and sports faded out of my life. … For some people, games are just a way to pass time. Games for me have...
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