...Century to the 1970’s many thousands of Aboriginal children were removed from their families. These children, now referred to as the Stolen Generations, faced ongoing emotional and social difficulties because of their removal from their families (Oxford Big Ideas, 2018). The youth, once taken from their homes, were brought up on reserves and missions. Subsequently, these children's lives were impacted severely from life without their families and biological parents. The forcible removal of the Stolen Generations was a gross violation of human rights and had many fundamental, social and emotional impacts on the life of the Indigenous Australians. PARAGRAPH 1: Life on the reserves, was more like a prison camp...
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...For much if my life I considered myself apart of Generation X. My parents were Baby Boomers, and their parents were the Greatest Generation, so this makes me Gen-X, right? I saw the newest generation as children who never knew life without computers, and always received awards for precipitation. I could not possibly be one of them. This generation, formally known as Generation Y, has seemed to have found a new name; The Millennial Generation, and I think I am one of them. Alan Greenblatt explains how many opinions exist about which age range truly describes Millennials in his article “Millennial Generation.” Greenblatt states, “Experts don’t agree yet as to who exactly is a Millennial. But various researchers say the oldest Millennials were born in 1980, 1981, or 1982. Depending on who you ask, they say the youngest Millennials were born between 1995 and 2005” (Greenblatt, 2015, p. 556). Having been born in 1980 places me at the lower boundary of the Millennial age range. If being judged by birth year alone, I will have to...
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...In the article entitled “Is this generation really more informed?” by Palder and Syeda, talks about different opinions on whether or not Millennials are more informed than previous generations. In order to be a Millennial, you have to be around the ages of 13-32. Millennials are not more informed than previous generations, because they are given the choice of what to look at online, they are learning about unimportant information, and they don’t take the opportunity to learn more. Millennials have many resources to look at the news, however they do not take the opportunity to read about what is going on in the world. Previous generations care about the news, more than Millennials do. The AVID Weekly article states that, “In 2012, a Pew Research survey reported that members of the Silent and Boomer generations spent almost twice the amount of time following the news as Millennials.” This proves that previous...
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...If I were the Mayor of Burleson Essay By Abby Seamster If I were the Mayor of Burleson, I would take every advantage of it. Being the Mayor comes with great authority and also great responsibility and I would use both of these traits in order to achieve my goals. To start off, if I were mayor I would try to focus on and improve the marketing, advertisement, and publication concerning community wide events and fundraisers. I would work to help reach out to the youth of Burleson so that our generation can become more involved with our community at a younger age. Getting the teenagers and children to participate in community events is vital to contributing to the major goals of our community and to helping Burleson thrive and grow. In addition to connecting the youth to the community, I would also pass an ordinance to raise fines for littering across our town. In continuing to unite the community of Burleson, keeping this city beautiful plays a major part. Littering is just one way in which our town becomes less unified, so I would fight to stop this disrespect of our city. I would also try to organize more money into a budget for making our city more beautiful. This budget would cover more landscaping and maintenance projects across the community. Another thing I would do as mayor would be to set aside more money in our budget to go towards our city’s drug awareness program. It is sad heart-breaking and devastating to see so many of our promising teenagers and young adults...
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...In Joan Didion’s essay, “On Going Home” Didion describes her experiences and thoughts on what defines her meaning of home. Didion uses many asyndetons and polysyndetons to emphasize her emotions and poses several rhetorical questions. Throughout the essay, Didion poses an important point that, perhaps her generation is the last to truly know the meaning behind the word “home”. The contributing factors to such conclusion derived from her personal experiences with her direct family (mother, father, and brother), her husband, and even her own daughter. Didion first sets her definition of home by clarifying that to her, home means “not where [her] husband and [she] and the baby live, but the place where [her] family is.” (Didion1) Her diction reflects the way she thinks about her home, with words such as “troublesome” that give off a negative connotation. Although she defines this place as her home, she expresses how she changes personalities and formalities in front of her parents and brother, which her husband is unfamiliar with. This transformation represents her familiarity with her family, whom she grew up with, or her childhood. However, since she is not in her childhood anymore, this familiarity is somewhat uncomfortable to her and her husband, whom Didion is more accustomed with. She, therefore, calls her “home” a “burden” (Didion2) where her source of tension and drama come from. Didion’s relationship with her husband reflects what she left behind at “home”. When Didion...
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...The Most Expensive Home The door thuds as you close it behind you on your way out to go to school, work, or wherever you are headed. You don’t have a second thought about what you’re leaving behind: your home. But have you ever thought about the significance of that word, “home”? In Joan Didion’s essay, “On Going Home”, Didion describes her experiences and thoughts on what defines her meaning of home. Didion uses many asyndetons and polysyndetons to emphasize her emotions and poses several rhetorical questions. Throughout the essay, it can be concluded that perhaps the generation that truly knows the meaning behind the word “home” is gradually disappearing. The contributing factors to such interpretation derived from Didion’s personal experiences with her direct family, her husband, and even her own daughter. Didion first sets her definition of home by clarifying that to her, home means “not where [her] husband and [she] and the baby live, but the place where [her] family is”. Her diction reflects the way she thinks about her home, with words such as “troublesome” that give off a negative connotation. Although she defines this place as her home, she expresses how she changes personalities and formalities in front of her parents and brother, which her husband is unfamiliar with. This transformation represents her familiarity with her family, whom she grew up with, or her childhood, and a vague description of what makes up her home. However, since she is not in her childhood...
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...Dakota Stephens Professor Baker English 1301 9/13/13 Our Generation on Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking Reading and writing are things that I am very well at. The difference is, I’m stronger in my writing skills than my reading skills. The reason for this is that when I’m writing I get so into my words and imagination to where my hand with the magical pencil does the talking. My skills in reading only depend on one thing, if it catches my attention or not. Stories have to get me involved with the story somehow in order for me to get interest. If it’s not catching my attention, I’m not reading it. But most importantly, critical thinking is what ties reading and writing together. I am very picky about the books and articles I read. Stories for me have to have a mystery or even sometimes a sappy love story. Of course I’m going to love romantic books because I’m a girl, right? Yet again, some love stories bore the living hell out of me because it’s a “typical” love story. Reading books just all depends on how the author grabs his reader’s attention and how he plays the story throughout the book. When I find a book that I’m interested in, I will read the entire novel. Or even something that is scary will keep hooked on the story. Scary stories are my favorites because the story just keeps my suspense in play. Celebrity gossip is definitely something that I get into reading. There is always something new with these celebrities. Since these celebrities are well...
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...Essay on “Liking is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts” We’re spending more and more time online and less time out in the real world. But is modern technology really doing us harm? And are we missing out on a lot of important stuff when we hide behind our screens and use a mouse as our mouthpiece? These are some of the important question that arise from reading Jonathan Franzen’s essay, “Liking is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts” from 2011. The 51-year-old author puts our daily internet routines into perspective and forces us to think critically about what we are doing online. But he beats around the bush for a while before he starts presenting his actual message. He thus starts out sharing a personal experience of getting a new smartphone and uses this as a starting point for voicing his concerns. Jonathan Franzen is aware of the danger of scaring off those young readers who might be fed up with older people complaining about the youth of today, “Very probably, you’re sick to death of hearing social media disrespected by cranky 51-year-olds” (ll. 140-142). He therefore catches this young audience’s attention by comparing his relationship to his outdated smartphone to a relationship of romantic nature. He uses familiar expressions like “trust issues”, “accountability issues” and having “outgrown the relationship”. In this...
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... • the structure of the traditional essay • the benefits of writing the traditional essay The Structure of a Traditional Essay Diagram 图解 Title of the Essay I. Introduction • Opening remarks to catch reader’s interest • Thesis statement • Plan of development (optional) II. Body • Topic sentence 1(supporting point 1) specific evidence • Topic sentence 2(supporting point 2) specific evidence • Topic sentence 3(supporting point 3) specific evidence III. Conclusion • Summary (optional) • General closing remarks • (or both) Benefits of Writing the Traditional Essay 1. Mastering essays will help make you a better writer; 2. The discipline of writing an essay will strengthen your skills as a reader, listener and speaker; 3. Writing will make you a stronger thinker. Chapter Two The Writing Process This chapter will explain and illustrate • the sequence of steps in writing an effective essay • prewriting • revising • editing Prewriting techniques: a. Freewriting b. Questioning c. Making a list d. Clustering(Mapping) e. Preparing a Scratch Outline f. Writing the first draft g. Revising: h. a. the content of your essay i. Is my paper unified? j. Is my paper supported? k. Is my paper organized? l. b. the sentences of your essay m. Do I use parallelism to...
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...In the postmodern society we live in today, the young people have more possibilities than ever. The young generation today have an enormous pressure on their shoulders. They have to be unique individuals; today’s society and media honour unique individuals! They have to get a good education otherwise they will not be able to make it in our society. The young generation today have the highest expectations for themselves ever, because the media, the society and the politicians only focus on the wonder kids and the unique individuals. These expectations can be hard for the young generation to cope with. Anne Hope has written the short story, “A Gap of Sky”, in 2008. The short story is written in a 3rd person omniscient narrator from the main character, Ellie’s point of view. The narrative mode used is description. The story is told as if the narrator is inside Ellie’s head; you would be able to replace the words “She” and “Ellie” with “I” instead and change the inflections, and the story would sound the same. The narrator describes what Ellie does, what she thinks and how she feels. The narrator is unreliable, because we see the story from a subjective point of view, Ellie’s point of view. The narrator has Ellie’s subjective point of view about the events and the characters of the story. The narrator describes Ellie through what she thinks, says and does. The language is informal. Through the language we get an idea of who Ellie is, she sounds like a normal adolescent girl,...
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...The essay that I chose to read was “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl Habits” by Suki Kim. In this essay the author explains of a life altering experience where her and her family was living a life where money was of no object, a life where they were millionaires. They lived in a hilltop mansion with gorgeous scenery and perks that people of lower financial class were not privy to such as chauffeurs, private school and special aides to assist with homework. The author further explains how her life of luxury takes a dramatic turn. Suki goes into detail about how they lost everything in one quick swoop. Her father’s businesses all failed and were bankrupt. She explains how in her country of South Korea that bankrupts was a crime that was punishable with a jail sentence. In a last ditch effort to avoid him going to prison they fled their country with no money to America. They relocate to Woodside, New York. The realization of her new life shows apparent when she explains how she hated her new brownstone home that they are forced to relocate to. She also takes a moment to introduce us to her first “friends” Andy and Billy. The author then gives the reader the new and different experiences she faces as an immigrant in a brand new place. The young girl who had wealth and opportunity was now no more than another face no special than anyone else. She talks about the racial changes in her life as far as being labeled as Asian and learning that there is a conception that as someone...
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...|Email |thogan@au.westfield.com | | | | |Unit Code |SSK12 | |Unit name |Introduction to University Learning | |Date |31 March 2012 | |Assignment name |Essay 1 | |Tutor |Kersti Niilus | |Student’s Declaration: | |Except where indicated, the work I am submitting in this assignment is my own work and has not been submitted for assessment in another | |unit....
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...Favorite Essay Of the many styles and topics of writing my English course has reviewed; the reading I found most interesting was “Being a Man” by Paul Theroux. The essay was over Theroux not liking the masculine identity or being a man in general. I enjoyed Theroux’s essay because he goes straight for the point and the topic was very controversial. Theroux’s essay is about how difficult it is to be a man in America. Men are generalized to be tough, sport crazy and unemotional. I believe that generalization is still common but has deteriorated over the decade. Theroux thinks the way children are brought up is wrong, just because a boy does not like sports does not mean there is something wrong with him. From personal experience, I know that not every little boy likes sports or has the opportunity to be active in sports. I grew up in a small apartment with my father, mother and sister. Living in a room with my sister was very hard to deal with. I had a Nintendo 64 and she had Barbie dolls. There was nowhere to play sports and no place to keep the equipment. We made do with the things we had; I sometimes enjoyed taking the Barbie dolls clothing off and she would play the Mario Brothers. Eventually moving into a house allowed me to be active in football, soccer and baseball. I believe the child’s surroundings can change their path to adulthood. Theroux expresses many things that I find insulting. According to Theroux, to be a man is to be “stupid, be unfeeling, obedient,...
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...Communities with Strong Leadership This essay discusses an assumption that communities accept us for who we are. There are several ideas concerning community values and that strong leadership is needed to support this claim. Researching this idea with a book titled Remix Reading & Composing Culture. I read short essays, and a commencement address from this textbook. The passages tie into my belief of strong leadership having to be linked to the assumption that communities accept us for who we are. I explored these essays, and commencement address to support my views in a creative way. An essay titled “It Takes a Tribe” speaks of college life and fraternities. The commencement address by John Stewart is comical. Another essay I enjoyed speaks...
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...Analytic essay of ”Shakespeare – writing essays about…” As times get more modern, it is not a secret that Shakespeare’s written work is getting less read. The language today has gotten so modern and slangy, that people no longer care for lengthy sentences or strenuous words, as we see in his work. We are even beginning to make up our own words like “obvs” or “OMG”, which doesn’t necessarily originate from too lengthy words nor sentences. Are we generally just getting lazier? Or are we still building a language, which still customizes to an entirely new generation? No matter what the reason is, then the act of making up words is not unheard of. Shakespeare himself invented no less than 1700 of our common words by just connecting words who was never before used together, devising words wholly original and changing nouns into verbs and vice versa. The essay “Shakespeare – writing essays about…” is written by Dr. Robert Beddow for a website called The Education Wizard. Dr. Beddow studied English and History of Art at Gonville and Caius College and later became a lecturer at Cambridge University. Dr. Beddow starts off his essay by being a bit amicable and anecdotal, which gives us a feeling that we know him personally. His use of slang and ironic language also makes his essay suitable for the young audience, which is also intended as the receiver. Another sign of this is the media he has chosen to advocate on. It is by no means a coincidence that the new generation Z, which is...
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