...The Choctaw Native American tribe lived most of their life in southwestern America like Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. Their population was about 160,000 people. They lived in settled villages of houses and small corn fields. Choctaws homes were made of plaster and rivercane walls with thatched roofs. They are about as strong and warm as log cabins. The men in the Choctaw tribe wore breechcloths. The women wore wrap around skirts made from deerskin or fiber. Shirts weren’t necessary but in the winter and in the cooler weather they wore poncho-style capes. They also wore moccasins on their feet. Later they adapted European cloths like cloth jackets and full skirts. Hunting in the Choctaw nation was done by the men, they hunted deer, wild turkeys, and other small game. Men also caught fish in the rivers, lakes, and sea coasts. Choctaw hunters primarily used bows and arrows. Fishermen generally used fishing spears and nets. The women were farmers they farmed mostly corn, beans, squash, and sunflowers. Most Choctaw people speak English today. Some people, especially elders, also speak their native Choctaw language. Choctaw is a rhythmic language that is nearly identical to Chickasaw. They were a part of a group called the Muskogeans. They believed that along with other tribes they emerged from the earth and through a mound called Nanih Waiya in Mississippi. They believed the mans job in the tribe was to hunt and sometimes go to war to protect their families...
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...Autism About 1 percent of the world population has autism spectrum disorder. (CDC, 2014) Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability. Autism is defined by a certain set of behaviors and is a "spectrum disorder" that effects individuals differently. Autism is a serious and lifelong developmental disability. On its own, autism is not a learning disability or a mental health problem. To go further back into history, autism was first recognized in the early years of the 20th century by medical doctors. Autism as Leo Kanner called the “syndrome” was defined as a cerebral disorder which influence communication capabilities. Through the 1960s, psychiatrists continued to view autism as a form of “childhood schizophrenia.” Also popular through the 1960s was the now-debunked idea that autism resulted from emotionally distant mothering (the “refrigerator mom” theory of autism). The 1970s brought understanding that autism stemmed from biological differences in brain development. Objective criteria for diagnosing autism followed in the 1980s. So did a clear separation from childhood schizophrenia. “Until the present, subsequent DSM editions have generally moved in the direction of greater diagnostic flexibility and expansion,” Dr. Baker writes. Research is now delivering the answers to what causes autism. There is no one cause of autism and no one type of autism. Most cases of autism appear to be caused by a combination of autism risk genes and environmental factors influencing...
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...is not a direct assignment (for class, publication, etc.) find a topic that interests you. Also, try and offer a fresh perspective on a topic. Decide if the essay needs to be a general overview of a particular subject or a very detailed and specific account. 2 Determine if you want to persuade people about a certain argument or want to write an informational, non-biased essay. Sponsored Links Free Check For Plagiarism Check Your Papers For Plagiarism And Correct Grammar Errors Now! www.Grammarly.com/Plagiarism_Check 3 Write a thesis statement. This will help determine the overall theme for the essay. 4 Outline. This includes both a structural and thematic outline. What are the major themes you want to cover? Once this is determined, create a structural outline--how each paragraph builds on information in the previous paragraph. An outline is useful for a page-long essay or an entire thesis. Outlining means writing the main topic header for a paragraph, and a number of sub-headings, using Roman numerals for main topics, and a,b,c for sub-headings. 5 Research. If you're just starting as an essayist, choose a topic you know something about--or, at the very least, something you want to learn about. If you're a practiced essayist choose a topic that can be easily researched. The Internet has made essay research a lot easier because you have virtual library's worth of information on your desktop. Take notes on research materials and see how the information...
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...Characteristics of Expository Essays What Characteristics make these essays expository? The two essays I chose to read were “Cochlear Implants” and “How to Clean a Fish.” When reading “How to Clean a Fish” the characteristics that make this an expository essay is that the author used facts to back up his or her opinion. The essay was very informational and used a great deal of detail on “How to Clean a Fish”; also the essay broke it down for you with diagrams and details. The essay was also presented in a non-bias manner. When reading “Cochlear Implant” the characteristic that make this an expository essay is that the author uses the facts to back up his or her opinion, the essay is very informational and gives examples of why the implants will work for someone that was deaf. This essay also was presented in a non-bias manner as well. Indentify the type of organizations each author used to develop the essay: topic, time order, space order, or informative process? Why do you think each author chose that type of organization for his or her essay? In what ways does this organizations choice make the essay effective? What effect might the author have achieved with another type of organization or another type of expository essay? I believe the author in “How to Clean a Fish” uses the informative process to arrange his or her essay. The author chose this process because his or her essay is on “How to” essay, what this means is that the essay is meant to teach...
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...While writing this informational text I learned about writing and myself. In terms of writing I learned that formatting and presentation is extremely important. I found it very easy to write the text of this piece, but harder to present it in a format that made it accessible and reader friendly. Additionally, I had to make sure that as a writer I was explaining everything thoroughly, because not everyone will have the same background information on the topic of the State of Israel as I. In learning about myself I had to make sure I was not expressing my own bias when writing about things that could be deemed controversial. Additionally, I reconfirmed my passion for Israel and really enjoyed sharing factual informational about the state with readers of my text. While composing my essay I used the following strategies: planning, drafting, revising, and editing. In planning my essay I first compiled a list of topics I could write about and subcategories to make those ideas more specific. I then compiled my first draft, adding more text and pictures to express the facts I wanted to convey. Then I revised my text two times with my peers and professor in class. I shorted the list of original ideas so that I could focus more on making the ones I had more substantial. I made sure I was conveying information in a non-biased manner and in simple...
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...Process Analysis I believe this article will tell me how to write a proper, process analysis essay while also providing examples and other tools needed to start off the essay on the right foot. Process analysis is an operation that is composed of processes designed to add value by transforming inputs into useful outputs. The author compares the term process analysis to cause and effect and narration the author says that all of these three ideas break down into three different categories. Narration talks mainly about what happens, while cause and effect talk about why it's happening, and process analysis talks about how it is happening. The examples the author gives for process analysis are things like giving directions, or how to make ice cream. The author provides us with two different types of process analysis. One of them is directional, which provides instructions on how to do something. The purpose of directional process analysis is to provide the reader instructions to follow in order to achieve a particular task. Then, there is the informational type of process analysis which explains how something works, how something is made, or how something happens. The author says that you would normally use an informational type process analysis if you wanted to explain how the human heart functions. While reading the text, I thought it was very informative on how to write a proper process analysis paper. The author provided many useful examples for both types...
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...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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...effect of planning, drafting, proofreading and editing of the work on the final text produced. • Awareness of writing for a specific purpose, audience and context – as well as register, style and tone – especially in SECTIONS B and C. • Grammar, spelling and punctuation. • Language structures, including an awareness of critical language. • Choice of words and idiomatic language. • Sentence construction. • Paragraphing. • Interpretation of the topic that will be reflected in the overall content: the introduction, the development of ideas and the conclusion. Copyright reserved Please turn over English Home Language/P3 3 NSC – Memorandum DBE/Feb.–Mar. 2014 SUGGESTED APPROACH TO MARKING SECTION A: ESSAY Refer to SECTION A: Rubric for Assessing an Essay found on page 8 of this memorandum. CRITERIA USED FOR ASSESSMENT CRITERIA MARKS CONTENT AND PLANNING 30 LANGUAGE, STYLE AND EDITING 15 STRUCTURE 5 TOTAL 50 1. Read the whole piece and decide on a category for CONTENT AND PLANNING. 2. Re-read the piece and select the appropriate category for LANGUAGE, STYLE AND EDITING. 3. Re-read the piece and select the appropriate category for STRUCTURE. SECTION B: LONGER TRANSACTIONAL TEXT Refer to SECTION B: Rubric for Assessing Longer Transactional Texts found on page 9 of this memorandum. CRITERIA USED FOR ASSESSMENT CRITERIA CONTENT, PLANNING AND FORMAT LANGUAGE, STYLE AND EDITING TOTAL MARKS 18 12 30 1. Read the whole piece and...
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...Thank You for Allowing me to Write this Amazing Essay Thank You For Arguing by Jay Heinrichs is an informational book about argument types and strategies. Many of his literary techniques are chosen thoughtfully to explain his research in detail to the reader. His book is also structured strategically as to give the reader topics to build off of which are introduced in the beginning of the book. For these reasons, This book makes a suitable summer reading assignment. Throughout Heinrichs book he uses examples from his life and from other people's experiences to make points and teach the reader about arguments. One example of Heinrichs strategies is from his opening chapter where he argues with his son about the absence of toothpaste. He uses...
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...Fear of Violence Morgan Campbell ENG/215 March 2, 2015 Professor Paul Korzeniowski Fear of Violence Within todays rapid race of self-preservation, there is still overbearing fear within the society. The three essays, that I plan to lay out their critical argumentative analysis, each share a likelihood for fear of violence in daily lives. The author of “Do We Fear the Right Things” identifies differing types of fears people share. While the next author of “Parents Need Help” correlates the rampant rate of video gaming sales to parental and social nurturing guidance. Lastly, the author of “Bang, You’re Dead” argues the proxy self between fantasy violence and children. In reviewing all three essays, it is easier to identify how the authors construct their arguments using opinions and evidence to persuade the reader. Critical Argumentative Essays After the horrific terrorist attack on United States soil in September 11, 2001, author David Myers wrote the professional essay titled “Do We Fear the Right Things” in December 2001. Myers expressed that the fear of the attack surrendered Americans helpless in daily routines. “In the ensuing months, Americans flew 20 percent less. “No way are we flying…instead, we drove many of those miles, which surely caused more additional highway deaths than occurred on those four ill-fated flights,” (Myers, 2001). Throughout the remainder of his article, it explained a multitude of phobias with detailed numerical statistics and off topic...
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...Effective Essay Writing 14 August 2011 What characteristics make these essays expository? Art of Cookery This is definitely an expository essay because it is actually listing steps to successful restaurant. The thesis at the beginning of the essay states the reasoning behind why the following steps are needed to create an attractive dining experience. The steps are mostly relating to how the dining area is set up. How to Filet a Fish This expository essay was an informative piece that detailed the parts of fish and how to filet it for food. The essay tells how different fish are cut and prepared. The best part about this essay was that it gives details on whether it is appropriate to filet or steak or cook the fish whole. Identify the type of organization each author used to develop the essay: topic, time order, space order, or informative process. I believe that the “Art of Cookery” essay is a topic essay because it organizes the logical things needed to set up an attractive dining area. It was difficult deciding if this was topic or informative process but since it didn’t seem to list the data in step by step process I felt that topic seemed more accurate. Topic and informative essays seem to me to be similar and may be easily confused. The “How to Filet a Fish” essay is most definitely an Informative essay. The essay tells exactly “how to” decide what cut is appropriate for what type and size. The essay meets all...
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...valuable at the same time. This semester I took an Academic Writing and Argument course with professor Missy Watson. During this semester, I learned how to analyze arguments, write rhetorical analysis essay, work with researched and visual arguments, effectively...
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...Title of Paper Student Name Course/Number Due Date Faculty Name Title of Paper Triple click your mouse anywhere in this paragraph to replace this text with your introduction. Often the most important paragraph in the entire essay, the introduction grabs the reader's attention—sometimes a difficult task for academic writing. When writing an introduction, some approaches are best avoided. Avoid starting sentences with “The purpose of this essay is . . .” or “In this essay I will . . .” or any similar flat announcement of your intention or topic. Read more: Center for Writing Excellence>Tutorials and Guides>Essay Development>Guidelines for Writing Academic Essays. Level One Heading Throughout Israel’s history, God had provided for them. He had proven that He loves them and always did what was best for them. Israel never deserved any of this and they disobeyed God many different times. Even though Israel had turned away from the Lord so many times, He still was faithful to them. God promised the Israelites in Deuteronomy that if were faithful to Him and honored Him, He would bless them and increase their numbers. God had always provided Israel with the leaders that they needed. He gave them Moses to lead them out of slavery in Egypt and Joshua to lead them after Moses’s death. Even though the Lord had been so faithful to the Israelites and always had provided them with sufficient leaders, they still disobeyed Him and did what they wanted to do. During...
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...Yaayy Final Essay of the Year (An analysis of Semester 2 and important texts room 303 has presented to the AP Literature class) The school year comes to an end, doors closing and new ones opening to present the next chapter in young adults’ lives. One of many things that are to be taken on this new journey beyond the known is the information and knowledge received throughout an individual’s life. Dr. McGee has made many texts and information available throughout these final months and so many are now embedded in the minds of his AP students. Throughout the course of 2nd semester the most valued texts of room 303 are Shakespeare’s Hamlet, John Milton’s Paradise Lost, and Goethe’s Faust. Shakespeare’s Hamlet, being studied for as long as it was, became an informational minefield of personal morals and the glimpse inside the human mind. One of the most famous examples is when Polonius says to Hamlet “To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man” (Hamlet 1.3.3). One must be true to him/herself or another person can judge an individual better...
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...George Curry presents a decent essay on the cruelty and gruesomeness of the symbol of the “noose” entitled, “Calling Nooses What They Are – Terrorism.” Curry’s background presents him as a qualified writer but he falls short in producing a strong argument because he lacks various components that set an argumentative form of writing aside from a more persuasive writing type. Most of Curry’s essay consist of him siting proficient facts which are hugely conducive to his argument, but the fact is the majority of his essay is the statements of these facts and stories and common knowledge. Many things are questionable about Curry’s text which can make his audience “skeptical” of him and what he is presenting. Never in his writing does he qualify...
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