...ENGLISH ESSAY WRITING FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS 1. GENERAL ADVICE a. READ the title of the essay carefully and make sure that you understand it. If necessary, underline key words in the title. REMEMBER: if your essay does not cover the topic(s) proposed in the title, your mark will be very low. b. WRITE AN ESSAY PLAN. You can do this in English or in your mother tongue – but remember that you must be sure that you can express your ideas easily in English. In your essay plan you should note down specific vocabulary related to the topic. You should also write down any appropriate CONNECTORS (linkers). At first, you will find writing an essay plan difficult and time-consuming, but with practice it will save you time in the end and will also help you to organise your ideas in coherent paragraphs. EXAMPLE OF AN ESSAY PLAN: What are the advantages and disadvantages of mobile phones? 1. INTRODUCTION: Now everybody has a mobile. What happened in the past? There are pros and cons. 2. PARAGRAPH 1: Advantages Immediate contact with family and friends. Good in emergencies. Many news uses – technology is developing. 3. PARAGRAPH 2: Disadvantages Bad for our health; addictive. Not sociable? What happens in schools? 4. CONCLUSION: Good and bad aspects. My opinion. KEY WORDS: technology, technological, developments, to keep in touch with someone, text messages, (on) the Internet, health, healthy, unhealthy, good//bad manners, to be banned. POSSIBLE LINKERS: Contrast...
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...Reflective Report Task 1 Question 6.2 Marcel wanted to buy a specific kind of car. Yvonne promises that if Marcel buys the car from her, she would fit the car with high quality tyres. The question arises whether a collateral contract was made. A collateral contract is the consideration which leads to the making of the main contract. It is a contract separated from the main contract but related to it. Yvonne’s promise to fit high quality tyres on the car is a term of contract because this promise leads to Marcel entering into the main contract with Yvonne. Thus, a collateral contract was made in order for Marcel and Yvonne to enter a contract with each other. Another issue is that whether the contract is fully written, fully oral or partly of both. Before the contract was made, Yvonne promised Marcel that she would fit high quality tyres for the car if Marcel buys the car from her. Her promise to Marcel is oral and considered as a term in the agreement. This contract between Marcel and Yvonne is partly written (the car) and partly oral (the promise for High quality tyres). Parol evidence Rule states that when there is a written contract, any oral evidence would not vary and would not be included into the contract. But there are exceptions that have been allowed by the courts. The third exception of parol evidence rule states that if the written agreement does not contain all of the terms agreed by the parties, verbal evidence of other (oral) terms might be allowed. In...
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...Frito Lay Company Cracker Jack Case Analysis Marketing Essay Frito-Lay is worldwide leader in snack manufacturing and marketing. It represented 54 percent of retail sales of snack chips in United States, making it leader in that category. Frito-Lay is division of PepsiCo. Inc and in 1996 represented 31 percent of PepsiCo's net sales and 60 percent of PepsiCo's operating profit (Kerin & Peterson, 2010). Some of popular brands of Frio-Lay are Lay's and Ruffles, Doritos, Tostitos, Potato chips, Cheetos, Sun Chips and Funyuns onion-flavored snacks. During 1990's majority of Frito-Lay's growth was attributed to its low-fat and no-fat snacks such as Baked Lay's potato crisps, Baked Tostitos tortilla chips, and Rold Gold pretzels. Frito-Lay has extensive manufacturing infrastructure with 45 manufacturing plants in 26 states, including world's largest snack food plan in Frankfort, Indiana. It has extensive warehouses and distribution facilities as well with more than 1,800 in number and 17,500 salespeople who make 750,000 sales and delivery calls on approx 350,000 retail store customers each week (Kerin & Peterson, 2010). It also is one of leading national advertisers in the United States. Borden Foods' Cracker Jack is one of leading brand in Ready-To-Eat (RTE) caramel popcorn category. Because of Borden's strategic decision to focus its resources on pasta business and grain-meals, which needs significant resource investment, it has decided to divest Cracker Jack and related assets. Frito-Lays'...
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...102 Prof. Robinson October 11th 2013 Film Argument Essay “From Hell” “From Hell” is a movie based on the case of Jack The Ripper by the New 20th Century Fox Production. Jack the Ripper, a serial killer, haunted Whitechapel, a district of East London, during the late 1880s; The Ripper was said to be the first documented and investigated serial killer at the time. The movie “From Hell” relates how, when and where The Ripper killed his victims. The main point of this movie is illustrate exactly how Jack The Ripper was operating back in those days, to give us an image of what the district looked like, of how it was like to live there. Now the question is, does the movie accurately deliver the history of Jack the Ripper? The physical appearance of Whitechapel? The way people lived at that time? Attempting to answer these questions will be the main focus of our essay. Let’s start with the context and costuming: the murders of the Ripper occurred in the 1880s in London, making it a little hard to capture the essence the fact and a physical space looking East London. Fortunately, the story was documented, and adapted into a book in which directors and producers drew the plot of the movie from, and the movie was filmed in Prague because it was the place that looked the most like 1880’s East London. As of fashion, women in the 1880s were dressed in fashionable dresses...
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...Post-National Enquiries Post-National Enquiries: Essays on Ethnic and Racial Border Crossings Edited by Jopi Nyman Post-National Enquiries: Essays on Ethnic and Racial Border Crossings, Edited by Jopi Nyman This book first published 2009 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 12 Back Chapman Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2XX, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2009 by Jopi Nyman and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-0593-9, ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-0593-3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments ..................................................................................... vii Chapter One................................................................................................. 1 Introduction Jopi Nyman Part I: Crossing Racial Boundaries Chapter Two ................................................................................................ 8 Between Camps: Paul Gilroy and the Dilemma of “Race” Tuire Valkeakari Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 30 Breaking the Apartheid: Blocking Actors of Color in Globalized Multicultural...
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...Comparisson of Masculinity and the Psychoanalytic theories using the example of the Fight Club. Introduction. Fight club is an interesting film to be reflected through psychoanalytic and masculinity theories. In this essay I will attempt to present the number of elements of narrative that can be explained by these theories. I intend to use citations from Marc A. Price's essay The Fight for Self: The Language of the Unconscious in Fight club regarding psychoanalytical concepts such as ego, super-ego and the id as well as Lynn M. Ta's dissertation Hurt So Good: Fight Club, Masculine Violence, and the Crisis of Capitalism (regarding masulinity in the film), as these works were the main sources of my research. Then I'll try to come to the conclusion on which of two theories have more strength at being applied to films (primarily Fight Club). Application of theories and analysis. The connection that we shall draw between psychoanalytic theory and the film Fight Club is simple and is this; the narrator is a representation of the ego, for Tyler Durden we can substitute the id. In the Freudian psychic model the ego is the civilized part of consciousness. The ego is that part of the psychic apparatus that is modified so that a being can interact safely with other beings and thus remain accepted within the social group. It is important for identity formation that the individual is accepted by the group (that is wider society) therefore, a controlled id is...
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...house an old friend of mine who is a stoner, he has a few friends I can't recognize but they are all smoking. I have never! I'm a little nervous because I don't know anyone and have never smoked, yet they all have and are smoking. I don't know what to do with my hands anymore. My legs are shaking a little and the first thing Jack roars out of his loud mouth is what puts me in absolute shock, “Yo, come hit this.” This is, “Stranger in a Village,” all over again. After a few seconds while it feels like...
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...in college until Will came out of the closet, and within the first season Will asks Grace to move in. Keep in mind that Will is depicting a male homosexual living in NYC. In order to balance with Will’s serious and what some might think of as not-so-gay personality, Grace who works as an interior decorator, is very humorous and fun. The focus of the show is on these two best friends, whom beside the fact that Will is gay, are the perfect “couple”(Connolly 288). “Will and Grace” is one of the first prime-time television series on NBC with an openly gay character, yet never portrays the true-life struggles of same sex couples. Marisa Connolly investigates the show’s success and the relationship between the two lead characters in her short essay, “Homosexuality on Television”. Connolly mentions that unlike the show “Ellen” staring Ellen Degeneres, homosexuality is never preached on “Will and Grace” but on the contrary shown as a lifestyle. A lot of emphasis was placed on Ellen’s coming out in the show, according to TV critics, making the show “too political and didactic” (Connolly 288). On the other hand, Will’s sexuality is less in-your-face and more heterosexual, thus creating a comfortable show for everyone to watch. This is what also helped the show go mainstream and become widely popular. 2 In early episodes Will is shown as to having problems with his orientationespecially at the law firm he works for and later becomes comfortable with it. Since Will doesn’t have stereotypical...
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...Danielle Little English 3- B 6/7 All The King’s Men Final Essay 15 October 2014 In All The King’s Men, betrayals of characters are prevalent whether being a betrayal of their own values, Jack, or betrayals of another person, Adam and Anne. In Robert Penn Warren creates acts of betrayal to lead Jack to finding not only more about himself, but also truths about the world which ultimately lead him to happiness. In the novel, Jack has a hard time thinking of himself as an individual who can stand on his own, rather he feels that is a worthless and unimportant part of everyone else’s lives. Jack follows the commands that he is given and never acts with the intention of bettering himself. Jack views himself as just a piece of furniture, saying...
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...A Guide to Writing the Literary Analysis Essay I. INTRODUCTION: the first paragraph in your essay. It begins creatively in order to catch your reader’s interest, provides essential background about the literary work, and prepares the reader for your major thesis. The introduction must include the author and title of the work as well as an explanation of the theme to be discussed. Other essential background may include setting, an introduction of main characters, etc. The major thesis goes in this paragraph usually at the end. Because the major thesis sometimes sounds tacked on, make special attempts to link it to the sentence that precedes it by building on a key word or idea. A) Creative Opening/Hook: the beginning sentences of the introduction that catch the reader’s interest. Ways of beginning creatively include the following: 1) A startling fact or bit of information Example: Nearly two hundred citizens were arrested as witches during the Salem witch scare of 1692. Eventually nineteen were hanged, and another was pressed to death (Marks 65). 2) A snatch of dialogue between two characters Example: “It is another thing. You [Frederic Henry] cannot know about it unless you have it.” “ Well,” I said. “If I ever get it I will tell you [priest].” (Hemingway 72). With these words, the priest in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms sends the hero, Frederic, in search of the ambiguous “it” in his life. 3) A meaningful quotation (from the book you are analyzing...
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...Swenson English 11 1st Hour Comparison/Contrast Essay In this essay of comparison and contrast there will be comparisons and contrasts- or in other words similarities and differences- in Jack London’s “To Build A Fire” and Richard Connell’s, “The Most Dangerous Game”. The comparisons will be constructed of the settings, characters, and conflict. First topic to be compared is conflict. The two stories share two conflicts, a struggle for survival. In Jack London’s “To Build A Fire” the main character, not named, thinks in his head, “Without doubt he would lose some fingers and toes and some of his face…” (London 703). In the same manner, the main character, named Rainsford, kills a dog and the “bad guy” says to him “… I’ll see what you can do against my whole pack” (Connell 28). However, the two stories differ in what they struggle against. In “To Build A Fire” the conflict is person versus nature. For example the guy builds a fire and from the spruce tree falls some snow and puts out the fire; to quote “He should not have built the fire under the spruce tree” (London 700). Meanwhile, in “The Most Dangerous Game” the conflict is person versus person which is Rainsford being hunted down by General Zaroff-the “bad guy”- in the middle of a baron island. To quote from General Zaroff “Your strength and stamina against mine” (Connell 24). Secondly, literary item number two is setting. In both stories the setting is set in isolated places. Like in “To Build A Fire” its set in the Yukon...
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...is associated to the concept of racial equality, which can simply refer to ‘social equality for peoples of all races’ (Crenshaw 1988). In spite of this however, there remain deeply entrenched processes of discrimination resistant to legal and political interventions throughout society (Solomos 1993). This essay will discuss the claim ‘there ain’t no Black in the Union Jack’ in relation to these processes of discrimination which have encouraged the mis representation and exclusion of Black people within British society. The first part of the essay will outline the meaning of race and racism in the 21st century. It will then go on to discuss processes of exclusion, which are reinforced by the media and politicians representation of black migrants and the existence of so called ‘White spaces’. These exclusions of black people can be seen to prevent them from identifying as British thus excluding them from being part of ‘the Union Jack’. Whilst the concept of racism has been restricted by the notion of ‘colour’ as it has concealed the full range of ways in which racism has operated in Britain, including against Jews, Gypsies and the Irish (Jewesbury 2008), throughout this essay the term will only be discussed in the political sense to ‘denote people who self- identify, originate or have ancestry from global majority populations (i.e. African, Asian, Middle Eastern and Latin America) and Indigenous and Bi-racial backgrounds (Nagarajan 2013). Essentialism forms the backbone of what...
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...“Power tends to corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely” Essay “Power tends to corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Over time this statement has been changed and interpreted into its own meaning. Some say power does not corrupt it only attracts the corruptible, however, past events have given proof to dispute that theory. Power corrupts absolutely. This can be seen as we look back at previous leaders, for example: Louis XIV of France, Henry the Second of the Roman Empire, Katherine the Great, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Adolf Hitler. These names all have something in common, they were leaders, but unfortunately, power got to their heads and they were corrupted by their lifestyles and position of power. Some of the most brutal and powerful acts have happened when these names have been reigning over us. Given this, the point I am addressing in my essay is ‘how leaders corrupt absolutely and why’. Leadership is at its core, all about power and influence; however, there is a distinction between two types of power, socialized and personalized power. Socialized power is used to benefit others, and personalized power is used for personal gain. Most power that evolves starts out as wanting to help others but once the realization sets in that they can help themselves more, power starts to be used for personal gain. Examples of this have happened in history as dictators started out with good intentions but got corrupted absolutely because they became consumed...
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...receives an offer from Jack to buy her home for $300,000. Teri accepts the offer and they sign a contract to that effect. After the contract is signed, however, Teri learns of a Boston municipal rule that all firefighters must live within the Boston city limits. Since Cambridge is outside Boston, Teri decides that she can't move after all. She calls Jack and tells him that Jack will have to look for another house because Teri is not moving. Jack sues Teri in municipal court in Boston. He asks the judge for specific performance; i.e. to force Teri to sell him the house in accordance with the original deal. Teri argues that, although specific performance is usually appropriate in land sale contract cases, the judge has the discretion to deny specific performance. Teri argues that the unique facts of her case; i.e., that she can't move because of the Boston residence for firefighters rule, allow the judge to deny specific performance on this case. You are a law clerk in the municipal court in which the case is taking place. Please write an essay explaining whether or not the judge can deny specific performance to Jack in this case. Please use Massachusetts case law to the extent possible. To: Ellis Washington, Esq. FROM: Jun Min RE: Demand for Specific performance in real estate transaction dispute between Teri and Jack DATE: Dec. 19th, 2013 ISSUE Whether or not the judge can deny specific performance to Jack? RULE Specific...
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