...however, many of these people are now homeless. In America, we have many veterans without a house or shelter, and that number is increasing everyday. Why are there so many Veterans on the street, when they have sacrificed so much for our country and livelihoods? We need to support homeless Veterans in our community, so that they can live in a home, not on the street. People have argued that veterans are homeless only because of the choices that they have made, and that is just not true. Not all veterans are homeless because of the choices that they made, and many of these veterans suffer from PTSD. Some people may argue that we should spend money on paying off America’s national debt, but in reality the national debt is too large for any of us to put a...
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...I stand before you today in a country with great turmoil. The American nation, as a whole, has lost its guidance. We are missing a strong leader. We need a leader that can bring back our jobs, can bring back our manufacturing, can bring back our military, and can take care of our vets. Our vets have been abandoned. We need to ensure that every Veteran gets timely access to top-quality care through the Veterans Administration or private Medicare providers if the Veterans Administration cannot provide timely access The Veterans Administration needs to be fixed and we need to help veterans to find good paying jobs. Veterans should come first in the country they fought to protect, and under a Trump Administration, they will. Our military is slowly...
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...Military Veterans From research studies, military veterans aren’t well compensated for their service in the military. Not only are they not well compensated, there were many combat soldiers coming home with anger issues, PTSD, depression, and other psychological problems. According to research, half of the homeless individuals are military veterans not just an opinion but it’s a proven fact. Veterans are often not honored, as they should be. Why aren’t they? Another question is why aren’t our veterans not well taken care of? No health insurance for veterans First, scientific studies show that working age veterans don’t have health insurance. According to Genevieve Kenney, a senior fellow with the Urban Institute and co-author of the report...
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...Are Veterans really our heroes? Why should white Americans, given a gun and a permit to murder, be worshiped as a hero? People say that they are doing a right cause by murdering people that deserve it like terrorists. Why do they get to murder them? They should get a fair trial like all people. It is not fair for Americans to have a right to kill without being punished just because they enlisted and are killing people on other soil. I cannot just say all soldiers kill, murder, and rape people in the field but they do protect our borders and keep us safe. As of this year, 570,000 new immigrants have come to America in search of a new life because of its safety. Without Veterans, I would not be here period....
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...Catalog Description: LIB 111 focuses on writing clear and coherent summaries, analyses, and essays. The course also stresses the ability to understand, use, and document college-level non-fiction readings as evidence for effectively formulating and accurately supporting a thesis. Course Description and Goals: No man is an island! To communicate effectively with colleagues and communities, we must first learn how to accurately interpret the conversation around us and articulate our own thoughts so we can join the dialogue and make contributions to the world both as professionals and active citizens. In LIB 111 you will learn to analyze writings and argue with authors of literary, journalistic, and academic non-fiction. Through assignments in summary, critique, synthesis, and persuasion, you will progress your ability to formulate and share ideas efficiently. Together we will write, revise, workshop, and revise again, learning as much from each other as from the authors we read in class. As part of our commitment to helping students reach their full potential in their academic, professional, and civic lives, Arts and Sciences faculty believe that learning in all disciplines is an integrative process, a synthesis of critical reading, thinking, and writing. For this reason, as we guide you in your studies in LIB 111, we will use a Writing Intensive approach that emphasizes mastery of information and concepts AND the application of what you have learned in a variety of forms: you will...
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...ACHIEVEMENT REQUIREMENTS GSW 1110 Section 146L Fall 2015 |Instructor: |Joseph Celizic | |E-mail: |cjoseph@bgsu.edu | |Office: |421 East Hall | |Office Hours: |Tuesday & Thursday: 4:00 – 5:30 | | |(and by appointment) | |Mailbox: |210 East Hall (my mailbox is above my name) | |Learning Commons: |140 Jerome Library | |Learning Commons Phone: |372-2823 (call ahead to make an appointment) | REQUIRED COURSE TEXTS AND MATERIALS • Kirszner & Mandell’s The Brief Wadsworth Handbook (BGSU Special Edition). 7th edition. Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, 2013 • A laptop with a word processing program (Microsoft Word or Open Office) that you must bring to every class, fully...
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...the paragraph will prioritize action over description. Exposition Paragraph Often times, this kind of a paragraph is used as a component of other types of writing. It’s written in order to clarify or explain problems and phenomena. Writing exposition paragraphs requires strict focus on evidence and objective language. It can contain elements of comparison and contrast, or cause and effect writing as both facilitate accurate exposition of the subject-matter. Definition Paragraph Definition paragraphs are used in order to explain the meaning, origin and function of things. They are used both in academic writing and fiction. To write a definition paragraph, writers should concentrate on the role of its subject in the context of the essay and account for evidence as well as examples accordingly. Classification Paragraph Writing classification paragraphs requires a more varied approach. It should be concentrated on defining as well as making relevant comparisons. In other words, writers should classify the subject of the paragraph in a specific context providing comparisons to corresponding ideas. Classification can be performed on multiple levels – semantic (comparing different...
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...Imperative to any argument is the three elements of classic principles of argument: ethos, pathos, and logos. Authors will use ethos; a way to gain respect from character and his/her knowledge. Pathos is the emotional connection, establishing common ground by demonstrating sympathy for your audience’s values, beliefs, and worldview. Then lastly is logos (logic), means to persuade by the use of reasoning including deductive and inductive reasoning. Evidence and persuasive reason (explanation) to back up your claims. Jim Wallis, author of “What the Waters Revealed”, uses these three classic principles of argument to expose the poverty in America and the government’s detachment. Jim Wallis has made a name for himself with his experience being a veteran of the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s. More recently, Wallis helped form an organization of affiliated churches and religious organizations that strive to help the poor. Mr. Wallis says, “We must be disciplined by results when it comes to poverty reduction. It’s time to move from the politics of blame to the politics of solution…Together, we must end the debate that’s limited to the choices of large or small government and forge a common commitment to good and effective government.” (Lamm & Everett, 2007, p. 493) Here not only does he speak in an authoritative tone, but he reinforces his character that strives to better the poor. Hurricane Katrina is one of our nation’s worst natural disasters. Wallis paints a vivid picture...
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...Mr. Macomber English 3 AP Syllabus 1.5 English 3 AP Course Overview Students in this introductory college-level course read and carefully analyze a broad and challenging range of nonfiction prose selections, deepening their awareness of rhetoric and how language works. Through close reading and frequent writing, students develop their ability to work with language and texts in order to establish greater awareness of purpose and strategy, while strengthening their own composing abilities. C16 Students examine rhetoric in essays, images, movies, novels, and speeches. They frequently confer about their writing by conferencing in class. C 14 Feedback is given both before and after students revise their work to help them develop logical organization, enhanced by specific techniques to increase coherence. Rhetorical structures, graphic organizers, and work on repetition, transitions, and emphasis are addressed. I comment on individual drafts, and I write memos to the class in a blog about whole-class concerns such as specificity of quotations, parallelism, and transitions. C13 Simultaneously, students review the simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentence classifications. We examine word order, length, and surprising constructions. Loose and periodic sentences are introduced. We examine sample sentences and discuss how change affects tone, purpose, and credibility of the author/speaker. In addition, feedback on producing sentence structure variety...
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...Argumentative essay on the benefits of online education Do you know online education? Online education is one of the way to learn various subjects. We can take a lecture or hand in our assignments through the Internet. Therefore, people can learn what they want to learn whenever or wherever they want. In America, some colleges adopt this education. However, this new way to educate students is not prevailed in all countries because in some countries, they have enough educational system for students. Although some countries have enough colleges or educational system, the online education should be a part of educational system in all colleges for three reasons: cost, study environment, flexibility and student centered. First, online education can give a good influence in educational cost. To be sure, some people have enough money to go to college and online education is not necessary because there are many professors who teaches various kinds of subjects and we can ask directly what we want to know without paying money. However, when we think about the poor people with some problems, we can understand the thought that online education should be a part of educational system. For example in Japan, according to the research by Tokyo university, about ten thousand students retired from their colleges for lacks of money every year. To help such students solve their money troubles, if the online education is used by all colleges, we don’t need to pay for textbooks, facilities or transportation...
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...past, a woman’s beautiful physic depended on her bodies’ curves and her child-bearing abilities. “A woman’s body with a round, soft stomach and a full bottom that signifies reproduction was considered as beauty. Today, a thin, firm body with full breasts and a tight bottom is the ideal body” (Lee 504). Society has constructed woman’s views on their body to constantly be changing and improving and this is resulting in the constant fear of never being good enough. ”Our culture has taught women to constantly monitor their bodies as objects of imperfection and to pursue improvements because, compared to the ideal body, women’s bodies are naturally flawed” (Bordo 1993) (Lee 504). Plastic Surgery started in World War I as a result of wounded veterans, and has quickly spiraled out of control to fit the needs of our society. ”In the affluence of the postwar era, however, plastic surgery broke through the barrier of reconstructive surgery to the new definition of esthetic surgery to beautify patients’ appearance rather than restore their dysfunctional bodies” (Lee 5-5). As our Society continues to change, we must ask ourselves: “when will enough be enough?”. As plastic surgery rapidly increases in today’s population, health hazards have been...
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...product. Students are required to perform well on state level writing tests and master the basic functions required to produce persuasive, expository, and argumentative writings. Adhering to certain “tensions” throughout the development helps successfully achieve this goal for teachers and students. While more attention should be given to creativity and the students’ freedom in constructing a piece of writing, the demand for success from local, state, and federal administration directs the core of writing. I believe focusing on specific practices at this level of education will benefit the students’ success on demanding assessments. Clearly stated, “Quality writing is the victim of time and influence from external testing regimes.” (Ryan, 80). Controlling the assignment and focus on instruction is vital for a teacher. Middle school students need specific direction and continual guidance in order to produce a successful piece of writing. By giving the class a detailed expectation of each part of an essay, the students know what is needed to produce that. Defining length requirements, organization of thoughts, and conventions help students learn the specifics needed to write successfully. Student receptivity takes precedence over student activity. In accordance with controlling the assignment, production of an essay can be mastered by students. Students need to keep the rules in mind throughout the entire writing process. Brainstorming, drafting, revising and editing...
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...and finally, relatively low salaries. But these strands lead to new questions, wider causes which have nothing to do with social yarn. These new questions have to do with rhetoric and the enduring association of nursing with “women’s work” and “femininity.” Matthew has the audacity to ask how the rhetoric of femininity actually functions. How and why are we compelled to accept images and tropes as ‘normal’ or ‘natural’ when they are anything but normal and natural? Is it possible that the rhetoric of nursing is responsible for the shortage? Or perhaps it is the rhetoric of femininity and masculinity as such? But how did such a crime take place, right under our noses, when so many of us never noticed that an injustice ever took place? This essay is brilliant and provocative because it will not stop until the crime...
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...Educator Guide to the 2014 Grade 7 Common Core English Language Arts Test THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Regents of The University MERRYL H. TISCH, Chancellor, B.A., M.A., Ed.D. ................................................................ ANTHONY S. BOTTAR, Vice Chancellor, B.A., J.D. ............................................................... ROBERT M. BENNETT, Chancellor Emeritus, B.A., M.S. ....................................................... JAMES C. DAWSON, A.A., B.A., M.S., Ph.D. .......................................................................... GERALDINE D. CHAPEY, B.A., M.A., Ed.D. ........................................................................... HARRY PHILLIPS, 3rd, B.A., M.S.F.S. .................................................................................... JAMES R. TALLON, Jr., B.A., M.A. .......................................................................................... ROGER B. TILLES, B.A., J.D. ................................................................................................... CHARLES R. BENDIT, B.A. ..................................................................................................... BETTY A. ROSA, B.A., M.S. in Ed., M.S. in Ed., M.Ed., Ed.D. ............................................. LESTER W. YOUNG, Jr., B.S., M.S., Ed.D. .............................................................................. CHRISTINE D. CEA, B.A., M.A., Ph.D. .......................
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...this situation sounds familiar, you may find it reassuring to know that many professionals undergo these same strange compulsions before they begin writing. Jean Kerr, author of Please Don’t Eat the Daisies, admits that she often finds herself in the kitchen reading soup-can labels—or anything—in order to prolong the moments before taking pen in hand. John C. Calhoun, vice president under Andrew Jackson, insisted he had to plow his fields before he could write, and Joseph Conrad, author of Lord Jim and other novels, is said to have cried on occasion from the sheer dread of sitting down to compose his stories. To spare you as much hand-wringing as possible, this chapter presents some practical suggestions on how to begin writing your short essay. Although all writers must find the methods that work best for them, you may find some of the following ideas helpful. But no matter how you actually begin putting words on paper, it is absolutely essential to maintain two basic ideas concerning your writing task. Before you write a single sentence, you should always remind yourself that 1. You have some valuable ideas to tell your reader, and 2. More than anything, you want to communicate those ideas to your reader. These reminders may seem obvious to you, but without a solid commitment to your own opinions as well as to your reader, your prose will be lifeless and boring. If you don’t care about your subject, you can’t very well expect anyone else to. Have confidence that your ideas are...
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