...English 3000.01 class for that I have learned a lot in writing essays. I have learned to use subordination and coordinating conjunctions in my essays when I never thought of using them before and I have become more proficient in preventing fragment and run-ons sentences and I have learned to write a great complete argumentative essay. I have learned to use subordination and coordinating conjunctions in my essays when I never thought of using them before. I have learned to use subordinating conjunctions that introduces a dependent clause by joining it to a main clause. Words like because, when, if and more that help build a sentence better. I even learned that coordinating conjunctions are joining two similarly constructed words or phrases within a sentence. Words like for, or, yet, and more that help in a sentence. I have uses both coordinating and subordination conjunctions in my papers. One sentence that I used a subordinating conjunction “People need to understand that there are people out in our world who do not care about their privacy, when they post everything online” (Gallego) and I used a coordinating conjunction in this paragraph “Think about the idea that everyone achieved a college degree, for all people would be equal in...
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...You’ve been assigned an essay in class, try as you might, you don’t even know where to begin because of how utterly uninteresting the topic is to you. Why should I care? This is a question I have asked myself multiple times when forced to write about a something I simply cannot relate to. You cannot expect someone to write an extravagant essay with a subject that is completely irrelevant to him or her. Assigning essays to students without a choice on the subject matter is demanding; students should be given a choice. These class-assigned essays, filled with strict guidelines, restrict a student’s academic literacy. Most teachers would argue that there is a purpose to assigning a constrained writing assignment, but are they holding back students full potential? Not one person is the same; this puts those at a disadvantage if the topic has no connection to him or her. Teachers should consider alternatives at which they can stay in the academic guidelines, while giving the unique individual options. For example, assigning a much broader topic with sub-subjects to pick from. This gives the students room to stay absorbed in what they’re writing about, while also remaining within the teacher’s...
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...I could write, but my writing was so simple and sometimes very boring. I dared not use any difficult words because I was afraid that other people who read my writing would not understand what I want to communicate; this made my paragraphs boring. As a result, I spent too much time to write anything. In the present day, I think my attitude toward writing has changed. This is the first time that I think writing is fun. In the writing class, the professor inspired me by using Peter Elbow’s quote: “The most effective way I know to improve your writing is to do freewriting exercise regularly.” That is a powerful sentence for me. He made me realize that writing is not as difficult as I think. I should not be worry about any writing principles when I do the freewriting. I can write anything I want and not care about grammar, vocabulary or spelling when I write any topic. It is not only Elbow who inspires me to write, but also my wonderful writing professor encourages me to write as well. Now, I try to do freewriting every day, and I hope that I can be a better writer as time goes by. Moreover, I will try to vary my vocabulary choices so that the readers will not feel bored...
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...Dear Professor Matthews and Classmates, Money is the one object or possession that drives our country and many others. But how does it affect us socially? Economic status’ lines are drawn quite deep, these groups are the upper class, the middle class, the working class, and the poor. The middle class and working class make up the majority of the United States. Income and wealth are the influences within these groups that fluctuates each section. When people hear the word income they take in mind one’s financial status. The word income is the money a person receives by working or transfer such as birthday gifts, inheritance from a grandparent or parent, and even government checks. Wealth on the other hand by definition is a person or family’s net worth. Wealth...
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...According to the traditional definition, a class is usually defined as a group of people who occupy a similar position in the economic system. Based on this definition, sociologists suggest that there are currently three classes, which are upper class, middle and lower class. Besides the traditional definition of class, there are also different views on the actual definition of class. Karl Marx, a famous philosopher suggested a theory of class based on the premises that the ‘’history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.’’ According to him, there are two great classes, which are the owners and the workers. Owners or capitalists should have power over workers due to the fact that they paid waves to workers and could...
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...skills have gotten better in the aspect of morale, explaining, and focus. My last writing class was over a year ago and that was more of a research paper more than an actual focus on my writing skills. What I mean by that is I wasn’t just writing down just an explanation from a book but instead I was using this chance to experience a different in writing assignments. My first week back in writing wasn’t my best week due to my lack in practicing my skills but with just a week or two it came back to me. I started to remember to write out the end plan instead of writing what just comes to mind; which usually got me lost halfway through. The class was also a...
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...explicate on why the middle class structure has diminished, let us take a look at what other resources are saying about the problem and why this problem is worth rectifying. Back in 2007 and 2008, the household income in the United States at both the national and state levels started to adjust. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the median household income in the United States for 2007 was $52,673 (Semega, 4). This data excluded any of the residents living in school dormitories and other geographic areas that had less than 65,000 people in the community. Then in 2008, the national median household income level dropped 1.2% nearing $52,029 per household (Semega, 4). This decline was approximately $644 per household in loss after one year with roughly $53 in decreased income per month. In...
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...People can immensely benefit from what social class an individual is positioned in, what race they are assigned, and what gender they identify as. According to Conley, social class, also called socioeconomic status, is “an individual’s position in a stratified social order” (2017 p.521). While social class is composed of any combination of parental education attainment, parental occupation, family income, and family wealth, someone’s social class can have a whopping impact on whether a child attains a decent amount of education in order to provide for oneself. Furthermore, students that come from an upper-class background are encouraged by parents to acquire a higher level of education. Likewise, this urges the students to challenge themselves...
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...What do you think that upper class people in the elizabethan england ate for supper? Do you think that they ate pigeons and carrots with their hands or veal and caviar on silver platters. Well they ate a combination of both but they never ate with their hands they would use forks, spoons,and knives. Since england at the time was a very powerful nation so they got new foods from all over the known world. Popular dinner food for upper class in Elizabethan England in London consisted of Pork and veal but they also ate Rabbits and Pigeons they also ate lots of foreign foods and desserts. Upper class ate lots of different meats, they ate expensive meats or cheap meats it depended on what they wanted to eat. They ate domestic animals like beef, chicken and goose. They also ate wild animals like deer, boars, and rabbits also fish like eels, cod and carp. Usually they...
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...Eric Rubenstein Due: 5/8/2015 Revised In-Class Essay Diminishing many hundreds of years of state-society interactions into an over-simplification, the expansion of states has been both a positive development and a negative one. Yes, in some cases, strong states have led to mass genocide, as they did at the hands of Nazi Germany or Stalin’s Russia – this being James Scott’s view of strong states. But at the same time, state expansion has also helped the world reach unprecedented levels of order and peace. For Thomas Hobbes, the ability to impose order proves the most vital responsibility of the state. And without strong states, he wrote, life is chaos - a “war of all against all,” where continual lack of security renders life “poor, nasty, brutish and short.” The provision of physical security is undoubtedly a fundamental requirement of a successful state; in this sense, Hobbes’ understanding of a successful state is accurate. But economic health comprises another requirement. States must provide economically inclusive institutions for their citizens, which in turn require well-established notions of property rights and courts of law. For a state to achieve successful development, it must satisfy these two criteria. But success does not come overnight; it is a process, and geography often poses significant, though surmountable challenges to successful development. In the end, though, it is in large part the nature of a state that dictates its development trajectory – with...
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...Michael Wang ENG4U-09 Ms. Kelly October, 8, 2015 Passage analysis test Throughout The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien presents the horrific events, the average young American soldier experienced in the Vietnam War in a realistic and gut wrenching manner. In the chapter "The Things They Carried", O’Brien effectively employs syntax, detail and repetition and simile to vividly describe the tragic death of Ted Lavender and the sincere regret by the lieutenant Jimmy Cross. The use of syntax and detail can be easily seen throughout the entire passage, especially in describing Ted Lavender’s death “[He] carried 34 rounds when he was shot and killed outside Thai Khe, and he went down under an exceptional burden, more than twenty pounds of ammunition, plus the flak jacket and helmet and rations and water and toilet paper and tranquilizers, and all the rest, plus the unweighed fear.” (O'Brien, 1990) By using compound-complex sentence and listing “twenty pounds of ammunition, flak jacket, helmet, rations, water, toilet paper and tranquilizers [and most importantly], the unweighed fear” (O'Brien, 1990), O'Brien demonstrates not only the physical burdens but also the emotional burdens that a young soldier endures to convey the reader that not only the weight each soldier has to carry in order to survive, but also the weight of their emotional burden. At the...
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...success it is up to you to want to do your best. You have to set your goals that you want to accomplish and see them through. You are the only person who can hold yourself back. Being in college can be a very trying time, it is totally different from being in a high school. During high school years the level of concentration and executing is mediocre because it’s more of practicing your skills, doing homework, and your teacher constantly reminding you what is due. But in college it is on a higher level, you can’t miss anything because if you do you’ve already missed a lot. You have your deadline to get assignments done and you must be able to comprehend what is being taught, there is no holding the students hand to help them get by in class. This can deter students but it is very important to stay focused and motivated to be successful in college. You choose rather you want college to be a positive or negative experience; it’s you who knows that you can do anything if you put your mind to it. My preliminary plan to practice personal responsibility will be to, stay focused on my work and what my professor is teaching at all times. I will make sure I always ask questions when there is a topic that I don’t understand. I will turn my assignments...
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...specific format, but all of that prior knowledge was extracted upon entering this class. I had never struggled with writing previously, but when this class began, I knew I was going to be challenged. I did not know what to expect from this course. I think I was just hoping that there would not be a drastic change. Even though there was a tremendous amount of change, this class had benefitted me the most out of all of my classes my senior year. Throughout this entire course I had learned many useful skills when it comes to writing a college level essay. I think one of the most helpful tools that I was introduced to during this semester was the website PaperRater. In previous years I just had to rely on peer editing which was not always the best method of editing. After using PaperRater I believe that my papers have advanced in vocabulary and sentence structure. Another useful tool that we were instructed to use was Noodletools. I had used this program during my freshman year, but I did not really understand how to properly use it. It has helped me keep my citations and information for my essays organized. The skill that I used most frequently was metacognition. The term metacognition refers to “the processes...
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...Back Print Name Class Date Assessment Chapter Test B Chapter: Chemical Bonding PART I On the line at the left of each statement, write the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or best answers the question. ______ 1. An ionic bond results from electrical attraction between a. cations and anions. b. atoms. c. dipoles. d. orbital. ______ 2. A nonpolar covalent bond is unlikely when two atoms of different elements join because the atoms are likely to differ in a. density. b. state of matter. c. electronegativity. d. polarity. ______ 3. Bond length is the distance between two bonded atoms at a. their minimum potential energy. b. their maximum kinetic energy. c. their maximum potential energy. d. one-half the diameter of the electron cloud. ______ 4. To draw a Lewis structure, it is not necessary to know a. which atoms are in the molecule. b. bond energies. c. the number of valence electrons for each atom. d. the number of atoms in the molecule. ______ 5. For multiple covalent bonds to form in molecules, the molecules must contain carbon, nitrogen, or a. chlorine. b. hydrogen. c. oxygen. d. helium. ______ 6. The principle that states that atoms tend to form compounds in which each atom has eight electrons in its highest occupied energy level is called the a. rule of eights. b. configuration rule. c. Avogadro principle. d. octet rule. Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved. Modern Chemistry 51 Chapter Test Back ...
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...DIscussian board 4\And when the "special" class goes to dinner, what happens? Why? Think about adding in the term cultural capital to this last question. In episodes eight and nine of the wire we see Prez looking for alternative ways to get through to his class, and gain their respect. After confronting Randy and Michael about playing dice in class, Prez takes it as an opportunity teach the students about statistics. Moreover, Prez tells the boys about the probability in rolling a certain number in dice, while Randy tells Prez to not teach them, Michael insists on letting him continue to teach them. After realizing that he could teach the students statistics by kinetic learning, through dice, Prez asked the assistant principal if their are any board games, in which she responds its best for first year teachers to stick to the curriculum, but ultimately tells him to...
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