...Lamott's op-ed inspires introspection and deep reflection on the brevity of life and the significance of interpersonal relationships. Through her skillful use of descriptive language, she paints a picture of tall and straight, exquisitely spaced eucalyptuses, effectively drawing the reader into a contemplative state. Furthermore, her exploration of acknowledging the lack of control we have over our paths and interactions with others demonstrates her profound understanding of the human experience and the complexity of relationships (Gions, Mar. 2024). The. The central emphasis of the op-ed on the undervalued importance of non-romantic intimate connections corresponds with Gions suggestion for broader recognition and legal validation of...
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...10 Rules for Writing Opinion Pieces July 27, 2009 by Susan Shapiro Freelance on the fly by mastering the opinion piece. Opinionated editorial essays are often the most fun, fast and furious pieces to get into print—especially for nonfamous writers with strong opinions and day jobs in other fields. That’s because editors of newspapers and online magazines like Slate, Salon, The Huffington Post and The Daily Beast want quick commentary on the ever-changing news cycle from experts who can illuminate different angles of stories as they unfold. So if you have an engaging, unusual point of view on a current public conundrum, along with a relevant platform (e.g., being a teacher, businessman, lawyer, doctor, parent or stamp collector) you don’t need clips or editorial experience on your résumé—just quick thinking and an understanding of the form of these articles. I once sent a hastily written kvetch about a Kmart opening in my Greenwich Village neighborhood to The New York Times at noon, had an acceptance by 2 p.m., was sent a copy by midnight and received a check within a week. Here are the essential elements of a successful and sellable op-ed. 1. BE TIMELY OR EARLY. I submitted my Kmart commentary the week the local branch opened, which, luckily, coincided with a front-page debate about superstores infiltrating Manhattan. Timeliness is essential with this genre, especially now that online news sites can update as often as they choose. The presidential election was hot...
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...In John McCain’s op-ed, “Why we can- and must- win the war in Afghanistan,” McCain argues the importance of winning the war in Afghanistan for the safety of America. McCain wants the President to send more U.S. troops in order to execute an effective counterinsurgency plan; therefore, he pressures the President’s administration by writing an op-ed on CNN, which will garner attention. This attention will cause Americans to petition for more troops as well, if they were persuaded by McCain. Using CNN as a medium to deliver his message is an indication that McCain knows his audience. McCain’s op-ed appeals to citizens with moderate political views. Such citizens are likely to read CNN because it is a more moderate, mainstream news outlet. Contrarily, In Meghan Meehan’s “In Harm’s Way,” Meehan protests the fact that the war in Afghanistan is causing many civilian deaths. Her piece is effective in using pathos to tug the heart strings of some readers; however, Meehan’s piece lacks other effective rhetorical strategies. Her piece also lacks a plan to stop these civilian deaths, which would incentivize the reader to participate in the solution. On the other hand, McCain effectively utilizes appeals to authority, strategic repetition, and ethos to convey the importance of winning the war in Afghanistan....
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...“Discuss the circumstances that led to Arnold Schoenberg’s revolutionary break with tonality. Address the musical context in which Schoenberg was working. Give an account of the break itself through relevant examples, and discuss some of the compositional problems Schoenberg encountered and his solutions to them.” Jordan Roche Perhaps the single most influential composer of the 20th century, Arnold Schoenberg was born into a modest, lower middle-class Jewish family in Vienna on September 13, 1874. Though his mother was a piano teacher, for the most part he taught himself music and only took counterpoint lessons with the composer Alexander von Zemlinsky. As a young adult, he made a living primarily by orchestrating operettas while composing his own works. During this early part of his career, his works were a fusion of the divergent styles of Brahms and Wagner, and he gained the support of both Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler. Though Strauss would later denounce Schoenberg's music, Mahler took him under his wing and continued to support him. This essay will cover Schoenberg’s break from tonality from a musical perspective, the problems he faced with this new harmonic language, and his solutions to them. Schoenberg was in his mid-thirty’s when he made the break from tonality. This means there is a time period of about 15 years where he explored, thought about and expanded his relationship with tonality. As previously mentioned, Schoenberg was influenced by Gustav Mahler...
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...Due to recent mass shootings and massacres, gun control has once again been thrust back onto the main stage in the United States. In a New York Times op-ed titled, “How to Win an Argument About Guns”, Nicholas Kristof takes on this very issue. According to his bio, Kristof has been a foreign correspondent and columnist for the New York Times since 2001. However, his bio says nothing about any involvement with firearm related topics. This makes his opinions less trustworthy than that of an actual expert on the issue. Kristof is very pro gun control and dispels five main myths from those that oppose his views on gun control. The author believes that greater restrictions and laws concerning firearms will lead to a safer country and far less casualties....
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...should have been in the best interest of the United States. While some accomplished this other companies failed to not just think about themselves but, for the American people and for what was best for the country. The government bailed out many companies and it was then up to the companies to make ethical choices on how they pulled their company back up. A.I.G., an American insurance corporation, is a prime example where the taxpayers provided money in government support to A.I.G. and the corporation used a large percent of the money towards employee treatment. Many employees in the company were both positively and negatively affected and one in particular, Jake DeSantis vice-president of AIG’s financial products unit, took action in his op-ed titled, “Dear A.I.G., I Quit.” DeSantis’ open-letter is a letter of resignation to the company he was employed for, AIG. Through his letter DeSantis claims that, AIG should not be penalizing the employees who had nothing to do with bringing down AIG and that anyone who was not involved with Credit Default Swaps should be entitled to the bonuses that they had been promised thorough a contract. In the first three paragraphs DeSantis begins by stating his resignation and the main reason for why he is resigning. Throughout the next couple of paragraphs DeSantis provides the readers of the New York Times with his reasons to why he is resigning. In the beginning portion of the body of his open-letter DeSantis explains that when he first started...
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...Commonplaces Folder One objective of the AP Language class is to help students become informed, critical citizens. You are therefore expected to take up mature, well-reasoned and supported positions in your writing. In order to do this it is crucial that one become aware of opposing viewpoints on any given topic, acknowledging their respective merits and noting their respective drawbacks, always keeping an open mind and allowing your position to shift and gain nuance . Classically, an argument is not considered complete until the opposing positions are discussed, conceded to, and possibly refuted. In your Commonplaces Folder, you will gather articles that participate in arguments relevant to informed, democratic citizens. This ongoing collection will provide material, background knowledge, and perspective on current events, an essential for the AP exam, and to a functioning democracy. Each entry will consist of: 1) A hard copy of the article/column, no more than two months old, and at least two pages (Times New Roman, 12 pt, single spaced). It cannot be a straight news story. It must be taking on a current topic that is of some importance locally, nationally, or globally and address opposing viewpoints. Feature and op-ed articles are a good place to look. 2) An objective summary paragraph that clearly articulates the articles main points. The topic sentence should include the title, author, and source. Is the article taking up one position or discussing multiple...
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...the 20 primary sources that I did was because I felt they represented a good timeline of how constituencies were formed from 1890-1960. These documents I chose reflect both the variety and struggle specific groups and individuals faced throughout the time period. Beginning with Ida B. Wells in the 1890, and ending with the struggles the NAACP faced in the 1950’s, the ability to build support was often met with the challenges of racism and oppression. No other person exemplified this struggle more so then Ida B. Wells. Even though Ida enjoyed a substantial following through her writings of books, and speech making, she still faced threats to her and was even exiled and forced to leave the United States, and go to England. Although dealt this major setback in her forced move to England, Ida. B. did not become discouraged and continued her work in fighting for equality for blacks in the South. In her writing of the Red Record, and Southern Horrors, Ida was able to capture the horrific climate lynching in the South. Because of this work, Ida transformed many peoples perception of the South where before her work many believed that almost all types of oppression ended with the conclusion of the Civil War. As a result of this shift in public opinion, Ida began receiving substantial funding from not only whites in the North, but also from England; whom the South depended on heavily because of their trade relations. Through these efforts, Ida was responsible for starting groups such as...
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...will be studying for your degree, you should, however, check which system your department favours and adapt your referencing practices accordingly. This guide is only an introduction to Harvard, so if you find it does not fully cover your needs or you would like to take a more comprehensive look at Harvard, we suggest that you refer to either: Chapters 5 and 6 of The American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Washington DC, USA: American Psychological Association. or: The American Psychological Association (APA) website at: www.apastyle.org. What is referencing? Referencing is a method for standardising and presenting systematically the words and ideas of others in your own writing. Such ideas may include direct quotations, facts, figures, ideas and theories from both published and unpublished works. Why reference? Referencing is necessary to avoid plagiarism. It also provides a unique way of identifying each piece of information in your work, enabling your reader to easily locate it in its original source. This is useful for readers who may want to verify your material or follow up the information that you have presented so that they can do further research themselves. Finally, referencing materials from recognised...
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... Mayer. Adam Safir, however, did speak cordially, briefly and unilluminatingly. “I subscribe to The New Yorker and I read it,” Adam Safir said. “As far as what we do, we don’t talk about clients, whether we have them or don’t have them. Even answering the question would violate the policy of our business.” Two other Washington figures identified by Ms. Mayer in the operation, Philip Ellender, who heads Koch’s government affairs arm, and Nancy Pfotenhauer, who has served as president of a nonprofit advocacy group funded by the Kochs, did not respond to messages requesting comment. Asked about the campaign against Ms. Mayer and the investigation of her, Ken Spain, a spokesman for Koch Industries, issued a statement that criticized her writings on Koch and charged that they were “grossly...
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...In the seventeenth century, European intellectuals developed a new understanding of scientific endeavor, namely to discern natural causes through quantitative measurement. Galileo first challenged the Scholastic supposition that mathematical astronomy was merely ancillary to natural philosophy, and by the middle of the century, both the Cartesian and Newtonian mechanical systems had placed mathematics at center stage, disdaining qualitative physics as irrelevant, unknowable, and misleading. Consistent with their methodology, the mechanists tended to reduce the ontological reality of the natural world to its quantitative aspects, implicitly or explicitly eliminating all categories other than extension, time, space, and motion. In this interpretation, Descartes’ treatment of matter as extension merely formalized an intellectual aesthetic that even his adversaries held in practice. We can easily see this penchant for quantification in Newton’s belief that all physics is mechanical, but we might not expect to find a mania for quantity among those who held a more poetic view of reality. Such an enigma is precisely what we discover in Blaise Pascal, a man who intensely contemplated the ineffable qualitative aspects of human and divine reality, yet remained as thoroughly mechanistic in his treatment of the natural world as Descartes himself. By exploring this dual reality of Pascal’s intellectual life, we can examine how his brand of fideism synthesized the enchanted world of his...
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...CPRL 224 Templates: How to use them, when to use them, why use them Many Canadians assume that ……………. Many Canadians believe that ………………… On the one hand, ……….. . On the other hand, ……………….. . I agree that ………….. . This is not to say that …………… . Author X contradicts herself. At the same time that she argues …………., she also implies ………….. She argues ………………, and I agree because …………….. Her argument that …………… is supported by new research showing that ……………. Templates are rhetorical patterns, rhetorical structures, that allow you to summarize, to respond, to introduce a quotation, to support your argument or point of view with evidence, to shift between general, over-arching claims and smaller-scale, supporting claims, to introduce an on-going debate, to introduce something implied or assumed, and many more such forms of dialogic communications. They allow you to frame an argument, a position, a point of view, while acknowledging the arguments of others. Furthermore, they provide clarity and coherence. Conventional wisdom has it that ………………… Common sense seems to dictate that …………… It is often said that ……………… I have always believed that ……………. When I was a child, I used to think that ……………….Although I should know better by now , I cannot help thinking that ………………. One implication of Mr.’s treatment of ………………. Is that ……………… Although Ms. Y doesn’t say so directly, she apparently assumes that ………………. While they rarely admit...
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...Theories of criminology Prof. Dr. Ayman Elzeiny Introduction :- What is Theory? Definitions of the theory Vold, Bernard, and Snipes defined it as :- “an explanation … a sensible relating of some particular phenomenon to the whole field of knowledge” On other hand Bohm defined it as “makes statements about the relationship between two classes of phenomena” Williams and McShane defined it as “generalizations of a sort; explains how two or more events are related” . According to Shoemaker the theory is : “a systematic collection of concepts and statements purporting to explain behavior” . And according to Hoover the theory is “a set of related propositions that suggest why events occur”. We can define theory as "Statement of a relationship between two or more propositions and concepts . which explains and/or predicts some behavior ". Introduction to Theories of criminology : There are many "theories" of criminology suggested by many writers. It would not be practical to list them all. a few only that have received some support. The almost prominent schools of criminology Were : The Classical School, "which began about 1755 to 1764" after Beccaria (1738-94) published his famous Essay on Crimes and Punishments; Along with Beccaria, the thinkers of the Classical School were Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Jeremy Bentham, William Blackstone, Samuel Romilly, and others. The Positive School, " which began after the publication of Lombroso's L'uomo...
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...that the rite of passage is essential to a young adult’s development and supports it by effectively appealing to logos, ethos, and pathos throughout his piece. In his op-ed piece, Brooks talks about the rite...
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...Allama Iqbal on Islam-Democracy Discourse: An Analysis of his Views on Compatibility and Incompatibility Tauseef Ahmed Parray Allama Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938) was a poet and philosopher, a fine prose-writer, a great linguist and man of letters, a well-known lawyer, a leading politician, a front-rank statesman, an esteemed educationist, a great art critic, Muslim reformer, a dominant and one of the most distinguished thinkers of the 20th century. His writings – consisting of poetry in three languages: Punjabi, Urdu and Persian and prose in English and Urdu - have inspired thousands and his thought has moved millions. Iqbal was at the same time a philosopher in the line of al-Farabi, Ibn Sina and al-Ghazzali and a poet in the rank of Saa`di and Hafiz. For most of his life his profession was law and his passion, writing prose and especially poetry, considering it as a vehicle for the propagation of his thought. Iqbal studied both Islamic sciences and the Western philosophy. His writings were indebted to two principal sources: his Islamic heritage and the western philosophy he studied at Cambridge, Munich, and Heidelberg. The poetry of Iqbal is mainly philosophical and the questions relating to religion, race and civilization, government, progress of women, literature and arts, and world politics were of equal interest to him. In this paper, an exploration of Iqbal`s views about democracy is made, revealing that he accepted only those principles of democracy which...
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