Intro: In “Coming Home Again,” Lee’s mom states that “The meat needs the bone nearby to borrow its richness.” Just like the meat relies on the bone for richness, people rely on adults to positively impact their lives. In their writings, authors Ta Nehisi Coates, Diane Claitor, Lauran Silverman, Mike Rose, Barbara Kantrowitz, and Chang Rae Lee discuss some of the ways that grownups can positively influence people’s lives.
Thesis: Adults can positively impact people’s lives when they assist them during their academic journeys, help them in their careers, and encourage them to form good life habits.
Topic A) First, adults can positively impact peoples’ lives by helping them excel in their academic pursuits.
1) One way grownups can help individuals excel academically is by creating positive academic learning environments that help individuals grow intellectually.
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2) Also, adults can teach individuals to work diligently and possess strong work ethics.
E2: For instance, in the article “Coming Home Again,” Chang Rae Lee explained that the reason his mother sent him to the Exeter boarding school in New Hampshire was because she wanted him to learn how to work hard in order to succeed in life. He writes: “My going to such a place was part of my mother’s not so secret plan to change my character,… I was clever and able enough, but without outside pressure I was readily given to sloth and vanity” (97).
C2: Because Lee’s mother wanted her son to learn to work hard and not be lazy, she sent him to the boarding school. In the end, adults like Lee’s mother positively impact people’s lives by encouraging them to have hardworking values which will help them succeed in life.
3) Lastly, adults teach individuals to have a heart of service for the
Thesis: Adults can positively impact people’s lives when they assist them during their academic journeys, help them in their careers, and encourage them to form good life habits.
Topic A) First, adults can positively impact peoples’ lives by helping them excel in their academic pursuits.
1) One way grownups can help individuals excel academically is by creating positive academic learning environments that help individuals grow intellectually.
E1 For example, in Ta Nehisi …show more content…
2) Also, adults can teach individuals to work diligently and possess strong work ethics.
E2: For instance, in the article “Coming Home Again,” Chang Rae Lee explained that the reason his mother sent him to the Exeter boarding school in New Hampshire was because she wanted him to learn how to work hard in order to succeed in life. He writes: “My going to such a place was part of my mother’s not so secret plan to change my character,… I was clever and able enough, but without outside pressure I was readily given to sloth and vanity” (97).
C2: Because Lee’s mother wanted her son to learn to work hard and not be lazy, she sent him to the boarding school. In the end, adults like Lee’s mother positively impact people’s lives by encouraging them to have hardworking values which will help them succeed in life.
3) Lastly, adults teach individuals to have a heart of service for the