Motivational Essay Essay

Chapter 1, Setting: The setting creates everything in this novel. There are a group of young boys that are stranded on a deserted island. The island is completely unusual to them, and after the boys find out there is no adult supervision they slowly show how chaotic it can get. "the white surf flinked on a coral reef, and beyond that the open sea was dark blue. Within the irregular arc of the lagoon was still as a mountain lake" (Golding 14). The island has a massive jungle and many different…

“I am smart. I am arrogant. I am lucky. I am trying to save our lives.” Sherman Alexie says these words in an article he wrote to persuade his target audience to see how learning to read and write can be a beneficial part of education for not just the indians in his tribe but for all cultured, lower-class. “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me”, was published in the Los Angeles Times. This magazine is available for everyone to read. However, the target audience leans more towards the…

Treatment Preferences Concerning Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder,” the many credible authors discuss the importance of understanding and sympathizing with those diagnosed with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The intention of the essay was to inform and bring to light the more controversial side of ADHD. Through pathos, ethos, and logos the authors reach out to the intended audience, not researchers, but rather parents of kids who suffer from ADHD and teachers who try to…

Why Students should Read the Odyssey The Article “Why You Might Want To Read The Odyssey” by Stephen Mitchell, and “A View Of The Odyssey” by Anna Blake explains why people might read the Odyssey on people's own time, or if it's important for students out of school. These articles explain the Excitement of the Odyssey, and bring Self-identity to a full. It opens up an entire story of how this man went through so much, and still managed to get home. The story of odysseus has many reasons,…

The excerpt from "Proceedings of the English Colonie in Virginia," section 2.2, by William Simmonds, demonstrated the down-side of Virginia, an early colony. While in section 2.5, an excerpt from "The Narragansett Act of Submission to Charles I," showed the fear and discomfort the Indians had towards their enemies. This excerpt was somewhat the same, but also different to section 2.2. The first reading, 2.2, was quite challenging and irritating. This part of the excerpt was obvious due to the…

learned a lot this semester, including but not limited to: identifying how exactly the author’s purpose and audience determines effective writing, developing pieces of writing though a process of planning, revising, and drafting, compose an organized essay with clear points and main ideas, used appropriate tone and formality, critiqued writing, and finally how to grasp the MLA format. My writing has improved through the concepts I have learned this semester. In my…

It took some convincing to let her know she wasn’t a client, but a regular child helping me develop my skills for teaching. However, how could I blame her? With an intellectual disability, I’m sure my child I am shadowing is analyzed and assessed by many adult professionals. So, in her opinion, I was another adult trying to figure her out. Thankfully, my effort to engage Brittany in an arts & crafts activity eased her perspective of who I am and how I “found” her. Brittany answered all of my…

article, “We Are Teaching High School Students to Write Terribly The many problems of the SAT’s essay section” by Matthew J.X. Malady, argues that the SAT’s writing assessment is having a detrimental effect on students’ writing performance. Malady introduces the writing assessment of the SAT in his introductory. Malady provides the reader with the issues students are experiencing when they are writing their essay. In addition, he provides arguments to why the writing assessment is…

describe what you think the essay is trying to persuade you of, and note that you do not see a main claim in the paper. How could the claim be made clearer, more focused, or more specific? The main claim of the essay is unnecessary repetitive testing costing the hospitals and patients more money and not good care. 2. To what positions does this essay respond? Are those positions clear? Is where the essay agrees and disagrees with those positions clear? If not, why not? The essay clearly is a…

I have learned a great many things while I was a foreign exchange student in Winfield High School in United States. Before I came to America, I was shy, had low self-esteem, and gave up easily. But after I came to America, I can see that I am changed. I have been more confident through presenting my several projects and speaking in front of many people with English in classes. And at first, it was hard to talk to someone whom I have never met before, but now I feel more comfortable with that and…