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My definition paper I turned in last week was not a complicated paper, but I had a few troubles along the way. I really just had one main problem and it was making my definition interesting enough and giving it enough claim. Having to figure out what love is not and making it flow smoothly was not a breeze to do either. Overall the essay was not hard to write about there were just a few little mistakes I had along the way that made it complicated. My main problem was trying to make my definition…

Communication The Key to Happiness in the Parent Child Relationship What is the most important quality necessary for a strong parent-child relationship? Eye contact with a parent is a unique connection with no verbal response, yet it still projects guidance (4). In the short story “Write Me Sometime” the father feels a sense of connection with his daughter when she writes him letters, and when he takes her out for lunch. Feeling the sense of support by sending a letter to a parent, knowing…

America is a very passionate about our rights. Our Constitution created the Bill of Rights in order to give the people more power. Many Americans would find it shocking that there is some debate on how to read this amendment. America’s founding father intentionally used some ambiguous language because they knew that these laws may change (Freitag, personal communication). Spizer (201) claimed the second amendment is popularly misread as quoted by Robert A. Rutherland “(along with the Third,…

The strengths of this essay as related to the course objective include defining the terms of poverty, hunger, and homelessness in America. Poverty means having inadequate income to provide the food, shelter, and clothing needed to preserve good health. Hunger means not knowing where your next meal will be coming from or being food insecure. Homelessness is justifiably unable to acquire, maintain regular, safe, secure, and adequate housing. Explain what it means to live below the poverty line,…

Therefore, in Huckleberry Finn and “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” contain the use of figurative language, realistic syntax, and ridged diction significantly help Mark Twain be the successful writer that he was. First, is the use of figurative language in his writing. Mark Twain uses similes to bring in other ideas by connecting previous ideas with the new one. Like in chapter 12 of Huckleberry Finn, “A tow-head is a sand-bar that has cottonwood on it as thick as…

historical topic of my choice. So when it comes to writing long papers i'm no stranger to it, it almost feels normal now and isn't that scary. With that being said there was a few things here and there I did learn. I learned from the is class how to use commas and semicolons correctly in a sentence. I always had struggled with correctly placing punctuation in a…

There are good writers and there are good writers who work hard to become better. Mrs. Fiske, my English teacher junior and senior year of high school always told me that I was one of the best writers in my class but I could always be better. Spelling has always been one of my strong suits and I always get bothered when people can’t spell simple words. I’m pretty good at writing essays but I do not enjoy writing them at all. At this point in time I am wondering how my abilities will affect my…

for the movie not having all the unnecessary things that the book has. One reason why the movie is better is because, The ending was alot better in the movie then the book. In the text of the book on page 107 at the ending chapter i can't really comma quote it because it's the whole bunch of paragraphs but i can explain it. It talks about…

Over the course of the last week, the class has examined the proper ways in which to cite according to MLA specifications. We have reviewed the ways in which to prove whether or not a source is credible, and we have begun the work on our second-to-last paper, the annotated bibliography. Some of the most common mistakes that occur when writing a MLA formatted essay or other piece of writing can include improper citations or improper heading format. I struggled specifically with remembering the…

Everyone has their own process when coming down to writing a paper. People have many different methods to how they perfect their writing, and make it good. Furthermore, I’m going explaining my writing process in order of importance. When starting my paper, I don’t exactly start writing right of the back. Usually I’ll just sit down, and think of a really interesting intro the will attract the reader to my piece. When it’s all said and done, I make sure that the thesis statement is placed towards…