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    Meditations I is written by Descartes. Descartes is a Greek philosopher who wrote Meditations I in 1639. Meditations I is part of a set of six Meditations and the full title of Meditations is actually Indiscernibility Skepticism Meditations on First Philosophy. During the time that Descartes was alive Galileo discovered that Earth was not the center of the universe, and in fact Earth actually rotated around the sun, not the other way around. This made everyone question their former beliefs,…

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    precise. The theme of hard work appears in every paragraph, unequivocally leading him to his death. Sometimes she directly states it, such as in paragraph four where Goodman lists Phil’s work habits while other times, it acts as an underlying motive, such as in lines forty-five through fifty where he neglected his family because of his work. Goodman incorporates business to drive home her point about corporate America in the final three paragraphs. The sentence, “At the funeral, the…

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    Research Note #2: “The Most Photographed Barn in America” Paragraph A: In this passage extracted from the novel White Noise, the author, Don Dellilo describes Jack and Murray’s visit to a tourist attraction known as the most photographed barn in America to exhibit the significance of perception in addition to humanity’s lack of awareness regarding reification. The first paragraph establishes the scene in a countryside with a “MOST PHOTOGRAPHED BARN IN AMERICA” sign, the presence of animals and…

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    1. Metacognitive: A strategy that helps students learn as they engage in writing. 2. Rubrics: a guide/instrument to follow for assessment 3. Checklists: a list that highlights “must haves” in an assignment. 4. Processes: The student goes through specific phases in writing. 5. Products: The final product submitted for evaluation/assessment 6. Prewriting: The initial stages of writing process. 7. Rewriting: Proofreading and editing the previous writing, things can be added and other things deleted…

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    the reader reflect in a scientific way. To set the stage, Barry starts off by structuring his first paragraph anaphorically to give the reader two choices: the path of “certainty” or the path of “uncertainty.” By doing this Barry creates a contradicting statement forcing the reader to think which path they belong to. As the reader reflect upon that Barry leads into the next paragraph describing…

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    Stage three is where you begin writing your outline for your paper an outline is a general plan for your paper this should be how you will lay your paper out. First, you should start with your introduction this will be the first paragraph you write this will introduce the main idea of your paper. In the introduction you should include a hook. A hook is something that captures the reader eye and keeps with wanting to know more for example “Is McDonald’s hurting your teenagers or helping…

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    back to money, which he says is the reason behind advertising in his first paragraph, but now is the point of the dealer. A premium cost for a television in the back? Money. It is becoming easier to get as development gets cheaper, able to lower prices to sell more and make a greater profit at the same rate. Advancements are being made constantly, going over the heads of those willing to pay for…

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    Finny and Gene’s friendship. Here is a quote I found interesting in the first paragraph and I’ll give a lot more quotes too, “What was I doing up here anyway? Why did I let Finny talk me into stupid things like this? Was he getting some kind of hold over me?” What I thought about this quote was that the notion of equality is very important to Gene and his friendship with Finny. Another quote in the first paragraph was “It’s you pal, Finny said to me at last, just you and me. He and I started…

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    This information can be found in the first paragraph of the “About Us” website…

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    Initially, I put the argument in a single paragraph to bring the readers attention to that particular paragraph. However, that technique wasn’t effective as your comments mentioned that I should change the position of my thesis. This was harder than the other edits. First, I started by trimming the summary in the first paragraph because I didn’t want my argument to drown in the sea of words. Second, I broke my thesis in multiple lines…

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