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When I started my first quarter at Midwestern University, I felt most ambivalent about writing papers. The only writing I had done since I graduated from the University of Arizona consisted of progress notes, risk assessments, and individualized service plans. I thought I had a sufficient knowledge APA format, but I had not written a formal APA paper in at least three years. Needless to say, I was thrilled to see I would be taking a course entitled Fundamentals of Graduate Writing. After the…

touch and go with the metaphor, and until you have lived with it long enough you don’t know when it is going. You don’t know how much you can get out of it and when it will cease to yield. It is a very living thing. It is as life itself.” We can paraphrase his principle, to make it…

Voluntary prostitution is a consensual agreement between adults to perform sexual acts with clearly defined parameters in exchange for compensation. Voluntary prostitution differs considerably from human trafficking, which is sexual slavery. To paraphrase Article 3 of the United Nations’ Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children, human trafficking occurs when coercion is used to hold people hostage “for the purpose of exploitation” (Batsyukova…

In the film Ordinary People, there are three characters making up a very dysfunctional family. Conrad Jarrett, Beth Jarrett, and Calvin Jarrett all make up a family, that just recently went through a major loss of Beth and Calvin’s son and Conrad’s brother, Buck Jarrett. This film is all about how the Jarrett family is handling this death with themselves and each other. Through out this film all the family members are copping differently, whether it be through silence or violence, but they all…

What is a hero? If someone is called a hero, what does that say about them? The Webster Standard Dictionary says that a hero is “one noted for courage and greatness; the central figure in a story.” However, there is more to being a hero than those few things alone. A hero is one who you can always count on; who is willing to make sacrifices for the good of others; who is full of compassion for nobles and servants alike, and desires justice in all areas. A hero is someone with virtue of…

“The Rock” … was born to be a spectacular wrestler and actor. Dwayne Douglas Johnson made his first appearance on this day, May 2nd in 1972. He would be an only child. If you didn't know, his father, Rocky Johnson, was a wrestler and so was his grandfather, Peter “High Chief” Fanene Maivia. Needless to say, the game was not new to him, but he didn't think that he'd one day be in it. Actually, “The Rock” preferred to play ball and so he did, but there is a profound story behind the decision…

The democratic values of the Greeks sounds good on paper--until you realize the fact that women and slaves didn’t have a role in democracy! To paraphrase, the Greek vision of democracy was much more...inclusive than that of ours today. While the Greeks searched for ways to make things better for there people, we find a to in a way force our values down the throats of foreign countries to bait them…

Is it a cruel punishment to sentence a criminal to death for committing murder? If the victim of the murder were a close relative, would the answer change? Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the act of putting a person guilty of a capital crime to death. Capital punishment is one of the many issues the United States cannot seem to agree on. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, “in America, as of 2014, eighteen states have abolished the death penalty” (qtd. in Issitt). In…

What I Have Learned in English 101 I have learned a great deal in my second UA Early College class, English101. My writing skills have significantly developed and I have become a more experienced writer. In this class, I have learned to use MLA formatting, writing strategies and processes for different audiences and purposes, a variety of rhetorical strategies and processes for analyzing, and how to revise my work with attention to purpose, development, style, grammar, punctuation. Before this…

The warming of the planet has been a concern to mankind for centuries and it’s almost to the point where the environment and ecosystems are diminishing because of it. Global warming is an issue to all of the living and breathing inhabitants of this planet and it is our duty as one to manage the sustenance of where we live. As future generations start to emerge, they are born into a world of concern and unhealthy lifestyles because of the fact that the world’s temperatures are fluctuating at an…