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Once you have decided on a thesis statement, you have a direction. That doesn’t mean that you are fully prepared to write. You need to map out your route. Many students write like a traveler with a somewhat clear view of where they want to be, one that starts driving in the general direction with no clear idea of the best path to take, ending up down side streets and getting trapped in dead ends. Basically, students who write like this end up taking unnecessary detours that prolong the trip without adding any real progress. In the end, the traveller, like the students, is just glad to arrive and be done with the trip. Believe me when I say that planning your paper can make things much easier and efficient. There are two main ways to do this. First, you can come up with main points, which is fine. This option is like using a map. You plan out each road and highway you plan to take meticulously before the trip. If you can conceive a clear path forward through a series of main points, I definitely suggest that you do so. However, most students have problems with this, which is why they often take the easy though decidedly more messy and inefficient way and just start writing. Most students deal with time constraints as well, which also steers them towards this option. However, there is another way forward. This method takes a little more time than just writing blindly, but it really allows the essay to write itself. The second method is a lot like using a GPS. You punch in the coordinates and then just have to follow the directions given to you with appropriate actions. Punching in coordinates in this case represents choosing your quotes. Most students just pepper in quotes as they push forward blindly through the essay. However, if you take the time to choose the quotes you want to use carefully and then arrange them as best you can in an order that seems appropriate, you can think of that as your way forward. You need two quotes per paragraph, and you need three paragraphs. That means you just have to choose six good quotes from the story that you think are the most important. How do you know which quotes are important? Keep in mind the GPS metaphor. You are essentially putting in coordinates for your destination, so you want to certainly keep your destination in mind as you do so. Think of your narrowed topic. You need to choose quotes that exemplify the element that you chose to focus on for your narrowed topic. For instance, if you are writing about characterization in “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” specifically how it works between the the lawyer and Bartleby, you would choose quotes that relate to how the narrator sees Bartleby, characterizing Bartleby and himself in the process. After that, you just need to finish establishing your coordinates by putting the quotes in a sequence that seems appropriate. The main reason I compare this to using a GPS is because of the next step. In the same way that you sort of allow the GPS to move you forward, you allow the quotes to direct your path. It is an automatic process, something that just happens. You write into and out of each quote, and then the essay is basically written for you. What do I mean by writing into and out of each quote? That’s easy. I swear! You do just like I do in our discussion boards. You introduce the quote for a couple of sentences, which means that you basically explain the moment in the story in which the quote appears very succinctly in your own words, and then, after the quote is provided (don’t forget your in-text citation!) explain how it connects back to your thesis. Do that twice per paragraph and Bam! you are done with your essay. I know it is easier said than done, but practice makes perfect.So, for this assignment, I want you to either provide me with your tentative thesis statement, narrowed topic and controlling idea, and then provide either three main points, each with a narrowed topic and a controlling idea, or six quotes. I suggest you do the quotes. In that way, it will just be an expanding of what you have been doing on the discussion boards. I call it “Leading with your Quotes.” I did it all throughout grad school, and I found it extremely efficient.

You have chosen your author and story, and now it is time to choose the element that you want to focus on primarily for your first essay. It does not mean that this is the only element that you will cover in your paper; it just means that this is the element that you are going to focus on and discuss more than any of the other elements in the story, and you will only talk about other elements in reference to this element. It also means that this is the element that you are going to put into your thesis and, subsequently, develop your controlling idea in reference to. Most of you are still having trouble with controlling ideas, but that is okay because it is still early in the semester, and that is normal. (BTW, it should be an element that is in one of the chapters that we have covered thus far.) This is an assignment that I like to do early in the semester for that reason, to help you get your mind around the concept of the controlling idea:After you have provided the element that you wish to focus on, write 250 words about how that element is used in the story as a prelude to establishing the controlling idea part of your thesis, just like we have been doing with discussion boards. These 250 words will, hopefully, help lead you to your controlling idea. Ideally, you will develop an idea here by using this as a kind of free writing exercise. After you have written them, you will attempt to synthesize them into an idea. Here are some pointers:1. Begin the writing exercise with the words: “In this story the element of ________ is used to ________.” The first blank should be your chosen element; the second blank should be the jumping off point for your 250 words.2. Try to make sure it is just one idea, not a lot of different ideas. The best way to do that is to make sure each sentence follows the previous one, meaning that you should get more and more specific each sentence as opposed to jumping back and forth from general to more specific and in that way making point after point after point like you would do in a proper essay. The first sentence should be a very general and vague notion about the element, and the final sentence should be a very specific sentence about the same idea. Look below for an example of this with a story that we did not read:In Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge,” the author does interesting things with point of view. In this story, Point of View is used to bring the reader into the character’s mind and feel his dilemma. When the story starts, the point of view is a very objective version of third-person omniscient. By the end of the story, the narrator is using a much more personal third-person limited point of view, which is much more intimate. The reader goes from regarding the protagonist as a nameless soldier being put to death on a bridge to understanding and almost becoming him, a person facing a deep and horrible loss, the loss of his family, dignity, and life. The reader goes from looking at the protagonist through a vague but visually descriptive point of view to careening through the mind of this man via his hopes, dreams, and emotions. In a small way, his loss becomes our loss, his failings our failings, his human frailty our own. We understand everything that brought him to that point on the bridge, his delusion, his false bravado, his disregard for the importance of his family. Furthermore, by switching from one point of view to the next and in effect allowing things to go from unreal to very real, the reader is helped to understand what really happened with the character. At first, he understood war in a very naive way that didn’t account for the harsh realities of it. At the end, he came to understand them in the most extreme and terrible way. SYNTHESIS: In his short story, “An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge,” Ambrose Bierce uses point of view to show the reader the harsh realities of war.

Please read the attached article and answer the questions in complete sentences. This is an article written by actor George Takai that reveals his feelings for the United States in spite of the treatment he and his familiy recieved during World War II.In what ways was Takei’s grandparents’ journey to the United States similar to the journey made by the Starship Enterprise alluded to in the opening of the speech? How did both groups “boldly go where no one has gone before?”What function does Takei’s citing of the Declaration of Independence have on his argument for “why he [loves] a country that once betrayed [him]?” In what ways does his thesis gain support from the tenets of the Declaration? Use evidence from the text to support your answers.Identify Takei’s claim regarding heroism. Evaluate Takei’s depiction of the heroic soldiers fighting the Germans at the Gothic Line. What is the importance of this story to Takei’s claim? How is it effective in illustrating the allegiance the Japanese- Americans had to a country that was suspicious of them?

The book review should consist of three parts. First, write one or two persuasive paragraphs arguing why you believe this book stands out among the list and should be read by students of international relations. Second, summarize the main argument of the book. Make sure to explain how the author’s main idea is developed from the assumption he/she makes. Try your best to capture the primary causal mechanism the theorist provides. Third, provide your critique of the book. Emphasize key contributions of the book to the IR literature, and identify the weakness of its argument as well.Students who want to submit the book review should select a book from the below list. You may use different editions of the book.Edward Hallett Carr, The Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1919-1939: An Introduction to the Study of International Relations(London: Macmillan & Co., [1939] 1941).Hans J. Morgenthau, Politics among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace (New York: Knopf [1948] 1973).Robert Jervis, Perception and Misperception in International Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976)Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society: a Study of Order in World Politics (London: Macmillan, 1977)Robert O. Keohane and Joseph S. Nye, Power and Interdependence (New York: HarperCollins, [1977] 1989).Kenneth N. Waltz, Theory of International Politics (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1979).Robert O. Keohane, After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (Princeton: Princeton University Press,1984).Nicholas Greenwood Onuf, World of Our Making: Rules and Rule in Social Theory and International Relations (New York: Routledge, [1989] 2013)Alexander Wendt, Social Theory of International Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)John J. Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (New York: Norton, 2001)The format for the paper is as follows;Page size: LetterFont: Times New RomanSize: 12 pointsMargins: Normal (2.54cm or 1 inch on each margin)Line Spacing: 2.0 (double-spaced)Page number at the bottom of the page, centeredFailure to cite any materials used will result in an automatic zero for the assignment. Use the Chicago manual “author-date system.” You should use in-text citation and add an additional reference page. For a guide to this citation style, visit The Chicago Manual of Style Online (Links to an external site.).Word Limit: 1,600 words (minimum 1,000 words)

have 3 articles which need to translate from English to Spanish. Each article 500 words Deadline 24 hours. Manually translation required otherwise I will not pay you any penny

Please read the story attached “The Lottery” put your critical thinking skills to use and write half a Page about below topic:One of the messages that Jackson suggests in the story is that all people are savage. Is Jackson correct in her suggestion that people are savage? Why or why not? Explain your answer, and, if possible, use evidence from the story to support your argument.*Special Note (Please read!): In the past, some students have misunderstood the story and thought that the question of this story is whether the villagers in the story are savage or not. The question is not whether the people in this village are savage, but if people, in reality, are savage. I think people, at times, get stuck on analyzing the wrong set of people. The villagers in the story “The Lottery” are DEFINITELY savage. Jackson purposefully writes them as such in an attempt to prove her point that people, in reality, are inherently savage. There are MANY examples in “The Lottery” that demonstrate just how savage these people are, and, if you missed this, you may need to do a closer reading of the story and a review of the PowerPoint for this lecture. It is important that all of you understand that these villagers know right from wrong, that this is not simply a case of self preservation, and that they do enjoy the kill, or, more appropriately, the overkill. These people know exactly what they are doing. The last words of the story are “…they were upon her” (Jackson 7). Now, whether you agree or disagree with Jackson is completely up to you, but the debate here is not on the savageness of the villagers in the story.

As this is a speech, can you write down how should I give a persuasive speech on child abuse with 3 citations? It should be 1 or 1/2 pages long.

Choose one of the stories assigned, excluding the excerpt from Tarzan of the Apes, and use it to complete this discussion board. After you have narrowed your topic to one of the stories, either “The Flowers” or “Killings,” narrow your topic further to one of the elements discussed in the chapter, which appear in bold. Finish crafting your thesis by making a claim about how or why the author uses the literary element that you narrowed down to in the story. Examples of narrowed topics include but are not limited to: plot, flashback, character, exposition, antagonist, protagonist, etc. Read the chapter carefully so that you can understand all of the elements of literature discussed within, especially the element that you choose to narrow down to. After you craft your thesis, choose a quote within the story that you are analyzing as evidence. First, provide your thesis and then write into and out of the quote that you chose as evidence for your claim/thesis. What I mean by that is you should introduce the quote with a couple of sentences and then afterward explain how the quote connects to your thesis. For example:In her short story “The Flowers,” Alice Walker provides foreshadowing for her protagonist’s eventual unsettling discovery with the narrator’s descriptions of Myop’s surroundings. In the story, her protagonist, Myop, makes her way through the woods behind her house. As she moves deeper into the woods, Myop begins to notice a gradual strangeness begin to develop around her. The narrator tells us that as Myop gets about a mile away from the safety and security of her home that “it seemed gloomy in the little cove in which she found herself” (76). This happens just before Myop makes her grizzly discovery. The gloominess of her surroundings unnerves her and causes her to turn back towards home, which leads directly into her unnerving encounter that serves as the climax of the story. This foreshadowing prepares the reader for this climax. (I want to point out a few things. Notice, first, the thesis. The narrowed topic is underlined, and the controlling idea is in italics. Your controlling idea need not be any more complex than that. Second, pay attention to the in-text citation. This is an example of MLA formatting when using sources. It provides the reader with the page number in parentheses so that the reader can find the quote. Observe the punctuation and match it in your discussion board.)

Select one example in which the mass media have been accused of unfairness. Draw on comments from parents, teachers, religious leaders, friends, news media, and so on. Discuss whether these criticisms have been justified, using the 5 steps of the critical process of media literacy.

topic: COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States1. Write 3/4 to 1 page paper exploring a topic and stance that is currently being discussed in the U.S. or abroad. Why are you interested in this topic? What aspects do you need to learn more about in order to persuade people toward your point of view?************Your topic MUST BE ARGUABLE; it must be based on an opinion and a stance. In other words, it can’t just be a report on NAFTA or DACA for example. You may choose any topic though, as long as it is relevant to the public interest.2. Write 5 possible claim statements ON THE SAME topic, remembering to pick claims that not everyone already agrees with, that are arguable, that aren’t strictly factual but based in opinion, that are interesting and controversial in some way. 🙂 The claims should be single sentences only.3. Please find 8 reputable sources that discuss your topic AND YOUR STANCE.