Twenty two years old, devastated and newly divorced, all things I had considered the foundation of a family, were now gone. I barely had the resources to sustain myself, let alone the needs of a small child. Rent, lights, phone, gas, food all consumed every cent I had. Weekly reviews of my checkbook showed that often I exhausted the funds I did not have. I lacked the money to make it to the end of the month, let alone support extra anything. As such, I had no clue how I was going to get through
Ever since I could walk, I always wanted to be older than my actual age. When I was seven, I remember buying my first purse because all the fifth graders had purses. When I was ten, I remember dressing up like my seventeen-year-old sister just to “relate” to her. Now at seventeen, I wish to be twenty-three and living in the city with an exciting career. This summer, I was given the incredible opportunity to intern for Sinclair Communications, a company that owns and operates five different
Essays can be used to discover rather than to prove or persuade. While this may not be the standard academic paper, it can be useful when conducting research. Not every paper may thought with a developed thesis but come to a realization of a thesis after conducting necessary research. Jay Holmquist’s essay “An Experience with Acronyms” approaches his topic with a narrative interest that leads to a question to start his exploration. This implemented his process of discovery going from his story to
articles, online forums, online comments, and research studies to get an idea about online education and decide if they should choose to take online courses. Different types of genres all have one common goal to convince their readers that their argument is correct. Having a strong and convincing argument in the paper is important because writers want to communicate their ideas to the readers through using different textual conventions. In this paper, I will analysis two different types of textual
This paper describes the study which tried to explore the relationship between self-esteem and writing performance of EFL learners in Iran. Data of this study were collected by administering a questionnaire of Rosenberg's self-esteem, a language proficiency test and a writing performance in two different genres, descriptive and narrative, administered twice each. The sample consisted of 50 English intermediate male learners took part at Nourelahi Language Institute in Tabriz. Pearson Correlation
Introduction Community Psychology aims to research and intervene in any community based problems in order to ensure the reduction and removal of these issues entirely; it also aims to research in order to understand how these problems originate. A common problem is that of alcoholism where individuals suffer from a substance addiction to alcohol whereby it negatively impacts on their lives; these individuals wish to recover and often turn to a program called Alcoholics Anonymous which is a community
daily lives, with all the emotional and personal complexities that came with being a black woman. This realism comes at no surprise, though; Their Eyes Were Watching God largely comes from Hurston’s own experiences with a long-time lover, Percival Punter, as the inspiration for Tea Cake. Eatonville directly correlates with a location Hurston lived in (with the same name!) and even her descriptions of black Southern living come from her travels and research in the late 1920’s. Although it resonated
individuals in society. Demographic trends of increased singlehood, low fertility, and delayed marriages have hit the headlines globally in recent years. (Straughan, 2009) Singapore is not an exception. Statistics released in report Population White Paper in 2013 shows an increase in median age for Singaporeans to get married. Comparing 2000 and 2011, the median age for grooms increased from 28.5 to 30.1,
This is my final paper for Michael’s class on the topic how to do good, high quality qualitative research. Qualitative research is a broad field which uses unstructured data collection methods, such as interviews, surveys or observations, documents to find themes and meanings in order to find a better understanding of the world. It tends to uncover different reasons in fields, instead of just looking for details of, what, where, and why. In addition, qualitative research is done in many disciplines
Rhetorical Knowledge Focus on Purpose Purpose is the reason for which we write for. I learned that the purpose is very important when writing. Each paper I wrote for this course had a distinct purpose. While writing my food memoir, my purpose was to share a meaningful food experience in life with my audience. For the rhetorical analysis project, I had a purpose of analyzing rhetorically by identifying the audience, purpose, genre, rhetorical appeals of the invitation letter that