Second Confirmation Paragraph

by admin | Mar 14, 2022 | Subjects>English, Writing Styles>MLA

What is next? Write the SECOND confirmation paragraph for your researched argument paper. This is a graded checkpoint for my feedback to help correct any mistakes before they appear in your researched argument paper.

What are the confirmation paragraphs? These two paragraphs are the heart of your paper because they support your position on your controversial topic. They introduce, explain, and support your two specific points from your thesis statement.

Follow each step below–carefully, with college-level skill. Also, use the sample researched argument paper as a guide.

STEP 1: Using the perfectly formatted MLA document that contains your introduction paragraph with your thesis, and your FIRST confirmation paragraph, write and add the SECOND confirmation paragraph.

STEP 2: Identify the SECOND point in your thesis so that you can write a focused topic sentence.

EXAMPLE THESIS with the SECOND point in bold: Although some people believe that pipelines pose too many risks to the health and safety of the environment, pipelines are the most efficient and economical ways to move resource because they boost the U.S. economy and they reduce dependence on oil from the Middle East.

STEP 2: From your second point, write a topic sentence for your paragraph. Make sure to identify your second point in the topic sentence of your paragraph.

In order for America to thrive in times of conflict and peace, it is necessary for the U. S. to reduce its dependence on oil from the Middle East. (Now all of the sentences that follow will prove that the use of pipelines in America is necessary to prevent our dependence on the Middle East and explains why that is so important.)

STEP 3: After your topic sentence, write a 150-200 word paragraph that explains why the topic sentence is true–and provide supporting evidence with your research material. You can do this by summary, paraphrase, or quotes. Make sure you use in-text citations for your borrowed material. See your Harbrace textbook, Chapter 13.

STEP 4: Check your work with the questions below.

Did you refer back to the topic sentence at strategic points in the paragraph? Just repeating a key word or phrase once or twice in a paragraph can focus the reader’s attention and add force to the entire point. However, avoid any repetition that doesn’t serve a specific purpose.
Did you begin a body paragraph with a quote? Revise it–Your topic sentence is not a quote.
Did you use sound logic to fully explain and prove your point? No fallacies.
Finally, did you make sure to tie all of this information together by showing how it relates to your overall position statement? (Look at the position section of your thesis.)

STEP 5: Proofread and submit your work.

Rubric

Second Confirmation Paragraph

Criteria

Ratings

Pts

Perfect MLA Format

10 pts

Full Marks

0 pts

No Marks

10 pts

Title

5 pts

Full Marks

0 pts

No Marks

5 pts

Second Confirmation Paragraph based upon Second Support from Thesis

15 pts

Full Marks

0 pts

No Marks

15 pts

Topic Sentence is Based on Second Support from Thesis

20 pts

Full Marks

0 pts

No Marks

20 pts

Citation/s of Source/s Used in Paragraph

20 pts

Full Marks

0 pts

No Marks

20 pts

Sentence Structure is varied and grammatically correct. Diction and style are appropriate, sophisticated, and clear. No major or minor errors hinder understanding.

30 pts

Full Marks

0 pts

No Marks

30 pts

Total Points: 100

Casablanca and the Great Depression

by admin | Mar 14, 2022 | Subjects>English, Writing Styles>MLA

First things first: This assignment is not meant to test your knowledge but is rather designed as an opportunity to reflect on the readings, lectures, and films we explored in the past few weeks (Part I: The Great Depression and the Second World War). This is an ongoing conversation, and this assignment serves as a reflective pause that allows us to filter out a few key ideas, questions, and problems that challenge our understanding of the American dream and Hollywoods role in this process of mythmaking. The midterm also helps us, your instructors, provide you with more detailed feedback.

A few technicalities right away:

The midterm assignment will be due by Monday, March 14 (11:59 pm ET).
The midterm is an open-book exam, meaning that you have access to all the course materials.
Please submit/upload your midterm here as one file (DOC or PDF).
Make sure you format your document properly (Links to an external site.): 1-inch margin on both sides, font size 12, double-spaced, page numbers at the bottom; the rest is up to you. Additionally, please provide a word count at the end of each part.
Pay attention to any misspellings and/or typos and please carefully proofread your writing prior to submission.
Please make sure to cite your sources properly (the last name of the author and the page number will suffice unless you are quoting an additional text in which case please be sure to provide the title and the date when it was drafted).
If you are referring to ideas borrowed from our forum discussions, please acknowledge the names of your peers in your writing.
If you are looking for advice on writing, the Writing Center has several tips and strategies to offer: https://extension.harvard.edu/for-students/support-and-services/the-writing-center/Links to an external site.
Students who are taking the course for undergraduate credit are expected to write ca. 1500 words. Graduate students are expected to write ca. 2100 words. However, each of you has a different writing style, so take your time and the space that you need to unfold your argument and express your thoughts.

The midterm focuses above all on comprehension and in-depth, critical engagement with the course materials; deepening your capacity for formal film analysis, juxtaposition, and synthesis; and, finally, productively applying the interpretive skills and the vocabulary that you have been working on so far. This weeks film, Michael Curtiz Casablanca (1942), thus, functions as a kind of lens, a magnifying glass, if you will, that allows us to filter out some key ideas, questions, and problems that challenge our understanding of the American dream and Hollywoods intricate processes of mythmaking.

The grading of this assignment will therefore be based on the assessment of:

your knowledge of the readings, handouts, lectures, and films;
your ability to engage with course materials critically, persuasively, and self-reflexively;
your familiarity with film vocabulary and ability to perform formal film analysis whether through juxtaposition, comparison, or synthesis.

That said, we always encourage experimentation and your efforts to push complex and complicated questions even further!

Part I: The Cinematic Language of Casablanca

Please focus on one of the five scenes and its formal characteristics, both as an isolated, self-contained segment (as a painstakingly choreographed ensemble of sights and sounds!) and within the broader context of the film as a whole insofar as it contributes to the films overall effect.

That said, you can always pick a different sequence, if you like, however, please make sure it’s a longer segment and provide some justification for your choice.

Also, please be sure to draw on this week’s lecture and the readings on Casablanca!

Undergraduate students: min. 600 words. Graduate students: min. 900 words.

CLIP: Opening Sequence

CLIP: Ricks Caf Americain

CLIP: Play It, Sam

Clip: Rick and Ilsa

CLIP: Finale

Final Paper

by admin | Mar 14, 2022 | Subjects>English, Writing Styles>MLA

You can choose one of mission from file ‘Project – choose one’ , than do the research to write a paper.

The final project will be about a space mission, and you will also propose a follow up. You can do either a paper or a poster, but to get writing credit, you must write a paper. You should not do both a paper and a poster. Instructions are provided for each below. An example is provided for each, but note that the assignment has been slightly updated. If there is a contradiction between what is in the assignment versus demonstrated in the example, go with the assignment instructions. Additional resources can be found in other assignments, such as for the abstract and future mission proposal.

Do the paper one, don’t do poster.

Do you believe that the Law Violates citizens right? if yes or No Explain.

by admin | Mar 14, 2022 | Subjects>English, Writing Styles>MLA

Terrorist action on 9/11 resulted in the Patriot Act law being passed. This law allow law enforcement surveillance on citizens. Some people believed that this law violates the 4th Amendment rights of citizen in the U.S. Knowing the danger society face when terrorist attacked.

Do you believe that the Law Violates citizens right? if yes or No Explain.

Explain the pros and cons of the law.

Essay Proposal Final Exam Prompt

by admin | Mar 14, 2022 | Subjects>English, Writing Styles>MLA

please contact me for any questions or sugestions.
the 6 page will be for the Cited page that ought to include the policy needing to be fixed and the existing proposal that you’re arguing we ought to adopt.

Government Discussion

by admin | Mar 14, 2022 | Subjects>English, Writing Styles>MLA

Discussion Assignment 2 – Selection of Texas Judges

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Judicial selection has been the subject of a long-standing debate both in Texas and in other states. The Texas Constitution provides for the election of most of the state’s judges. However, the governor appoints district and appellate judges to vacant positions. County courts at law judges and justices of the peace are also elected, and vacant positions are filled through appointment by the county commissioners’ court. Municipal judges may either be appointed or elected depending on the city charter or ordinance.

Judges were not always elected officials in Texas. When Texas first became a state, judges were appointed by the governor with consent of the Texas Senate. Five years later, in 1850, the influence of Jacksonian Democracy led to the introduction of judicial elections in Texas.

During Reconstruction, gubernatorial appointment of judges was reinstated. The Reconstruction Constitution of 1869 was replaced in 1876 by the current Texas Constitution, which requires election of judges. The 1876 Constitution greatly limited the powers of the governor and was a reaction to the powers exercised by Governor E.J. Davis under the 1869 Constitution. Under the 1869 Constitution, not only did the governor have the power to appoint judges, but he also appointed mayors, district attorneys, public weighers, and city aldermen. This appointment power was so extensive that it included 10,000 state officials.

Since early in this century, the popularity of partisan election of judges has decreased outside of the South. Since the South was (until recently) historically a one-party Democratic region, partisan election meant that competition for judicial offices, if it occurred at all, occurred within the Democratic Party. Texas then, along with much of the South, experienced a significant growth of the Republican Party. Along with that growth came competition for judicial offices during the regular election. The debate over the desirability of retaining the current system of judicial selection in Texas, however, preceded the growth of the Republican Party in the state.

Proposals for constitutional amendments to change the system of selection have been made frequently. In 1974, the Constitutional Revision Commission offered two judicial selection proposals: one for a system based on the Missouri plan and the other for nonpartisan election of judges. Those proposals were rejected, and over the next four legislative sessions, at least fifteen unsuccessful proposals were offered favoring either the Missouri plan or nonpartisan election.

Methods of judicial selection vary substantially across the United States. Though each state has a unique set of guidelines governing how they fill their state and local judiciaries, there are five main methods:

: Judges are elected by the people, and candidates are listed on the ballot alongside a label designating political party affiliation.
: Judges are elected by the people, and candidates are listed on the ballot without a label designating party affiliation.
: Judges are selected by the state legislature.
: Judges are appointed by the governor. In some cases, approval from the legislative body is required.
, also known as merit selection or the Missouri Plan: A nominating commission reviews the qualifications of judicial candidates and submits a list of names to the governor, who appoints a judge from the list. After serving an initial term, the judge must be confirmed by the people in a yes-no retention election to remain on the court.

This assignment asks you to consider and choose one of the selection methods NOT used by Texas. Briefly tell me:

what alternative method you selected and
why you contend it is more preferable than the one used by Texas.

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WHY CHOOSE US?