10 Writing Hooks Writing Class Notes: Beginning Hooks - Strategies to use to catch your reader’s attention 1. Begin with a smile or a metaphor. My life has been a carnival. My family is like an open book. 2. Begin with a question. Who is the greatest athlete of all times? 3. Begin with a definition. Friendly is the best way to describe my personality: I am friendly and caring. Perfect is the best adjective to describe me: I am flawless in every aspect of my life. 4. Begin with
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Evaluation/Summary Oct. 4‚ 2002 Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education I decided to evaluate an excerpt from the book The Presence of Others. This selection‚ entitled Keeping Close to Home: Class and Education‚ was written by Bell Hooks‚ and is taken from her book Talking Back‚ published in 1989. Hooks is the author of many other volumes‚ including Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984)‚ Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (1994)‚ and Remembered Rapture: The Writer
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Cultural and Familial Values Throughout the interviews‚ a common theme emerged: respondents’ parents were generally reluctant to discuss sexuality. Instead‚ parents’ communication about sex and relationships was often indirect. Many respondents described sex as a topic that never naturally came up in conversation. Catherine‚ a female of Korean descent‚ recalled: “My parents would be very upset if they knew I was hooking up. They definitely wouldn’t be okay with it. I mean‚ we don’t ever talk about
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“Slam Dunk & Hook” Basketball isn’t just a sport‚ it’s a lifestyle. It requires you to push yourself again and again and not give up until the final buzzer sounds. Basketball requires a lot of teamwork and that team is like your family. Working together like a family helps push every player to do their best and make each other proud. In the poem “Slam Dunk & Hook” the author Yusef Komunyakaa uses metaphors‚ allusions‚ and imagery to illustrate basketball which offers escape and triumph for
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Bell Guy de Maupassant I. Setting: The story happened some time in December at a rural community or village where most of the people are peasants. The villages are the Varville‚ Saint-Hilaire‚ and Billettes. II. Characters and Characterization: 1. Bell (Nicholas Toussaint) – a handicapped vagabond who suffered cruelness from the merciless people around him. 2. Baroness d’Avary – an old lady who helped Bell by giving him a place to sleep and food. 3. M. Chiquet – a ruthless‚ brutal
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Freire‚ Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Chapter 2 Chapter 2 A careful analysis of the teacher-student relationship at any level‚ inside or outside the school‚ reveals its fundamentally narrative character. The relationship involves a narrating Subject (the teacher) and patient‚ listening objects (the students). The contents‚ whether values or empirical dimensions of reality‚ tend in the process of being narrated to become lifeless and petrified. Education is suffering from narration
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we were young‚ we learned how a good friend and lover should act; such the case that now with reality tv shows we tend to compare our friends to them. Certain shows like jersey shore had morphed are views on life‚ and has influenced the culture of ‘hook ups’: sex without commitments or any further relationship. As an academic‚ this study will focus more on how “media twists love to look like a flurry of overwhelming passion”‚ while influencing the action of break ups‚ because of unhappy ideals based
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The Bell Curve The opinions of Herrnstein and Murray in their book‚ The Bell Curve is that human intelligence is both inherited and also has environmental factors that contribute to a person’s future in many different areas such as; finances‚ a career‚ when they start a family‚ and whether or not a person will break the law instead of a person’s level of education and economic status. The authors go on to say that the more intelligent people of society are keeping their distance from the less
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“Hook”. Arthur Miller gives us insight through his novel‚ The Crucible. Set in 1692‚ Massachusetts‚ the characters in the story are put through trials to prove their integrity‚ loyalty‚ and conspicuously‚ what is valuable to them; their name. Also‚ Arthur Miller establish the characters in a society where the law bounds to the bible‚ and in which‚ the society drastically takes a turn into chaos when people commence‚ and accuse others of witchery. This not merely puts the villager’s viability at
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at the most inopportune of ocassions before sulking off into the unspecified realm of dark situations yet again. It has no preference for a certain variety of victims; to seek and destroy is the only goal with matter. Such is the case of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting on December 14‚ 2012. With fear then cast into the community of Newtown‚ Connecticut‚ and all of America‚ it may only be said that tragedy is received in the massive doses of heartache‚ despair‚ and a continuing aura of hopelessness
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