How to Find the Main Idea of a Paragraph An important part of developing reading comprehension is identifying the main idea of a paragraph or passage. The main idea states the author ’s overall purpose for writing. Identifying the main idea and restating it in your own words develops skills of comprehension and analysis. Though there are several techniques for identifying the main idea of a reading selection‚ some general guidelines and strategies for both reading and checking your decision can
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In the book‚ Looking for Alaska by John Green‚ there was a lot of suspense leading up to the mystery of ateenage girl‚Alaska‚and how she was killed. The author uses the elements of mystery‚surprise and suspense to keep the reader interested in the story’s plot. The text says‚“ The eagle looked down. ‘Is everyone else here?’ ‘Alaska isn’t here’ ‘Okay Miles. Thank you.’ ‘We can’t start without Alaska.’”(Green 171) In the beginning of the story‚ Miles Halter went to college in Florida and is likes
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My 3 highest scores are: Information Processing (85)‚ Study Aids (95)‚ and Time Management (60).The 3 areas I scored the lowest on are: Attitude (5)‚ Motivation (5)‚ and Selecting Main Ideas (20). I’m going to work more on my attitude‚ because it’s important to me that I graduate and get the degree in the career that I want to purse‚ so that I can prove to all the people who told me that I wouldn’t be nothing‚ or had doubt in me‚ because my parents didn’t finish High School‚ nor graduated. Motivation
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The main ideas in the 20 pages talk about who is Winston Smith . Winston Smith was thirty-nine years old‚ and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle. He lived in Victory Mansions. He worked at a kilomentor away the Ministry of Truth. There are four apartment such as Minitrue‚ Minipax‚ Minlur‚ and Miniplenty. Precisely‚ the Ministry of love was the really frightening one because there are gorilla-faced guards. Also‚ Winston wrote the diary about the movie he watched. After that he thought about
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Introduction: The main idea of a multiple regression analysis is to understand the relationship between several independent variables and a single dependent variable. (Lind‚ 2004) A model of the relationship is hypothesized‚ and estimates of the parameter values are used to develop an estimated regression equation.(abyss.uoregon.edu) The multiple regression equation used to describe the relationship is: Y’ = a + b1X1 + b2X2 + b3X3 + . + bkXk. It is used to estimate Y given selected X values
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scientism in the Industrial Revolution. This novel is written by one of the most prominent figures in the English literature Mary Shelley. The origin of Frankenstein is almost as mysterious and exciting as the novel itself. Mary Shelley came up with the idea to write her novel in Switzerland‚ Frankenstein was published two years later in 1818. It all began back in the summer of 1816 at the famed Villa Diodati on the shores of Lake Geneva‚ Switzerland. Mary Shelley spent most of that summer together with
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people’s morals include helping the poor? Andrew Carnegie wrote the essay “The Gospel of Wealth.” The introduction announces Carnegie’s main idea‚ “His proposal is that such men should give their wealth back to the community for its benefit in the form of institutions that would contribute to “the improvement of the race‚” (p. 342). Many people agree with Carnegie’s idea. Why should the rich not spread their wealth to help others for the positive? Poverty is a sad‚ harsh‚ and heartbreaking issue in America
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Alaska Airlines Strategic Management Model Linda Gay Cahill Table of Contents: Strategic Profile Company Introduction 3 Strategic Analysis PEST Analysis (Political‚ economic‚ social & technological factors) 4 Resource-Based View 6 Value Chain Analysis 8 SWOT Analysis 11 Strategy recommendations 13 References 14 Company Introduction Alaska Airlines is the ninth–largest U.S. airline based on passenger traffic and is the dominant
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A Dog’s Tale‚ Mark Twain Image from Wikipedia.org Mark Twain is surely one of America’s best popular writers. He often skirted along freedom of the press and censorship. "A Dog’s Tale" is a clever short story which works to show the intelligence of a dog and the poor reply that the dog so often receives. Released in 1904 in Harper’s Magazine‚ according to Wikipedia.org‚ it became an example against what the treatment of animals by certain types of scientists and‚ in particular (also according
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country? The lone state of Alaska is to the north west of the major states and if laid on top of the other states‚ would cover about two-thirds of the land. And for a state that is so large‚ it is surely simply thought of as the coldest state. Alaska is much more then that‚ and has a lot of history behind just a land of snow and mountains. Alaska was discovered in 1741 by Russian settlers and had been colonized by them in 1784. With over 660 thousand square miles‚ Alaska was surely a big find by
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