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    Developing Coherent Paragraphs ______________________________________________________________ Paragraph structures provide a map for your ideas‚ guiding readers through your reasoning. Keep this simple set of principles in mind while you write‚ and use it as a checklist when you’re revising. Use Topic Sentences State the central idea of each paragraph explicitly in a topic sentence. That’s one way to show that you have thought through your material. In academic writing‚ the topic sentence

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    Justice In Billy Buddd

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    novel Billy Budd‚ Sailor‚ as Captain Vere executes foretopman Billy Budd for what seems like a justifiable crime to the reader‚ under an undiscriminating law. The idea of capital punishment for laws that do not take into account anything but pure facts has long been debated on moral and ethical grounds‚ and Melville explores both sides; the side of justice‚ which would have let Billy live‚ and the side of the law‚ which condemned Billy to death. Through the character of Captain Vere‚ “Billy Budd‚

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    Billy Graham Jr

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    also known as‚ Billy Graham‚ was born on November 7‚ 1918‚ in Charlotte‚ North Carolina. Billy Graham got his big popularity start preaching at an L.A. revival and was a guest on Stuart Hamblen’s radio show in 1949. The publicity made Graham a very popular preaching icon and he began broadcasting his sermons globally. Writing his first book in 1947 “Calling Youth to Christ” when Billy was ministering to young men who was going or coming from serving their country in the military. Billy Graham retired

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    Masculinity In Billy Elliot

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    Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) is an shy 11-year-old living with his proud miner father (Gary Lewis) and older brother Tony (Jamie Draven) during the political and social unrest of the 1984 miner’s strike. Times are hard - the men of the house spend their days on the picket lines clashing with the police‚ while Billy navigates the minefield of adolescence and takes care of his increasingly senile grandmother (Jean Heywood). Determined to forge his son in his own image‚ Billy’s father sends him for

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    Billy Elliot Essay

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    issues affect society There are various representations within the text that challenges the individual to experiences familiar and new horizons. Through the texts Billy Elliot and The short story "The Story of X" have helped to convey various new horizons and familiar experiences. Firstly‚ New horizons can be explored through both Billy Elliot and the story of ’x’ with the challenging of gender expectations and the effort in which the characters display in order to breakthrough the dominant discourses

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    Billy Elliot Identity

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    In the film Billy Elliot directed by Stephen Daldry we see many important ideas and presented with one of them being identity. The idea of identity is presented through the use of a number of techniques such as symbolism‚ contrast‚ music and dancing. Billy’s characters suffers many consequences because of this challenging time of trying to find his own identity and symbolism‚ contrast‚ imagery and music helps us to understand this. Identity is an important aspect for any individual‚ as it separates

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    Billy Pilgrim's Journey

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    In the Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut‚ we are introduced to the main character‚ Billy Pilgrim. He is an average guy‚ who has no special qualities‚ however‚ does have the ability to travel through time. My interpretation of the reading and Billy’s time travel is that he suffers from a traumatic mental illness‚ which could have led‚ him to hallucinate his time travels and alien abduction. There are two connections I found that could have encouraged Billy’s behavior‚ becoming a prisoner of war

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    Billy Elliot Conventions

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    Social conventions In the movie‚ Billy Elliot‚ we witness how the community stops Billy from forming his own identity in this world of miners illustrating the social conventions in a community restricting individuals from transitioning into the world. Billy’s father‚ boxing instructor and his brother are all against him in the journey of becoming a ballet dancer as it is against the community. This happened in the 1980s‚ when the London mine workers were striking against the forced closure of the

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    Alarm Bells – net dating The author of the article is Andy Borowitz‚ born January 4th‚ 1958. He is an American comedian. He wrote the article “Alarm Bells” to “The New Yorker”‚ edition Sept. 26‚ 2011‚ about net dating. The article has a very ironical angle told by the main character‚ who might be the author himself in 1st person. But is it all irony? The story “Alarm Bells” is an ironic story about net dating. It shows many aspects about net dating such as prejudices and expectations. Especially

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