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    Writing in the Discipline: Relationship to the Ways of Knowing and Doing Writing in the discipline is founded on a relationship between knowing‚ doing‚ and writing. It is important that we understand the two categories creating disciplines: domains of knowledge and the ways of knowing. The domains of knowledge suggest declarative or conceptual knowledge and the knowing infers procedural or process knowledge. Michael Carter addresses this relationship in his article Ways of Doing‚ Knowing‚ and

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    Rhetorical Devices

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    Have you ever written an essay and felt as though it wasn’t good enough‚ not up to the teachers standards? or maybe there was more you could have added to make it better.. to make an essay more effective what you need are rhetorical devices. Rhetorical devices are techniques that are used to convey and persuade the reader or listener to consider a topic from another perspective. using rhetorical devices is a style of speaking or writing that trys to create a particular effect or bring out a particular

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    Okefenokee Swamp

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    Passage one and Passage two are both about Florida’s Okefenokee Swamp‚ however they both have contrasting points of view. The author of Passage one is writing about the swamp as it is overall- in a disconnected sort of way- which is drastically different from Passage two which takes the reader right inside the swamp and shows the struggle of life that exists there. Thus‚ the authors of Passage one and Passage two‚ accomplish this task by an informative tone and formal diction in Passage one‚ versus

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    Critical Summary Regan argues that there is a difference between moral disagreements and personal preference disagreements. He believes that disagreements in preferences do exist between people. Someone likes or prefers something and another person may not like it or may be preferring something else. Judging morality as in what is morally right and wrong is different from when judging personal preferences. A person does not need justification to what his/her personal preferences are‚ because there

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    Exam One 1. a. Kohlberg’s six stages of moral development are complex yet very applicable ideas in moral development. The whole point of his six stages is to set the foundation for one’s ethical behavior with a psychological approach. The first stage of moral development is the “punishment/obedience orientation”‚ which refers to how people will only focus on the consequences of certain actions. For example‚ when a student in elementary school brings a toy weapon to school after being told not

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    In the story The Veldt‚ Ray Bradbury uses imagery and personification to better illustrate the effects of neglecting children have. During the story‚ Bradbury uses imagery to better help the reader understand what lifestyle the children don’t want to leave. Even though houses like the “Happylife Home” don’t really exist yet‚ the imagery helps the reader picture what it would be like to live in a house like that. Others say that a craft more used during the story would be similes and metaphors. While

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    Melanie Ruiz Consumer Behavior Quiz #8 Thanksgiving Festivities It’s that time of year again when all of us college students leave our stress behind and head home for Thanksgiving break. It is one of those breaks we look forward to since the beginning of the semester‚ each for our own reasons. Many of us look forward to spending some quality time with our relatives while others look forward to finally enjoying a home-cooked meal. Simply being granted the opportunity to spend one’s time however

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    The day before Thanksgiving‚ Wednesday‚ November 23‚ 2016‚ my parents‚ sister‚ and I file into my dad’s 2006 Chevy Silverado (with five dogs and luggage) and we travel to my paternal grandparent’s house in Mansfield‚ Ohio for a great Thanksgiving celebration. During the two-hour car ride from Warren‚ Ohio to Mansfield‚ Ohio‚ my family listens to the Sirius XM Holiday Music Channel. We partake in the “premature listening to Christmas music ritual” because as my dad expresses‚ “My girls are home from

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    Should Stores Open On Thanksgiving? I think stores should be open on Thanksgiving. Here are some reasons why. Here are some reasons why stores should be open on thanksgiving. First of all you can get the perfect bargain on the things that your loved one wants. You can buy these items that maybe weren’t affordable that now is. Everybody wants to sell everything so they will give out even more coupons so it will be even cheaper. So that is good that people who usually can’t afford things. Even

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    For a couple of years now‚ I have been helping put together thanksgiving dinners for disadvantaged people and families in our community. I started doing this in my sophomore year of high school with one of my classes‚ Job’s For Maine Graduates. This program or class is all about helping people in need. When I started this class my teacher asked me to be the vice president and help out a little more. When thanksgiving came around he asked me to help out with this event. A lot of people come

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