"So I do believe in permanent change; just not for my hair." I found this an interesting way to wrap up the story because it blatantly states the main idea.
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- Apr 2018
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www.hasd.org www.hasd.org
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"I believe in semi-permanent hair dye: The kind that lets you have a few wacky purple-headed weeks in the depressing months of winter term, but leaves you plain and brunette again in time for graduation pictures." This is a good beginning to the story because it does not open up right away with the main idea, but it shows the reader that it is leading up to the main idea.
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"And did I mention that being able to solve the cube is surprisingly impressive to girls?" This leaves off on a rather comedic note, and wraps up the story well.
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"I believe that sometimes you have to look deep and in unexpected places to find answers." This goes further into the real meaning behind the story being told.
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"As a fifth-grader at a new school, specializing in what's called language processing disorder, I had to start over." The use of something this personal makes the story very interesting, and connects the anecdote of the Rubik's Cube to something that draws in the readers attention.
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"I carry a Rubick's Cube in my backpack". This essay starts comes right out with the main idea, but does it in a way that makes it seem smooth.
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"We live in a world where the forces that seek to divide us are strong. To overcome them, we must do more than simply stand next to one another in silence." This appears to be the claim statement. Again, the claim statement is not the first sentence in the essay.
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"A group of thugs in our high school had taken to scrawling anti-Semitic slurs on classroom desks and shouting them in the hallway. I did not confront them. I did not comfort my Jewish friend. Instead I averted my eyes from their bigotry and I avoided my friend because I couldn't stand to face him." This paragraph overall seems to be avoiding using cliches.
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"I wanted to put my arm around him, and tell him what he always told me, 'Don't worry, Dad, tomorrow will be a better day.' This, I believe." This statement seems to be a point where the author was avoiding the usage of a cliche.
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"'There will be a pandemic that kills millions, a devastating energy crisis, a horrible worldwide depression, and a nuclear explosion set off in anger.'" This statement seems to be the claim statement because the story seems to extend off of this statement.
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- Mar 2018
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www.usatoday.com www.usatoday.com
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to promote smaller-portion sizes, water, and no- and lower-calorie beverage options.
I agree with others in that these three ways in which are planned to lower obesity most likely will not help overall. Portion sizes are already rarely followed. Water already seems to be encouraged. No calorie and low calorie beverage options do not have the same taste as regular beverages, which can make it hard for people to adjust.
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www.usatoday.com www.usatoday.com
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The problem is that diet sodas aren't necessarily an improvement.
This statement shows that this article is not completely biased because both sides of the argument are provided.
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America's sugary drink industry wants you to know that it cares about your health.
This does seem hard to believe that the sugary drink industries really care about the health of consumers. Rather, with the increasing number of those trying to stay healthy, industries like these know they will go down in sales. To promote the drinking of their products, they create a forefront that seems as though they care, and promote business by selling low-calorie and zero-calorie beverages.
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webservices.davenport.edu webservices.davenport.edu
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She waved away the spoon when I brought it toward her and, holding up the piece of clear trash, she said, “Isn’t this a cute thing?” then continued to look at it for a long time. She pointed at the toe of my boot and said, “Whose head is that? Is it a baby’s?” She looked at the sunlight coming along the wall and asked me why they had done that, why they hadn’t left it the way it was.
From this paragraph, I infer that her mother either has some sort of mental disorder or has come out of anesthesia.
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I was feeding my mother her breakfast at Emory Hospital, where we had taken her again for more tests,
From this statement, I can infer that her mother was sick, perhaps with an unknown illness if she was having tests done.
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www.360sxm.com www.360sxm.com
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"Several men I knew were killed in Vietnam." From this, I can infer that the author is older in age.
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"It is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots." Based on the title of the book, "How the Poor Die", I predict that this line means that it is better to die knowing that you worked hard and did all that you could rather than everything being handed to you.
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"during his lean years" I can assume from the context of the text that this is referring to a time in his life when he was younger and/or healthier, rather than literally being thin.
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www.terrain.org www.terrain.org
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I sensed that he was nearby.
He felt as though his father was with him, and felt a connection to him.
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family move carried me away from Ohio 30 years ago; my schooling and marriage and job have kept me away ever since, except for visits in memory and in flesh.
This suggests that he misses Ohio.
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How could our hearts be large enough for heaven if they are not large enough for earth?
I can infer from this that he has religious beliefs.
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All those memories lead back to the northeastern corner of Ohio, the place where I came to consciousness, where I learned to connect feelings with words, where I fell in love with the earth.
Once again, this implies that he has a very personal, close attachment to Ohio.
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our family record
I can infer that he was close to his family from this statement.
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He was no botanist; the names and uses he taught me were those he had learned from country folks, not from books. Latin never crossed his lips.
I can infer from this that his father was not very educated, but was knowledgeable in nature.
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To his eyes, their shapes, their leaves, their bark, their winter buds were as distinctive as the set of a friend’s shoulders.
His father was very one-with-nature.
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If I stare long enough at those converging lines, they float free of the box and point to a center deeper than wood.
Looking at the box reminds him of his father and sends him deep into thoughts.
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The box where I keep the buckeyes also comes from Ohio
Ohio seems to be a special place for him.
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“I mean to tickle my grandchildren when they come along,”
I can infer that the main character has not had kids yet, and the his father is expecting him to once day.
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My father never paid much heed to pain. Near the end, when his worn knee often slipped out of joint, he would pound it back in place with a rubber mallet. If a splinter worked into his flesh beyond the reach of tweezers, he would heat the blade of his knife over a cigarette lighter and slice through the skin.
His father was a very tough man.
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“Do you really believe buckeyes keep off arthritis?”
This implies that his father kept buckeyes more so for good luck.
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I keep in a wooden box on my desk the two buckeyes that were in his pocket when he died.
This implies that the buckeyes were important to his father and himself.
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calscorneratmarginalmaddy.blogspot.com calscorneratmarginalmaddy.blogspot.comHANDS6
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They lie side by side in my lap, their palms turned up as if to catch this fleeing moment as it falls away. But as I peer down into them they begin to move on their own, to turn and shift. I watch the left hand slowly rise to place its palm against my heart. and watch the right rise swiftly to enfold the other.
By using present-tense verbs to describe what he is feeling, it implies that he feels as though his father is a part of him.
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I would like to be held by these hands, held by them as they were when I was a child and I seemed to fall within them wherever I might turn, I would like to feel them warm and broad against my back and would like to be pressed to the breast of this man with his faint perfume of aftershave, with the tiny brown moles on his neck, with the knot of his necktie slightly darkened by perspiration.
This implies that the author misses his father being young, and misses the comfort in which he received from him.
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They have a kind of brotherly warmth and when they pinch the selvage of the drapery fabric and work it just a little between thumb and finger they do it with power and confidence.
This indicates that the son may have the same job as his father once did.
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lovingly eased and teased the wrinkles form it
By using the word "lovingly", the author is suggesting that his father enjoyed what he was doing.
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They are exactly as I remember them from his own middle age-wrinkled
From the statement, I can assume that he and his father had a close relationship.
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More and more frequently since I entered my fifties I have begun to see my father's hands out at the ends of my arms.
This suggests that he is beginning to see more and more of his father in himself.
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www.flippedoutteaching.com www.flippedoutteaching.com
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PerhapsthecluetomyentirepersonalityconnectstothelostMintSnowball.Ihavealwaysfeltout-of-stepwithmyenvironment,disjointedinthemodernworld.Thecrispflushofcitiesmakesmeweep.Stripcenters.PoodlegroomingandTake-outThai.Iamangryoverlostdepartmentstores,wistfulforsomethingIhavenevertastedorseen.
The author opens up about feeling out of place from the world, and is looking for something more.
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Beforemygreat-grandfatherdied,hesoldtherecipeforthemintsyruptosomeoneintownforonehundreddollars.Thishurtmygrandfather’sfeelings.Mygrandfatherthoughtheshouldhaveinheritedittocarryonthetradition.Asfarasthefamilyknew,thepersonwhoboughttherecipeneverusedit.Atleastnotinpublic.Mymotherhadwatchedmygrandfathermakethesyrupsooftenshethoughtshecouldreplicateit.Butwhatdidhehaveinthoselittleunmarkedbottles?Sheexperimented.Onceshecameclose.Shewrotedownwhatshedid.Nowshehaslostthepaper.
In this paragraph, the author discusses how her great-grandfather unfortunately sold the recipe, and how her mother attempted to recreate it.
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Asfarasthefamilyknew,thepersonwhoboughttherecipeneverusedit.
I can tell that the family was made further upset by the person not using the recipe.
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Thishurtmygrandfather’sfeelings.Mygrandfatherthoughtheshouldhaveinheritedittocarryonthetradition.
This suggests that the great-grandfather of the main character was not close with his son.
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Mygreat-grandfatherhadonespecialty:aMintSnowballwhichheinvented.SomepeopledroveallthewayinfromDecaturjusttotasteit.Firsthestirredfreshmintleaveswithsugarandsecretingredientsinasmallpotonthestoveforaverylongtime.Heconcoctedaflamboyantelixirofmint.Itsscentclungtohisfingersevenafterhawashedhishands.Thenheshavediceintotinyparticlesandserveditmoundedinaglassdish.Permeatedwithmintsyrup.Scoopsofrichvanillaicecreamtoeachside.Mymothertookabiteofmintyiceandicecreammixedtogether.TheMintSnowballtastedlikewinter.SheclosedhereyestoseetheSwissvillagemygreat-grandfather’sparentscamefrom.Snowfrostingtheroofs.Glistening,danglingspokesofice.
This paragraph talks about her great-grandfather's Mint Snowball ice cream and how he made it.
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SomepeopledroveallthewayinfromDecaturjusttotasteit.
This suggests that the Mint Snowball ice cream tasted very good.
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Mygreat-grandfatheronmymother’ssideranadrug-storeinasmalltownincentralIllinois.Hesoldpillsandrubbingalcoholfrombehindthebigcashregisteranddreamyicecreamfromthesodafountain.Mymotherremembersthecounter’slongpolishedseep,itsshiningface.Shetwirledonthestools.Dreamyfans.Widesummerafternoons.Clinkofnickelsinanybody’shand.Hesoldmilkshakes,cherrycokes,oldfashionedsandwiches.Whatdidanoldfashionedsandwichlooklike?Darkwoodenshelves.Silverspigotsonchocolatedispensers.
This paragraph shows the main idea by introducing the readers to her great-grandfather and describing the drug-store.
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Mygreat-grandfatheronmymother’ssideranadrug-storeinasmalltownincentralIllinois.
By using the word "ran", the text suggests that his great-grandfather no longer runs the drug-store.
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dreamyicecreamfromthesodafountain.
This suggests that the character enjoyed the ice cream.
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- Nov 2017
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www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
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Our nation was predicated on unalienable rights with governance through family, church and community, each rightfully sovereign within its sphere.
Our nation was founded on freedom, which goes into the argument of separation between church and state.
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Even non-Christian founders thought religion essential. None would have wished to upend the very basis for education, law or culture.
This statement is very true. Religion is part of what formed our country into what it has become today.
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This legislation certainly did not diminish religious influence on government for it also provided stiff penalties for conducting business on the Sabbath.
I have mixed feelings about working on Sundays, which is the Sabbath for some religions. Nowadays, certain businesses close on Sunday in order to observe the Sabbath. Chick-Fil-A is one example of this, and I know that they had a lot of backlash about their religious views. In the end, we have freedom of religion, which means that the owner can choose whether or not workers are off on Sundays. If they do not like it, they can go work somewhere else.
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Moreover, “Separation of Church and State” is nowhere found in the Constitution or any other founding legislation.
This, again, is very true. Separation between church and state is not found in the Constitution, nor is it found in any other founding legislation. At the same time, freedom of religion is in the Constitution, as well as the point that the country is not under one religion or church.
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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The words "separation of church and state" are not in the text; the idea of separation is.
It is very important to remember that the idea of separation of church and state is in the Constitution. To support this claim, the article goes on further to provide an example in Article VI, which states that "no religious test shall ever be required as to any office or public trust under the United States."
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