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Types of Fiction - Genres

Pollution negatively impacts air, land, and water in many ways.

Major types of pollution include:
❌ Plastic pollution
🚨 Noise pollution
💡 Light pollution
☀ Thermal pollution

Learn more about the major types of pollution and how they impact ecosystems and wildlife.

Girls problems!
They like every good man
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CSS GUIDLINES TOPIC
ESSSY WRITING

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Nationalism

Nationalism is a political, social, and cultural ideology that emphasizes the loyalty and devotion of individuals to their nation. It often involves a strong sense of pride, identity, and attachment to one's nation, its history, culture, traditions, and values. Nationalism can manifest in various forms, including patriotism, which is a love for one's country, and can range from benign expressions of cultural identity to more extreme forms, such as ethnocentric nationalism or ultranationalism, which can lead to exclusionary or aggressive attitudes towards other nations or groups.

Reading with full understanding in detail involves several strategies:

1. **Active Engagement**: Engage actively with the text by asking questions, making predictions, and summarizing key points. This keeps your mind focused and helps retain information.

2. **Previewing**: Before diving into the text, skim through headings, subheadings, and any summaries or conclusions to get an overview of the content. This can help you establish a mental framework for understanding the material.

3. **Annotation**: Take notes, underline important points, and jot down questions or thoughts in the margins. This helps reinforce your understanding and allows you to easily refer back to key ideas.

4. **Chunking**: Break the text into smaller, manageable chunks and focus on understanding each section before moving on to the next. This prevents overwhelm and ensures thorough comprehension.

5. **Revisiting**: Periodically revisit earlier sections of the text to reinforce your understanding and make connections with new information as you progress.

6. **Summarizing**: After reading each section or chapter, summarize the main ideas in your own words. This forces you to process the information deeply and solidify your understanding.

7. **Discussing**: Engage in discussions with peers or instructors about the material. Explaining concepts to others can help reinforce your understanding and highlight any areas where further clarification may be needed.

8. **Critical Thinking**: Question the author's arguments, evidence, and assumptions. Consider alternative viewpoints and evaluate the validity of the information presented.

9. **Visualization**: Create mental images or diagrams to represent key concepts or relationships. This can aid in comprehension and retention, especially for visual learners.

10. **Practice**: Like any skill, reading with full understanding takes practice. Regularly challenging yourself with diverse texts and materials will improve your ability to comprehend comple

How to develop a strong thesis?

1. Your thesis statement must be debatable.

2. Your thesis should not be too broad.

One of the ways to focus your thesis is to decide what claim you want to make. See the examples below 👇🏾

✨ A factual claim?

e.g., “While some pundits have framed a four-year college education as something necessary for adult success, this notion should not be treated as a given.”

✨A cause and effect claim?

e.g., “Federal student loan policies have contributed to widespread growth in college tuition.”

✨ Claims about value?

e.g., “The student debt crisis is one of the most serious problems facing the country today.”

✨ Claims about solutions/policies?

e.g., “Rather than encouraging all students to attend four-year colleges, we should instead emphasize the validity of two-year colleges, technical schools, and trade schools as well.”

The type of claim you choose will depend on your position, your knowledge of the topic, your audience, and the context of your paper.

References:
Purdue OWL - Academic Writing ✍🏾

**TIPS TO IMPROVE ESSAY WRITING: THESIS STATEMENT**

**What is a Thesis Statement?**

A thesis statement is a sentence that states the topic and purpose of your essay. A good thesis statement will direct the structure of your essay and will allow your reader to understand the ideas you will discuss within your essay paper.

**Where does a Thesis Statement go?**

The thesis statement should be stated somewhere in the opening paragraphs of your paper, most often as the last sentence of the introduction. Often, a thesis statement will be one sentence, but you may find it more effective to break the thesis statement into two sentences for complex subjects.

**How do you write a Thesis Statement?**

The kind of thesis statement you write will depend on the type of paper you are writing. Below are the types of Thesis statements:

See the attached pictures for examples.

i) Argumentative Thesis Statement: Making a Claim

An argumentative thesis states the topic of your paper, your position on the topic, and the reasons you have for taking that position.

ii) Analytical Thesis Statement: Analyzing an Issue

An analytical thesis states the topic of your paper, what specifically you analyzed, and the conclusion(s) you reached as a result of that analysis.

iii) Expository Thesis Statement: Explaining a Topic

An expository thesis statement states the topic of your paper and lists the key aspects of your topic that will be discussed in the paper

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

By Emily Dickinson

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"

LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP by Emily Brontë

Love is like the wild rose-brier;
⁠Friendship like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose-brier blooms,
⁠But which will bloom most constantly?

The wild rose-brier is sweet in spring,
⁠Its summer blossoms scent the air;
Yet wait till winter comes again,
⁠And who will call the wild-brier fair!

Then, scorn the silly rose-wreath now,
⁠And deck thee with the holly's sheen,
That, when December blights thy brow,
⁠He still may leave thy garland green.

(Art by Lorraine Christie, 1967)

"The Rose"
Have you ever loved a rose,
and watched her slowly bloom;
and as her petals would unfold,
you grew drunk on her perfume.

Have you ever seen her dance,
her leaves all wet with dew;
and quivered with a new romance-
the wind, he loved her too.

Have you ever longed for her,
on nights that go on and on;
for now, her face is all a blur,
like a memory kept too long.

Have you ever loved a rose,
and bled against her thorns;
and swear each night to let her go,
then love her more by dawn.
-Lang Leav

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Then, the whining school-boy with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then, a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then, the justice,
In fair round belly, with a good capon lined,
With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws, and modern instances,
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
By William Shakespeare, As You Like (Jaques, Act 2 Scene 7)

(Also known as "THE SEVEN AGES OF MAN")

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin