At the beginning of the semester I wrote an assignment addressing what I wanted to learn from taking American Civilization 1700. I went through the course syllabus and I chose skills that I thought were important for me to know better as well as important to my future career as a teacher. Two skills that I did not list that I wanted to work on were comparing and contrasting. Comparing and contrasting are two skills that I thought I was quite good at and had no problems with. When it came to do the Written Assignment #2 Compare and Contrast Essay, I found out that I was mistaken in my assumption. I struggled and had to obtain help from the professor on what there was to compare and contrast between the two documents the essay was about. After the professor helped and guided me, I was able to learn how to properly compare the similarities and contrast the differences between two different documents. I chose to post my first written assignment as my signature assignment on my personal eportfolio because I am proud of how it turned out and I feel it was the assignment I learned the most from. I didn’t just learn to compare and contrast, I learned to interpret old documentation and references, I learned that the same time frame in history, for example, the immigration period that the assignment covered, can have two very different perspectives. The paper I wrote had both strength and weaknesses. The strengths were, I did a good job at finding thing to compare and contrast, but
Compare and Contrast helps a lot to reader to make a two different thing clear in their point of view and Susan Cain, the author has done perfectly well with the comparison and contrast. In paragraph 9, Susan Cain has compared Shyness and introversion. “Shyness and introversion are not the same thing. Shy people fear negative judgment; introverts simply prefer quiet, minimally stimulating environment.” And on the next paragraph, the first had contrasts the shyness and introversion. “But shyness and introversion share an undervalued status in a world that prizes extroversion.” This make really clear for the reader that shyness and introversion are totally two different things. The next thing that she has compared to is Sitters and Rovers. The “rover” fish couldn't help but investigate - and were immediately caught. But the “sitter” fish stayed back, making it impossible for Professor Wilson to capture them. “In contrast, sitter children are careful and astute and tend to learn by observing instead of acting.” This compare and contrast made it clear for the reader and it make a clear difference in sitters and
For this segment, you will compare and contrast two different pieces of writing in preparation for eventually writing a compare-contrast essay. You will complete the Compare and Contrast Organizer to help you organize your thoughts.
The compare and contrast essay is about the book Johnny Tremain, and the Disney movie Johnny Tremain. The movie and book are similar in some ways, but they are different in other ways, too. Three examples that I will be writing about are: Rab- in the book and in the movie, Johnny in the book and in the movie too, and people in the movie, one similarity with characters. So, this is the compare and contrast essay of the book Johnny Tremain and the Disney movie.
You can compare and contrast items you come across in life. Movies, stories, and even people can be compared. The story "The Most Dangerous Game", which is written by Richard Connell, and the movie High Noon, which is written by Carl Foreman, can be compared and contrasted in multiple ways. High Noon is a movie about a sheriff being hunted down by a murderer that he sent to jail. He was released and plans to hold up his promise of coming back to kill the sheriff.
Name some examples of the effective use of compare and contrast essays. Explain the key differences, identified on pp. 255–256, between the two basic organizational methods for comparison and contrast.
What do a twenty-first century prisoner and a colonist have in common? They both want to be freed. In the 1700’s the colonists began to want to have more freedom.This is mostly because they wanted to have significantly less taxation. For the most part, that was their leading reason to request freedom. The colonists did not enjoy paying taxes on items that they used on a daily basis. That is why they wanted to separate from England and make their own country.
As a recent high school graduate I may seem to have many more weaknesses than strengths. But, when brainstorming for ideas to write about I noticed that I had many more strengths than weaknesses, the complete opposite. My strengths allow me to stand out and allow my audience to experience my writing in a positive way. I am very persuasive and can demonstrate to others the way I believe and how I feel about a topic so they can recognize the way I view a certain topic. By being persuasive it is important to show ones opinions and
It is well known that the ancient civilizations of the world shape the many different cultures in the present day. From religion to food and government, Ancient Egypt to Mesopotamia, we would not be who we are today without the ancient ways that started it from the beginning. Though there are many ancient civilizations, one sticks out above them all. One that grew to be one of the largest empires of its time, thanks to Alexander the Great. That civilization is Ancient Greece. Ancient Greece has spread their culture around the world by conquering empires, having great ideas, and trading with other areas. Though, to what extent has the ancient civilization influenced American Civilization? There are many cultural ideas from Classical Greece that
Becoming America The American culture, a unique culture. What defines “American.” Americans are defined by events in the 1800’s.
Being released from your home to be on your own, takes some real perseverance. In Call of The Wild, Buck has to persevere when he is taken from his home and forced to become a sled dog. In contrast, my mom left her home to start her own life at college this called for perseverance. While they still are different, my mom had to leave her home and what she knew, to live a new life like Buck. Everyone goes through hard time in their lives and have to persevere to get through it.
Social policy is a study of how governments and society as a whole address issues of social welfare and individual wellbeing, combining the disciplines of sociology, politics and economics to answer questions in relation to social justice. This social policy essay intends to explain the Poor Law Amendments Act (1843) a policy of parliament designed to reduce the cost to parishes for poor relief, currently referred to as welfare. Costs that were deemed to be too high since the drafting of the old poor law ( 1601) described by Odekon, (2006, p.487) as “a major milestone in the history of poverty” discussing why it was drafted, people who influenced it and if its legacy can still be seen today. The Poor Law (1601) was legislation that burdened the cost of poor relief with the parish; this was funded by a local tax.
2. I wrote informative text in my comparison and contrast and my analytical essay. I was able to take my prior knowledge and information and convey my ideas through these two papers. I was able to do this in an organized matter through the use of my outline.
Compare and contrast comes in to play at the very beginning of the essay when Tan is describing her mother listening to her giving a lecture.
Scrutinizing over my timed write I did on an excerpt from Becoming Educated by Barbara Jordan, I have found few strengths and many weaknesses in my writing. Rereading my paper I am horrified at my lack of warrants and word choice. Furthermore, I don't fully understand Rhetorical Strategies or rather how to identify them in a given text. Not everything was worthless in my paper, thankfully. I did use quotes from the excerpt to support my supposedly weak arguments. My weaknesses beyond any doubt over shadow my strengths in my paper.
As I write this paper, I reflect on my experience in Early American History and how my group’s final project went. Overall, the class was significantly more difficult than I first thought it would be. Going into the class I originally assumed this would be a pretty simple GEP with minimal effort required to get an A in the class. Those assumptions were dispelled fairly quickly when I arrived at the first class. The teacher was going over the syllabus for the class and explaining the weekly assignments we would have. We were required to cover certain sections of a chapter based on the topic we chose to cover throughout the entirety of the course. We were to complete this every week and discuss what we had discovered in class. We would also have to write two essays and complete several mandatory readings and podcasts. To top all of this off, we would have to complete a final project that includes another essay. But the one thing that turned out to be the hardest task of the class was not any of these assignments, but was the participation grade.