Writing Introductions — Help Writing Admissions Essays. The introduction is the first sentence of your essay and it plays the dual role of setting the theme of your essay and engaging the reader
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“How Many?” Four expectant mans were in Minneapolis hospital waiting room, while their wives were in labor. The nurse arrived and announced to the first man, “Congratulations sir, You’re the man of twins.”
The greatest college application essay ever. September 10, 2008. Here’s an oldie but goodie. Hugh Gallagher won first prize in the humor category of the 1990 Scholastic Writing Awards for the following essay.
Here are some fun things involving the English language. To the best of my knowledge, none of this is copyrighted, unless annotated so. Thus,
The greatest college application essay ever. September 10, 2008. Here’s an oldie but goodie. Hugh Gallagher won first prize in the humor category of the 1990 Scholastic Writing Awards for the following essay.
Punding, an uncommon side effect of abusing amphetamines and other dopaminergic drugs, involves “compulsive fascination with and performance of repetitive, mechanical tasks, such as assembling and disassembling, collecting, or sorting household objects, [for example] collecting pebbles and lining them up as perfectly as possible
Sub-Saharan Africa. Contemporary Africa; Slavery on the Barbary Coast; Barbary slave trade; Slave Coast; Angola; Chad; Ethiopia; Mali; Mauritania; Niger; Somalia; South Africa
A list of every Word of the Year selection released by Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com’s first Word of the Year was chosen in 2010.
ON NAMING RACE. Sachi: Parents can be so nervous of making a mistake that they avoid conversations about race. They make an assumption that the …
