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Brian and I shared a love of stories and some of the language in the letter was using similar phrases to describe the depth of a mother’s love. – Roberta Laudrie	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We must not ignore the torrents of truly bad news and educational failure we are facing, or brush over it with phrases like ‘delayed learning,’ but more importantly, going forward, when we find an example that jumps out for not just bucking the trend but for blowing the doors off it — we must understand what is driving that. – Said Bennett	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Stamps, cliches. It is necessary to throw out hackneyed phrases from the text, such as: I was born ... / from childhood I strove to become ..., My mission is to make peace in the whole world, ... is my vocation - they make the text unoriginal, stale. Arguments Any statement must be based on a foundation. The basis for the thesis is the arguments. One paragraph should be allocated to one argument and examples. Examples include personal experience and, if applicable, links to statistics, forecasts, research. However, usually in a job application essay, you need to concentrate on your own professional experience. Errors in argumentation Argument repetition. Arguments should be varied - you cannot build a proof on one argument. Inconsistency. Only those thoughts that have already been expressed in the text should be argued, and examples should be given strictly to the corresponding arguments. Conclusion The purpose of the conclusion is to summarize the reasoning. The using college essay writing service reddit - it's better in this matter. To do this, you need to briefly reformulate the thesis, if it was at the beginning of the work, or put it, if the author decided to place it after the arguments. Errors in conclusion New arguments. The conclusion sums up the reasoning, not develops it. There is no place for new information in the conclusion. Retelling of the text. There is no need to describe the structure of the written work and literally repeat what was written above - if the reader has reached the conclusion, then he has already read it all. List of sources In the essay, you can add a list of sources (references) - this is a list of materials to which the author refers in his work. Such a list will be appropriate in an essay, where the author often refers to various works, scientific research, statistics, statements of authoritative experts. To register a source, you need to indicate the name and surname of the author, the name of the source, the year of publication and an electronic link, if necessary. – Errors in the statement of the thesis	added by Dalandalan 2 years ago
Words could not be put into sentences or phrases to describe how I felt at that time, i was just so happy to see my son. – Cade Sullivan	Found on CNN 3 years ago
What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by phrases about 'Man taking charge of his own destiny'. All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of the others. They will be simply men; none perfect; some greedy, cruel and dishonest. The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be. Have we discovered some new reason why, this time, power should not corrupt as it has done before? – C. S. Lewis	added by Normando 3 years ago
Instead, actively listen to their concerns. Show understanding [ with phrases such as' I get this is hard' ] and validate their experience of the situation and feelings. – Rebecca Berry	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The Gettysburg speech was at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history...the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination -- that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves. – H. L. Mencken	added by Normando 4 years ago
We in the LGBTQ community know when we hear phrases like 'Make America Great Again' that that American past was never quite as great as advertised. – Pete Buttigieg	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I am really the only living one today from those early trench town days who can tell the world the exact meanings of every word, phrases, in the lyrics of the original songs by bob marley, peter tosh. you would have to know what I know, and have spent the times in reasonings with the trench town crew to be able to say in truth what I have just said. not even their families can counter that. – RAS CARDO REGGAE	added by anonymous 4 years ago
CREATOR OF MANY WORDS AND PHRASES RELATED TO REGGAE, RADIOLOGY, AND RASTAFARI. A GIFTED TEACHER OF LEGENDS. eg-REGGAE OPERA D.I.V.A- DIVINELY INSPIRED VOCAL ACAPPELA. CREATOR OF REGGAE SKANKING, AND DANCE. – RAS CARDO REGGAE	added by jahmantafari1 5 years ago
I was particularly upset by the use of the phrase ‘showing flesh’ by two individual university officials as an explanation for why I was not allowed in, fortunately that phrase doesn’t appear in the dress code, but it and similar phrases have on several occasions that I know of, been offered as the reason for barring entry to female students. – Rebecca Morton	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
3 phrases to motivate for 1 cause i.e. Entrepreneurship: 1) Time & Tide wait for none 2) Fortune follows brave, 3) Trying is better than regretting – Sandeep Aggarwal	added by letsdroomer 5 years ago
Those phrases are using shame, blame and fear to motivate behavior, when we say them again and again, it can impair the parent-child relationship because it suggests the problem is not the behavior, but the problem is the child. – Erica Reischer	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
If I'm playing a horn arrangement on keyboard, or strings, it sounds like strings or horns, 'cause I know how to phrase it, how a string phrases, different attacks from the aperture for horns, trumpets, sax or trombones. – Judie Worrell	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
There are certain words and certain phrases that are just not suitable for running for president. – Alice Stewart	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I come up with phrases or mantras that pop into my mind, and write them down or create a [digital] poster to share with my followers online. – Daniela Iannone	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Tribal languages are more than just a collection of words and phrases tied together. They represent the culture and history of not Native Americans in our state, but in fact they represent the culture and history of our entire state. – Steve Bullock	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Asylum is the trump card of immigration, credible fear was an informal procedure intended to keep people out, what’s its doing now is letting people in. People have learned the right words and phrases whether true or not. – Jan Ting	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases. – Walter Lippmann	added by anonymous 10 years ago
These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind. – Claude M. Bristol	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken. – Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds. – Thomas Higginson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.... – Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts. – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago

Brian and I shared a love of stories and some of the language in the letter was using similar phrases to describe the depth of a mother’s love.

– Roberta Laudrie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We must not ignore the torrents of truly bad news and educational failure we are facing, or brush over it with phrases like ‘delayed learning,’ but more importantly, going forward, when we find an example that jumps out for not just bucking the trend but for blowing the doors off it — we must understand what is driving that.

– Said Bennett

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Stamps, cliches. It is necessary to throw out hackneyed phrases from the text, such as: I was born ... / from childhood I strove to become ..., My mission is to make peace in the whole world, ... is my vocation - they make the text unoriginal, stale. Arguments Any statement must be based on a foundation. The basis for the thesis is the arguments. One paragraph should be allocated to one argument and examples. Examples include personal experience and, if applicable, links to statistics, forecasts, research. However, usually in a job application essay, you need to concentrate on your own professional experience. Errors in argumentation Argument repetition. Arguments should be varied - you cannot build a proof on one argument. Inconsistency. Only those thoughts that have already been expressed in the text should be argued, and examples should be given strictly to the corresponding arguments. Conclusion The purpose of the conclusion is to summarize the reasoning. The using college essay writing service reddit - it's better in this matter. To do this, you need to briefly reformulate the thesis, if it was at the beginning of the work, or put it, if the author decided to place it after the arguments. Errors in conclusion New arguments. The conclusion sums up the reasoning, not develops it. There is no place for new information in the conclusion. Retelling of the text. There is no need to describe the structure of the written work and literally repeat what was written above - if the reader has reached the conclusion, then he has already read it all. List of sources In the essay, you can add a list of sources (references) - this is a list of materials to which the author refers in his work. Such a list will be appropriate in an essay, where the author often refers to various works, scientific research, statistics, statements of authoritative experts. To register a source, you need to indicate the name and surname of the author, the name of the source, the year of publication and an electronic link, if necessary.

– Errors in the statement of the thesis

added by Dalandalan
2 years ago

Words could not be put into sentences or phrases to describe how I felt at that time, i was just so happy to see my son.

– Cade Sullivan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by phrases about 'Man taking charge of his own destiny'. All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of the others. They will be simply men; none perfect; some greedy, cruel and dishonest. The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be. Have we discovered some new reason why, this time, power should not corrupt as it has done before?

– C. S. Lewis

added by Normando
3 years ago

Instead, actively listen to their concerns. Show understanding [ with phrases such as' I get this is hard' ] and validate their experience of the situation and feelings.

– Rebecca Berry

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The Gettysburg speech was at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history...the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases. Lincoln himself never even remotely approached it. It is genuinely stupendous. But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it. Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination -- that government of the people, by the people, for the people, should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in the battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves.

– H. L. Mencken

added by Normando
4 years ago

We in the LGBTQ community know when we hear phrases like 'Make America Great Again' that that American past was never quite as great as advertised.

– Pete Buttigieg

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I am really the only living one today from those early trench town days who can tell the world the exact meanings of every word, phrases, in the lyrics of the original songs by bob marley, peter tosh. you would have to know what I know, and have spent the times in reasonings with the trench town crew to be able to say in truth what I have just said. not even their families can counter that.

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by anonymous
4 years ago

CREATOR OF MANY WORDS AND PHRASES RELATED TO REGGAE, RADIOLOGY, AND RASTAFARI. A GIFTED TEACHER OF LEGENDS. eg-REGGAE OPERA D.I.V.A- DIVINELY INSPIRED VOCAL ACAPPELA. CREATOR OF REGGAE SKANKING, AND DANCE.

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by jahmantafari1
5 years ago

I was particularly upset by the use of the phrase ‘showing flesh’ by two individual university officials as an explanation for why I was not allowed in, fortunately that phrase doesn’t appear in the dress code, but it and similar phrases have on several occasions that I know of, been offered as the reason for barring entry to female students.

– Rebecca Morton

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

3 phrases to motivate for 1 cause i.e. Entrepreneurship: 1) Time & Tide wait for none 2) Fortune follows brave, 3) Trying is better than regretting

– Sandeep Aggarwal

added by letsdroomer
5 years ago

Those phrases are using shame, blame and fear to motivate behavior, when we say them again and again, it can impair the parent-child relationship because it suggests the problem is not the behavior, but the problem is the child.

– Erica Reischer

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

If I'm playing a horn arrangement on keyboard, or strings, it sounds like strings or horns, 'cause I know how to phrase it, how a string phrases, different attacks from the aperture for horns, trumpets, sax or trombones.

– Judie Worrell

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

There are certain words and certain phrases that are just not suitable for running for president.

– Alice Stewart

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I come up with phrases or mantras that pop into my mind, and write them down or create a [digital] poster to share with my followers online.

– Daniela Iannone

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Tribal languages are more than just a collection of words and phrases tied together. They represent the culture and history of not Native Americans in our state, but in fact they represent the culture and history of our entire state.

– Steve Bullock

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Asylum is the trump card of immigration, credible fear was an informal procedure intended to keep people out, what’s its doing now is letting people in. People have learned the right words and phrases whether true or not.

– Jan Ting

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask nothing in particular and rarely complain. The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to mollify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases.

– Walter Lippmann

added by anonymous
10 years ago

These repetitive words and phrases are merely methods of convincing the subconscious mind.

– Claude M. Bristol

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.

– Egyptian Inscription Recorded at the Time of the Invention of Writing

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

– Thomas Higginson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report....

– Woodrow Wilson, _Congressional Government_, p. 109

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts.

– Author Unknown

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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