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ESL sample essay: Archaeology
Archaeology is a source of history, not just a bumble auxiliary
discipline. Archaeological data are historical documents in their own
right, not mere illustrations to written texts, Just as much as any
other historian, an archaeologist studies and tries to reconstitute the
process that has created the human world in which we live - and us
ourselves in so far as we are each creatures of our age and social
environment. Archaeological data are all changes in the material world
resulting from human action or, more succinctly, the fossilized results
Types of essay
The list below contains the most common types of essays found in an essay examination. After you have read your essay question and interpreted it, the next step is for you to decide what kind of essay you will need to organize and write. Determining the type of essay will help you write your thesis statement, decide how many body paragraphs are needed, know which transitions are appropriate to use, and much more.
Persuasive Essay (Also Known as Personal Opinion Essay)
ESL sample essay:Evolution of sleep
Sleep is very ancient. In the electroencephalographic sense we share it
with all the primates and almost all the other mammals and birds: it may
extend back as far as the reptiles.
There is some evidence that the two types of sleep, dreaming and
dreamless, depend on the life-style of the animal, and that predators
are statistically much more likely to dream than prey, which are in turn
much more likely to experience dreamless sleep. In dream sleep, the
animal is powerfully immobilized and remarkably unresponsive to external
ESL sample essay:Types of Speech
Standard usage includes those words and expressions understood, used,
and accepted by a majority of the speakers of a language in any
situation regardless of the level of formality. As such, these words and
expressions are well defined and listed in standard dictionaries.
Colloquialisms, on the other hand, are familiar words and idioms that
are understood by almost all speakers of a language and used in informal
speech or writing, but not considered appropriate for more formal
situations. Almost all idiomatic expressions are colloquial language.
Essay writing:Useful quotations
Robert Collier
In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat there is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
Ann Landers
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves.
Conflicius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Mother Teresa
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
Henry Ford
Transformation of women’s rights in the post 1979 revolution of Iran
Introduction
Research problem
The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have marked a rapid expansion of women’s rights in liberal societies which have created a large-scale impact and forced transformations of policies and laws in other countries. The narratives developed through the process of globalization and the role of national and international institutions and organizations in relation to the changes experienced in the politics of Iran are the targets of our research.
ESL sample essay:The Nobel Academy
For the last 82years, Sweden's Nobel Academy has decided who will
receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, thereby determining who will be
elevated from the great and the near great to the immortal. But today
the Academy is coming under heavy criticism both from the without and
from within. Critics contend that the selection of the winners often has
less to do with true writing ability than with the peculiar internal
politics of the Academy and of Sweden itself. According to Ingmar
Bjorksten , the cultural editor for one of the country's two major
ESL sample essay: Schooling and Education
It is commonly believed in United States that school is where people go to get an education. Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their education to go to school. The distinction between schooling and education implied by this remark is important.
ESL sample essay:Television
Television-----the most pervasive and persuasive of modern technologies,
marked by rapid change and growth-is moving into a new era, an era of
extraordinary sophistication and versatility, which promises to reshape
our lives and our world. It is an electronic revolution of sorts, made
possible by the marriage of television and computer technologies.
The word "television", derived from its Greek (tele: distant) and Latin
(visio: sight) roots, can literally be interpreted as sight from a
distance. Very simply put, it works in this way: through a sophisticated
ESL sample essay:Changing Roles of Public Education
One of the most important social developments that helped to make
possible a shift in thinking about the role of public education was the
effect of the baby boom of the 1950's and 1960's on the schools. In the
1920's, but especially in the Depression conditions of the 1930's, the
United States experienced a declining birth rate --- every thousand
women aged fifteen to forty-four gave birth to about 118 live children
in 1920, 89.2 in 1930, 75.8 in 1936, and 80 in 1940. With the growing
prosperity brought on by the Second World War and the economic boom that
