Drafting

I believe that I would be a good candidate for the Grayling Generating Station Limited Partnership Scholarship. Through the following paragraphs I hope to demonstrate my suitability as a recipient of this scholarship. “It’s not where you start it’s where you finish” is a famous song lyric that applies to my life story. I believe my journey began in a small, rural, impoverished village in southern China, named Dapu. At the age of ten months I was adopted by my mom and traveled 7622 miles to…

into my essays. Throughout the course I found myself making simple errors introducing sources. Which would result in an incomplete sentence. In addition, I found myself struggling picking the strongest source to use for my essays. Throughout the drafting process, I realized analyzing a potential source can become time consuming. Picking sources involves time and research. On occasions, I could find myself adding a variety of different articles into my folder on EBSCO. However, I needed to go…

Section 32 Prof. Smith Self-Reflection Essay Over the Fall semester of 2017, I have expanded my level of reading and writing in Stretch English. Some strategies that have helped me succeed this semester are annotation, revision, summarization, and drafting. As for reading to learn, articles in the New York Times have helped me a great deal. I learned to read different pieces and understand various authors’ ways of writing. I would print and annotate articles and was able to summarize what I…

and were important during the Civil Rights Movement of the sixties. Another category was women’s rights with songs like the hit by Aretha Franklin, Respect. Fortunate Son by Creedence Clearwater Revival was in support of the troops and protested drafting. The lead singer of the band believed some men could avoid being drafted due to Richard Nixon perhaps favoring an important parental figure. Two popular anthems or sing-alongs that riled up crowds were Give Peace A Chance weak support of the war…

Confederation and Constitution Included below are similarities and differences of the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution of the United States of America. The drafting of the Constitution will be discussed as well as, the problems encountered during the drafting. The Bill of Rights will be discussed as well as the problems encountered during their creation. The Articles of Confederation On March 1, 1781 the Articles of Confederation were ratified by all thirteen states. Although the…

Upon the death of an individual, the County Surrogates Court must validate ones Will and/or trust in order to satisfy all legal matters. A will is a written document, which takes effect upon death. Currently, all courts require a will to be typed in proper legal language. It is very rare for a court to accept a hand written will into probate. A will that is entirely handwritten and signed by the testator is referred to as a “holographic will”. It generally states ones last wishes and it is the…

pitfalls in the American governmental procedures. Among the most glaring instances of these difficulties is the complex and often convoluted process of passing a bill and creating new laws. Although this too can protect American citizens from the drafting of unjust and poorly devised laws it often leads legislators to adopt darker and less favorable political tactics. In theory the ideal process of a bill becoming a law includes a complex but decidedly fair set of procedures. The process…

Senators are two Senators that number in two people from each of their states in the United States Senate. Senators and House Representatives both share the job of drafting and voting bills into law. The House Representatives from each state are decided by the population of their state. There are multiple Upper positions of Congress. The head of the House is the Speaker of the House, who represents all Americans and…

strategies when developing essays throughout the semester. These four strategies or processes where among the most common when developing and creating an essay which are journaling and in class free writing, peer-review sessions, group work, and multi-drafting or revising. I had learned most of these previously in high school so I had no problem with them and if I did the learning curve was almost nonexistent. The first one being journaling and in-class free writing I felt was the second most…

struggle to find enough people to fight. A country with the draft would be brought together in unity in a sense of nationalism. The draft also has worked successfully for America in the past and continues to work for foreign countries still today. Drafting women would also allow more people into the military. Possibly having the draft come back as discussed in government would show just how these ideas would come into play. With a military draft army in place of a volunteer army there would…