Essay Top Sentences

Top Sentences of 2010

Essay 23

5/17/10

This I believe:

An Essay About What is Important to Me

(CM)We must manage the earth's resources in order to ensure that they will remain available in the indefinite future. (CM)"What happens within Nature humans should not have a say [in] and leave Nature to Nature" (Leave Nature to Nature by Francis Duggan).

I chose these two sentences because I think they

flow very well and the quote fits in perfectly.

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Essay 19

4/8/10

My Song:

An Essay about the "Traveling Soldier"

By the Dixie Chicks and

Romeo and Juliet

_____(TS)Emotions are important characters in the play of life.

(CS)You must embrace these gifts, these punishments, these emotions.

I chose these two sentences because they clearly

illustrate the umbrella. They connect together even though

one they are the first and last sentences.

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Essay 13

1/27/10

Change:

Change To Kill a Mockingbird

and in My Life.

My life, a wild roller coaster, full of suspense, changes constantly (Periodic Sentence).

I chose this sentences because it is a great periodic sentence

and it caught my attention while reading

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Essay 11

1/12/10

FEAR:

Fear in To Kill a Mockingbird and in My Life

_____Fear. What is it; where is it; why is it? We often ask ourselves these three basic questions, but have you ever gotten an answer? Have you ever taken the time to look?

The reason I chose these few sentences is because I honestly

believe this was my best introductory sentence I wrote all year.

It grabs the readers attention and pulls him in.

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Essay 11

1/12/10

FEAR:

Fear in To Kill a Mockingbird and in My Life

Like a thick fog, the shadows would move in and demolish the vision of those stuck within.

I chose this sentence because it expresses a lot of

emotion about fear and it is a good simile.

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Essay 11

1/12/10

FEAR:

Fear in To Kill a Mockingbird and in My Life

Legends can tell us nothing, or everything. It is all in what you believe, but until the day we truly find out why fear is, we will never know.

When I wrote this sentence, I made it purposely

to make the reader think and I believe it does just that.

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Essay 7

0/28/09

Trepidation:
An Essay about Fear in My Life

(CS)No matter how hard I try, no matter what I do, I will always have apprehension.

I chose this sentence because it fits into the

paragraph perfectly because it was about over-

coming your fears. It was also a strong closer.

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Essay 5

10/14/09

Privacy Is Hard To Please:

An essay about Privacy

in To Kill A Mocking Bird

(TS)Privacy is like the wind; it comes and it goes. (CM)You can catch it, but it will only get away in the future.

I like these two sentences because they are

a great simile and they plant a good

picture in your mind.

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Essay 2

9/23/09

The Misery of Mistakes:
This Essay is About When Scout Couldn't Find the
Right Words to Say in To Kill A Mocking Bird

“I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. (p22)”

I chose this sentence because I thought the quote fit in

nicely and it is also a very long sentence

which can increase the power of the writing

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Essay 1

9/22/09

You Can't Judge a Book By Its Cover:

An Essay About Fearing the Differences of People

(TS)When I was about eleven, I met this man who at the time looked funny but as time passed, I got to know him and found out that it was a battle wound from the war. (CM1)When I learned this, I was thankful, amazed and I was afraid. (CM2)I was scared of the differences between us.

I Like this introduction paragraph because it really draws

the reader in and shows him what

the paragraph will be about.