Remind readers of your argument and supporting evidence

be curious

This is your opportunity to establish

The conclusion should bring the essay to a logical end. It should explain what the importance of your issue is in a larger context. Your conclusion should also reiterate why your topic is worth caring about.

Pointing out what your opposition is likely to say in response to your argument shows that you have thought critically about your topic.

first-hand examples and experiential knowledge on your topic (specific examples help your readers connect to your topic in a way they cannot with abstract ideas) •Opinions from recognized authorities

one to two well-developed paragraphs to each reason/claim or type of evidence.

states what your position on an issue is

• Don’t bad mouth your ex as this promotes loyalty conflicts and may make it more difficult for her to heal from the losses associated with divorce. • Find ways to help her to build self-esteem such as encouraging her to develop interests and recognizing her efforts and strengths. Spend time doing things she enjoys with her. • Don’t let cynicism, sadness, or anger get in the way of your daughter’s future. If you have negative views of relationships, don’t pass them on to her. • Encourage her to spend close to equal time with both parents. Be flexible about “Parenting Time” - especially as she reaches adolescence and may need more time for friends, school, jobs, and extracurricular activities.

“Until I was 16, and I got my own car, I spent almost every weekend with my dad and some weeknights. Even after he moved to a nearby state, he would arrive early to my dance shows, bring me flowers, and stay after to take me out to dinner.”

Findings from the Children of the 90s study at the University of Bristol, showed that girls whose fathers were absent during the first five years of life were more likely to develop depressive symptoms in adolescence than girls whose fathers left when they were aged five to 10 years.

information with their mothers

clinically depressed or to develop eating disorders

For example, women who were born in the 1970s are three times more likely than those born at the beginning of the twentieth century to work in the same field as their fathers-a finding that researchers have attributed not just to society's changing gender roles but also to daughters receiving more mentoring from their fathers.

As you might guess, daughters whose fathers have been actively engaged throughout childhood in promoting their academic or athletic achievements and encouraging their self-reliance and assertiveness are more likely to graduate from college and to enter the higher paying, more demanding jobs traditionally held by males.

Conversations about the importance of fathers usually revolve around sons: how boys benefit from having a positive male role model, a consistent disciplinarian, and a high-energy roughhousing partner on their way to pursuing career and family success in adulthood.

Be the kind of man you want your daughter to marry.

Treat all adult women the way you want your daughter to be treated someday.

Show her that real men can negotiate differences with women

Go to her events.

Celebrate her mind.

Attach with safety.

Attach to your daughters

Love her mother

What all this means for a father or father figure is that he counts. He counts a lot. Regardless of whether he wants the responsibility, a father’s relationship to the world and to women sets down a template that will be played out for another generation

When that learning is positive and helpful for negotiating the world, a daughter will grow up to be at ease in her own skin and in her sexuality. When it is conflicted or creates expectations that are demeaning or less than useful for cooperating with others, her relationship with herself, with other women, and with men will be troubled.

she is 4 or 5 years old

father (or a male in her life who takes a father role), that man becomes her guidepost for what to expect of men and what to expect of men’s attitude toward women.

Children really do learn what they live. Not having the perspective of older people, they consider whatever their family is like as their “normal.”

What personal values do you hold most dear?

What do you love most about where you live now?

What were your favorite hobbies and pastimes in your childhood?

Do you know the story of how your grandparents met and fell in love?

Do you perform in public? Describe those occasions? Concerts, radio, TV?

Were you influenced by old records & tapes? Which ones?

Is your family musical?

Questions that could be used in interviewing musicians.

Just a couple more questions?

On a scale of 1 to 10 what do you think your life would be different without animals?

I feel like I’m in a better place. Not everything’s perfect, but it’s a lot better than it used to be.

: When I got out of the military, subconsciously, I pretty much checked out. So I’d say I did give up.

MJ: I know it’s not an easy thing, you know, to be able to share our story together. Even with us sitting here looking at each other right now, I know it’s not an easy thing. So I admire that you can do this. OI: I love you, lady. MJ: I love you too, son.

ust to hear you say those things and to be in my life in the manner that which [sic] you are is my motivation. It motivates me to make sure that I stay on the right path. You still believe in me. And the fact that you can do it despite how much pain I caused you–it’s like amazing.

Yeah. So you can see what I’m doing–you know first hand. We actually bump into each other all the time leaving in and out of the house. And, you know, our conversations, they come from ”Boy, how come you ain’t called over here to check on me in a couple of days? You ain’t even asked me if I need my garbage to go out!”

After you left the room, I began to say: ”I just hugged the man that murdered my son.” And I instantly knew that all that anger and the animosity, all the stuff I had in my heart for 12 years for you–I knew it was over, that I had totally forgiven you.

And I will forever be grateful for you. Not everybody gets to save their mom’s life.

I guess I would have told you when I felt that you were old enough to understand. But I think that I was afraid to tell you. Because, you know, it’s very hard for mommy to talk about bad choices that I made. It breaks my heart. And I get very sad when I talk about it.

But I wanted to know why you never told me this stuff? Why didn’t you?

Oh my god, I loved you so much. And I just wanted everything in the world to be perfect for you. But in the hospital, here I was walking into the nursery to see my beautiful baby, and there were other mommies and daddies seeing their babies, and here I was in this big orange jumpsuit and shackles. And I was really, really, embarrassed.

You may be better off just considering your father dead and gone.” Which, at the time, made pretty good sense to me. You know? After years and years of living with it.

And we realized how close we had come. And, uh, we maintained a fierce, loving allegiance to one another through to the very end.

And I remember the third night he was actually at home he wanted to go and call the, ah, wife of one of the men who had died in prison. And, ah, we had about one of those to do a night for a couple of weeks. He felt it was his obligation to report what he knew about the nobility of men who had suffered greatly and had died of injury or infection or, in a couple of cases, just a broken heart as he described it.

The day that dad came home we had been forewarned about dad’s injuries. But standing there on the tarmac, when he came down the a…came down the steps, I remember just holding his featherweight frame in my arms. We were just sort of stumbling over our love for one another.

t’s coming

Let’s give em hell kiddo

And when he said, ‘I don’t know what it would be like to have it.’ That was difficult for me. So then I had to ask a follow-up just out of, I don’t know, self preservation because I thought I was gonna cry.

I think that says a lot about his childhood that there was really no one there to help him get out of the water or keep him warm.

Well if something happens just say, ’I’m sorry’ and get it over with. There’s no reason to carry on. I just say ‘I’m sorry. I love ya,’ and that was the whole story.

She swore a lot, but she looked so innocent that no one ever expected her to say the things that she said.

Instead of always using keywords to relate back to old information, you can instead use pronouns, such as “it” or “their.”

The idea or metaphor or paragraph that I think is most wonderful and brilliant is often the very thing that confuses my reader or ruins the tone of my piece or interrupts the flow of my argument.Writers must be willing to sacrifice their favorite bits of writing for the good of the piece as a whole.

Do you still agree with it? Should it be modified in light of something you discovered as you wrote the paper? Does it make a sophisticated, provocative point, or does it just say what anyone could say if given the same topic? Does your thesis generalize instead of taking a specific position? Should it be changed altogether? For more information visit our handout on thesis statements.

reconsidering your arguments, reviewing your evidence, refining your purpose, reorganizing your presentation, reviving stale prose

“the sadness and despair contained within the lines of this poem,”

o to Earth and capture 13 babies to be sacrificed

Latinx

Sweaty Palms, a comics anthology about anxiety.

LGBTQAIU

My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic

salted caramel coconut milk ice cream in

it’s pretty small so perfect for if you don’t have a lot of kitchen space (hello, college/uni dorms!), dishwasher safe, super easy to use and best of all, it chops onions and garlic cloves evenly + quickly.

I could possibly get was a massive salad

Journalists just want to be treated like beautiful, unique snowflakes in a world of toil and strife.

how massively out of touch does anyone doing an impression of that ‘in a world…’ voice seem now?)

I can’t do cartwheels.

your reader with my blog.