oThe production, sale, and possession of assault weapons for private citizens should be banned in the U.S.

conclusionoVivid, concrete

climax of your paper.

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Writing Essaysby Eleanor WakefieldThere are several vital elements to any successful college essay. This handout will define those elements and show you how to put them together using an outline. Following this format will help you keep your thoughts organized and get your essay underway.Elements of an EssayIntroduction: Usually an introduction starts broad and narrows down to your specific topic, ending in the thesis. This is your opportunity to establish why readers might be curious about your general topic, catch their attention, or put your essay in context.Thesis: Your introduction should end with a clear, specific thesis statement, which will tell readers exactly what your paper will be arguing. Each body paragraphwill directly and obviouslysupport your thesis.Body Paragraphs: A

Writing Essaysby Eleanor WakefieldThere are several vital elements to any successful college essay. This handout will define those elements and show you how to put them together using an outline. Following this format will help you keep your thoughts organized and get your essay underway.Elements of an EssayIntroduction: Usually an introduction starts broad and narrows down to your specific topic, ending in the thesis. This is your opportunity to establish why readers might be curious about your general topic, catch their attention, or put your essay in context.Thesis: Your introduction should end with a clear, specific thesis statement, which will tell readers exactly what your paper will be arguing. Each body paragraphwill directly and obviouslysupport your thesis.Body Paragraphs: An essay usually has at least three body paragraphs, and these will be the arguments, evidence, or topics that support your thesis.Topic Sentences: Each body paragraphwill begin with a topic sentence which introduces its topic. All of the information in that paragraph will be clearly and logically related to that topic sentence, which in turn should obviously relate to the thesis.Support: You use arguments, data, facts, analysis, quotes, anecdotes, examples, details, etc. to support your topic sentencesand flesh out your body paragraphs. A good rule of thumb is to have at least three points to support each topic sentence.Transitions:

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Parenting practices around the world share three major goals: ensuring children’s health and safety, preparing children for life as productive adults and transmitting cultural values. A high-quality parent-child relationship is critical for healthy development.

The falling acceptance rates and the rising stakes lent a new urgency to the college admissions process. And the more wrenching and decisive those years immediately before matriculation seemed to become, the earlier and the more aggressively parents and children prepared their case for the admissions officers.

Because life is a contest, there can only be so many winners, and the winners receive big rewards. Get used to it. Get ready to compete.

It is this increasingly intense competition for spots in top universities that is responsible for the rise in parental time spent with children.

Yet it has become increasingly obvious over the past two decades that the gap between those who succeed in today’s economy and those who merely survive is large, and growing larger.

And while it might be nice to go to an elite institution, state schools provided great value for money. So you’d need a pretty good reason to shell out the tens of thousands of dollars it would take to go to Yale or Duke.

Rather, school was a practical step on the path toward a sturdy, dependable career. You went to university to learn, first and foremost: to pick up the skills needed to find a trade.

Getting ready for university was a big deal. But there was no urgency to get into the best school possible, whatever the cost

The trend toward spending more time with one’s offspring is especially strange given that better-educated, better-paid parents are not spending less time at work; on the contrary, they are spending more, both in absolute terms and relative to the working time of less-educated households. High-income parents are instead spending less time on other personal activities, including sleep. The question is: why?

Instead of increasingly outsourcing child-rearing, parents are devoting more of the scarce time left outside working hours to their children. Over the last two decades, time spent by parents on child-rearing has jumped. In America in the 1980s, for example, young mothers spent about 12 hours per week actively engaged in child care while fathers spent about four hours per week. Those figures have since soared – and the rise in hours spent with children has been greatest among better-educated, higher-earning parents. Mothers without university degrees now spend about 16 hours per week on child care, while those with degrees spend nearly 22 hours per week. For fathers the figures are seven and ten, respectively. This pattern is repeated across the rich world.

When he began working on family economics in the 1960s, he reckoned that women have a comparative advantage in “home production”, or domestic tasks; it therefore made sense, to him anyway, that men should specialise in work outside the home and women in work inside.

As the West industrialised and grew richer and medicine and sanitation improved, death rates fell. Maturing economies had less need of child labour, and more need of the labour of adult women – work which took them out of the home and reduced their ability to care for large broods. What’s more, as both survival rates and the returns on education rose, the imperative when having children shifted from quantity to quality. Investing more in children’s socialisation and education served the interests of both parents and offspring.

amilies had lots of children partly because they needed the labour, and partly because death rates were high. Parents also invested much less in their children’s human capital. Short lifespans and high death rates meant that the returns on educating children and preparing them for life in the world were not especially high; parents with many children could not spare much time on the upbringing of any single one.

The lower orders also put relatively little effort into child-rearing, for the offspring were there to work. Children were active contributors to the family economy, caring for each other and the home, working in the fields, helping with household production of goods for sale at market, and occasionally working in factories or mines.

There is a scene early in “Mary Poppins” in which Mr Banks, a well-to-do banker enjoying life in the heyday of imperial Britain, sings a little song upon arriving home from the office at 6pm. His routine is a precise one: every day he walks through the door, collects the slippers, sherry and pipe waiting for him, and then awaits the presentation of his children, washed and scrubbed, so he can “pat them on the head and send them off to bed”. “Mary Poppins” is hardly documentary, yet it reflects the habits of the British upper classes in much of the 20th century: the business of child-rearing was largely outsourced to nannies and boarding schools

They attend school in Arlington, Virginia, home to one of the best public-school systems in America. Yet many worry that is not enough, and plot their children’s route to Thomas Jefferson, Northern Virginia’s highly selective magnet high school, or to the region’s tony private schools: funnels to America’s top universities and elite society, attended by the offspring of the rich and powerful.

I still have what I imagine must be the naive ideas of a parent of young children, that they will develop their own interests and passions as they grow older: that taking a drill-sergeant approach to learning and to homework would ultimately be counterproductive.

Every so often we find ourselves talking about what we want for their future and what they might want for themselves, asking ourselves, in so many words: how badly do we want them to go to Harvard? I don’t know if either of my children will have the inclination or the résumé to do so; my position, as a parent, is that Harvard would be lucky to have them

A pamphlet published by the U.S. government in 1932 suggested that one should start toilet training their baby immediately after they were born. 

No matter the decade, everyone has an opinion on baby names. The 1920s were no exception. One expert specifically warned against "too much softness" in names, because they "lacked backbone."

1916: Don't feed while you are angry, or else you'll have a colicky baby. 

Up through the 1920s, many parents believed that left-handedness should be trained away, often resulting in the use of painful braces.

New babies deserve special care, right? Right. Back in the early 1900s, their first bath was often with the help of lard.

Moms-to-be of the 1910s were told that in order to have a beautiful baby (like this cute little one!), they must refrain from thinking of ugly things. 

But if we drift, if we use our people and our resources at slow speed, then at a time when the world is in turmoil and in revolution, people to the South of us, people in Africa, people in Asia are going to determine that the way of the future belongs to the Communists.

If we were using our steel mills to the fullest, if we had an agricultural program that maintained farmers' income, if small business in this country was prosperous, if the monetary and fiscal policies of this administration did not rest on a high interest, hard money policy, then the economy of this country would move and no one could catch the United States.

I believe the issue is very clear, and the issue is whether the American people are satisfied with things as they are, whether they feel that the 1960's are a time to really conserve and stand still and gather our energy, or whether the 1960's are a time to move forward again,

Indiana does not exist by itself. There is no business in Indiana that does not sell to the rest of the country, and if the rest of the country is standing still, if our economy is not moving forward, where are all the young men and women going to school in this State going to find jobs? We are going to have 25,000 people coming into the labor market every year, every week every year, for the next 10 years, and we are going to have to find them jobs, 25,000 new people a week for 10 years, looking for jobs. And unless this economy of this country moves forward, unless the Federal Government gives leadership we are not going to find jobs for those people or the people now working.

And now here in Indiana, and in this city of Terre Haute, you have unemployment of nearly 7 percent, you see steel mills in Gary and elsewhere in this State which are working 55 or 60 percent of capacity, and every merchant and every banker in the State of Indiana can tell you that this September and this October have been as difficult and hard as the September and October of 1957, and the September and October at the end of 1953, which preceded the recessions of 1954 and 1958.

and there isn't anyone in this community whose employment is not affected by the decline in agricultural income.

 I think having siblings my age gives me an open attitude toward life and people

What kinds of sacrifices did you make

JF: Did you ever resent me?

Do you have any regrets?

You know what I do. I’m not going to tell you. CW: No you have—you have to talk about it.

(e.g., that Princess Diana was murdered)

Conspiracy theories, which typically involve one or more powerful agents secretly manipulating world events, are accepted by a large proportion of Americans.

The Daily Beast reported the shooter was a fan on Facebook of Jones' Infowars website. Jones did not respond to requests for comment on the incident or his other theories.

And he claims

we know that people who believe in one conspiracy theory (say, that JFK was assassinated by the CIA) are also more likely to believe in others (for instance, that the moon landing was faked)

conspiracy theories can influence people's attitudes towards individuals, social groups, institutions and policies, they're often of interest to those tracking public opinion and individual behavior.

Jones a gateway drug for white supremacy

Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were an inside job, that the deadly shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a hoax

about a satanic sex trafficking ring run by one of Hillary Clinton's top advisers out of a pizzeria in Washington, D.C.

15 years,

and often speaks openly about her own experiences.

briefly discuss his difficult upbringing.

6. Unless your readers are familiar with your terminology, avoid writing stringsof nouns (or noun strings!).

The old/new contract is a method that prevents gaps or confusion in your writing by linking your essay’s older information

Check your information: Are all your facts accurate?

Check the focus of the paper: Is it appropriate to the assignment?