Paragraph by Analogy

Paragraph by Analogy

FALLING IN LOVE AND SKYDIVING

Falling in love is like skydiving. Skydiving is a risk because you are never 100% certain that you will survive the fall. Likewise, falling in love is also a risk because you never know if your love will survive. As you fall out of an airplane, your adrenalin is pumping, your stomach is in knots and your heart is pounding in your chest. In love you also feel this sense of euphoria and excitement. 

But like in skydiving, love does not come without its challenges. You must learn to lose control and rely on your partner for help and personal growth. In skydiving you are dependent on the parachute; without it you will dye. In love you are dependent on your partner and must take your partner’s needs into consideration. In skydiving, your first experience determines your love or loathing for the sport. After the first jump, a person is enticed by the sport or else fearful and hesitant to try another jump. 

So we can argue that in love, a person’s first experience in love can also determine how they approach future relationships. If a person has a warm first love experience, they will be open and willing to engage in other relationships. If, however, the person is badly hurt and burnt so greatly by their first relationship, they will be very hesitant to enter in a subsequent relationship.

Reference:

http://farukui.blogspot.com/2012/11/example-of-paragraph-analogy.html

Paragraph by Classification

Paragraph by Classification

Daters Beware

Men can be categorized by the way they treat women while dating into three groups: a social addict, a content lover, or a keeper. The first type, a social addict, is the type of man who is constantly late and everything is on his time. Social addicts are particularly self absorbed. For your birthday this type of dater will give you a gift such as a necklace, so that everybody can notice it. When it comes down to emotions and feelings, a social addict will say whatever he assume you want to hear at any given moment. 

The second type of dater, a content lover, is a guy who will come and go as he pleases. These men just seem to be in attendance but not involved. When he is with you, he will not open up and share his thoughts. A content lover will forget your birthday all together. Lastly there is the keeper who will not keep you waiting; in fact, he always plans ahead and involves you in the decision making. To them, your birthday is tremendously important. 

They will give you time for your friends and family; in addition, they always make unique plans for the two of you later that evening. Unlike the other types of daters, the keeper will attempt to be 100% in touch with their feelings towards you and are willing to talk about them. Men’s dating styles differ; nonetheless, it all comes down to what behavior you are in the mood for.

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Paragraph by Cause and Effect

Paragraph by Cause and Effect

Effects of Alcohol

Letting alcohol take control over your life has many negative effects on a person and the people around them. One important effect is the damage you can do to your body. Drinking can lead to severe illness and even eventual death; some health consequences to consider might be liver disease, kidney failure and, for pregnant women, the loss of their unborn child. Another detriment is that an addiction could lead to drinking and driving; possibly causing a fatal car accident for either yourself and/or an innocent by stander. 

Another concern to consider is the relationships alcohol can destroy. Alcohol abuse can have very serious affect on a person’s temperament, which can lead to spousal and even child abuse. Alcohol often is the number one cause in divorce and spending time in jail. It can also affect relationships outside of the family; many people have lost life long friends whether it is due to foolish arguments and behavior or possibly death. 

Lastly, drinking has negative effects on self-esteem and rational thinking. People become more self-centered, develop low self-esteem, doing things or behaving in ways that they would not normally. They have little or no regard to the outcomes of what is said or done when they grow reliant on getting that alcohol high. 

The negative effects of alcohol abuse are overwhelming when considering the many consequences that drinkers and the people around them have to deal with.

Reference:

Racheal Guza (2005). english120. Paragraph by Cause and Effect. Effects of Alcohol. Retrieved from english120 website :

http://english120.pbworks.com/w/page/19006810/cause%20and%20effect%20paragraphs

Paragraph by Contrast and Comparison

Paragraph by Contrast and Comparison

There’s not a lot of music out there that I listen to that doesn’t have some sort of electric or acoustic guitar in the mix. Either as the main instrument or as small as a fill in for a certain sound. As broad as their sounds are there are several very distinct similarities between electric and acoustic guitars. For instance, both utilize the use of a body for the neck to attach to and a neck with frets for finger placement. The strings attach to the lower end of the body and go all the way to the head, or the top of the neck. 

They both use strings that vary in gauge, or size, which are vital to produce sound when they are picked, hammered on, or strummed as a group. Similarly each is tuned in the same manner to produce the proper tone desired. An acoustic guitar needs no amplifier to make its sound loud enough to be heard, which makes it very portable and capable of being played virtually anywhere. 

Unlike an electric guitar, an acoustic uses the body of the guitar as its amplifier, because the body is very thick and hollow it is able to project its own natural sound loudly. An electric guitar requires the use of an amplifier to transport the sound through pickups that are secured in the thin body. Then transferred through a cable connected to the guitar into the amplifier which produces the sounds out of the speakers. Without an amplifier the electric guitar is very hard to hear. 

Volume and tone knobs on the electric guitar can make it louder or change the sound of the strings being played. Additionally foot pedals can be added to produce even more different sounds so that the sounds that the electric guitar is capable of are almost limitless.

Reference :

Johnson, J. (2005). english120. Paragraph by Contrast and Comparison. Retrieved from english120 website : 

http://english120.pbworks.com/w/page/19006721/a%20compare%20and%20contrast%20paragraph

Paragraph by Description

Paragraph by Description

The Longest Race

As Chad Reed pulled into the pits, you could tell just by looking at him that this had been a grueling race. His dirt bike was plastered with so much brown, wet, sticky mud that you couldn’t even read the number plates. His boots, resting comfortably on the foot pegs, were a mess of muddy brown dirt, bright white plastic and black buckles. 

His riding pants were soaked and covered with mud on the front, while the back remained a brilliant white and blue. His chest protector seemed to have kept most of the mud off of his blue and white jersey, although his sleeves had turned the same swampy brown color as his bike. His goggles hung looped over the handlebars of his bike, dripping the ooze it had saved from Chad’s eyes. 

His helmet, still on his head, was a greasy smeary brown, except for the thin line of white and blue where his goggle strap had been. Although his body looked beaten, his eyes, peering through the helmet, seemed relaxed and happy. He had just won a very long and very tiring race.

Reference:

Anderson K. (2005). english120. Paragraph by Description, The Longest Race. Retrieved from english120 website: http://english120.pbworks.com/w/page/19006856/Description%20paragraphs

Paragraph by Narration

Paragraph by Narration

My Favorite Family Experience

One of my favorite family experiences was when I went to see Anne Frank’s (a Jewish victim of the Nazi persecution during World War II) hideout in Amsterdam, Holland. I had read Anne’s published diary when I was younger, so I was extremely thrilled to actually have the chance to see where she and her family hid from the Germans for so many months. 

I walked up the stairs of an apartment building and into a room with only a bookshelf in it. From what I remembered from reading the diary, there was a doorknob behind the books. I found the doorknob and turned it and there was the secret annex.

When I stepped into the room behind the bookshelf, I felt as if I had stepped back into history. I found Anne’s room still with pictures of her favorite celebrities on her walls. The Frank family’s furniture was still placed where they had left them in the rooms, everything just as described in the diary. I toured each room in awe of actually seeing how they had lived, yet with sadness to know how it all ended. Anne’s diary was no longer just a book to me, but true heart-felt, emotional life story written by a girl I felt I almost knew.

Reference:

Denise Rafferty (2005). english120. Paragraph by Narration, My Favorite Family Experience. 

Retrieved from english120 website :

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Paragraph by Process

Paragraph by Process

My Most Favorite Dish, You Can Make It Too

Today we are going to be making chicken primavera. Before you get started you will need the following things: two or more skinless, boneless chicken breasts; two cans of Cream of Mushroom soup; two cans of Cream of Chicken soup; milk; butter; vegetable oil, spaghetti noodles (or any noodle of you choice); and finally one very large sized frying pan. First you want to start the water and about 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil boiling for the noodles (they take the longest), and then while you have that going, start dicing you chicken breast into about 1 inch cubes. After you get all of your chicken cut up you want to start heating up your pan. Always start on high heat and then once the ingredients are added the heat will get turned down. Once your frying pan is hot put 1 tablespoon of butter into the frying pan, let that melt a little bit, and then add your chicken. You want to make sure that the chicken is browned on all sides, and if you were to cut a cube in half that the middle is white. 

Any time while you are cooking you chicken, if the water is boiling, then you can start boiling you noodles. When your chicken is done all the way through then we make the sauce. Right there in the same pan that you cooked you chicken in, add your two cans of Cream of Mushroom soup and your two cans of Cream of Chicken soup. After dumping the soup into the pan, you will then need to guess on the amount of milk that you put into the sauce. The more milk that is added the thinner the sauce will be, and the less milk that is added will give you a nicer creamier sauce. It depends on how thick or thin you like your sauces. 

Make sure to keep stirring the noodles through out their cooking process, or they will all be stuck together. While finishing cooking the noodles turn the heat down on the sauce so that all it is going to do is warm up. You don’t want the sauce to boil or else it will take longer to thicken up even if the amount of milk was small. It only takes about 3-5 minutes for the sauce to warm all the way through. Once the noodles are done then you can strain the water off of them. Add about 1 tablespoon of butter to the drained noodles and stir them really good to get that butter mixed in, this will keep the noodles from sticking together until they can be served. Finally, all you need to do now is dish up your plate of chicken primavera and enjoy. 

This recipe will feed between 8-10 people in one sitting. If you need to make more than that, just double the recipe and follow the same instructions. I hope that this meal was as quick, easy, and delicious for you as it was for me.

Reference:

Jessica Johnson (2005). english120. Paragraph by Process. My Most Favorite Dish, You Can Make It Too. Retrieved from english120 website : 

http://english120.pbworks.com/w/page/19007023/process%20paragraphs