Avoid Primer Style

Avoid primer style. Primer style is short. Primer style is boring. Primer style is tedious. Primer style is choppy. So avoid it.
Avoid using primer style writing by joining sentences and refraining from the use of to-be verbs. Nobody wants to look like they are a second grader in their writing, and no one really creates a whole essay that way, but some of my own paragraphs may use this primer style to trudge through facts and details that could otherwise stand illustrious. See here.

Presentation

I will focus on the delivery of the presentation. Specifically I will focus on avoiding slouching, focus on eye contact with every member of the audience, and focus on varying the pitch of my voice when I speak. An oral report may take many hours of research to prepare. When presented poorly it loses so much. Almost as important as material in a presentation is the presenting itself.

Heart Disease

Heart Disease huh? I hear it is not good for you at all. It ranks numero uno for killing us people, it has not taken me yet, but it might some day. I thought that the leading cause of death would be birth, hm. An article that I found notes that old people tend to get these death diseases. If they were categorized into larger groups cancer would be number one. Heart disease is connected to other diseases in the pull to bring us down. Maybe we could do our thing on what the leading cause of death is for people who have an autopsy done, but that would be impossible information to find. Watch out for heart disease team, it will get you faster then lead poisoning.

Verb!

Run! No no no, do not run, just verb. I was less confused about verbs before I studied them. If you would like to be confused too you should find out what a gerund is, and a present participle. That is when the -ing is added to a verb. I think it makes immediate past seem more immediate. Can I be grammaring? No. But I can be eating, breathing, coughing and choking. Choking on the sandwich I was eating I began coughing and couldn't continue breathing. The trick is when to use -ed or -ing. I stopped using -ed when finding that it helped me with my grammaring. Uh...

Opposition

Lucas Yates
English 1010
Proposition Opposition Essay
Mar. 30, 2009
Crying Laughs
Happiness is a choice. Happiness rises as an independent attribute in everyone, rises like a wall of water and falls like the pessimistic surfer in its wake. Opposition in life is apparent, predictable, and periodically constant. Everyone can choose to be happy or choose to be miserable. The hermit and the highness have inheritably the exact same opportunity for happiness.
Outcomes range in a spectrum, the only thing in the end under complete control of the individual being attitude. After a negative decision is made, and a negative consequence results, a person decides if they will be happy or not. The man who lost his arm can smile while the man who earned the job of his lifetime sulks. The difference in completely in the perspective and choice of the individuals.
Terrific and tragic events in life hold no bearing on a person’s happiness. Happiness is an inner drive that propels one through life, not a train reliant on coal to compel it onward. The person who wins the lottery celebrates and quickly returns to the level of happiness that they enjoyed before the windfall. The person who loses their legs is swept in shock, yet returns surprisingly to their normal state of happiness.
When something amazing happens in someone’s life it does not hold them at an increased level of satisfaction, at the next sight of emotional distress the previous joy fades. Objects do not
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bring happiness. A man who, for years, works and sweats to earn money for a million dollar house, achieves his desire, then, upon weeks of ownership finds flaws, additions to be made, alternative locations for the house. Men and women adapt to their new environment, and whether they choose to or not, they see the novel as mundane, and their sights search and reach for the next goal.
Those who are inflicted by pain and trial do not even need to crawl out from the dregs of despair, and are no less happy than the person with the million dollar house. A young woman diagnosed with cancer contemplates briefly the severity of her situation, and with unearthly celerity returns to a life of happiness.
"...there is no particular satisfaction indispensable to happiness, nor a dissatisfaction inevitably prohibiting it"(Kekes 360).
Some choices are obvious and excused by almost anyone, with the pain the mother feels with the loss of a child, her choice to let tears of love and loss fall freely. Or the old man who relishes still in footage of football from his younger days, choosing to use anything to cause happiness.
Happiness is an independent choice, an individual view and feeling that comes from within.
Works Cited
Kekes, John. Mind, New Series, Vol. 91, No. 363 (Jul., 1982), pp. 358-376 Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of the Mind Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2253226

Add verbs and adverbs

An adjective can give color to a scene, but an adverb can give emotion. Adverbs are modifiers for verbs, making them more intense or less. I have found that we use lots of adverbs in speaking, but when it comes to writing sometimes we forget them altogether. One must carefully modify verbs, boldly adding strength and gently sweeping emotion through action. It works. Check it out here.

em dash

Do you ever see those dashes–with no spaces between the sentence parts? It is an "em dash." I thought it would be interesting to use some of those to spice up my writing. I formal writing it is best to use the em dash very sparingly, though you could use it once per paper–which I would suggest. But in informal writing you can do whatever you want–of course. It works really well when you see that you have too many semi-colons–just use an em dash. Have fun–here.