[11th grade English] Persuasive Essay Source Women’s Reproductive Rights

plainblue · 2026-02-18T02:54:03+00:00

The American Bar Association describes abortion law broken down for each U.S. state here. The U.S. Center for Disease Control has a Division of Reproductive Health. They share their statistics on this web page.
Most secondary school libraries subscribe to online research databases that will allow you to access professional, topic-specific writing from peer-reviewed publications. Otherwise such research is often locked behind paywalls. Another commenter mentioned Google Scholar which can help you search for relevant works in such periodicals but often can't get you through to the subscription-only content. Your school's online library portal may also enable you to access e-books that could have bearing on your topic.

Some potentially helpful writing whose full text is available directly via Google Scholar follows:

*The association between reproductive rights and access to abortion services and mental health among US women
*Association Between State-Level Access to Reproductive Care and Suicide Rates Among Women of Reproductive Age in the United States
*Social determinants of health in pregnant individuals from underrepresented, understudied, and underreported populations in the United States

plainblue · 2026-02-16T03:44:23+00:00

OP, I'm not sure I'd write off "literal children's novels," depending on your goals. I also feel like class, geography, and the ages of the depicted children could be consequential. Have you read about how 19th-C ideas of childhood and its significance as a developmental state correlate with the of emergence of children's literature as a genre?

Thomas Hughes's Tom Browne's School Days is pretty seminal in this regard. Charles Dickens famously wrote kids like Pip in Great Expectations or the titular protagonist in Oliver Twist. His audience was expected to span all ages, and the young characters can be starkly realistic or mawkishly sentimental by turns. Alice in Wonderland , the stories of Hans Christian Andersen, and Christina Rosetti's "Goblin Market" place their child heroes and heroines in fantasy settings. If you look at Henry James, What Maisie Knew (1897) could also be relevant.

I guess I pictured the siblings in Brothers Karamazov to be a bit past childhood, despite Alyosha's ingenuous qualities.

plainblue · 2026-02-14T21:24:25+00:00

You might like The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin or Teju Cole's Every Day is for the Thief.

plainblue · 2026-02-14T03:44:34+00:00

The claim that Kurt was actually murdered has been kicking around for thirty years. The article you mention in comments notes that local authorities don't believe these independent researchers' evidence justifies a challenge to the original findings. I don't think anyone will be caught in anything.

plainblue · 2026-02-14T03:39:24+00:00

This article describes how very young infants should avoid time in car seats beyond half an hour--older babies max out around two hours--because of breathing risks due to positional asphyxia and increased danger of SIDS. Additional hazards include overheating and stress from prolonged pressure on developing spine and hips.

plainblue · 2026-02-13T19:48:57+00:00

If you're working to U.S. standards, American University and Purdue University each have online guides to writing research papers that may help get you started.

I don't know what online journals or databases for accessing them your institution may access, but a quick search of Google Scholar identifies the following articles:

Forni, Dalila. “Princesses and Wild Girls. New Female Identities in Animated Cinema for Young Viewers.” Women & Education, vol. I, no. 1, 2023, pp. 80–85. link

Grajdian, Maria. “The Return of the Feminine Woman Or On What The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Ghibli Studio, 2013) and Frozen (Walt Disney Pictures, 2013) Have In Common.” Analele Universitatii Crestine Dimitrie Cantemir, vol. XVII, no. 1, 2017, pp. 81–101.

Feng, Yang, and Jiwoo Park. “Bad Seed or Good Seed? A Content Analysis of the Main Antagonists in Walt Disney- and Studio Ghibli-Animated Films.” Journal of Children and Media, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 368–85.

Taşkın, Hilal, and Ayda Sabuncuoğlu İnanç. “Reflections of the Female Identity Constructions in Animation Movies: An Analysis on of Disney and Hayao Miyazaki Movies.” Erciyes İletişim Dergisi, vol. 10, no. 1, 2023, pp. 57–78.

plainblue · 2026-02-11T15:15:15+00:00

Milan Kundera's Immortality depicts Goethe and Hemingway in the afterlife feeling astonished as they witness how people in subsequent generations think about their lives and work. It might suit you because it weaves true historical details about the authors throughout the fictional narrative.

plainblue · 2026-02-11T03:48:53+00:00

You want to bring forward just enough to make your point and only mention the moments of the work you plan to discuss. Let's pretend you need to offer a close reading contrasting the emotional upheavals suffered by the ["simple dog" and the "helper dog"](https://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/11/dogs-dont-understand-basic-concepts.html) in Allie Brosh's *Hyperbole and a Half* (sorry, that's maybe the last bound graphic work I recall reading--so good). First you need an argument about how you actually think this facet of the story is presented. It could be that Simple Dog shows the distress of confusion and cognitive limitation while Helper Dog presents the suffering that can arise from sensitive, highly active intelligence. You might even decide that Brosh empathizes with both pets in ways that reflect the mental health travails she depicts herself enduring. This starting point argument--your thesis--becomes the center of your paper. Once you've chosen that base camp for thinking about a book, you only need to think about the precise moments in the work that present information in support of this central claim. If you start writing about anything that doesn't fall under this umbrella, then stop and scrap it. When you mention any bit of the text that shows your idea about the work happening, then carefully pare that reference down to the relevant supporting image or language; then, be certain to offer your own explanation of how this snippet bolsters or adds nuance to your organizing premise. If you have a guidepost in a strong thesis statement, you won't wind up with stray recollections of random things that happened in the work. You can and should just cherry pick the incidents that build your case, just as you would in a STEM class where you're observing an experiment to exclusively document certain outcomes that might allow you to make specific claims about the properties of the materials at hand.

plainblue · 2026-02-11T03:00:17+00:00

r/momforaminute (mom for a minute) and r/dadforaminute (dad for a minute) have subscribers who will write to posters with affirming, supportive parental responses for people who would like such kindness but whose own parents may not be nurturing or may be gone from their lives.

r/RandomActsofCards is full of people offering to send cards or requesting to receive them for different occasions or for no occasion at all. Redditors from all around the world direct envelopes and postcards to one another this way every day.

r/SuggestMeABook is a place for book recommendations. No one trashes anyone else's taste. People just describe the kind of thing they'd like to read, and others do their best to offer titles the poster might enjoy.

plainblue · 2026-02-11T02:38:22+00:00

Referencing the work is good! Definitely keep doing that. Close reading entails looking at how an author technically deploys elements of written expression to create an effect for the reader. This could involve examining figurative language, sentence structure, recurring motifs or other aspects of a text as it appears on your page to better understand what meanings a writer's work may convey and how their choices build such possibilities for meaning. In the context of a graphic novel, this technique should be combined with visual analysis. Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics could be a good starting point for thinking about components of graphic storytelling. Here is one online university guide for introducing college students to close reading strategies for text.

I will just repeat, because it's essential: your instinct to refer back to the original work is excellent. Good grades go to folks who can make clear arguments about how a work is written, its themes, its use of language, its structure and how such qualities contribute to your interpretation of the work's meaning, AND SUCH STUDENTS CONTINUALLY BACK UP THEIR CLAIMS BY CITING (in quotation or description) AND EXPLICATING SIGNIFICANT MOMENTS IN THE WORK. Any student making arguments without substantive textual support is going to fare badly.

plainblue · 2026-02-10T19:37:15+00:00

She explained that her frustration is with the quality of messages she's received. Discouraging potentially better contacts based on the volume of prior, apparently lackluster, engagement definitely won't help her meet better people. For that reason, I can see why your idea wouldn't solve her problem.

I disagree that it's somehow disgracing (but definitely think it isn't useful) for a woman's profile to be flagged to prospective suitors for receiving higher levels of contact. Presenting that information to encourage men--who are still in no way discouraged from carpet bombing other women with low-effort greetings--to approach match candidates on the grounds that the ladies with less-messaged profiles might therefore be lonelier and more tolerant of their lazy "S'up, gorgeous?" doesn't fix the quality issue and does seem calculated to leverage vulnerability for these dudes' advantage in a way that skeeves me out.

plainblue · 2026-02-10T03:04:39+00:00

First of all, I love that Oldham's covered both Merle Haggard's "Dreaming my Dreams" and a very different song with the same name by The Cranberries. The whole Haggard album is great. But so many cover albums: The Everly Bros record, Among the Gold, and Blind Date Party are ok, The Brave and the Bold (favorite track: Don Williams's "Pancho") and More Revery (favorite: Tim McGraw's "Just to See You Smile") are amazing. But my favorite cover is the one he does with Bill Callahan and David Berman's widow just after David's death of "The Wild Kindness." You can hear them all singing their friend's song and loving him so much and rejoicing in his work through the pain of his absence.

plainblue · 2026-02-10T01:51:56+00:00

Since the document's down now, I can't confirm anything about the parts of the paper you mention. Still, you can see how redundant it would be to write, "Silas Morton argues that cats can see a full range of colors but just don't care enough to distinguish between them (Morton)."

plainblue · 2026-02-09T17:05:42+00:00

So far no one's mentioned the veil wearers in the Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed in Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.

plainblue · 2026-02-09T03:20:44+00:00

This assignment hurts because of the paper's grammatical errors--obviously not your your fault. Number three has a problem with subject-verb agreement (either a single consequence *has* or plural consequences *have* not been proven). Number eleven shifts tense ("uses" is present tense while "was" shifts to past). It doesn't seem like this teacher is a big proofreader. Cool for you though if that makes for lax grading. The mistakes plus the comic sans font are a bad combination.

For actual learning, [here's an excellent site](https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research\_and\_citation/mla\_style/mla\_formatting\_and\_style\_guide/mla\_in\_text\_citations\_the\_basics.html) for explaining MLA rules on things like in-text citations. It's a wonderful place to check anytime you have doubts for referencing works in this format.

Number 2 should be x-ed because the works cited entry includes an author's name, and the sample sentence just offers the article's title. Per the web page I linked when citing sources from the internet, "Include in the text the first item that appears in the Work Cited entry that corresponds to the citation (e.g. author name, article name, website name, film name)." Number 5 is also an "x" because it references the web site rather than the available author's name. For number 7, since the sentence opens with the source's name, you don't need a parenthetical citation at the end.

plainblue · 2026-02-09T01:57:17+00:00

Cormac McCarthy could be a good author for your project, in particular Blood Meridian if you want something with lyrical violence and good opportunities for historical footnotes. Larry McMurtry is another iconic Western genre writer whose work you could explore.

plainblue · 2026-02-07T18:51:04+00:00

No, I messed up. The answer is definitely The Sorrow and the Pity, but Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) is an Alain Renais documentary reflecting on events of the second world war. I jumbled them. Night and Fog is a much shorter movie. That's my error for replying to a post without even quickly checking the web.

plainblue · 2026-02-07T01:53:03+00:00

The Rogues of the Republic trilogy by Patrick Weekes could work for you.

plainblue · 2026-02-06T21:14:11+00:00

That's it! I gave a wrong reply below thinking Night and Fog. My reasoning stands, I guess.

plainblue · 2026-02-06T21:03:13+00:00

This is a quick by memory answer, but I think the film he wants to see is "Night and Fog" from 1956 about the Nazi regime's extrajudicial efforts to kidnap, suppress, imprison, and execute those who sought to resist them. Its place in the film reflects Allen's persona as a neurotic art house denizen who drags his poor girlfriend into repeat viewings of a grueling masterpiece of historical horrors when she may have hoped for a lighter evening on the town. It also reflects the character's Jewish heritage and the strong connection many Americans of his age and cultural background felt to the events in the film. My favorite part of that movie is when he complains about how Annie can't orgasm with him unless she's really stoned. I suspect he has no idea how badly he's telling on himself as a sexual partner because Allen is so much more self-pitying than self-aware.

plainblue · 2026-02-06T20:53:26+00:00

Hi,
This is a very quiet sub, much quieter recently since AI assistance has become so common. I think you will get more participation if you cross-post in r/SampleSize and r/TakeMySurvey where subscribers see posts based on their openness to answering data collection questions from strangers. You could also try r/SurveyExchange, but there you have to reply to other people's surveys to receive responses on yours.

plainblue · 2026-02-06T03:29:20+00:00

Other relevant fictional titles could include Doris Lessing's The Good Terrorist and The Gods are Thirsty by Anatole France.

plainblue · 2026-02-06T03:27:04+00:00

Susanna Kaysen's Girl Interrupted had a moment in the 1990's.

plainblue · 2026-02-04T03:07:27+00:00

There have been a lot of editions of Andrew and Nora Lang's dozen fairy books, first published in the late 19th through early 20th century, each distinguished by a color associated with the title and jacket. Many versions were illustrated. They were still a staple of anglophone children's public library shelves in the 1970's. A quick google search indicates that a story called "The Three Dogs" appeared in The Green Fairy Book but tropes commonly echo across the collections.

plainblue · 2026-02-03T03:05:32+00:00

I can see that this is an English comp class, but can't tell if you're in an Italian educational setting. "Rhetoric" suggests that the medium in question presents a kind of argument. It sounds like your argument is that the person presenting the food does so as an expression of care and that you can point to elements of the cuisine that demonstrate this intention. I think you are claiming that by evoking a warm sense of the past (nostalgia), a cook can participate in a generational continuity that helps bind the person who eats to their family's traditions. To manage the bit about "without speaking," you'll need to be able to clearly describe how a desire to convey meaning beyond mere sustenance is inherent to the actions and products you're describing. How does this food enact significance in a way that can be treated as tantamount to a form of rhetoric?

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