Tomorrow Will Be A Better Day By Josh Rittenberg

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After you have had a bad day it is like your world comes down and you only think about the present and forget that there is still a lot of time to have more good days. Our mind blocks into focusing on the situation making us feel emotions that block our view of the future. We have bad and good days just like we have bad and good essays but we need to know that anything bad is a lesson and instead of making it bring you down you should remember the promise of tomorrow and enforce your new knowledge every day.
When you are having a difficult time you can always seek for help for example a good way to learn how to write essays is by reading other essays to see how the writer implemented various techniques and learn what you would like to implement in your style of writing. Even if the essay you chose is not the most interesting, you can still learn the things you would not want to implement in an essay. So in no way is this exercise a waist of your time but an investment in your present and future.
An essay I would recommend is Tomorrow Will Be a Better Day by Josh Rittenberg. He uses various techniques that are essential for the composition of an essay that I will discuss for example (Restating the thesis in the conclusion, descriptive details, and figurative Comparisons). …show more content…

His thesis is “On a recent night, while I was busy thinking about important social issues, like what to do over the weekend and who to do it with, I overheard my parents talking about my future.”(Rittenberg) he then restates his thesis in part of his conclusion “As I listened to my Dad talking that night […] I wanted to put my arm around him, and tell him what he always told me: "Don't worry Dad, tomorrow will be a better day." This helps the reader remember the writer’s thesis without rewriting the thesis, and it also helps “support the points you have gathered” as stated in (Purdue

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