You can see that the “transitions” are more than just a simple word. they are transitions of ideas. create two transition sentences that you might use after each of the introduction samples you read.

1. “we often say we have “sacrificed” when we feel we have given up something. but sacrifice does not necessarily mean “loss.” sacrifice can also mean delaying something in order to gain something else that is worth more than what one gives up. for example, most college students give up time previously spent with friends in order to study. the sacrifice is made for an object greater than momentary pleasure: a degree. the expectation is that the degree will lead to employment opportunities, job satisfaction, and financial security. this kind of sacrifice does not seem so hard when we consider the benefits we’ll receive. but some sacrifices are more difficult. what prompts us to make sacrifices that will not benefit us personally? our moral sense often leads us to make sacrifices that have no apparent benefit, but that satisfy some deep need we have to do what is right.”

2.“throughout the 20th century, our views of life on other planets has drastically changed. it was once thought to be an impossibility, as all we had seen of space showed us a barren landscape unfit for anything we would recognize as life. but, in the 21st century, our telescopes continue to discover planets in what we deem “habitable zones,” the small bands in solar systems in which a planet’s temperature is ideal to support life. planets such as the newly discovered planet koi 172.02 may hold the key to discovering life outside of earth.”

Which of the following best describes the proper use of a "works cited" page? (a)-a works cited page is not needed if you paraphrase your research. (b)-a works cited page is not needed if you use signal phrases. (c)-a works cited page is optional when writing a researched text. (d)-a works cited page is required when writing a researched text.

What can you infer about gregor from this excerpt? a. he is ungrateful and refuses to eat all of the food that grete brings for him b. his appetite is good, which shows that his body is trying to return to human form c. he always eats trash, and grete is trying to get him to remember being human d. his eating habits are changing, and he is becoming physically less human

Select the contred text in the passage which sentence in this excerpt from john galsworthy's narrative essay "gone" reflects his view that there is no afterlife? an old woman and mrs. herd's sister were in the sitting-room, they showed us to the crazy, narrow stairway. though we lived distant but four hundred yards of a crows flight, we had never seen mrs. herd before, for that is the way of things in this land of minding one's own business a slight dark girlish-looking woman, almost quite refined away, and with those eyes of the dying, where the spirit is coming through, as it only does when it knows that al is over except just the passing. she lay in a double bed with clean white sheets. a white-washed room, so low that the ceiling almost touched our heads, some flowers in a bow, the small lattice window open. though it was hot in there, it was better far than the rooms of most families in towns, living on a wage of twice as much, for here was no sign of defeat in decency or cleanliness. in her face, as in poor herd's, was that same strange minging of resigned despair and almost eager appeal, so terrible to disappoint. yet, trying not to disappoint it, one felt guilty of treachery: what was the good, the kindness in making this poor bird flutter still with hope against the bars, when fast prison had so surely closed in round her? but what else could we do? we could not give her those glib assurances that naive souls make so easily to others concerning their after state. and the night was so beautiful, so utterly glamourously beautiful, with its star-flowers, and its silence and its trees clothed in moonlight. all was tranquil as a dream of sleep. but it was long before our hearts wandering with poor herd, would let us remember that she had slipped away into so beautiful a dream