Overview: For your essay, you must write an exemplification essay of 500 – 700 words.  This essay will use examples to demonstrate and support your thesis. You may use a number of examples. You do not need sources for this essay. Using research is not allowed for this essay.   Audience:   Others interested in learning more about your chosen topic.   Purpose:  To inform the audience by using examples to support the thesis.   Topic Ideas: Choose one of the topics provided below.   Features: These are important features of your exemplification essay: An appropriate subject with a clear thesis statement; Necessary examples to illustrate and support the thesis, sufficiently, and accurately; Do Not use any outside information. This essay must be from your own knowledge.  In the chapter on Development by Example (Chapter 9) in your textbook, you’ll find ideas on how to focus and organize your work.   Choose one of the following topics to compose the essay:   First impressions are often the best/worst means of judging people. Failure is a better teacher than success. Doing good deeds can backfire. Complaining can produce unforeseen results. Participation in (a particular sport, club, hobby, event) teaches valuable lessons. One important event can change the course of a life. Modern technology can produce more inconvenience than convenience. High schools do/do not adequately prepare students for college. Time spent on social networking sites interferes with/enhances good interpersonal skills Failure to keep my mouth shut (or some other bad habit) leads me into trouble.

      Name the objects as well as their cultures and time periods. Then compare and contrast their forms, functions and contexts.

   Identify the title and date of this object. Which important leader constructed this work and what does it tell us about the nature of power in Rome at the time? Using the vocabulary learned in class, discuss its form, function, and context. 

   Identify the two objects by title and time period.  Then compare and contrast their forms, functions, and contexts. 

__________ is the proportion of observed differences in a trait among individuals in population that is due to genetic differences between the individuals.

If one parent is homozygous dominant for a gene and the other is homozygous for a recessive, what percentage of the children will display the dmoninant trait?

are large molecules, usually proteins, that act as biological catalysts, dramatically speeding up specific chemical reactions.

“Second messengers” are activated by a metabotropic neurotransmitter and carry their messages to:

An individual with schizophrenia has been prescribed olanzapine (Zyprexa). While evaluating outcome criteria, it was discovered that the client has gained a significant amount of weight and his periodic blood sugar levels are slightly elevated. As a psych tech, what other side effect do you know about this drug?  

Conventional or first generation antipsychotics have a high incidence of what side effects?