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Title: how do I cite this paragraph?
Post by: BigAl on October 21, 2012, 09:40:09 pm

for identity and belonging. it seems to be useful.
"When we survey our lives and endeavours we soon observe that almost the whole of our actions and desires are bound up with the existence of other human beings. We see that our whole nature resembles that of the social animals. We eat food that others have grown, wear clothes that others have made, live in houses that others have built. The greater part of our knowledge and beliefs has been communicated to us by other people through the medium of a language which others have created. Without language our mental capacities would be poor indeed, comparable to those of the higher animals; we have, therefore, to admit that we owe our principal advantage over the beasts to the fact of living in human society. The individual, if left alone from birth would remain primitive and beast-like in his thoughts and feelings to a degree that we can hardly conceive. The individual is what he is and has the significance that he has not so much in virtue of his individuality, but rather as a member of a great human society, which directs his material and spiritual existence from the cradle to the grave.” Albert Einstein

Title: Re: how do I cite this paragraph?
Post by: pi on October 21, 2012, 09:41:52 pm

Are you planning to use the *whole* para? o.O

Title: Re: how do I cite this paragraph?
Post by: BigAl on October 21, 2012, 09:45:18 pm

I'm using the opening sentence as it is my own..nothing too special...but which sentence do you think is most powerful?

Title: Re: how do I cite this paragraph?
Post by: meganrobyn on October 21, 2012, 09:52:32 pm

Quote from: alperenerol on October 21, 2012, 09:45:18 pm

I'm using the opening sentence as it is my own..nothing too special...but which sentence do you think is most powerful?

The last one, for me.

Although, in a good paragraph it will generally be the last one, mind you.

Title: Re: how do I cite this paragraph?
Post by: BigAl on October 21, 2012, 10:16:41 pm

thanks man..I think the whole essay is so relevant apart from this intro. but I couldn't fully understand it.

Title: Re: how do I cite this paragraph?
Post by: teacher28 on October 22, 2012, 08:03:46 am

I agree -- way too much to quote!

Acknowledge the source is Einstein; put the crux of it in your own words; quote the most pertinent part.