BY STARTING THE EXAM, YOU AUTOMATICALLY AGREE TO THE EXAM POLICIES AND CONSEQUENCES OF MISCONDUCT Copy and Paste your topic at the beginning of your essay. Type directly into the submission Box.  Separate your paragraphs ENG 101 – LSCC Spring 2026: Departmental Essay (Online, Virtual and Traditional Environments)   Choose ONE of the following topics and write a well-developed five-paragraph essay about it: Use specific, real-life examples and explain in detail.   1) Reflect on a time when you failed at something at first but continued trying until you improved or succeeded. Instructions: Describe the situation and what went wrong initially. What made you decide to keep going instead of giving up? Focus on your thoughts, actions, and how the experience changed over time. Be sure to make a clear claim about what this experience shows about perseverance and how it has influenced the way you respond to challenges now.   2) Describe a place that is important in your community. Instructions: Explain why this place matters to the community. What happens there? Who uses it, and for what purposes? Conclude with a clear thesis about what this place reveals about the values, needs, or identity of your community. Focus on clear, vivid description of the place itself: its appearance, atmosphere, sounds, activity, and details that make it recognizable. Help your reader see and experience the place through specific sensory details.   3) Compare the value of working independently with the value of working as part of a group. Instructions: Make a clear argument about which is more effective overall—or under what conditions each works best. Explain the strengths and challenges of both approaches using specific examples from your experiences in school, work, or other settings. What kinds of tasks or situations work better for each? Analyze the trade-offs between independence and collaboration.   4) Argue whether or not stores and restaurants have the right to refuse service to customers who are rude or disrespectful. Instructions: Take a clear position and argue whether businesses should be allowed to deny service based on customer behavior. Support your argument with specific examples from your own experience or observation. Address at least one counterargument before concluding. Your thesis should clearly state your position.   5) Evaluate a piece of advice you have been given more than once. Is it actually good advice? Instructions: Clearly explain the advice and the situations in which you’ve heard or used it. Then evaluate it based on your own experiences—when did it work, and when did it not? Conclude with a clear judgment about whether the advice is truly helpful, limited, or even misleading, and explain why.  

One of the strongest causes of distress for employed mothers and their children is    

List 4 of the two way methods of communication that are recommended

For children two years and younger, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends  no amount of screen media per day. 

Destructive behavior and angry outbursts are characteristics of      

Mario who is 4 years old broke his mother’s favorite coffee cup because he kicked his brand new soccer ball in the kitchen after his mother told him to only play with the ball outside to avoid breaking anything. His mother heard the noise and immediately put Mario on time-out and took away the ball for a week. Mario lied to her saying that he didn’t kick the ball but that he accidentally touched the coffee cup. This scenario is an example of which type of parenting style?

The primary reason that only two major parties compete for power in America is:

Realignment has occurred in the United States in the past 50 years, primarily because:

If all of the following three things are true, select true as your answer.  If one or more of the statements are false, select false. Federal law caps how much money a donor may contribute to a candidate running for federal office. Super-PACs may raise an unlimited amount of money. Super-PACs may not directly contribute to or coordinate with a candidate for office.

On the topic of health and healthcare, which sociological theory discusses the physician-patient hierarchy, in which the physician provides the instructions and the patient is expected to follow the instructions?