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Study notes A thesis statement has three parts: The subject: the topic of the essay. It’s often provided by the teacher. The precise opinion: your opinion on the topic. It has to be arguable. If you don’t know what you are writing about, you should do some research and form an opinion. The blueprint of reasons: how you plan to argue and prove your opinion. Typically has 3 pieces of strong evidence that support the opinion. The reasons should not overlap with each other. Syntactically, the reasons can be found at the beginning of the sentence, at the end of the sentence, or in a separate sentence from the subject and the opinion. Each form is equally valid.

Ostracism and Segregation: Belonging to a minority group The focus of this essay will be the distressful situation that people in minority groups have to contend with in everyday life, as evidence by the lyrics of three popular songs by Sting, Sir Elton John and U2. These songs reflect upon the circumstances of a particular faction of people in contrast with the rest of their societies. Immigrants, homosexuals, and religious are members of diverse minority groups that are suffer from distress by being ostracised and segregated from the rest of the community. See for example the lyrics of An Englishman in New York by Sting “Oh, I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien”. Both the song’s title and its chorus relate to the experience of an immigrant who is shunned by other people. The lyrics state that the titular character is an alien . The meaning of this word is two-fold. On the one hand, it means “outsider”, which is the experience of an immigrant on a foreign land. On the other h...