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Possessives and Plurals

If a noun owns something or is closely associated with it, it's possessive. Use an apostrophe. [Exception: pronoun forms like its, hers, whose, ours, yours, and theirs]

If not, it's plural. Don't use an apostrophe.

http://www.usu.edu/markdamen/WritingGuide/13posspl.htm

Dangling Participles

Adjectives ending in -ing (and sometimes -ed) are called participles and must be used with care. Consider the following sentences:
The robber ran from the policeman, still holding the money in his hands. After being whipped fiercely, the cook boiled the egg. Flitting gaily from flower to flower, the football player watched the bee.
If you said the last sentence to the football player's face just the way it's phrased above, you could end up a bloody lump of pulp lying on the astroturf, because he might conclude you think he "flits gaily," a thing most people in his profession don't do, at least in public.
The grammatical problem here rests with the -ing and -ed words used in these sentences: "holding," "being whipped," and "flitting." They are all participles, a type of verbal form that modifies nouns. The antecedent—that is, the noun to which the participle refers—must be clear to the readers in order for them to understand what's being said. Otherwise, an action may be subscribed to the wrong player, such as "flitting" to athletes. That's called a "dangling participle," because it's left "dangling" without a clear antecedent.

http://www.usu.edu/markdamen/WritingGuide/10dangpt.htm

America The Beautiful

D'souza's piece America the beautiful was interesting. To be honest I have never really had a huge interest in history, but being in my history class this semester it was really cool to read an opinion on it. I felt that D'sousa's piece was very much opinionated. I agree with it that when america comes together then we will get more accomplished and I was enthralled by the story when it got to the part about 9.11 because I remember that like it was yesterday.
overall the story was great and seemed to correspond to what I am learning in history. Nice piece.

Thesis

World of Warcraft (WoW) currently has approximately 11.5 million subscribers; over half of the population of Australia, and the average player usually plays about seventeen hours per week. When you average that out an average player spends around two and a half hours in a day on WoW. This may not seem like a problem, but these are the average players. The problem with online gaming comes from the individuals that spend ninety plus hours in a week playing WoW. The health and psychological effects of excessive game play that stem from Wow are fast becoming more of an issue in today’s society; starvation, depression and neglecting real life are some of the most common issues that stem from excessive play on WoW.