Could you write a 500 word essay about a full stop (.)?

Question

If so i would love to read it.

Answer 1

I could probably do it without too much trouble

Answer 2

That question depends on how you look at things but let me start you off, a millionaire's wife went off to Paris on a weekend jaunt and did a little bit of shopping in an antiques market.
She found a lovely painting and decided that she wanted to purchase this masterpiece for her husband's birthday, so being the duitifull wife she telegramed her husband and told him that she had found this beautifull picture and that she wanted to buy it. He sent back a telegram saying " buy not. too expensive " you see she was a German so what she actually recieved was the telegram "Kauffe nicht. Zu teuer".
Unfortunately for her husband tho, when he went to the post office to send this telegram, there was a very lasy and un attentive clerk who took down his telegram wrongly, and instead sent this version " Kauffe. Nicht zu tuer" or in English "Buy. Not too expensive". The unfortunate man's wife recieved this message and purchaced what turned out to be an a worthless painting for an exhorbitant sum of money. This resulted in his financial ruin.
No not 500 words long I know but by extolling the vertues of a full stop and of course a full stop placed in the right place this could become a 500 word essay as well as a bit of embelishment on the trip to France.

Answer 3

The full stop. A small little dot that appears quite inconsequential. Like everything else, looks are not everything! Such power it possesses. When left at the end of a sentence, no matter how long it is, it simply stops things there! How useful it is! Imagine no fulll stops in a book. You would be confused, not knowing where things start and where they end. A small little dot, you say? (could have go on ... time's running out :-)

Answer 4

POINT OF ORDER: IN PRAISE OF THE DOT THAT BROUGHT SENTENCES TO THEIR SENSES

Diminutive as a mote of dust, a mere peck of the pen, a crumb on the keyboard, the full stop -- the period -- is the unsung legislator of our writing systems. Without it, there would be no end to the sorrows of young Werther, and the travels of the Hobbit would have never been completed. Its absence allowed James Joyce to weave "Finnegans Wake" into a perfect circle, and its presence made Henri Michaux compare our essential being to this dot, "a dot that death devours." It crowns the fulfilment of thought, gives the illusion of conclusiveness, possesses a certain haughtiness that stems, like Napoleon's, from its minuscule size.

Anxious to get going, we require nothing to signal our beginnings, but we need to know when to stop: this tiny memento mori reminds us that everything, ourselves included, must one day come to a halt. As an anonymous English teacher suggested in the 1680 "Treatise of Stops, Points or Pauses," a full stop is "a Note of perfect Sense, and of a perfect Sentence."

The need to indicate the end of a written phrase is probably as old as writing itself, but the solution, brief and wonderful, was not set down until the Italian Renaissance. For ages, punctuation had been a desperately erratic affair. Already in the first century A.D., the Spanish author Quintilian (who had not read Henry James) had argued that a sentence, as well as expressing a complete idea, had to be capable of being delivered in a single breath. How that sentence should be ended was a matter of personal taste, and for a long time scribes punctuated their texts with all manner of signs and symbols -- from a simple blank space to a variety of dots and slashes.

In the early fifth century, St. Jerome, translator of the Bible, devised a system known as per cola et commata, in which each unity of sense would be signalled by a letter jutting out of the margin, as if beginning a new paragraph. Three centuries later, the punctus, or dot, was used to indicate both a pause within the sentence and the sentence's conclusion. Following such muddled conventions, authors could hardly expect their public to read a text in the sense they had intended.

Then in 1566, Aldus Manutius the Younger, grandson of the great Venetian printer to whom we owe the invention of the paperback, defined the full stop in his punctuation handbook, "Interpungendi ratio." Here, in clear and unequivocal Latin, Manutius described for the first time its ultimate role and aspect. He thought he was offering a manual for typographers; he couldn't have known that he was granting us, future readers, the gifts of sense and music in all the literature to come: Hemingway and his staccato, Beckett and his recitativo, Proust and his largo sostenuto.

"No iron," Isaac Babel wrote, "can stab the heart with such force as a full stop put just at the right place." As an knowledgment of both the power and the helplessness of the word, nothing else has served us better than this faithful and final speck.

Answer 5

I think your essay sounds good, i think your character Louis had acted responsibly when he joined the military, its not the wrong thing, when he joined it. What happened to him was beyond his control. Serving the country at the same time finishing his schooling was a good thing and its not a settling for less as stated in your essay. I think you should not end your essay sad and hopeless. I think he should go to rehab, as his still young. I think because of his strong ethical value he would continue to persist in life. I think he deserves to be praised for working hard and a good ending in your story. As the bible says, God has good plans for us, plan to do us well and give us a good future for those who love the Lord. So that there is hope for Louis, maybe he will be a great writer, or painter. I hope this will be of help.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

yes. it's easy.
start ur essay with.........
full stop is a point marked by a sharp edge on a surface. it is very important to mark a full stop after every sentence. it denotes that a sentence copletes here and it tells the reader to have a pause while readind. it is a grammatical symbol.................

Answer 8

there was once a full stop that lived in the land of signs. full stop was a very small sign that many other signs of the land of signs didnt take notice of. languishing in self pity, full stop decided to hide away from the face of the world by hibernating at a bus stop, 500miles from the land of signs where she was created in. at first, coma, exclaimation mark, brackets and the rest of her friends didn't take notice as full stop usually didnt speak much to show her presence but at once they realise that without full stop, their sentences could never ever end for only full stop could end a sentence and without a ending to a sentence they could never start a new one without talking about full stop therefore as many months and days as full stop hid from the view of the world crying her dots out the signs could not carry their daily lives properly, making them rely heavily on coma who was getting exhausted from the heavy duty work although coma didnt complain, he was very worn out and one fine day he decided to look for full stop or else he too would die from severe exhaustion but full stop knew, she knew that one of them would certainly search for her when they could take it no longer and she fled again, now to a rest stop which was 5000miles away from the land of signs! now it was harder to find her, but coma still had to try right?if not, how could he rest well, knowing users of signs now found it hard to complete their sentences? life was tough without full stops, everyone needed a break, a break only full stop could give them; a rest when they were weary, full stop could end their pain, their misery, their hunger, their thrist, for when it seemed like an eternity of hell, full stop can lift their spirits, bring life back to the signs, she was even a friend to the symbols, the best friends of the cousins' of the signs, they never disappointed the signs when the signs needed help, for they were the almighty symbols, and bossom pals of full stop, and as coma thought of it all, coma wept, first it was a soft sniffle with a few tears like beads of water, then trickling like a drip from the tap, followed by a burst like jewels from a cloth bag, then coma could take it no more and cried tears that could break a dam! At this point, full stop heard, she listened, she sighed, she knew; she was needed, and so she ran through the lines of paper fields, back into the land of signs. Everywhere else cheered.

Answer 9

Is this a sneaky way of getting someone else to do your work for you perchance?!

Answer 10

Yes, but I won't let you read it.