On this day :

1929 First Academy Awards ceremony, 1777 Georgia Patriot Button Gwinnett receives fatal wound in duel, 1956 GM dedicates new technical center, 1863 Union wins the Battle of Champion Hill, 1960 USSoviet summit meeting collapses, 1975 A nurse steals another womans unborn baby, 1849 New York City establishes hospital for cholera victims, 1770 Louis marries Marie Antoinette, 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising ends, 1968 Protests mount in France, 1975 Japanese woman scales Everest, 1929 First Academy Awards ceremony, 2014 Pioneering TV journalist Barbara Walters signs off, 1717 Voltaire is imprisoned in the Bastille, 1964 Mary Wells gives Motown Records its first 1 hit with My Guy, 1881 Outlaw Dick Fellows is released, 1868 Senate acquits Johnson of high crimes and misdemeanors, 1980 Magic plays center as a rookie wins championship, 1965 Accident at Bien Hoa kills 27 US servicemen, 1968 Navy Corpsman receives Medal of Honor for action, 1972 US bombing destroys main fuel line, 1918 US Congress passes Sedition Act, 1943 As Brits launch Operation Chastise Germans launch Operation Gypsy Baron,

Essays

The expository essay is a genre of essay that requires the student to investigate an idea, evaluate evidence, expound on the idea, and set forth an argument concerning that idea in a clear and concise manner. This can be accomplished through comparison and contrast, definition, example, the analysis of cause and effect, etc. In an expository essay, the writer explains or defines a topic, using facts, statistics, and examples.