Church of the Last Resort

Posted on May 1, 2014 by davidbdale

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My name honors my mother Beatrice (Bea) and my father Dale. I am the author of 299 Very Short Novels and several plays and the Artistic Director of Must See Theater company.
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20 Responses to Church of the Last Resort

  1. angelakot's avatar angelakot says:
    May 1, 2014 at 3:17 PM

    When to use a ; verses a ,

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  2. Alex LaVallee's avatar alexlavallee1 says:
    May 1, 2014 at 3:19 PM

    ;

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  3. simstilley's avatar simstilley says:
    May 1, 2014 at 3:19 PM

    semicolons

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  4. taylorlacorte's avatar taylorlacorte says:
    May 1, 2014 at 3:19 PM

    semi colon(?)

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  5. bsharap's avatar bsharap says:
    May 1, 2014 at 3:20 PM

    Is it bad to use but at the beginning of a sentence?

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  6. Josue Johnson's avatar johnsonj2 says:
    May 1, 2014 at 3:20 PM

    Can you still start a sentence with a contraction even if it stands alone? (a.k.a. is a whole sentence.)

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  7. recon740's avatar recon740 says:
    May 1, 2014 at 3:20 PM

    What is this? | any real importance?

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  8. casmirreihing's avatar casmirreihing says:
    May 1, 2014 at 3:20 PM

    What are appropriate transitions to make an essay sound cohesive?

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  10. erikobs's avatar erikobs says:
    May 1, 2014 at 3:21 PM

    when to use semicolons

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  11. ryanmoyer450's avatar ryanmoyer450 says:
    May 1, 2014 at 3:22 PM

    Then or than? When to use which?

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  12. amandasmith195's avatar amandasmith195 says:
    May 1, 2014 at 3:24 PM

    how to quote properly

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  13. pattersom1's avatar pattersom1 says:
    May 1, 2014 at 3:30 PM

    Can you get through everything you ever have to write without ever using ;?

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  14. veltmanr0's avatar veltmanr0 says:
    May 1, 2014 at 3:37 PM

    When to use parentheses other than for in-text citation

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  15. Rachel Saltzman's avatar sadisutiku says:
    May 1, 2014 at 3:39 PM

    How do I organize numerous fractions, decimals, or percentages in one sentence? Especially when they all hold significant meaning as a group?

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    • davidbdale's avatar davidbdale says:
      May 1, 2014 at 3:58 PM

      Here’s your revised text with its outcomes for Hispanics, blacks, and whites repeated as percentages.

      If the 2008 statistic is reversed to apply to those who did have health insurance, 69.6% of Hispanics, 83% of blacks, and 90.1% of whites had health insurance in some form. Of these percentages, 44.6% of the original 69.6% (Hispanics), 53% of the original 83% (blacks), and 69.8% of the original 90.1% (whites) had private health insurance. That means the other 55.4%, 47%, and 30.2% (respectively) had government health insurance.

      It’s a big improvement over your first draft.

      The best organization plan, though, is based on how you want to explain the outcomes. Incorporate your explanation into the list so that your reader interprets the findings as you wish.

      If the 2008 statistic is reversed to apply to those who did have health insurance, the pattern becomes obvious. Whites are more likely to be insured (90.1%), followed by blacks (83%) and Hispanics (69.6%). Of these insured, for whites the insurance was most likely to be private (70%) compared to a government plan (30%). For blacks, the private/public mix is 53/47, and for Hispanics 45/55.

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  16. davidbdale's avatar davidbdale says:
    May 1, 2014 at 3:44 PM

    David asked, “Any more questions?”
    Did David ask, “Any more questions?”
    Did David shout, “No more questions!”?
    David told us, “I have never been a ‘do or die’ sort of guy.”

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  17. angelakot's avatar angelakot says:
    May 1, 2014 at 3:48 PM

    what is this ~ for

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