Write an introduction and 2 paragraphs about gratitude

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I need you to write a research essay from about gratitude, I already included my proposal and my sources to be quoted in the essay. For now I just need an introduction and 2 paragraphs, I will include 5 sources BUT I ONLY NEED YOU TO CHOOSE 2 OF THE SOURCES TO INCLUDE IN THE ESSAY. -My proposal : Gratitude can be defined as the way of appreciating the good deeds or services rendered to us by other people. It can also be described as the general principles of Thanksgiving. The current generation that issue of materialism has been on the raise. This is attributed to the fact that many youth have developed urge for materialistic possession, which has played a major role in negatively affecting their social behaviors and eventually affecting their academic performances. Another major concern that is rising from the current trends is the marketing strategies that seem to be silently and unknowingly influencing the consumers of the content especially the youths to embrace the materialistic values, which end up having adverse effects on their happiness and even health.Massive advertisements on television set, radios, and other social media has been considered to be among the cause of materialistic perception among the youths. This is because the more various commodities are advertised, the more the desires of possessing such items continue to build up among the youths making them to be materialistic. Despite the fact that this behavior can be control through restriction, it is not easy.However, not all hope is lost. Encouraging gratitude among the youths is proving to work against materialism. Being grateful for what they have helps them on focusing less on acquiring what they do not have. Besides the television and social media advertisement restriction, fostering the art gratitude is the most effective and reliable way of handling this problem. -Please follow these instructions: As you begin writing your first drafts, I want to offer some guidance: -Your thesis statement does not need to be crammed into one sentence. In fact, the more complicated your thinking is, the more space you need on the page to workout your thesis statement. Don’t worry about trying to use “big” words. Just be yourself because “big” words often muddle meaning. Being clear is most important. There are 2 important things to remember about body paragraphs: Use text(s) in every paragraph. This is a research essay, so you are talking about what your research says about your topic. Develop, develop, develop! The death knell for any essay is skimpy paragraphs. Since day 1, you have been responding to text)s) in your DB posts. Actually, you have been practicing writing body paragraphs. Your essay’s body paragraphs’ should never be less than you would do in a DB post. Take a few minutes to review Week 3’s lesson Shades of Meaning and the 111 Refresher documents in this week’s folder. Your writing is expected to apply these lessons. -Citation instructions : Your Works Cited page is the last page of your essay. ** It is its own page. The title of the page is Works Cited. It is all about detail, so be very careful. Keep the following in mind and use this list as a checklist: Follow the format exactly: Do not use bold, underlining, quotation marks, or all capital letters in the page title. Do not number your sources. Pay attention to how to indent each source. ** Indenting for Works Cited is the opposite of indenting paragraphs. Study Owl’s sample Works Cited page. Use complete MLA Works Cited entry “formulas.” For library resources, see my previous instructions for using the CITE feature. For all other sources, go to OWL (use the link ion the blue navigation menu on your left) to find the correct “formula” for citing books, You Tube, TED Talks, etc. Make sure you fill in information in the correct order, with capitalization and punctuation exactly as it appears in the “formula.” Alphabetize entries.