The opening paragraph of an essay serves as the foundation for your argument or thesis statement. It is where you introduce your topic, provide background information, and establish your main points. This section should grab the reader’s attention and set the tone for the rest of the essay. Let’s explore some common elements that might ...

The French lines are dramatic at the rhetorical outset, but then shift quickly to a more sober language of factual detail, as if at the beginning of a police report or confession: compared with the English version, this is tersely expressed and with a starker contrast between the dramatic opening and the sober promise to set out facts.

According to the opening paragraphs of Chapter V of his autobiography, he had asked himself whether the creation of a just society, his life's objective, would actually make him happy. ... By contrast, it does not count as harming someone if—without force or fraud—the affected individual consents to assume the risk: thus one may permissibly ...

Furthermore, patients who have objected (opt-out) to the use of their data for scientific research are excluded, in accordance with Article 7:458, paragraph 1, subsection b, and paragraph 2 of the ...

Existentialism is a family of philosophical views and inquiry that study existence from the individual's perspective and explore the human struggle to lead an authentic life despite the apparent absurdity or incomprehensibility of the universe. [1] [2] [3] In examining meaning, purpose, and value, existentialist thought often includes concepts such as existential crises, angst, courage, and ...