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  2. On the Road - Wikipedia

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    On the Road is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagonists living life against a backdrop of jazz , poetry, and drug use.

  3. Widows and orphans - Wikipedia

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    The last line of a paragraph continuing on to a new page (highlighted yellow) is a widow (sometimes called an orphan). In typesetting, widows and orphans are single lines of text from a paragraph that dangle at either the beginning or end of a block of text, or form a very short final line at the end of a paragraph. [1]

  4. Template:Transclude lead excerpt - Wikipedia

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    Numbers of the paragraphs to be transcluded, as a comma-separated list containing numbers and/or number ranges in the format min-max. Default all paragraphs Example paragraphs=1,3-5: String: optional: Files: files: Numbers of the images to be transcluded, as a comma-separated list containing numbers and/or number ranges in the format min-max ...

  5. Paragraph - Wikipedia

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    A common English usage misconception is that a paragraph has three to five sentences; single-word paragraphs can be seen in some professional writing, and journalists often use single-sentence paragraphs. [7] English students are sometimes taught that a paragraph should have a topic sentence or "main idea", preferably first, and multiple ...

  6. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Lead section

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    Non-English names should be moved to a footnote or elsewhere in the article if they would otherwise clutter the first sentence. [P] Separate languages should be divided by semicolons; romanizations of non-Latin scripts, by commas. Do not boldface non-English names not normally used in English. Some non-English terms should be italicized.

  7. The Road - Wikipedia

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    The Road is a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. The book details the grueling journey of a father and his young son over several months across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed industrial civilization and nearly all life.

  8. On the Road (2012 film) - Wikipedia

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    On The Road (French: Sur la route) is a 2012 adventure drama film directed by Walter Salles. It is an adaptation of Jack Kerouac 's 1957 novel On the Road and stars an ensemble cast featuring Garrett Hedlund , Sam Riley , Kristen Stewart , Alice Braga , Amy Adams , Tom Sturridge , Danny Morgan, Elisabeth Moss , Kirsten Dunst , and Viggo Mortensen .

  9. Five-paragraph essay - Wikipedia

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    Finally, the last sentence of the first paragraph of such an essay would state the thesis the author is trying to prove. The thesis is often linked to a "road map" for the essay, which is basically an embedded outline stating precisely what the three body paragraphs will address and giving the items in the order of the presentation.