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Conclusion
Conclude by summarizing your essay and rephrasing your thesis. Do not just repeat your thesis in your conclusion, however. Instead, review your thesis, along with the major highlights in your essay, and perhaps make each point a sentence, followed by a call to action or look to the future. See the example, below, that shows the comparison and connection between thesis and conclusion. Note how each point in the thesis is rephrased--and slightly augmented by other essay content--in the second through the fourth sentence in the conclusion. Also, note how, in the conclusion, the first sentence creates a topic sentence, giving a focus to the ending, while the last sentence looks back and then to the future of Warhol's work.
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Sample Thesis Warhol’s Statue of Liberty depicts a grid of several smaller images of Lady Liberty decentered on the canvas, features a fading effect of blue and red spray paint padded by an inordinate amount of white negative space, and represents America’s Pop Art movement so closely tied to the artist’s name. |
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Sample Conclusion Although seemingly simple in design, Warhol’s Statue of Liberty becomes deeply meaningful on closer look. The grid-like nature and repetition of the same image of the Statue of Liberty monument in four rows of three defines the work’s uniqueness. The linearity, coupled with splattered color patterns and the content’s largely off-centered positioning, speaks to the artist’s affinity for juxtaposing artistic elements against each other. Moreover, the context of Statue of Liberty represents the Pop Art movement in America that drew attention to the over-commodification of not only household products but also big ideas. Although created in a generation known for civil rights activism, Flower Power, and recreational drugs, such presentation and representation in Warhol’s Statue of Liberty has just as much to say today, as it did then, and assuredly, it will speak to generations in the future. |
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