Introduction to Essays...

Sample introduction

During the harrowing time of Apartheid, a lot of injustices were served to the black population of South Africa. In the film The Power of One, directed by John Avildsen, the scene where Sergeant Borman forces Geel Piet to eat donkey excrement paints the picture of the ill treatment towards black people. The following techniques are used in this scene: dietetic sound, camera angles and shots, and dialogue. These film techniques helped convey this important idea and caused the scene to have a strong impact on the audience.

Highlight the different elements of TAKO (Title, Author, Keywords from the Question, Outline of Ideas) using four different colours. Create a key to indicate which colour goes with which part of TAKO.

Orange-Title 
Yellow- Author/Director
Green- Keywords from the question
Blue- Outline of IdeasWhat is this person’s ARGUMENT going to be in their essay?
I think that their argument will be that during the apartheid in Africa, the native black people were treated very unfairly by the whites. The whites being the ones who thought that they had more rights than the black did, who, by the way, were there in Africa way before the whites...

What do you think this person’s three body paragraphs are going to be about?
1. Black Africans were segregated from the whites, and were put into their own villages away from everyone else.
2.People (the blacks) were treated unfairly just based on the colour of their skin, and because no one would stand up for them or their rights. 
3. The ill treatment and the injustice that the black people of South Africa endured during the reign of the apartheid.


Now it’s your turn to write a conclusion. You just need to re-state the same ideas in a different way! Here is an example.

In conclusion, The Power of One by John Avildsen is a film that shows the unacceptable treatment of the Black Africans in South Africa. Throughout the scene, Avildsen uses assorted file techniques to portray what is happening; which is Sergeant Borman making Geel Piet eat poo off his shoe. Dialogue, camera angles, sound and the camera shots help show that the treatment of not only Geel Piet, but all the Black Africans endured just because of the Whites and becasue of what the Apartheid was doing to them as well.