Fire

It has enabled us to cook food and boil water (sanitary), increasing life expectancy dramatically
It gives us light and warmth
It enabled us to clear forest for agriculture and to work metal.

Prompt:

February 11 is "National Inventers Day" in honor of Thomas Edison who was born on this day in
1849. What do you believe to have been the best invention ever created and why?

Attention Grabber:

Have you ever wondered what the “best” invention is?

Transition Sentences:

Some people say the greatest inventions ever made are cars. Other people the greatest invention
is a cell phone. My opinion of the greatest invention is completely different from these.

Thesis Statement:

My opinion of the greatest invention is the invention of the fire, I think it is the fire because it
has enabled us to cook food and boil water, it has given us light and warmth, and it also has
enabled us to clear forests for agricultural reasons such as bending/forming metal.

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Topic Sentence:

Fire has helped us cool food and boil water.

Detail Sentence 1:

Cooking food has helped us in ways such as providing us with clean and healthy food.

Detail Sentence 2:

Boiling water has also helped by providing us with clean sanitized water.

Detail Sentence 3:

The boiling of water and the cooking of food has also raised the life expectancy dramatically.

Concluding Sentence:
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Topic Sentence:

The invention of fire has enable provided us with light and warmth.

Detail Sentence 1:

Light has strengthened out eye sight and helped us live longer.

Detail Sentence 2:

Fire has also provided us warmth too.

Detail Sentence 3:

Without warmth we wouldn’t be able to live long due to hypothermia.

Concluding Sentence:

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Topic Sentence:

Fire has enabled us to clear forest for agriculture and work metal.

Detail Sentence 1:

Without fire we wouldn’t have any or little vegetation.

Detail Sentence 2:

Fire has helped us clear out the forests and bushes that we couldn’t have done by hand.

Detail Sentence 3:

It has also helped us work metal.

Detail Sentence 4:

We are now able to make almost any type of machinery that we want.

Concluding Sentence:
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