Marshall Curry

If I were writing an article for the newspaper, it would be thesis statement, information, information, supporting arguments. That would be the setup. When I'm making a documentary, the pacing of the film and the way that you sort of switch from character to character - all of those are more about storytelling than straight journalism.

American Director

Pawel Pawlikowski

I don't think women are that vastly different from men. I'm a bit of a woman myself. But I'm not a feminist filmmaker. I'm not making a feminist thesis to prove that women are important. I just happen to make films with strong characters that are women.

Polish Director

Pat Robertson

Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.

American Clergyman

Sheldon Whitehouse

My thesis is that government is not, in fact, broken. It's just listening to the wrong people, and it's listening to all of this quiet influence. So it's a very robust operation that operates kind of under the surface.

American Politician

Marcus du Sautoy

My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world of numbers and shapes, patterns emerge and you start to understand why things are the way they are.

British Mathematician

Eric Metaxas

If you accept my thesis that the universe and this earth are the most outrageous miracles by an infinite margin, then you will understand that simply for us to exist requires a miracle.

American Author

Kay Kay Menon

It's difficult to explain in words, but I enjoy doing films more than theatre. It helps me in experiencing moments of truth and I can write an entire thesis on my love for the medium!

Indian Actor

Richard Thaler

My thesis topic was 'The value of a human life.' I asked people a question: 'Suppose you had some risk, a one in a thousand risk of dying - how much would you pay to eliminate it?

American Economist

Herb Kelleher

We've always operated on the thesis that a company can have a personality, that people can be themselves, and be very successful in business at the same time.

American Businessman

Lauren Bush

College was a wonderful time to really explore my interests. I ended up writing my senior thesis about gender inequality in the developing world.

Model

A thesis is essential to complete certain university degrees; it highlights research skills.

Academic Requirement

Theses are based on new research, contributing to the subject's knowledge base.

Original Research

It's not just an essay; a thesis is lengthy and requires extended study.

Lengthy Document

A thesis statement is the heart of your essay, guiding its structure and arguments.

Paper's Core

Effective thesis statements are specific and succinct, not vague or general.

Precision

The thesis statement presents the claim you'll argue throughout your paper.

Argument Foundation

A thesis should challenge readers, encouraging them to think critically.

Thought Provoking

Theses narrow a topic to a particular aspect that is manageable and specific.

Scope Definition

Any thesis must be supported by factual evidence and sound reasoning.

Evidence-Based

In music, the thesis emphasizes the strong beats in a measure.

Musical Highlight

A musical thesis marks the beginning of a phrase, indicating structure in the composition.

Musical Phrasing

The placement of the thesis varies depending on the time signature of the piece.

Time Signature Context

 was incredible you know that was my frog that was one that one really wanted to work with I got special permission to collect them brought them back to the museum they bred them for the first time in the world Manchester and I did my thesis on the frog described this biology the tough whole development that never been

He Spent His Career...

 I began to get to know him and his friends and family, and I asked him what he thought about me writing about his life for my senior thesis in college. This senior thesis became a dissertation at Princeton and now a book. By the end of my sophomore year, I moved into the neighborhood and I spent the next six years

Alice Goffman: How we're...

 purgatory than it is for the poor he thinks it's way too much about money and too little about god when priests sell letters of indulgence with slogans such as when the coin in the coffin clings the soul from purgatory springs luther wants to discuss this with other monks and priests so he writes 95 theses and

A Fun, Animated History...

 ideas and architectural theories I saw this a massive opportunity to take a side steps left and go back to all the things I was really into when I was younger so look elephants the robots the kind of massive towers all the stuff that could be very creatively and this all came to a head in my final thesis

Making stories come to...

 who is spearheading this for his thesis. And here is what we wanted to we wanted to make it so that sound from the world gets converted in some way so that a deaf person can understand what is being said. And we wanted to do this, given the power and ubiquity of portable computing,

Can we create new senses...

 My thesis in this book is that there are seven billion people in the world, and actually, seven billion unique ways to express one's gender. And while people may have the genitals of a male or a female, the genitals don't determine your gender or even really your sexual identity.

Martine Rothblatt: My...

 analysis and conclusion. If you begin writing a literary analysis with the introduction, you may be discouraged. Here's a tip for writing a great Write it last, and write your thesis first. Figure out what you want to analyze before you actually analyze it.

The power of a great...

 Oh, I can see a pup! I can see a pup! Amazingly, looking straight into the camera. Theses wolves are incredible. They have never seen this kind of thing before and they don't scurry back into the den.

Up Close and Personal...

 first motion picture ever created and what he also did that contributed to our motivation and the the basic thesis behind this was not only to capture with today's most modern technology and most

Greg Wilson: Cheetahs on...

 how could we expect them to be otherwise? Next, I tried to teach them essay writing. But that turned out to be nearly impossible. Essays are about coming up with one's own thesis,

Thesis

A long piece of writing based on original research and submitted as part of a university degree, especially a higher degree such as a Ph.D.