JOE & JOEY

On the day Obama delivers his address, thousands of Egyptians, inspired by the democratic uprising in Tunisia that forced the dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali to flee, plan to gather on the streets of Cairo to protest three decades of authoritarian rule by the U.S. client regime of President Hosni Mubarak. It promises to be a tense encounter, with the authorities warning they will crack down firmly against an illegal demonstration. But younger activists in Egypt are eager to test the will of the regime, emboldened by the Tunisian example.




Joe and I believe that the first sentence of this paragraph is the topic sentence because it gives you a brief outline on what the paragraph is about. This is a good paragraph because the first sentence is supported by the rest of the paragraph and the context stays within its boundaries of one topic. Like Mr. Hamilton said,"one topic, one paragraph."