Greek root meaning city, but especially the people of a city. The word 'police' is related, as is 'policy' and 'polite' and 'politics'. All words to do with what people decide or find normal.
Things to use to stand out from other writers is by using emotion as in how you felt towards that specific situation and detail on where and why it happened and the possibilitys on how it wouldnt happen. many people dont seem to use how one felt towards the problem in a essay/story and its more important than people think.
The middle paragraphs is typically where you write the support for your side of an argument or debate.
Theme is a main topic of a story or a plot. Its can e divided into two, the thematic concept and thematic statement. The concept is what the readers thinks about the story while the statement talks what is the story thinks about the subject.