The Giver Writing Prompt: It’s almost midnight and you’re almost finished with your sixth cup of coffee. Your eyes strain as you stare at your computer screen looking at college applications. Once again‚ you go through the college pamphlets scattered on your desk and you read paragraphs to see it they provide a good job in the field you want. Sounds like a nightmare‚ right? Well‚ believe it or not this is reality for students looking for a college that suits their interests. Every
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Argumentative Essay Prompts 1. The Board of Education has decided to extend the school day for one hour because of the increased graduation requirements. Do you agree or disagree with making the school day longer? Write an essay to the Board of Ed and argue your point of view. 2. A leading doctor has published research claiming all students should be in bed by 9:00 PM in order for them to learn well in school. Your parents are considering doing what the doctor suggests. Write an argument
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Tell us about a talent‚ experience‚ contribution or personal quality you will bring to the University of California. In school‚ I have enjoyed learning sciences especially when the topics are related to human conditions. Ever since learning about general biology in my junior high school years ago‚ I have on my own taken additional anthropology‚ psychology‚ anatomy and chemistry classes from a local college for further enrichment and have grown very fond of learning the complexity in human machinery
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Prompt "That which we obtain too easily‚ we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value." Thomas Paine Assignment: Do we value only what we struggle for? Plan your response‚ and then write an essay to explain your views on this issue. Be sure to support your position with specific points and examples. (You may use personal examples or examples from your reading‚ observations‚ or‚ knowledge of subjects such as history‚ literature‚ science.) Prompt: If we are afraid
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We are jealous‚ undeniably. It really eats up at my heart when I come across the glamorous bodies of super models on the magazines and sigh with great shame at the sight of my big fat belly. It also drives me crazy upon valentine days upon a glance at my close girl-friend having awful lots of fun while I am virtually left unheeded and even dubbed with the nick name “Tomboy”. Then‚ after school‚ back home‚ my moth adds more agonies to my heart by chronically grumbling about my untidiness and poor
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Katie Chambers Bardenhagen British Literature 2232 FINAL Final Exam Prompts Prompt #1: Throughout the semester‚ the texts that we have worked with have often shown‚ through the writing‚ aspects of the author’s life that could have had a certain reflection on what they chose to write about. For this prompt‚ I have decided to work with Alexander Pope’s‚ “The Rape of the Lock”. When Pope began to write “The Rape of the Lock”‚ it was a time of Restoration and the rise of the eighteenth century. A
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Anthony Jimenez 9/4/2013 The Great Gatsby - Writing Prompt 1 The 1920’s were a time of dramatic changes that affected the economy‚ society‚ politics and popular culture. The nation’s total wealth doubled between the years of 1920 and 1929. As modern cities began to develop new buildings and advanced technology‚ many Americans began to move into the city and started to abandon the rural farm life. This brought a wave of new technologies that could make the modern consumers life easier
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Introduction: George F. Kennan’s "Training for Statesmanship" (1953) characterizes America’s distribution of power as unique‚ stating that unlike other nations‚ the “United States lacks a national uniformed police establishment functioning as the vehicle of a central political will." Kennan’s most compelling observation is that power within the United States thrives in every aspect of American life---from the obvious courts of law to economic bodies‚ regardless of whether or not that is legal. This
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READING WORKSHOP RESPONSE TOPICS Please keep this in your notebook. You will use it for all your responses. Answer different questions for every book. You should not answer the same question twice‚ even for a different novel. 1. Look for a list of other books by this author in the front of the book. Do the titles of the books seem to have anything in common? Are they structurally similar? Does this indicate anything to you about the author or the books? 2. Check the oldest copyright date
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Write a 4 to 6 page paper in which you consider two poems by Langston Hughes‚ providing commentary on the poems’ meanings. What overall theme do both poems relate? How do they relate the theme? What literary devices does Hughes employ? Is Hughes making a statement about society‚ himself‚ or people in general? What is that statement? What critical theory works best in looking at the poem (historicist‚ Marxist‚ reader-response‚ etc)? Your paper will have the following: • A clear thesis statement
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