Mengdie Luo mandyluo@umich.edu English 125.043 Scott Beal Jan.23‚ 2013 Assignment #1 More than frenemy Being a single child‚ as I can tell you‚ is a difficult thing. Aside from the sometimes-unresolvable loneliness and almost always-glued attention‚ the constant comparison with the ‘kids next door’ can be supremely annoying. The phrase stands for those children of several close friends of your mom or literally just the kids who live next door. For me‚ there’s always been a girl like that
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Technology Essay In this essay I will state why I think technology makes my life more simpler . Some researchers have other opinions‚ as you will read in this essay. After reading the essay Fallen in Late by Kate Zernike‚ I saw that some researchers made some good points on how cell phones have enabled more people to fall behind schedule‚ and have provided a new crutch the chronically tardy. James E. Katz‚ a professor of communication at Rutgers University‚ says “the cell
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‘Lash’ Against TV In the article‚ “In Defense of the Written Word‚” the authors talk about the significance of written words and the negative effects that TV and pictures have on the world. In today’s society‚ the amount of time people spend on reading has declined which is clearly seen through “the 1.9% decline of newspaper circulation of 815 of the nation’s largest in 2005." Although the creation of the television itself was a huge phenomenon to the world‚ it created a huge dent on the critical
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In the Words of Wordsworth: Explain what Wordsworth means when he calls nature “The anchor of my purest thoughts‚ the nurse‚ / The guide‚ the guardian of my heart‚ and soul / Of all my moral being.” Compare your own responses to nature and the natural landscape. To what extent do you share the Romantic view of nature? Chapter 27 Journal Jeannine Orndorff January 20‚ 2013 William Wordsworth had a great love for the natural world. His poem “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”
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of the F Word‚” Mary Sherry teaches basic grammar and writing in a night class for high-school graduates and high-school dropouts‚ who are intent on pursuing graduate equivalent certificates for skills that should have been learned while in high school. She also speaks about how many of her students were involved in activities that they felt should have been stopped by someone and not themselves. Why has it become so easy for students to slide by in school? Today‚ some students are being cheated by
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power of words can make you be down and depressed and they can make you feel good about yourself. The way words make you feel have been used in life history and literature. Words can be hurtful when they are used against you in a argument and say things out of spite. Also words can be make you feel good about yourself when someone complements you or tells you something nice. In my life words have been hurtful and uplifting. There’s a saying “sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never
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Argumentative Phrases PHRASES TO SHOW DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES Looking through the lens of … Adopting a more macro perspective … In the larger scheme of things … In the long run/short term … In the political realm… Looking at the (economic) aspect of … PHRASES TO INTRODUCE ALTERNATIVE VIEWS One may argue that … Critics claim that … Naysayers decry… (E.g. Naysayers decry the loss of culture in society) Ultra pragmatists / conservatives / radicals / luddites may assert that … While [Subject/Example]
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Matt Professor: Book Review 4-2-13/ box WAR OF WORDS What is one thing that we all struggle with? What is one thing that is the hardest for some of us? Isn’t it how we use our words? Looking into this book War on Words by Paul Tripp was a truth taking book that gripped my understanding of words and exploded it with truth. This book from Tripp allowed me to look into the importance of words and how they affect you and me. In the beginning God spoke the earth into existence‚ now this might not
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he not only strives for her goal‚ but she achieves more than is expected. Just like Amanda I didn’t finish my 5 hours‚ and that was it‚ after completing my 5 hours‚ I did an extra 3 hour because I enjoyed helping others in the community. In other words‚ most people would of refused to ever go back to sunrise and assume some teachers‚ don’t expect students to do 10 or 11 hour‚ but I loved volunteering some much that I decided to more than was expected. My reflection on the impact it gave me. For
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Words are the most powerful weapon man or woman can ever acquire‚ the power to explain thy thoughts and feeling upon another. The power to manipulate‚ the power to fabricate a story‚ the power to compose a song or story‚ is all powers that the English language and intelligence around the world has brought to us. When I was an adolescent I was not the smartest. I didn’t have a gratifying vocabulary‚ and always had to work harder then the other student peers in my class. My cousin Blake always says
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