to say‚ here you have a city with the world’s most pathologically aggressive drivers -- who in other circumstances would be given injections of valium from syringes the size of basketball jumps and confined to their beds with leather straps -- and you give them an open space where they can all go in any of thirteen directions at once. Is that asking for trouble or what?” Interspersed are salient comments about traveling on European trains. “There is no scope for privacy and of course there is nothing
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and what I learned from that may be my greatest success. My goal in soccer has always been to play at the highest level. For the most part‚ I have achieved that goal and want to continue playing in college. But‚ when I was fifteen‚ for the first time‚ I did not play at the highest level. At age sixteen‚ a select number of clubs offer an academy team. The academy system is considered the highest level of youth soccer and is where many Division I college players are recruited. Even though I
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Argument Paragraph 2 Decius convinces Caesar to come to the senate‚ by telling Caesar that the dream was noble not a tragedy. As Calphurnia has a dream of what she thinks is horrible‚ Decius convinces Caesar that the dream was all a misinterpretation‚ it was a dream of how noble Caesar is‚ not tragic. The ides of March has come‚ and Calphurnia has a dream of what she thinks is tragic. Caesar tells Decius what happens and that he will be staying home Act 2 Scene 2 Line 76-82 “She dreamt
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PIE paragraph model do help me a lot in how to develop a paragraph reasonably and logically. Before I learned the PIE paragraph model‚ my writing process was blindly and desultorily. After given a topic‚ I just slightly thought of what it was and what it might concern about‚ and then I wrote them down without even placing them in an organized order‚ making my paragraph unpersuasive and unfocused. Even more‚ though it was so “improvisational”‚ I didn’t revise it‚ and fragments and run-ons would not
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would also agree with me if I say that there are things that keep people on asking for more. Some ask for money‚ some ask for power‚ some ask for knowledge‚ some ask for love life‚ some ask for sex and whether we admit it or not there are these people who even ask for “life” per se. Uhhmm… but what is life really? Is it something that is given or is it something that is achieved? For my own discernment and with due respect to the opinion of everyone‚ I would have to say that life is something that is
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Jazmin Pettiford February 12‚ 2013 Period 5 Mortell English 10 HN Holden v. Games and Sports It is usually when Holden‚ an iconoclast‚ becomes upset‚ sad‚ happy‚ or just any extreme emotion‚ that we see the motif of a game or sport come up. For example‚ when old Spencer has the talk about life being a game‚ and that “one must play according to the rules” (Salinger‚ J.D. Catcher in the Rye. Page 12‚ Chapter 2)‚ Holden completely rejects him‚ but yet still pays attention to what he has to
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‘’Facebook’’ People who want to keep in touch with friends and family commonly use Social Networking sites. The most popular website is Facebook. Facebook allows users to connect to others by sharing pictures‚ blogs‚ videos‚ interests and more and has taken over American teens
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Emily Cloonan‚ Miranda Haddock‚ Ryan Getherall November 3‚ 2014 Light/Dark Paragraphs In the novel‚ A Tale of Two Cities‚ by Charles Dickens‚ the author uses light and dark to set the tone. The tone of this novel is mysterious‚ dark‚ and depressing. At the beginning of the novel‚ Dickens says “It was the season of Light‚ it was the season of Darkness‚ it was the spring of hope‚ it was the winter of despair” (7). In this quote‚ Dickens uses paradox to explain the controversy between the light and darkness throughout
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believe that He is a merciful and loving God who is the only one who knows what will happen to us in our future. I believe that He is merciful because He is always there to forgive us whenever we sincerely ask for it. Despite our sins‚ He accepts us and ensures that everything that happens to us is for our own good. Because of His mercy He gives us another chance to reconcile with Him so that in the end we will be with Him in Heaven. He is a loving God who even sacrificed His own Son for mankind and
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Sample paragraph 1: 1) Topic sentence: Name the text and show the them‚ then provide an argument on the theme/ make a point on that theme. 2) Analysis: Techniques‚ Examples‚ Effect of techniques in the examples. Write a minimum of 3 techniques and their effects. What is in the text? (Characterisation‚ techniques‚ plot‚ themes.) 3) What I learn from the text‚ with respect to the notion put forth in my topic sentence: What we learn through the text (Insight‚ conclusion.) 4) Link to exam question:
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