Illinois at Chicago 601 South Morgan Street Chicago‚ Illinois 60607 Dear Portfolio Review Committee‚ My first semester here at UIC I was obligated to take English 160. I can honestly say I thought I would be easily passing this course. I was used to the 5 paragraph essay in high school and assumed that things would be the same in college. After writing my first project for English 160 I felt invincible until I received my graded paper. I had no idea what I had done wrong because I had done so
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The novel you wrote‚ Memoirs of a Boy Soldier‚ really hit a soft spot in my heart. Occasionally I hear about kids that are very young teenagers fighting in wars and it goes right over my head. It is astounding how much you went through and other kids your age went through. I am nineteen years old and I have a very difficult time imagining what it would be like to walk in your shoes. I couldn’t have grasped the emotional toll that you had to perceiver through as you lived your life during the war
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Dear school board‚ Physical education helps students improve their knowledge about health issues and practices that will lead to a more enjoyable life. Some schools do not require students to participate in physical education classes‚ but it is important for young kids to stay physically active. The rise of obesity in young children has become a growing concern in America. Physical education should be required every year for all public school
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During my time reading to children at Jefferson Elementary school‚ I observed how a child’s knowledge of archetypes alters their perceptions of the particular book they are reading. I read the children’s book Are You My Mother by P. D. Eastman‚ and I witnessed three examples of how archetypes might have affected their view of the story: the caregiver role‚ the gender roles‚ and the hero and villain role. I read to two girls and right away I could tell that they were aware of what a mother should
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Essay on India After Independence By vidyadharghate on June 29‚ 2011 in Essays India got freedom on 15th August 1947. Many unknown heroes risked their lives so that all of us may breathe in freedom. Achieving independence was a tremendous task. After the building of the country began in right earnest. India is heading towards major superpower in the world. During the last sixty years‚ India has seen many up and downs. Typically speaking‚ if a person reaches 63 years of age‚ he is labeled as
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harmony. For Aristotle‚ the soul is form: it is a non-physical aspect of humans‚ which allows the body to achieve its potential‚ and without the body‚ the soul would be of no use as it would be unrecognisable. It is possible to base a theory of life after death on a monistic position. John Hick refers to humans as a ‘psycho-physical unity’ where body and soul are one. God makes it possible for this psychophysical unity to survive death. On the other hand‚ Dualism is the belief that the body and soul
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Have you ever suffered from hunger? Have you ever experienced severe poverty? Today I’m going to tell you about the miserable story of one child living in developing country. It is about the special letter I received from a child who I’ve been supporting. As you see‚ this letter is just a simple drawing of a flower. Just a flower with small leaves on it. The flower is colored with red crayon and the leaves are painted untidily with green. But there’s no more than a flower. The letter is mostly filled
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When I found out I was going to be a mother for the first time I had feelings wash over me that I never knew you could feel all at once. Some feelings I suddenly felt I didn’t even know existed until that very moment. Sitting there thinking about having a life inside me to care for and love‚ yet at the same time thinking I am to young‚ not ready‚ under educated‚ and just plain scared to death. All I knew is I wanted nothing more than to have a child that I have waited for‚ for so long. While I
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MY TRANSFORMATION‚ THANKS TO YOU Donnel A. Ojales Maintenance Assistant (BSBA-FM) It’s almost four years that I had been a scholar of De La Salle Lipa. When I was in fourth year high school‚ I never thought that I can continue studying on college. I am very thankful that because of this prestigious school‚ I am now on my way to the finish line of being a student. When I am on my first days here at De La Salle Lipa‚ I thought that I can’t survive because of the high expenses like for projects
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You Changed My Life is a 2009 Filipino movie starring Sarah Geronimo and John Lloyd Cruz. It is the sequel to the 2008 blockbuster movie A Very Special Love‚ starring Sarah Geronimo and John Lloyd Cruz. Filming has started in November 2008‚ just in time for its February 25‚ 2009 release as Star Cinema and VIVA Films’ post-Valentine offering to Filipino moviegoers and received again an “A” rating from the Cinema Evaluation Board. Cathy Garcia Molina reprises directorial duties for the franchise. It
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