semester‚ 80 percent of students passed their classes compared with 50 percent the previous fall‚” (Ripley 11).”There were no Friday night games to look forward to” (Ripley 11). It is important that students get their work done and prepare for school‚ and focus on their grades. With no sports students will not
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Cited: Armstrong‚ Lance‚ and Sally Jenkins. It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to life. New York: Penguin Putnam‚ 2001. Ripley‚ Amanda. “What is Life Worth?” Time December 2002:12-13. Shakespeare‚ William. Hamlet. New York: Simon and Schuster‚ 1992. Unknown‚ Human Life Value Calculator. Life and Insurance fondation for education. November 14‚2005 http;//www.life-line.org/life_human
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In the article‚ “The Case Against High Sports‚” Amanda Ripley outlines the flaw of the United States education system as prioritizing athletic sports over academics. The article is a well thought out argument that has supporting evidence‚ a strong thesis‚ and a counterargument that can be disapproved. Looking over the article and various other sources‚ I have come to support Amanda Ripley’s central claim: “as states and districts continue to slash education budgets‚ as more kids play on traveling
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Different authors use different techniques to persuade. The three main ways of persuading are through: pathos‚ which uses emotions‚ ethos‚ which proves their credibility‚ and logos‚ which implies the general message. Shakespeare‚ Lance Armstrong‚ and Amanda Ripley have all written articles arguing their opinion on the value of life. Of the three articles Lance Armstrong best persuades the audience with his argument that life is very valuable and that you could better your life from something negative‚ through
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These missions include fighting aliens‚ repairing barricades and even steering the APC down a long tunnel while using the flippers to dodge obstacles. Visually the table looks great with an image or Ripley along with the Alien Queen adorning the background. Using one of the zoomed out views reveals that the table is set on the planet surface with various vehicles and buildings around it. When the “power is cut” during one of the modes the whole table
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books. Kids who got paid to read books even though they already know how to read this will motivate them to read more. The more kids read the better their reading comprehension gets. In the article should kids be bribed to do well in school? Amanda Ripley says “paying second graders all year to read books produced the most dramatic gains of all “paragraph (17). Paying kids to read is a good incentive because kid who don’t read as much as other kids makes them to want to read more witch leads to
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In The Smartest Kids in the World (2013)‚ Amanda Ripley reports how countries with the highest scoring students are able to get the highest scores and how much importance is placed on education. Throughout the book‚ Ripley makes it clear that education around the world can vary and it can affect the social life of students. According to Ripley‚ “There is no better way to prepare for teaching than to actually teach and get meaningful feedback on how to improve” (94). One area the author explores
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because it affects how the future generations will turn out. Throughout time and space‚ people have debated about what the purpose of life is and why do people have the opportunity to experience it. People like William Shakespeare‚ Robert Ebert‚ and Amanda Ripley all have their own appointing views on life but they all relate to each other in many different ways. Though there have
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fortune. Within mere moments they went from facing imminent death to celebrating their lives. Amanda Ripley‚ a Time magazine reporter‚ and author of "The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes--And Why" writes about human behavior and our bodies responses to disasters. She suggests we go through three phases when faced with a disaster: Denial‚ deliberation‚ and the decisive moment (Loc. 216). Ripley believes‚ depending on the disaster‚ the time it takes to move through these phases‚ directly
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The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way is an illuminating book by Amanda Ripley that answers the question by showing how other countries educate their kids in a much more effective way than we do. Amanda Ripley‚ a gifted writer who has done feature stories for Time Magazine and the Atlantic‚ has a new tough task to conqueror. In order to discover the secret path to education success‚ Ripley travels to three particular countries that earned remarkable honors in international
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