28/02/24 Dear Diary My name is Professor Sharon Jung and I am the first person in the WORLD to travel through time. I have been studying Ancient Greece for some time and I have been waiting for this moment for AGES. With all my courage‚ I took a deep breath and stepped into the time machine. 448 BCE As soon as I stepped out of the time machine‚ it was as if I was walking into a whole new world. Loud‚ busy and dirty. The streets of Athens‚ or Aktaio as you may call it in Ancient Greece‚ were amazing
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but we do not control all of those factors. We are destined to control as much of our lives. In the article‚ “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell‚ the main idea is that we have the maximum control of our lives. In the article “The Sports Gene” written by David Epstein states that we have minimal control of our lives. To begin with‚ the article talks about how we have most of the control of our lives. In the article we are told that in order to be a master in something‚ the person has to have at least practiced
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Examples of Diaries | Written by Richard Barrow | Today I got up at 6 o’clock. I ate breakfast in my car because I got up late. I went to school. I went up to my classroom. I read my school books. I went down to assembly. I sang the national anthem. I chanted. I went back up to my classroom. I learnt English‚ Math and Computer. I went back home by bus. I did my homework. I had a lot of homework. I took a bath. I brushed my teeth. I went to bed. วันนี้ฉันตื่น 6 โมง ฉันรับประทานอาหารในรถ
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David Alfaro Siqueiros was a very famous and influential Mexican artist whose work reflected his political ideologies. David was born on December 29‚ 1896 in Chihuahua‚ Mexico to parents Cipriano Alfaro and Teresa Siquieros. Siqueiros was the second of three children‚ and was raised by his grandparents after his mother had died when he was only four years old. His grandfather‚ Antonio‚ who had a military background‚ had a major impact on his childhood. In 1908 David attended Franco-English College
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What’s It Like to Be Depressed? David Scharf‚ a university student‚ takes a creative approach on explaining the difficulty of dealing with the real world and the depression brought about by it‚ in a short animated film called "The Forest". The video starts out with a 12 year old girl narrating her life. She doesn’t like school; she feels alone among people; her father pushes her very hard. To escape the pressures and sadness of the real world‚ the girl spends much of her time daydreaming about a
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A simple glance at the front cover of Malcolm Gladwell’s “David and Goliath” reveals a few things about Gladwell himself; he’s authored numerous other works‚ he’s a national bestseller‚ and he has a fondness for routinely boring‚ stark white book covers. Just above the bolded title—a place most readers probably won’t pay much attention to—typed in the smallest font on the cover‚ is a seemingly unassertive New York Times quote that is meant to highlight the book’s excellence. “As always‚” it reads
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Before David Walker’s Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World during the 1800’s‚ there had not been any other type of anti-slavery documents published. Although the Appeal is directed to black slaves‚ its powerful moral message and indictment of white America’s hypocritical society and oppressive‚ brutal system of slavery is a moral message that resonates to all audiences‚ including whites. Walker’s Appeal calls for slaves to rebel against their masters as the means of reacquiring their humanity
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“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are really after.” Henry David Thoreau. Many men go fishing for fish‚ but they actually go fishing to reminisce about their lives‚ all their hopes and dreams‚ and all that they have accomplished over the years. Some find what they need‚ and they aren’t even aware of it. For example‚ the presidential runners. Are they actually just running to better the lives in the United States or make a mockery of themselves? Donald
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Write a letter to David Mitchell responding to his opinions about school and boredom. Include facts and my own reaction. 600 – 800 words. 3-5 options. I agree/disagree with. I don’t need to agree with anything. Give reasons why. Use A FOREST. Dear David‚ I am writing to you in response to your article on school and boredom. Just to say‚ I liked the way you made use of the quote from twelfth night in paragraph two. You give an interesting play on words. I agree with this because some teachers are
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By Education Segregation has been a problem for quite some time‚ and it has trickled down from generation to generation‚ influencing younger and younger children every day. The problems the teenagers were facing in this book‚ The Freedom Writers Diary‚ were simply because of the segregation they were either taught or learned from the people around them. With the help of Ms. Gruwell‚ these teenagers became more open-minded about their peers and realized they needed an education. “You can’t go against
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