Lenneen Gibson‚ Assistant Principal Greg Reo‚ Assistant Principal SUMMER ASSIGNMENT FOR RISING SENIORS Tennessee Williams begins The Glass Menagerie with a comment by Tom Wingfield‚ who serves as both narrator of and character within the play: “Yes‚ I have tricks in my pocket‚ I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.” In one sentence‚ Williams has summarized
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Discuss your reasons for wanting to become a Naval Nurse Officer. (Limit 2500 characters) As a young man entering my senior year of high school‚ my mind races as I try to figure out what it is that I’ll commit my life to. What will be the driving passion‚ the purpose of my existence‚ the reason I get out of bed every morning to face another day of this life? Some people would try to encourage me to choose a career simply for its potential to make me wealthy. However‚ looking at the degenerate lives
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A day that I wish I hadn’t experienced was October 28‚ 2005. On that day‚ I had to have surgery on my palate. The surgeon cut open the top of my mouth and lengthened it a half an inch which is called a z-plasty. I had the surgery because when I was younger I had a clarity problem with my speech. The first reason why I wish I didn’t have to experience October 28‚ 2005 is that I had to go under anesthesia. Because of this‚ I threw up blood a lot during my recovery. My recovery was three weeks. The
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------------------------------------------------- Respected Head Mam‚ teachers and my friends‚I wish you a happy independence day. INDEPENDANCE DAY means a day when we had got freedom from not only our brute rulers but freedom from want from fulfillment of right needs... India was under the British rule for 3-4 centuries. It was in 1857 India started it’s independence struggle forcefully through a revolt named "The Great Revolt" against the British. Mahatma Gandhi was the spine and brain
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Why I Want to be an Army Aviator First and foremost‚ I understand that I am applying to be an appointed leader in the United States Army. I am voluntarily stepping into a role that requires clarity‚ decisiveness‚ courage‚ passion‚ and humility. That If appointed‚ I will be trained to be a technical leader‚ trainer‚ operator‚ manager‚ maintainer‚ sustainer‚ and advisor first and a Pilot second. These are all characteristics that define the type of leader I am‚ and will continue to be in the Navy
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line “And the saw snarled and rattled‚ snarled and rattled” both emit a sense of darkness‚ as if having a “personality” of its own. b. When the sister came out and told the brother that supper was ready and the saw looked as if it “leaped” out of the boys hand‚ it seemed as if the saw was a friend of the boy that did not want to be abandoned‚ so it pulled away from the boy in anger‚ causing injury to the boy. The saw and the boy were in essence “friends” because of the time they spent together
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The giving pledge What is “the giving pledge”? It’s a solemnly bound “promise” which beats the normal promise. Because a pledge is something you are bound to do‚ and there is no way around it. You could say that “pledge” have a higher status of word if you compare it to “promise”. “The giving pledge” is a band of billionaires who donate money to charity. Warren Buffet and Bill Gates took the initiative to gather a lot of rich Americans and persuade them to give more than 50% of their fortune to
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I woke up like any other day. I sat straight up and looked around‚ as I looked I thought how in the world am I not dead yet? Everyday that we woke up alive to me was a blessed day. To many it was the worst possible thing because they all just wanted to die away from the pain. Our beds were made of concrete‚ we went to bed in pain and woke up in pain and that was my life for about 7 months. You had to get use to everyday things or else you would die away like everyone else. I didn’t want anything
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desire should be greater than your fear of failure‚” Bill Cosby My name is John DoeA and I am a senior at Thomas Jefferson High School. After high school‚ I wish to attend college to further my education and eventually become employed in the field of history. Post secondary education is very important because I want a better life experience than my parents. Neither of my parents are college graduates and I have seen the lifestyle they have had to endure; unemployed or employed in low paying jobs
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In today’s society‚ it’s known that Latinos have become the largest ethnic group in the state of California. Therefore‚ schools and communities are surrounded by Hispanics‚ Latinos and other race as well. In this film Stand and Deliver it shows a high population of Hispanic students from working-class families who are way below their grade level in terms of academic skills and have a lot of social problems. However‚ in this film we discover a variety of learning objectives that are established by
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