Last year‚ as a freshman at Iowa State University‚ I received an interesting project in my English class: record your media habits for a week and interpret and organize the data collected into a critical investigative report. The project was called Totally Wired and my classmates and I were to determine if we were addicted to our phones‚ laptops‚ TVs and other devices. If we found this to be true we were labeled totally wired and joined the growing group of people addicted to media in today’s society
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be in a relationship or being single. Nowadays‚ being in a relationship is too difficult for young people. They are too busy to bother with building relationships – they have to study and often work at the same time. But is a relationship such a big burden as they seem? There are some advantages and also disadvantages of being in relationship‚ but being alone is not a good solution either. Now‚ I would like to compare and contrast those two statements. Firstly‚ being in a relationship with
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Sometimes people are bored‚ like we all are sometimes. The whole life can’t be exciting. Example when you are waiting in queue. The worst is then it is raining buckets and I’m waiting for the Bus. When I am bored I can’t concentrate me‚ I need fresh air. I trying to do something theirs is entertain me. Example when I’m home and I’m bored I just need to watch some Netflix or playing some PlayStation to be a little bit quicker. Find something to get my mind away. But who does find that interesting
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Vincent O’Reilly May 16‚ 2011 British and Western Lit. Outsider Essay Grendel Grendel‚ The Outsider To be an outsider is to be someone who does not belong to the general population of society. Someone who does not follow the same principles‚ morals‚ or ideals as the majority. Whether by choice‚ or by being forced out of the inner circle‚ anyone could potentially become an "outsider" to society. Grendel is by far the best example of an outsider in John Garders novel‚ Grendel. His views on life‚ relationship
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than not it will miss the mark altogether. Seems to me people always say they want that arrow (the truth) to hit dead center bulls eye all the time‚ but because of hidden agendas though the aim‚ was true when the arrow was loosed‚ the arrow ends up being deflected by things beyond the archer’s control and never is a solid hit. It is time for people to realize the government is not the only one that‚ under the guise of looking out for the public good or doing the right
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Johnny It was a big lid. All those years I believed he was gone forever. All those months I spent crying alone in my room‚ reading about his adventures he wrote down for me. Only to find out that he was still there. Anywhere. But there. Johnny‚ that’s what I decided to call my new furry friend‚ barked in his sleep. It seemed like he was dreaming. I did not want to wake him up. I leaned back in my chair and took a deep breath. Down here in my hideout‚ the air was a lot cooler than outside. I spent
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Scorpions vs Outsiders In this essay‚ I am going to compare and contrast the two novels ‘Scorpions’ by Walter Dean Myers and ‘Outsiders’ by S.E. Hinton. I will summarize the stories and then describe their differences and similarities. For example‚ both books are about gangs. But in Scorpions‚ there is one gang; in the Outsiders there are two. The Scorpions is about a 12 year old boy named Jamal who lives with his Mama and his little sister‚ Sassy‚ in Harlem. When his older brother Randy ends
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Quote "Dally’s okay‚" Johnny said defensively‚ and I nodded. You take up for your buddies‚ no matter what they do. When you’re a gang‚ you stick up for your members. If you don’t stick up for them‚ stick together‚ make like brothers‚ it isn’t a gang any more. It’s a pack. A snarling‚ distrustful. bickering pack like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber. "[Dally’s] tough‚ but he’s a cool guy." this is a example of the way pony boy doesn’t want
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This book report was done for S.E. Hinton’s novel‚ THE OUTSIDERS. In my essay‚ I explore the quote‚ "stay gold" and it’s meaning. I used a poem that was in the novel to express this topic (the poem is by Robert Frost). What it basically is about is the cycle of life. Title: "Stay Gold" I have just recently completed reading S.E. Hinton’s novel‚ The Outsiders. The author raises many topics faced by the teenagers of her time. Issues such as peer pressure‚ violence and family problems faced by the
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Outsiders Compare and Contrast The Outsiders was a book written by S.E. Hinton in 1967 and tells the life of greasers. The main Character’s name is Ponyboy Curtis. Ponyboy is a greaser and life isn’t easy for him. They have a gang that consist of 8 people. One day Pony learns that‚ “Things are rough all over‚” (Hinton‚ 35.) He learned this from his new friend Cherry valance‚(A soc) and ends up learning that both greasers and socs. are just normal people. He learned this over a week of losing
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