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    Snob versus Nerd Schools are the biggest place where most people get their classifications from. Once you hit a certain grade that is when people get labeled especially in older grades starting in middle school‚ and this classification stays usually throughout your life. In every school there are always the snobs and the nerds. These two particular groups have their reasonable differences. However‚ snobs are the real big classification out of two. When it comes down to it‚ snobs have to have

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    Both Sonja Tanner’s “On Plato’s Cave” and Margaret Atwood’s “The Writer’s Responsibility” focus on the juxtaposition between the real and the imagined; A‚ however‚ suggests that it is‚ in fact‚ society’s ignorance and willingness to ignore the relationship between the real and the imagined that leads to the writer’s responsibility to make the relationship clear‚ while T highlights that the relationship is strained and obscured and that the responsibility is on the individual to forge the connections

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    Student Loans: Good or Bad? Esperanza Bauder When most high school seniors graduate‚ they plan on immediately attending college to better their lives. The goal is to get a successful job that will pay enough to provide for the needs‚ and most of the wants of life. Unfortunately‚ the great cost of attendance at most universities leaves many students scratching their heads about how they will pay for the better future they desire. Some dig into their life savings‚ some receive scholarships‚ and most

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    Cross Country vs. Track People always ask "What is the difference between Cross Country and Track‚ all you do is run‚ is there a difference?" Just because both of these sports have to do with running doe not mean that they are the exact same. I agree there are some similarities in the two but there are also a lot of differences. To know the differences you have to have some experience and or knowledge of the sports. The reason I know how they are similar and different is because I participate

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    English 11 In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting "Gracious Goodness"‚ by Marge Piercy and "To Have Succeeded"‚ by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Both these poem provided different meanings to be succeesful. Most people think having money or being famous is the key to being succeesful‚ but that’s not the case. In "Gracious Goodness"‚ by Marge Piercy‚ the author talks about this person helping a bird who had a barbed hook in them. So the person kindly borrowed a pair of clippers and got the

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    In Walt Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing‚” and Claude McKay’s “America” the poets present a similar view of America‚ but they do so in a very different manor. While both show a love for America and focus on life in America‚ that is where their similarities end. Whitman’s view of America is up-beat and positive‚ focusing on the life of everyday people in America. McKay’s view of America is much more negative‚ and reveals the dark side of the American life. Each used various literary tools to portray

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    What makes a good scary story? A good scary story is only good if it’s based on something that happened in reality and could happen to anybody. My story is something similar to that. Now that I look back at it‚ maybe it was just the sugar rush I had from the Surge soft drink. It had my blood pumping and my heart beat was racing. I haven’t been back to those woods since that day; however‚ there was still a part of me that wondered if what I saw was there in reality and not just my imagination. Either

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    Elements of Short Stories Plot (what happens)     conflict (the basic opposition or tension that sets the plot of a short story in motion; it engages the                 reader‚ builds suspense or mystery‚ and arouses expectation for events to follow.)     open-ended at both ends     exposition (background information‚ setting the scene‚ establishes situation‚ dates the action)     rising action (complication) (develops and intensifies the conflict)     climax (crisis) (the moment at which

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    This article is about the short story. For other uses‚ see Lottery (disambiguation). "The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson‚ first published in the June 26‚ 1948 issue of The New Yorker.[1] Written the same month it was published‚ it is ranked today as "one of the most famous short stories in the history of American literature".[2] It has been described as "a chilling tale of conformity gone mad."[3] Response to the story was negative‚ surprising Jackson‚ Caleb Mann (the local head editor

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    Romeo and Juliet/ West Side Story Compare and Contrast I recently finished reading Romeo and Juliet‚ as well as West Side Story. As I read I noticed various things which were similar between the two stories. That also got me thinking about the things that are different as well. One of the obvious similarities is what happened to Bernardo and Tybalt as the stories progressed. They both tried to stop the two lovers from continuing their romance. If they left the two lovers alone they would have lived

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