Personal Essay Rough Draft Oscar Barnes Due: December 8‚ 2014 Instructor: Margarette Chavez Everybody has someone they look up to and it’s important to surround yourself with people that affect you in a positive way. For some it’s an athlete and others may look up to someone who serves as an advocate for human rights. For Oscar‚ he looks up to the one man who has served as a mentor all of his life- his father‚ Oscar Sr. There are many reasons as to why Oscar looks up to
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Thomas Jefferson: The Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson was the author of The Declaration of Independence‚ and according to Bellis‚ Jefferson was also a jurist‚ a diplomat‚ a writer‚ an inventor‚ a philosopher‚ an architect‚ a gardener‚ a negotiator of Louisiana Purchase‚ but he only requested three of his many accomplishments to be noted on his tomb. (2005). Thomas Jefferson was a very smart politician and he knew what to say to whom in order to enhance their support. This essay will
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Hejl Andrew English Mrs. Pearson 10/22/14 Declaration of Independence from Listening to People When‚ in the course of my crazy life‚ it becomes necessary for me to make conversation with other humans‚ and to hold said conversation and also listen‚ I must give my undivided attention to person(s) I am talking with. There is one certain element I cannot stand however; and that is listening to people. People telling me what to do with my life‚ where to sleep‚ where to sit‚ people telling me they
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Q. “A reader can feel uncomfortable with the values and attitudes presented in texts” Compare the extent to which the values and attitudes that you encountered‚ in at least two texts on your comparative course‚ made you feel uncomfortable. A. The texts i have chosen to write about is the play Sive by John B Keane‚ the novel How Many Miles To Babylon? (Babylon) by Jennifer Johnson and the film Im Not Scared (INS) directed by Gabriele Salvatores. In the play Sive‚ Mena is a powerful women
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Kayla Henrie Throughout the history of our world and into today‚ the costs of venturing beyond our own community is becoming increasingly difficult. Although one may think that globalization would allow us to easily venture out of our own comfort zone‚ often times this notion has the opposite affect. It is beneficial for an individual to step outside of his or her community both physically and ideologically because much can be acquired through both feats. We Americans are continuously stimulated
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Tornadoes and hurricanes are both natural disasters that claim many lives each year‚ although one starts in the water and one starts in the air. They are both devastating forces of nature causing tremendous amounts of damage. Many people do not know the differences between a tornado and a hurricane‚ but rather he similarities of the two. Although they both cause great amounts of destruction‚ they do in completely different ways. The one main difference between a hurricane and tornado is how and
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Michael Strobel Miss Light English 101-038 13 February 2013 For the Love of the Game? Thesis: In creating this labor dispute‚ the owners and players of the NHL caused a devastating blow to its credibility among NHL fans and it has disallowed nearly half the games of the 2012-2013 NHL season to be played. I. NHL Players have much of the blame A. Players used wrong channels to negotiate B. Split of NHL players to their home country 1. Would disassemble the greatest hockey talent in one league C. Hang
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that the vote for independence would be unfavorable. Something that you may not have known is that his favorite device was a rotating book stand that could hold five books at one time. As you can see Thomas was a very interesting man. At the young age of 32 Thomas Jefferson was chosen to be one of the five to write the Declaration. Thomas Jefferson is the Founding father of the Declaration of independence . He was a part of the five committee and was chosen to write the declaration. He was elected
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The Declaration of Independence is the foundation of America. It contains “the words that made America‚” (Fink‚ 9). Five of the founding fathers got together and penned this important document. As they penned this document‚ they were inspired by a number of European philosophers and writers. One of these philosophers was Jean-Jacques Rousseau. “Jean-Jacques Rousseau played a significant role in three different revolutions: in politics‚ his work inspired and shaped revolutionary sentiment in
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Steve Jobs rough draft I think that the subject of the first story and the story overall was to follow your heart. You should just trust yourself and let everything unfold. Make the decisions your own‚ not others. You are you‚not a shadow of someone else. This message was repeated many times in the text as stated. As stated in the text‚ Steve Jobs had chosen to drop out of college for his own reasons. (lines 19-23) He stopped ones that were required and started in on ones that he wanted to
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