Sam Assad January 9‚ 2012 Pre-Composition Paul Hauptmann Diagnostic Essay In the educational system in America many students have always wondered why History is a mandatory subject in acquiring there basic education. Some mention that History is a dead subject and that the past is not relative to the current situations surrounding them. Others feel that even though they become educated in History it neither predicts the future nor explains how to react to it. Although these are valid arguments
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Story “I am sitting in my truck having my lunch break then all of a sudden a huge fire rang out nearly busted my eardrums. I couldn’t comprehend what happened then. I saw a man armed with a 30-30 caliber rifle‚ including that i’m terrified out of my skin! He was only 15 feet away from me‚ looking at me and a woman who had her baby‚ with his gun was pointed at waist level toward us. All I could think of is hitting the ground and hoping for the love of god‚ that he wouldn’t kill me. “Don’t kill me
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his life’s calling to cook spaghetti every day and every night. That is what is natural to him. Naturalization means‚ “that one has grown used to an environment that was once shocking.” (Cassegard 83) Nothing really phases him‚ however‚ he could not have reached naturalization without having privatization occur first. Privatization is: The process whereby individuals “become used” to solitude‚ or—to be more precise—their instinctual needs and fundamental impulses become channeled in such a way that
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blanketing the great Texas countryside‚ oftentimes we only see disturbing amounts of garbage. This is what I aim to change. Through my school’s Key Club I have had the opportunity to have a positive impacts in reducing the "over 435 million pieces of visible litter" covering "our empire wide and glorious." In the thirty-eight total service hours I have dedicated to both Texas Adopt-A-Highway and school wide recycling the amount of litter that myself and the generous volunteers
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Romans 3:28 which states "we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the Law”. However catholics believe that we are saved by faith plus love and good works. Implying that you don’t go to heaven because you just believe you have to work hard to get into heaven by saying “I deserve to go to heaven not this man who hardly shows up on sunday”. That is why catholics work in the community more than other religions such as Lutheran’s‚ Baptist’s‚ Methodist’s and so on and so forth
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and raises numerous real-world issues in its story of a murder case in Middle America in which the victim was a girl who successfully passed herself off as a boy. Brandon Teena depicts the life and death of a young woman who believed that she should have been born a man. Teena concealed her female gender and successfully convinced almost everyone she knew that she was really a male‚ while living in a small town in Nebraska. At first‚ as I was watching the movie‚ I was confused as to why Teena wanted
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you force yourself out of bed‚ your brain still not yet conscious. You get your uniform and proceed to head to the bathroom to get ready for school. Minutes pass by quickly and you are walking to school‚ lost in deep thought. For some time now‚ you have not yet listened to the world around you. As you gently shift your focus towards the world before you‚ your ears process the sound of anger at its highest level. You cannot believe what you hear. Vexation fills the air and you are now in an ever so
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In the essay “Don’t Blame the Eater‚” David Zinczenko describes himself as a kid who would eat regularly at fast food restaurants until he got “lucky”. He argues that most teenagers eat fast food instead of healthy and nutritious food. I‚ on the other hand‚ had a very different experience as a child. At my house there was always an emphasis on nutritional health. From an early age I had a vast amount of knowledge about which foods to eat and which to avoid. My dad is very particular about the
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Writing Assignment: Wag the Dog The media is the source of contact we Americans keep with the other parts of the world. Without it how would we know what was going on in the globe? Fox News‚ CNN‚ NBC‚ and many others are our sources of information. Numerous people watch the news to see what is going on in other countries and in our own country. The news we hear creates a huge problem of knowledge‚ because reporters have a bias and we as the people do not know where the information is coming from
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Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech was made in the March On Washington. MLK Jr. emphasizes the importance of the passing of the bill and equal rights to all people by using nonviolent protests as he mentions it in his speech. To help his audience understand his goal‚ Martin Luther King Jr. had used a variety of literary devices. This includes metaphors‚ similes‚ anaphores‚ and allusions. This great significance in his speech makes his speech the best out of John Lewis’s “Patience is
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