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    I. Introduction People often remark how different the students of today are to those in the past. Each generation claim that those who come after them are getting worse‚ while those who came before them are much better than they were when they were students. Are students really all that different “Now” than they were “Before”? It’s been said that with every batch‚ with every generation‚ students are slowly degrading‚ that you could count with your fingers‚ those student who truly excel nowadays

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    Past Climate Rainshadow From reading Chapter 13 of the Essentials of Meteriology and many website that went over the past climate and how it is important to the world to know about it. Of course past climate impacted and still impact what happens to the weather and tempreratures in the atmosphere. Scientists use past climate changes and temperatures to know what will happen in the future and why something happens in the present too. Past climate existed with the most amount of carbon dioxide and

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    The Past‚ Present‚ and a Condemned Future “The past is the present‚ isn’t it? It’s the future too. We all try to lie out of that but life won’t let us”(882). The character of Mary Tyrone declares this quote and poses an ominous thought; the state of time is merely irrelevant in life. It does not matter whether one resides in the present‚ the past can hauntingly resurface; the hope for the future can consume and blur what occurs currently. The main characters of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named

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    industries success. To start it was a time of high volume immigration and with that we were faced with the challenge to meld cultures and reform social normality’s. In Screening Out the Past‚ by Lary may he discusses people traveling to America and becoming a part of the working class and in search of the American dream. Next‚ you have prohibition which highlighted the social tension between progressives and traditionalists and last but certainly not least we were a country amidst the chaos of World

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    trying to go back in the past can be very difficult but‚ trying to recapture the past exactly how it used to be is even harder because things never go back to how they were before‚ something always changes and will never be the same. In the novel The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald one sees how hard Gatsby tries to make things right with Daisy and go back to the ways things used to be. One also sees Gatsby trying to go back into the past not realizing that the past will never be the future.

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    The past is what creates the present‚ it is the reason why things happen now. Basically without the past there is absolutely no present. The past is what creates who we are and what we now are. Just like in The Great Gatsby all of the characters went through some phase in their lives that made them who they were at the end of the book. Gatsby‚ the main character for example‚ had gone through many somewhat unfortunate events before he was able to become rich and known by some people. When he was

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    Sword I.” Cultural Conversations: Presence of the Past. eds: Stephen Dilks‚ Regina Hansen‚ and Matthew Parfitt. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s‚ 2001. print. 453-6. Gandhi. “The Law of Suffering.” Cultural Conversations: Presence of the Past. eds: Stephen Dilks‚ Regina Hansen‚ and Matthew Parfitt. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s‚ 2001. print. 451-3. Gandhi. “The Theory and Practice of Passive Resistance.” Cultural Conversations: Presence of the Past. eds: Stephen Dilks‚ Regina Hansen‚ and Matthew Parfitt

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    just now‚ Listen!‚ Look!‚ now‚ right now action arranged for the future Simple Past A: He spoke. N: He did not speak. Q: Did he speak? action in the past taking place once‚ never or several times actions taking place one after another action taking place in the middle of another action Past Progressive A: He was speaking. N: He was not speaking. Q: Was he speaking? action going on at a certain time in the past actions taking place yesterday‚ 2 minutes ago‚ in 1990‚ the other day‚ last Friday

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    Maria “Delmy” Cardoza ENG 100 02/13/13 MEMORIES FROM THE PAST TO THE PRESENT. “Let’s go up mom”! Says my 8 years old. Its spring time‚ a sunny day at my favorite place. Is a grassy land‚ with hills around‚ with an amazing view‚ where you can see the whole city‚ the ocean‚ the forest around and the hiden houses that you can’t see from the road; bushes cover the hills and there are a few trees. Families and most of them are old people who come out as the weather welcoming them to walk trough

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    enjoyment; agreeable Synonym: Welcome 2. Monstrosity: One that is monstrous. Synonym: Monster 3. Wicker: A flexible plant branch or twig‚ as of a willow‚ used in weaving baskets or furniture. Synonym: Wicker-Work 4. Clasped: simple past tense and past participle of clasped. Synonym: Attack 5. Gesture: A motion of the limbs or body made to express or help express thought or to emphasize speech. Synonym: Body language 6. International: Of‚ relating to‚ or involving two or more nations.

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