` Doug is the main character in Gary D. Schmidt’s Ok For Now. In the book he is faced with many challenges and meets new people on his journey. Some of the people that are in Doug’s life are‚ his brother‚ Lucas‚ and his girlfriend‚ Lillian. (Lil for short.) This essay will explain why all of the aforementioned characters are dedicated in what they do and the choices that they make. Doug‚ the protagonist in Ok For Now‚ is a dedicated character. He shows dedication in many parts of the book. Example:
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David Garcia English III Mrs. Carroll A3 Accepting Others Accepting others is a very important part of life. Especially the way they are. If you can’t learn how to do that then you will miss out on a lot of friends in life. Life is hard enough and when people try to "fit in" with the cliques of life‚ it makes life much harder for them. When you go to school you always have to worry about the way you look or how you walk or who your friends are in order to "fit in". If you don’t
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Rat Kiley often tells stories‚ and it’s hard to know whether they actually happened or not; he believes in story-truth‚ not happening-truth. But the story that Rat is about to tell‚ he claims‚ is absolutely and completely true—something that he saw with his own eyes. Mitchell Sanders says that the story—about a medic who ships his girlfriend over to Vietnam from Ohio—couldn’t possibly be true. But Rat insists. The story starts when Rat is assigned to a small medical detachment in the mountains near
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many schools are giving their best just to teach their students. Example of the schools are‚ (DLSU) De la Salle University‚ (ADMU) Ateneo De Manila University‚ (UST) University of Santo Tomas‚ (MIT) Mapua Institute of Technology and many more. Even though MAPUA is not a university it still gives better education like the said universities. And some are choosing Mapua instead of the top three universities. Why or how Mapua is better than other schools? Even though I had a chance to study
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Writing Assignment #2 When humans begin something we always start with a goal. Somewhere we want to get to‚ something we wish to achieve. Then we derive a plan to get from point A to point B. In the case of English 101‚ Point A is the beginning of the semester without a grade and Point B is the end of the Semester with an A. Achieving this goal is going to require time management‚ being dedicated to my work‚ and making good use of the resources available to me. One of the most crucial steps to
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“Effective Decision Making: How Fourth Year students of Divine Grace School Batch 12-13 decide on their choice of course including their preferred college school.” A Paper Presented to Mr. Nelson Besonia In Partial fulfillment on the requirements in Economics IV Divine Grace School Ilang – ilang St. Maligaya Park Subdivision Novaliches Quezon City Submitted by: Mhikuo Jecino‚ IV- Amethyst Mercedes Abrena – IV – Amethyst Jhunill Conahap – IV - Garnet 2013 TABLE
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DSP Writing Essay Professor Anderman’s research shows that eighty-five percent of students have cheated in high school; this drastic number exists due to the fact that students want to attend excellent colleges. The competitive high school environment has constant pressure to succeed; therefore‚ thus‚ many students depend on cheating in order to receive the grades that he or she desires. Because cheating has become an ordinary resolution for many students‚ more and more students do so every
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English /101 FINAL Bobbi Simon English 101/ Version 6 June 7th 2014 Terry Fletcher English /101 FINAL Bobbi Jo Simon English 101/Version 6 May18th‚ 2014 Terry Fletcher Body Paragraphs Teaching with Ganas: Jamie Escalante Jaime Escalante was one of the most accredited teachers in history‚ his ability to relate to‚ teach those that were less than scholarly scholars and were the poorest of the poor. His story is that of admiration‚ encouragement and proof of what a little dedication and desire
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ENGL 1301. S35 14 October 2013 Reading Journal # 3 Tugend‚ Alina. “Multitasking Can Make You Lose… Um… Focus.” The Norton Field Guide to Writing. Ed. Richard Bullock. New York: Norton‚ 2013. 714-718. Print. In a short essay‚ a columnist Alina Tugend describes the modern art of multitasking‚ and all of the pros and cons that come along with it. Although multitasking has been socially acceptable since the 1990s‚ it has recently been found as a subject for study by many psychologists around
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Chapter 1 Background of the Study Introduction What is Portal? A portal is known as links page which presents information from diverse sources in a unified way. It may contain services that provide standard search engine feature‚ e-mail‚ news‚ information‚ database and entertainment. Portals provide a way for enterprises to provide a consistent look and feel with access control and procedures for multiple applications and databases‚ which otherwise would have been different entities altogether
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