Engelsk B Studentereksamen B. “Why don’t you dance” is a short story by Raymond Carver. The short story takes place in the man’s front yard among his furniture. Clearly‚ the man is sad about something. I would say his wife has just passed away. As it is said in the text: ”His side‚ her side.” The man drinks a lot of whiskey‚ because he mourns her death. Therefore he sells or gives all his furniture away. Too many memories. A young couple comes by and immediately becomes interested in the
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“Grades are primarily a measure of how good students are at getting good grades‚ not a measure of how much they learned‚” a blog post written by a professor entitled “What do our grades measure? Academic savvy or actual learning?” mentioned. This had me thinking‚ what is the purpose of our grades? Should we use it as a basis to determine if whether or not we are intelligent? Then I realized: No‚ academic grades should not be the basis for measuring intelligence since they are based upon standardized
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How far does General Haig deserve to be known as ‘The Butcher Of The Somme’? By the battle of the Somme in 1916 the war had been in a huge stalemate for 18 months that didn’t look like it was going to be broken any time soon. Trenches had been dug on the Western front all they way from the coast at Ostend to the Alps. Just before the offensive at the Somme‚ Verdun was under a heavy attack from German forces forcing the French to pull all their troops back to Verdun. General Haig was asked to relieve
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ago. How do I tell my parents I failed the first test of eighth grade? I ask myself miserably. Instantly a memory from a few years ago rises to the surface of my mind. Not like that! I chuckle quietly to myself. Because I cannot stifle the memory‚ it envelops my entire mind. It was Friday at last! I had only six more classes to get through and then I got to go home and enjoy the weekend. I was so excited‚ I forgot to be worried about the short‚ twelve-question quiz that Mrs. Matriccinno was passing
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having a abusive parent and turning into a criminal or terrorist. Did you think that a small and innocent baby could turn into a psychopath‚ or a murderer? Be honest. Yeah. You didn’t see that coming. All of us are good at heart‚ but that doesn’t mean our heart can’t go cold. I agree with the statement of “People are essentially good at heart‚” because of this. One reason I believe that people are good heart is that when you are born‚ your mind is not clouded by politics‚ or by greed and hate.
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1984 Essay People often wonder about why the world is the way it is. Some think that humans have changed over the years of evolution‚ but this statement is only partially accurate. Yes‚ humans have changed and evolved‚ but basic human tendencies have always been around. 1984 by George Orwell is a book that describes and demonstrates human tendencies that were relevant to the time the book was written and that are relevant to today. Orwell used Kohlberg’s first three stages of moral development
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Grade analysis results show that school success in Croatian and English is very good‚ but through years of schooling that success slowly decreases. This is especially emphasized in the fourth grade‚ where the fall in success is the most obvious. Teachers attribute that to the development phase that children are in. Moreover‚ they say it is due to more difficult curriculum in the fourth grade. The survey shows that students are highly motivated for different activities in the class. There is the slight
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Do you ever think about being a slave? How brutal and harsh being a slave was? Well‚ poor Frederick Douglass knows exactly what it’s like‚ and here’s his story. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey is also known as Frederick Douglass‚ he was born in February 1818. His real birth date is unknown‚ but later in his life‚ they celebrated it on February 14th. Frederick was born in Tuckahoe‚ Maryland. Frederick was born into slavery. When he was just 12 years old‚ he learned to read and write from a
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still the same in the inside. We don’t need to be considered different we are still the same no matter what color we are. African americans such as myself have been through so much. We deserve to be treated equal. We deserve to be treated equal‚ we have been “free” since 1863. But what does it mean to be “free” to you? To me free means to not be scared of other people bringing me down every day‚ people not telling me that I’m not human‚ people that I’m nothing. We were once slaves‚ we are people.
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once come across the name of Mark Twain‚ a name spoken throughout the country for the 100 years since his death. Mark Twain is the best example of a great american author‚ foremost for his book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Few people past the sixth grade have not at least heard of Tom sawyer and Huckleberry Finn‚ Proving the impact this piece has had on America. Life wasn’t always peachy for Mark Twain though‚ Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens‚ Twain went through a cacophony of hardships on his way to
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