My favorite extracurricular activity is the debate team‚ which I first joined as a high school freshman. I moved to a new school that year and was a shy‚ withdrawn young girl who wasn’t quite sure where I would fit in. My guidance counselor‚ Ms. Evans‚ suggested that the debate team might bring me out of my shell and help me to make friends. She had no idea what a monster she was creating. My first few days on the debate team didn’t look promising. I was still painfully shy‚ and was constantly told
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Thinking As A Hobby "How does one think ?"‚ is a question pondered by many. William Golding has basically broken down thinking into three basic grades of thinking. I believe that Golding ’s purpose of this story is to make the reader secretly put their self into one of the styles of thinking. Golding elaborates on each individual grade of thinking to help the reader class them self into a particular grade. A grade-three thinker is the most common of the grades‚ "Man is a gregarious animal‚ and enjoys
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Hobby is defined as an activity done regularly in one’s leisure time for pleasure. [1] It may be an outdoor or an indoor activity. The benefits of having hobbies and the reasons for having reading as my hobby will be discussed. Hobbies help us to refocus on work. Taking some time to pursue hobbies helps us refocus on work with more energy and enthusiasm. Problems that seem unsolvable and situations that seem hopeless at work suddenly seem manageable after we have stepped away from the situation
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married women’s property rights. The fight against unfair treatment under the law became a rallying point for Stanton and Anthony. Writing was a popular form of expression for women and was used as tools of social change--in the form of letters‚ essays‚ magazine and newspaper articles‚ short stories and books. These works became the beginning of intellectual expression through which women not only battled for their own rights‚ but paralleled their situation to that of the enslaved black man as well
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Thank you for the recent promotion to the managerial position within this company. My job now is to oversee 50 factory workers. After the first day on the job I discovered that the workers were working past their 8-hour shift. I would like to have a meeting with you regarding this current situation. I recently spoke with the factory supervisor to express my concern‚ because I know this company does not have the funds to pay every worker for overtime. He explained to me that we are “inviting” workers
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ESSAY THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION Education is important because it trains the human mind‚ opens people to the rest of the world‚ and helps people find solutions too many of the world’s problems Education trains the human mind to make the right decisions. From learning about past decisions and mistakes‚ we can figure out what the best path to take is in certain situations. Education helps people make the right decisions because it encourages them to be thinkers. An educated person can think
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In writing upon a subject of this kind for publication in a journal having such a wide and extensive circulation as the Boot And Shoe Recorder‚ one sees numerous difficulties which have to be in part overcome before any such article can become of interest to readers whose locations are from California to the northermost part of Canada and away beyond the seas to wherever the Anglo-Saxon and his tongue are found. Among such a vast number of mercantile men living and doing business under many very
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Ever since I was little I loved singing whether it was in the car to the radio or in a choir class. Whenever I step foot in a choir room that’s when I can just feel like I’m at home‚ it’s almost like choir room is my second home. No matter how much people could try to hold me back nothing can keep me from my love of music. I always sang my heart out in elementary music class even though most kids would rather be in P.E. I didn’t care I just wanted to sing. It wasn’t until 5th grade when I was the
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A Post-Colonial Analysis of Doris Lessing’s The Grass Is Singing The Grass Is Singing‚ first published in 1950‚ was an international success. The story focuses on Mary Turner‚ the wife of a farmer‚ who is found murdered on the porch of her home. After her body is found‚ we are taken back to her younger days and slowly discover what happened
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Williams‚ “I Hear American Singing” by Walt Whitman‚ and “Tia Chucha” by Luis J. Rodriguez all have at least one emotion‚ which makes these pieces or literary romantic. All of these pieces of literary are romantic because their either happy or has some type of emotion. “Danse russe” by William Carlos Williams is the most romantic‚ because the character in the poem is dancing happily and embrassing his lovely body but really inside he is lonely. “I Hear American Singing”‚ “Danse russe”‚ and “Tia
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