almost immediately. This question might not have been as effective when posed to students in the other grades‚ but since the Grade 7 students were new to the school‚ and new to the Duolingo program‚ they thought of Duolingo in response to a question about their recent vocabulary study. All four students gave positive responses. Student 1: - These days I study Duolingo every day. It’s fun. Student 2: - It’s better than in the past because now I am using Duolingo. Student 3: - Our teacher makes us
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“Give me liberty or give me death.” These words from Patrick Henry show how important liberty has been to the country. Liberty is important to have because we only have one life‚ we shouldn’t live our lives being restricted. People should be able to divorce if they live in an unhappy marriage‚ marry with whoever they want to marry and move whenever they want to. A person can change from one day to another‚ we are constantly changing. Whenever we marry someone‚ they might turn into a completely
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Noli Me Tangere (Reaction Paper) Uninterested to heavy drama stories‚ I find this novel totally boring. Although I’m terribly afraid to sound disrespectful to the man I owe my freedom‚ I have to speak my mind. The triumphs of antagonists and sufferings of the protagonists are recurring in the story which makes me question its real intention. Is it really to inspire or to expire? I was about to lose interest in the subject when I stumbled upon the following texts in www.wikipedia.org: “...Rizal proposed
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collects the black water from every house. Stormwater drainage system is very essential in every community‚ because it helps to control flooding which will prevent accidents especially when rainy season or a huge storm comes. II. Rationale Flooding is one of
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“Give me liberty or give me death” - Patrick Henry. These words are the essence of human life; without freedom is life lived in the darkest of caves. In the Colonists case‚ they are bound by a ruler who lives thousands of miles away‚ which is by no means a sufficient argument on waging war and breaking away from Britain‚ however‚ many offences have been made by the Mother country. In my opinion‚ colonists were justified because of taxation without representation‚ tyranny‚ and soiled relationship
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dangerous for kids and teens and sometimes for adults‚ too. Alcohol is a drug‚ and it is the drug most abused by teens. Many kids have their first drink at an early age‚ as young as 10 or 11 or even younger. It’s easy for kids to get the wrong message about alcohol. They might see their parents drink or watch TV commercials that make drinking look like a lot of fun. You might see people drinking and watching sports together or having a big party. But alcohol is actually a depressant. That means it’s a
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Introduction: Title: About a Girl Author: Joanne Horniman Genre: Teenage Romance • Story Outline: This follower the story of a girl called (protagonist) ‘Anna’. She moves to another town and is instantly attracted to this woman called ‘Flynn’ (Rosie). They have quite an intense relationship‚ but when Flynn is hiding a secret from her‚ Anna goes out of her way to find out what it might be. Anna is conflicted if Flynn will ever leave her and whether or not
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is different. Would you feel a loss? Within the works of The Things They Carried‚ Girl‚ Interrupted‚ and “Letter from Marion Kempner”‚ the characters experience loss in several ways. The central theme in these three works is a sense of loss. Tim O’Brien‚ the author of The Things They Carried‚ experienced many instances of this feeling‚ particularly with losing relationships and innocence. He writes about his friend Jimmy
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Femininity in Girl‚ Interrupted‚ that Susanna Kaysen’s popular memoir is an accurate depiction of the characteristics which mark female adolescence. Marshall points out that the adolescent time period for a girl is defined by “historically and culturally bound gendered pedagogies” (118). It has become normal to think of this stage of a female’s life as a weak‚ broken‚ and self-destructive time and need help. Susanna Kaysen’s memoir attracts many young female readers who associate with the wounded girl image
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A Girl like Me The observation of the movie was clearly stated at first that the African American girls feel as if they are portrayed as something there not. Some similar general parts were when they speak of heritage and where they come from is not to vague for them so they feel people have only told them there only African American and the girls feel they might be from a different culture in Africa. They feel that since there black‚ no one notice’s them as easy as a white person is noticed
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