I try to participate in as many community outreach activities as possible. I received a gold medal in the President’s Service Award for my contributions to the community. I volunteered as a tennis coach‚ camp counselor‚ Kumon grader‚ and library helper in the summer following my freshman year. Most my volunteer work has consisted of teaching of some form. Education is extremely important to me‚ and I feel it is the best way to give back to my community. Learning is the focal point of my life‚ and
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“Then a Plank in Reason‚ broke” Emily Dickinson’s poem “I felt a funeral in My Brain” is about a funeral service taking place in the speakers imagination. Throughout the poem the reader is left to think that the funeral is the speakers own funeral. The tone of the poem comes across as depressing and lonely. The ending of the poem is left as an open thought for the readers. “And Finished knowing –then-.” (20). Most of Dickinson’s endings in poems are frequently left open ended (Poetry Foundation)
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When I was little I can remember hating anything to do with reading. I wasn’t very good at it‚ and it just didn’t spark any interest in me. This‚ on top or being pathologically shy‚ didn’t make things any easier. I also wasn’t pushed by anyone to get better; my biological parents never took the time to sit down and help me with my reading. Throughout my younger years I was reluctant to go to school because I would get teased by my classmates. Reading was not always one of my favorite things to do
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Rhetorical Analysis of “I Express My Shame” by: Gerhard Schroder Gerhard Schroder‚ the German chancellor gave a moving speech upon 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. This speech known as “I Express My Shame” was addressed to the Holocaust survivors and the International Auschwitz Committee. It had the purpose of serving as an expression of regret from current day Germany for the treatment of the Jewish during the Holocaust‚ as well as that these events
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Jose Luis Ortega Vaquero Internet have changed my life In recent years we have been witnessing a real acceleration of society as regards to technology‚ both in its development and the emergence of new forms. An important change that should be noted is Internet‚ and how it has affected different areas of everyday life‚ especially regarding social relations. The constant use of technologies such as mobile phone‚ iPod or computer with Internet connections... has led to increasingly more
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1. My nature of study has already started to benefit my community and country. As a student while doing this degree it has change the way I think and deal with people. As a member of the he Trinidad and Tobago Police Service this area of study has been assisting me with how I deal with people of different cultures and changing environments‚ it has taught me a lot about motivational factors to the learning process to which I see the need to share my learning experience with my fellow colleagues
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Teens spend an outrages amount of time online - By Emil Holt 09-02-2012 Teenagers in America spend more and more time on internet surfing and browsing. Sites such as Facebook‚ Twitter and MySpace are becoming more and more popular every second. Facebook is by far the biggest time consumer of all sites. In May 2011 Americans spent an astonishing 53 billion minutes on Facebook‚ which is more than 10 times as much as the runner-up site Blogger which was “only” viewed 72 million times in May 2011.
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meeting my best friend was really funny. Her name is Leslie. We have hilarious moments together. We both know we can’t stay mad at each other. But most of all we both love each other like blood sisters. I moved to Corona my last month of my freshman year. I was sad because I didn’t know anybody in all my new classes. Except my sister who was a freshman too. I wanted somebody to talk to besides my sister. We both wanted a new friend. Two days pasted and my sister met a girl who was ok but I didn’t
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How to Get Along with People | | |Just a few years ago‚ a simple placard was often displayed on the walls of many public school rooms. It said‚ "Remember the Golden Rule: Do unto others as | |you would have them to do unto you." This simple code of behavior‚ when practiced‚ made our schools‚ and society‚ a far better place than they are today. | |The Golden Rule has been called the greatest principle of human relations and originated from the Bible with these words of Jesus: "Therefore all
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My literacy skills begun like most of the other people. First‚ it begun by listening typical nursery rhythm‚ and bedtime stories. Later my skills started getting polished in school and teachers begun to mold and shape my style of reading and writing. I think the reason why I started getting better at my literacy skills‚ was my needs. Everyone who wants a success in their lives‚ needs to know how to read and write. I get aware of reading and writing skills at very early age‚ as I wanted to be successful
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