ENG-H101 Essay #3a revised Due: April 20‚ 2012 How I Got Smart The essay “How I Got Smart” by Steve Brody explains how as a young boy he hated school until his sophomore year. Brody’s grades until then were horrible and upsetting to his father to see (152-153). Then he found a passion for knowledge and education through a girl named Debbie whom he fell in love with‚ was much smarter
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9. We already gave some examples of distributed pervasive systems: home systems‚ electronic health-care systems‚ and sensor networks. Extend this list with more examples 10. An experimental file server is up 3/4 of the time and down 1/4 of the time‚ due to bugs. How many times does this file server have to be replicated to give an availability of at least 99%? 11. What is a three-tiered client-server architecture? 12. Consider a chain of processes P1‚ P2‚ ...‚ Pn implementing a multitiered
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How I learn to drive Learning something new can be a scary experience. One of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do was learn how to drive a car. I was always afraid driving a car especially on the freeway with a lot of fast running vehicles. However‚ I figured that driving was an important skill that I needed to learn. I also thought it would be very helpful. In additional‚ learning to drive a car also boosts my confidence. New situation always make me nervous‚ my first driving
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Turning my face to a nearby window‚ I began to watch the dance performed by the raindrops. I took a momentary distraction from this image by picking back up my 4B charcoal pencil and skilfully tracing over a faint pattern. I put my pencil aside and spotted the weather outside. I was sorry for the people outdoor who were not allowed inside‚ regarding ‚ once‚ I was stuck external‚ too. I had only very recently found comfort in this classroom ; in this comforting place I call my refuge. Thanks to
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Although I don’t remember exactly how I learned to read‚ I guess it sort of came to me as a little child when my parents used to read me prayers and stories from the Bible. In middle school‚ reading was essential in getting a good grade for English with the "Accelerated Reader" system being implemented at our school. Basically‚ it was a online program where you would be able to take tests on books once you have read them‚ and each book had a certain amount of points based on its difficulty and length
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How I Learned to Cook I want to tell how I began to learn cooking‚ and how I succeeded in this. When I was a child‚ approximately eight‚ I wanted to make a present for my mother. She was working hard and came back home late. So‚ I decided to cook for her a kind of food named ravioli with cottage cheese. It‚ like other kinds of food‚ has its rules of preparation. I didn’t care about them‚ and I did what I thought was correct. It’s a funny story. Each time
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How I Became Literate Being literate is an important part of life. You must be able to read and write to do most everything. The majority of people in today’s society are literate‚ which is a huge improvement from older generations like my grandparents age and older. Due to kids having to drop out of school at young ages and not always going‚ many older generations are either mostly illiterate or are completely illiterate. Learning to become literate is a journey of its own‚ one that nobody can
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My distinguish Members of parliament‚ we are standing at the juncture of a cross road that will deem the economic and social destiny of our countries future. If we take the wrong turn it will have catastrophic effects on the social fabric of the society and we may not be forgiven by the future generations. I know that we have to make some difficult decisions and it may cause a rift between different classes and it may not sit well with certain sections of society however by shying away from the
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English B50 26 January 2013 How I learn best Learning is to gain knowledge‚ comprehension or mastery through experience or study. Everyone has their own unique ways of learning. Some people learn by observations‚ and personal experience. In my case‚ I learn best when I watch others make mistakes because it lets me see first hand the consequences of their mistake. For this reason making mistakes‚ taking risk‚ and watching others personal experience is how I learn best. I have made several mistakes
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‘How Sustainable Am I’ Sustainable Development is a "hot" topic these days and sustainable related change is all around us. Many people struggle though with the question on "how can I make a change to improve the health of our planet?" Our society is clearly in a new state of thinking with respect to the important topic of sustainability and I like to believe that I ’m playing my role‚ but how sustainable am I really? In order to answer that question it obviously is crucial to first clearly
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