I was walking home on the long broken up concrete path from the bus stop to my house‚ should I? Or should I not? When would I have the time? What would other people think of it? Why should I fight for it without help? I was so confused about what I wanted to do. I pondered these questions for hours. I didn’t know what I should choose. I felt like the wind was howling “CHOOSE! CHOOSE!” I didn’t know what to do and I felt like a predator trying to choose a sweet but hard to catch prey or easy but
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How to Write an Appeal Letter The Request: Clearly state what your appeal is about. For example‚ “I am appealing my two-‐week suspension from UC Riverside.” Or “I am appealing to drop a class (Western Art‚ #10204‚ Spring 2010).” Explanation of Extenuating Circumstances: Explain why your appeal should be granted. This is where
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“A Dream Within a Dream” by Edgar Allen Poe caught my eye because it reminded me of the matrix. In the poem‚ Poe’s speaker is flung into a mental war with himself‚ questioning his own existence and the deeper meanings of life. Poe begins his poem by telling an anecdote about a conversation he had with his lover. In the conversation‚ he is departing from his love‚ but says to her that she is not wrong to think that everything which we know is “but a dream within a dream” (11). This raises a very interesting
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take them. I was an English major in college and I currently work as a copywriter for a company‚ so hopefully I can give you a few tips to make your letter more formal. How about this: Dear Office of Student Financial Aid‚ My name is *your name* and I am writing to ask you to appeal my suspension of federal aid. The fall and summer semesters were a very stressful and overwhelming time in my life because I was not only returning to school after being out of it for ten years‚ but I was also taking
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The author exemplifies the disappointment in “The American Dream‚ Supersized” with the movement away from pure values and goals‚ like freedom‚ less favorable materialistic ambitions. The author uses strategies like sarcasm‚ anecdote‚ and irony to explain why America has become more a more supersized nation. He used sarcasm to demonstrate how the work ethics have been changed and to explain what people did not want. An example of this is when the immigrants started to say what they want their children
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I stand on the platform‚ blackened from the sins of each and every one who has come before me. As I slowly rise‚ the golden arches of heaven fill my eyes with hope. I have been trapped in the cells of hell for too long‚ the ball and chain drag my whole body down‚ and the weight of my sins sits like bricks on my shoulders. I finally pull my eyes away from the beautiful golden arches of heaven and find myself looking at a chubby‚ gate keeper which is drooling over a perfectly rounded iced donut‚ it
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Appeals Process What is an appeal? An appeal is a “proceeding in which a case is brought before a higher court for a review of a lower court’s judgment” (pg. 465). This basically means a process which takes place because the defendant and their attorney feel that the verdict that was given was inaccurate which was due to something that may have happened during trial or the arrest. Appeals are done to make sure that the person has had a fair trial and none of their rights were violated. An appellate
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Humbles‚ My name is Kristina Jones‚ I am a first-year student here at the University of Iowa‚ and I am sending this email in order to appeal the decision of my Advantage Iowa Award. When I took my three placement tests I scored painfully low on Chemistry‚ average in Spanish‚ and I excelled in Math. I came with a major of undecided‚ but I had very serious hopes of becoming a double major in mechanical and industrial engineering. When I came here for orientation I was advised by my academic adviser
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Consumer Appeal Advertisers of today have strategically combined commercials and television shows in order to sell products. Gloria Steinem discusses a similar idea in her article‚ "Sex‚ Lies‚ and Advertising." She repeatedly demonstrates how advertisements‚ particularly in magazines‚ are complementary to the articles around them. In the same manner‚ so are commercials to television programs. They are both aimed at the same groups or types of people‚ such as sex‚ age‚ gender‚ etc. Many times
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within his essay “The American Dream: Dead‚ Alive‚ or on Hold?‚” by asking rhetorical questions pertaining to the American dream. He begins with exploration of the American dream‚ itself. “Is it still around‚ waiting to be achieved by those who work hard enough‚ or is it effectively dead‚ killed off by the [...] hardships many Americans have to face?” (They Say‚ I Say‚ page 610) Obviously‚ we know that for an individual to fulfill his or her personal American‚ dream‚ he or she has to make tremendous
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