I am writing this letter to tell you because I think you should allow me to do a redo on a test so I can achieve a higher mark than I previously have. With that mark I can pass the course and be successful. You should give me this opportunity because firstly‚ I need a higher mark in the class so I can pass. I have a 43 present in the class right now and I need at least a 50 percentage to pass the course if you let me do this retest I can hopefully score a higher mark than the one I had previously
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Save as many as you ruin Sometimes one’s life is not what it was expected to be. Sometimes one makes the right choices‚ sometimes the wrong choices. At the end of the day‚ everyone just wants their lives to make sense and to leave one’s stamp on the world. “Save as many as you ruin” is a short story written by Simon Van Booy. The main character Gerard‚ philosophizes about these existential questions throughout the short story‚ in his search for the meaning of his existence. Gerard is a handsome
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the population growth rate‚ meaning that enough food is produced in order to feed everyone. Hunger is the number one health problem today and the main reason for this problem is inequality of food distribution. However 842 million people in the world do not have enough to eat. This number has fallen by 17 percent since 1990. Moreover‚ the vast majority of hungry people (827 million) live in developing countries‚ where 14.3 percent of the population is undernourished. (www.fao.org/publications/sofi/en/-2013)
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possible. Is the rise of technology improving how we think‚ or is it negatively impacting it? Are we getting “smarter” with the rise of this technology? This highly debated topic brings up many differing arguments. Clive Thompson in “Smarter than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better” argues that technology makes us smarter by extending our memory and augmenting our abilities. I argue that this view is dependent on the way that you define the word smarter. What makes a person smarter:
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PAUSE: TAKE TIME TO THINK By: jajanina Today’s generation is very modern. high-tech and fast paced. Everything that is happening is so quick. There may be a time you will not notice that your life has changed on a single snap. Everything what people want‚ everything people want to say and everything people do is immediate. Everything people need is just a click away. Without knowing‚ troubles and regrets are also a click away. Many suffer on their own instant decisions and actions without thinking
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Top Reasons Students Fail Lack of Motivation A student who does not realize why they need to succeed‚ will not succeed. Peer Relationships Choosing friends that fill a void tends to lead to either very good or very bad behavior. A parent needs to monitor their child’s friends all the way through high school. Just because they are older doesn’t mean they don’t need parental guidance in choosing who they do and do not hang out with. Bad Teachers No one ever wants to say that this is a
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PROMPT: Do you think Ender’s own view of himself‚ that he’s just like Peter‚ is true or not? Explain your answer‚ and use at least ONE piece of evidence from the text that supports your answer. PROMPT: Do you think Ender’s own view of himself‚ that he’s just like Peter‚ is true or not? Explain your answer‚ and use at least ONE piece of evidence from the text that supports your answer. PROMPT: Do you think Ender’s own view of himself‚ that he’s just like Peter‚ is true or not? Explain your answer
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Why Intelligent People Fail Content from Sternberg‚ R. (1994). In search of the human mind. New York: Harcourt Brace. 1. Lack of motivation. A talent is irrelevant if a person is not motivated to use it. Motivation may be external (for example‚ social approval) or internal (satisfaction from a job well-done‚ for instance). External sources tend to be transient‚ while internal sources tend to produce more consistent performance. 2. Lack of impulse control. Habitual impulsiveness gets in the
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1. What do you think Will Hunting’s life would be like if the therapy had not been successful? I believe that Will would have still been a construction worker and a janitor. He would still be afraid to take chances and allow people to actually love him. Furthermore‚ Will would have continued to be an intelligent‚ yet angry person for the rest of his life. He was going to look at his life fifty years from now and have so many regrets. He was going to be labeled as a genius that was an idiot for wasting
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Everyone should take a second and weigh out the pros and cons before deciding to eat fast food. There are many health risks when it comes to eating food that is made within a matter of seconds. The food is not properly taken care of‚ which leads back to where the food is originally produced. Even if it is easy to buy and cheap‚ the health risk outweigh the five minutes of satisfaction that fast food brings. The health risks that come from eating so much fast food are life threatening. First of
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