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    and humorist Will Rogers‚ one of the most beloved entertainers of the early 20th century‚ is born on a ranch in Cherokee Indian territory. The son of a venerated commixed-blood Cherokee couple‚ William Penn Adair Rogers grew up riding and roping on the plains of Oklahoma. A nonchalant student‚ he earned only average grades in school‚ but he was by no designates the ill-inculcated mundane man that he later relished to pretend. He was‚ in fact‚ highly literate and well read. In 1898‚ he left his family

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    Writing Anxiety

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    field work. To paint a rough picture of the process‚ a set of questionnaires were distributed to firstly find out the anxiety levels of form 4 Cerdas students in SMK Kepong. The questionnaire were based on Daly and Miller’s 1975 WAT (writing apprehension test) .The second item on the agenda was to determine at which stage of the writing process students experienced writing anxiety the most. This was given in a form of open ended questions where participants answered yes or no and provided brief explanations

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    The Big Chief Tablet

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    THE BIG CHIEF TABLET By S.B. Watson My first clear memory of writing is at the young age of 5‚ before the first grade‚ when my mother took me to the five and dime store to purchase school supplies. We bought crayons‚ pencils‚ erasures‚ scissors and glue. We put it all in a white cigar box. We also picked up this red writing tablet that was thicker than most books I had ever seen. On the cover was this Big Indian Chief. I remember thinking‚ “Why did this chief have his picture on the front

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    Are Families Dangerous?

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    Are Families Dangerous? Barbara Ehrenreich The family is the first institution of the five basic social institutions. It is responsible for developing the behavior of each person to be interactive individuals in society. It is responsible for supplying the basic needs of each person during their development. Unfortunately‚ the image of family has been deteriorated considerably. Instead of being a system support for people‚ it has become a double edged sword. Society is at fault for how bad

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    Fashion and Status.

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    Thienhaxanh! 7.FASHION AND STATUS. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? One should never judge a person by external appearances. In general‚ some people tend to decide whether a person is good or not good just by his external appearances. However‚ I do not go along with the idea. For one thing‚ we may notice that a person is actually a good person by talking with him regardless of his external appearances. In addition‚ I think that it is more important to look at his internal aspects.

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    Dangerous Corner

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    Dangerous corner John Boynton Priestley (1894 - 1984) is one of the outstanding English authors of today. His early books (1922-26) were of a critical nature. It was the success of his novel "The Good Companions" (1929) which brought him world fame. In early thirties Priestley began his work as a dramatist. "Dangerous Corner" (1932) — one of the series of Seven Time Plays — was his first effort in dramatic art. Priestley’s other most famous novels are "They Walk in the City"‚ "Angel Pavement"‚ "Wonder

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    Dangerous Dogs

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    Exercise A Dangerous dogs 1. Give an outline of the various views on dangerous dogs presented in text 1‚ 2 and 3. There are different opinions in the three texts. In text 1‚ “Police bask new law on killer dogs” by Jamie Doward‚ the police officer‚ Bernard Hogan-Howe has demanded a change to the law on dangerous dogs so children are better protected and so the new rules will target the owners of dangerous dogs‚ rather than the animals themselves. That happens after five-year-old Ellie Lawrenson

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    Football Is Dangerous

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    From my knowledge about football‚ I do think that football is dangerous for high school players. There are studies done that have proven there are more high school players getting hurt then the college players. “According to the study‚ published in the August 2007 issue of The American Journal of Sports Medicine‚ four out of every 1‚000 high school football exposures resulted in an injury‚ while eight out of every 1‚000 collegiate football exposures in an injury.” In a way‚ high school football

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    Sookan changed in many ways through the book Year Of Impossible Goodbyes including when she learned that grandpa was tortured‚ when the war ended‚ and when mother was taken away. Sookan’s first change occurred when grandpa was dying. She took off his socks to wipe his feet and noticed that he had no toenails. "But no toenails! At first‚ I thought it strange‚ but then it occurred to me" (Choi 44). This shows how Sookan was excited to wash his feet‚ but when she discovered the Japanese had tortured

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    Dangerous Driving

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    Most People have no idea that they are risking their lives each and every day by doing the simplest of tasks and one of them includes riding and or driving a car. Nowadays‚ more drivers have begun to develop excessively dangerous driving habits. Not too many people know‚ but‚ traveling by car is actually a lot more jeopardous than flying on a plane. You would truly be a lot safer by taking a train‚ or boat or anything else. Unfortunately‚ our society has become dominated by time; causing us to ignore

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