The Prompt: A well-known football coach once said‚ “Winning isn’t everything‚ it’s the only thing.” Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Write an essay in which you state your position and support it with convincing reasons. The Model Essay: The Sport in Losing The buzzer sounded‚ and the opposing team began to cheer. A young girl stood behind the serving line‚ volleyball still in hand‚ and allowed her anger to swell. Her team had just lost—and by almost ten points. She had tried to save
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Key Word #1: Identity. An overarching concept that framed both readings “Ain’t I a Woman” by Avtar Brah‚ and “Race and Ethnicity” by Stephen Spencer looks at defining identities whether it be of individuals or social and cultural groups. Stephen Spencer discusses how language is a cultural code that can “reflect inherently different social attributes: class‚ gender‚ ethnicity and so on (Spencer‚ 40).” Language is crucially important when looking at many social issues. How we define these issues
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Don’t Let the Scissors Cut You The tone of the memoir Running with Scissors is best epitomized by a single quote from the book: “The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do‚ I understood‚ is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.” (264) The author‚ Augusten Burroughs‚ throughout the novel‚ wasn’t sure if his life was the one he wanted‚ which he expressed through his persistently negative and casual diction‚ his hard to follow chronological organization‚ and his highly expressive
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Fast Food or Consumers: You be the Judge. Old McDonald had a farm. We all know that childhood song our parents used to sing to us growing up. Unfortunately‚ we (the American people) were on that farm acting as their livestock. They made millions off of our need for their fast convenient food. But who’s really to Blame? David Zinczenko tries to answer this question in his article called “Don’t Blame the Eater”‚ by comparing the rise in childhood heath issues with the popularity and convenience of
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College Athletes Shouldn’t be Paid! I strongly believe that college athletes shouldn’t be paid because they’re still amateurs at the sport. They aren’t professionals at the sport. Even though their in college they are still learning and they need to pass school then start getting a job to make money. If you compare college amateurs to professionals there will be a big difference and observe why they get paid it will make a lot of sense. According to the text it says “A gentleman never competes
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diet because it is unhealthy. He blames food industries and medical industries for all the new treatments and also for making processed food and selling them in the market. David Zinczenko the author of “Don’t Blame The Eater”‚ agree with Michael Pollan. Michael Pollan tell people to stay from western diet and David Zinczenko tell people to look at the back of the products and check what is the ingredients in the food. He also said that people are getting sick because they are not looking at the
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In today’s society people are surrounded by different stories and artistic concepts regarding space‚ and other life forms outside of planet Earth. Steven Spielberg’s E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) was one of the first major science fiction tales that was shown in theatres that amazed audiences. There are plenty of reasons as to why people across America fell in love with this extraordinary spaceman‚ and still continue to love him to this day. By personifying E.T. it allowed viewers to be consumed
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Many people believe that being fairness is about giving the same or equal amounts of whatever is being given out. In the article Fair Isn’t Equal‚ Curwin‚ (2012) states “Many define it as treating everyone the same‚ but I would argue that doing so is the most unfair way to treat students.” (Curwin‚ 2012) When most children say‚ “that’s not fair‚” they are referring to getting the same thing another child has received. Thus‚ it could be argued that popular conceptions of fairness devolve from the
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There are so many common themes in these short stories in ¨Making Sarah Cry¨ and ¨Don’t Give Up The Fight¨. But there is one that pops out in the story and it is called overcoming obstacles. Sarah and Ava got bullied for being their own self.. While both of the stories share a common theme‚ but‚ their attitude is different. Sarahs attitude is different because she really didn’t talk to anyone. In ¨Don’t give up the fight¨ Ava did stand up for herself sometimes but she didn’t. Ava did not tell anyone
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Where would we be without the great T.V? What would we do without our latest instalments of our favourite shows? I’ll tell you‚ sitting at home extremely bored! That’s why I disagree with the statement ‘Watching T.V is bad for you’. I believe that it is very‚ very good for you! Where would we be without the latest stories in our favourite soaps? We would have nothing to talk about‚ the person who invented the marvellous T.V is a true genius! Watching the T.V brings us entertainment everyday
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