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    If there was one thing I learned from science fairs--besides learning how to properly record my data--is that friendships require forgiveness. It may seem implausible and absurd‚ but during the science fair two years ago‚ I had finally learned this valuable lesson of forgiving. I would often dwell upon this memory and smile‚ wondering how we had still won that science fair. My teammates were my two close friends‚ Daniel and Raymond. Everything went smoothly at first; we made lots of progress in experimenting

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    “...if you can stand in Bob Ewell’s shoes a minute‚ I destroyed his last shred of credibility at that trial‚ if he had any to begin with. The man had to have some kind of comeback‚ his kind always does....He had to take it out on somebody....You understand?” Atticus‚ the attorney father of Scout and Jem Finch‚ tells his children to think about others are experiencing life. This is one of the major lessons in the novel‚ To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. To Kill A Mockingbird is about courage‚

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    To Kill a Mockingbird “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around it” says Atticus.(Lee‚ 30) In Harper Lee’s‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ racism is shown as a big part through the eyes of a modest little girl named Scout. Scout learns numerous things by trying to learn something from another person’s perspective. She tries to think of things that could have happened if racism didn’t exists and how people would

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    The most important difficulty was originally having the lawyer inform me that I would be released and that the case would be dismissed after seeing the mental specialist and being considered normal to now facing 6 months. One feels powerless at this time I mean if I had truly committed a crime and was originally informed that I was going to be sentenced to 6 months in jail then I would had already have known that I was committing a true crime and would have expected to possibly face that much time

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    What have you learned from your audience feedback? When creating a teaser trailer‚ it is important for us to get audience feedback. Firstly‚ we decided to use Survey Monkey which is an online survey tool. In this survey we asked people a set of 9 questions so we can get their thoughts on which sort of trailer appeals to them the most. This is so we can create a target audience for our teaser trailer in order to get the feedback from them. By looking at the audience feedback we took into consideration

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    Huck learned many life lessons from his encounters on the river. He went through some things where he had to make decisions‚ and it made him mature. He develops a mature outlook on life. Huck became a better person slowly throughout the book. Huckleberry Finn grows as a person from what he learned; Huck learned responsibility‚ the value of friendship‚ and morals from his experience on the river. Huck learns responsibility. Responsibility is the state or fact of being accountable or to blame for

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    I have learned much this semester‚ about writing in general‚ some things I have learned about are‚ the many different types of writing essay‚ there are such as‚ what a literacy narrative is‚ what academic writing is‚ how to write a definition essay‚ how to write a rhetorical analysis essay‚ as well as I have learned what‚ ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos are. In addition‚ I have learned what are the issues I have with writing‚ I’ve always known I had issues of writing but I didn’t learn until last semester

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    liberation of Auschwitz. She and her mother only survived but her mother died three years after they fled the concentration camp. Charlotte survived the terror of WWII and she suffered the terrorizing experience that came with it. One thing that I learned from Charlotte is that I always should keep my head up in the darkest times. In the story‚ she described people who were begging to be killed and were‚ but she wanted to live through. She even saw the Jews in the city she lived in decrease to three

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    Human behaviour is learned rather than based on instinct This argument can be discussed also using the nature vs. nurture theory‚ it has been studied widely and there is evidence to support both sides of the argument. The nurture theory argues that human behaviour is the way is it because they were taught that way or grew up in that type of environment. *[1] ’Children raised in healthy‚ positive environments are more likely to grow into productive successful adults than children raised in negative

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    Lessons of The Past 1. Don’t Judge Others Unless You Know Them I learned this lesson when I was just a young girl. I was in the 6th grade I think and it was these group of girls (preps) and they seemed that they were mean. I was new at the school and I really didn’t know the girls for myself so I just went with what everyone else was saying. A couple of months past and I haven’t talked to the girls because of what some of the other kids had told me. I finally got the courage to talk to the

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