did in life‚ would it have any real value to the award? Participation trophies are being handed out to every young athlete without any true meaning‚ which is sending the wrong message to these young athletes. If every young athlete gets a trophy‚ the less meaning each trophy will show. Which also leads to the false belief behind each participation award. Many might disagree with me and think rewarding young athletes with participation trophies is beneficial to improving on skills‚ which can be correct
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NAME: ALICE SENAMNIMOH-APPEA CANDIDATE NUMBER: FINAL TOK ESSAY DRAFT QUESTION: “There are only two ways in which humankind can produce knowledge: through passive observation or through active experiment.” To what extent do you agree with this statement? Knowledge as a whole is the total information one has acquired. Passive observation is the process of observation that one is not experiencing the event. It is not as dynamic as active experimentation because one just perceives the event and not
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communication that does not follow the most widely used forms of communication‚ verbal and written. Demonstrative communication can be more difficult for the sender to communicate‚ as well as challenging for the receiver to comprehend. When you communicate in writing or speaking‚ you have the ability to be very clear in your communication. Both the sender and the receiver can ask questions and comment with communication‚ until you each have a good understanding of the subject at hand. Demonstrative
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Nacirema‚ American spelled backward‚ is a satire paper attempting to force Americans to evaluate their culture and look at it in a different way. By using words that are obscure‚ atypical and abnormal to describe very common American practices‚ the paper offers a strange way of defining our culture. One instance in the paper was how Americans hold importance in oral hygiene and use tooth brushes and tooth paste to brush our teeth daily. The author describes this as a “mouth-rite” and a “revolting”
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Only Ten - Alan Baille SUMMARY The short story has a main idea about acceptance and fitting in. The main character‚ Hussein‚ is referred to as ‘The Shah’. You can infer that he was a boy soldier at age only ten‚ which gave the text its title. The Shah has to learn how to adjust to a newer lifestyle and learn to live among people and get accustomed to a different way of life. He is amazed simply by a mandarin tree‚ which shows he is adjusting to things he wasn’t previously exposed to. He works
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English Only or Not? I Table of Content Page Content 1. Introduction 2. English only Policies 3. Lawsuits of Discriminations 4. EEOC vs. Pro English 5. Conclusion 6. Works Cited English Only or Not? Introduction In the United States we are filled with different cultures and backgrounds form other countries‚ for that reason many other languages other than English are often spoken in the workplace and
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2012 WA 1: Narrative Essay‚ Only Daughter‚ prompt 2 I trace the development of my upbringing and think to myself that I can’t believe I have become the woman my father would want me to be. He was Hispanic with strong morals. He would be fifty years old and still pressuring me to respect another and myself‚ work hard and work to succeed. I was the youngest of three girls and we three needed to grow with those thoughts in our heads. Cisneros says‚ “Being only a daughter for my father meant
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much debate in the world of science. The primary focus of the debate is whether or not there is a God based on the design of the human eye. Many argue that the eye is proof that there is no God because of its backward design. However‚ some people‚ such as Bergman‚ believe that this backward design proves the opposite. Bergman and fellow believers argue that this design is more complex and a much better design than what a big bang and evolution could produce. Therefore‚ according to Bergman‚ the human
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most passionate about horseback riding‚ my book discussion club‚ and my writing class. Ever since I was little‚ I knew that I wanted go horseback riding—and I knew it is something i want to pursue in the long run. When I first fell off a horse‚ I was only about 6 years old. Everyone freaked out and came running towards me‚ but I stood up and got right back on the horse like nothing had happened. Everyone was shocked how I didn’t sit on the floor and burst into tears like any other six year-old. When
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Why English-only policy would not work? What would happen to America if immigrants could not speak their native-languages anymore? The use of languages other than English stimulated a movement known as “English Only Movement” in the U.S‚ which has been a subject of great controversy. On one hand‚ the pro English only agree it would encourage immigrants who do not speak English to learn it; therefore‚ it would turn them Americans bringing the U.S together as a whole. On the other
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