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    Leaving 4th Grade The sun is shining‚ the wind is blowing‚ I put on a big huge smile on a my face as the teacher calls us to go outside for the end of the year school party. "I’m so excited!!" I whisper to my friend Aviva as the teacher calls tables. Another side of me is a nervous wreck‚ because I thought I wasn’t going to make it to middle school‚ the main reason is that I’m terrible at every subject and I’m going to get an F on every test in the whole 6th grade‚ I think‚ as the teacher dismisses

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    When it comes to raising a son or daughter everyone has their own opinions about which one is easier to raise. Parents are still raising their children to do activities which are gender specific. Parents should realize that they raise their children‚ whether boy or girl‚ very different from the very day that they are born. If you have a daughter then most parents tend to try to always protect her from being hurt by falling down‚ but if you have a son then most parents tend to encourage him to be

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    Juan Carlos Quintas Instructor: Mr. Hicks Smart Home Juan Carlos Quintas Instructor: Mr. Hicks Smart Home Michelle Kaufmann is an architect‚ designer and advocate for smarter ways to design‚ build and live. Her firm‚ Michelle Kaufmann Studio‚ specializes in sustainable lifestyle design including single-family homes‚ eco-luxury resorts and multi-family communities. Her goal is to make it easier for people to build green and live a more sustainable lifestyle. She also shares this vision in

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    Leaving Grand Rapids will be the greatest decision I will ever make in my life… Or so my conscience told me that It will be. I’m presently torn apart with the choice I made‚ yet I was hoping that I could mend my emotions quickly. To clearly explain my position‚ two sides of my inner voices are battling right now; One is saying that I should stay – since Michigan was the place I stayed most of my life; It was the only locality in which I made a bunch of lively and depressing moments that were meant

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    In this passage from “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park‚ the tone of the author was dramatic. One example of the author using the tone dramatic is on line 2 of the passage. “The sun was relentless and eternal” This is dramatic because the author could have said the sun was hot but they made it so perfectly explained that it is so miserable to be outside. Saying relentless is meaning the sun is consistently burning and the heat is very very strong. Using the word eternal is meaning all day the

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    Zaira Rios. Ms. A. Engl_114_686 January 31‚ 2014 Home Language In the lecture of Amy Tan‚ “Mother Tongue” is described as the way in which language develops from location in which we are raised‚ and unconsciously we adapt our language with each group we socialize with in our lives. Tan describes herself as someone who is “fascinated by language in daily life. There was a specific moment in the text that Tan realizes that she is using different “Englishes” in different social contexts. Tan

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    This article focuses on the film Our Dancing Daughters‚ illustrating film techniques used in combination with the character Diana’s dance that embodies ‘kinaesthetic’ (kinetic and aesthetic.). It suggests viewers are encouraged to simulate subjectivity based on lived bodily experience of dances shared by actress and spectator. Diana experiences the world through her body’s movement‚ the visible fuses with kinetic‚ even private moments (dressing in mirror) are shared by the spectator (129). Landay

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    In the book Shabanu Daughter of the Wind‚ written by Suzanne Fisher Staples‚ a girl named Shabanu starts to transform from a child to a woman. Shabanu is an independent and headstrong girl. As she grows‚ she starts to learn about the expectations of the society. She is expected to wear a veil and to marry a man‚ no matter she loves him or not. As Shabanu grows‚ she becomes more mature‚ and she shows it by caring for Mithoo. Shabanu cares about Mithoo like her child. Throughout the book‚ Shabanu

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    The song was a rough draft since he hadn’t yet showed it to his band members. Still he liked "The Mortician’s Daughter". Though he had been a bit self-conscious and anxious to sing it to Quinn‚ she seemed to enjoy it a lot. He began writing a song for her but it wasn’t finished yet. Now it hurt to see how scared she looked in front of Alara. He wanted to comfort

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    There are an increasing number of students leaving high school unprepared for the next step in life‚ college. Many have no idea what to expect when they leave home and enter college. Can a student be prepared for college? This answer may not be easily answered. For many it will depend on their parents‚ school counselor‚ teachers‚ friends‚ and research. It appears at this time it is not happening for a large number of students. There are many items that contribute to the students being underprepared

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