Kassandra Chang 8/21/14 Period 1 APHG Summer Writing assignment The World is Flat By: Thomas L. Friedman 1. What is it about the flat world that both excites Friedman and fills him with dread? Friedman gets excited because the flattening of the world means that we as people who inhabit Earth are collecting all of our knowledge and putting it together into this worldwide network. By doing this we would start to emerge ourselves in an era of prosperity‚ innovation‚ and collaboration‚ by company’s
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the world. Soccer is a sport that requires little to no money play. It is a favorite in poor and rich countries alike because of this reason. Soccer can keep children and adults away from crime and steer them away from substance abuse. In the book‚ Outcasts United‚ Luma Mufleh‚ a middle eastern woman‚ creates and coaches a soccer team with all refugees in the town of Clarkston‚ Georgia. The author‚ Warren Saint John‚ takes us through the development of the team and the players themselves along with
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HOMESCHOOLING PRO’S AND CON’S Homeschooling Pro’s and Con’s Outline IV. Introduction A. Compare and contrast II. Background on homeschooling A. statistics III. A pro to homeschooling A. Work completion is faster IV. Homeschooling con A. Socially awkward students V.Positive facts A. Peer pressure protection VI.Con A. students missing out VII. Negative factors A. Smothering family members B. One income VIII. More pro’s A. Greater test scores IX. More con’s A
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! ! My recently deceased grandfather was a doctor‚ professor‚ and military man. He grew up in Trenton‚ New Jersey with two deaf parents. Being African American he couldn’t go to the nice schools and get the best education. He went to the african american elementary school which was under funded. He grew up extremely poor and in a segregated community. He took becoming a great student into his own hands. He had a hard childhood‚ but worked as hard as he could. He became a Lieutenant in
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Kelly Rasulo Mr.Brown English 10H November 6‚ 2013 Revolutionary Works of Literature Authors write for a purpose‚ for something that they believe in. Patrick Henry’s Speech to the Second Convention and Thomas Paine’s The Crisis No. 1 both have similar goals and purposes. Patrick Henry was a lawyer and a great public speaker. His goal was to get the colonists to be passionate about the revolutionary war. He was a symbol for the struggle of liberty which shows in this speech. Henry was
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Eng 102 ROUGH DRAFT Mr. Thomas Friedman has a theory that he calls “flat earth” he speaks in many places and too many different people about this theory. No‚ this man has not lost his mind going around the country telling people that the earth is flat and if you get too close to the edge you will fall off. Mr. Friedman is elaborating on what he means by basically that the world is an even playing field for anyone in it. He is trying to get the point across that we have the same tools as everyone
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| The Popularity of Poker | | | The Popularity of Poker | | Casino Management Hosp 440 February 25‚ 2013 Authored by: Nicole Roman Casino Management Hosp 440 February 25‚ 2013 Authored by: Nicole Roman Table of Contents Introduction 2 History of Poker 2 Types of Poker 3 5 Card Draw 3 Stud Poker 4 Texas Hold’em 4 The Rise of Texas Hold’em 6 Online Poker Popularity 7 Chris Moneymaker 8 Online vs. Casino Poker 9 Poker Player Demographics 10 Conclusion
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‘Outcasts United’ is the story of a refugee soccer team‚ their coach Luma Mufleh‚ and the town they live in‚ Clarkston Georgia. Clarkston‚ once a primarily homogenous white southern town‚ finds itself in the throes of extreme ethnic and cultural diversity after the relocation of thousands of refugees from Europe‚ Africa‚ and the Middle East. Located just outside of Atlanta‚ Clarkston residents were accustomed to things being a certain way. The town motto “small town‚ big heart” came from an old
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long as I have an internet access‚ I can never be too far from the other side of the globe‚ just like the call center employees Thomas Friedman talked about in his book‚ The World is Flat‚ thanks to the new technology brought to the Philippines. Philippines is not a dominant player in what Friedman calls a flat world‚ but it is fast catching up. In recent years‚ it has become the destination of choice for outsourcing due to the large pool of trainable and highly skilled English-speaking labor
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Literary Analysis of “Gravity” by David Leavitt The following pages will consist of a literary analysis of the short story presented by the author David Leavitt‚ which is taken from his book “A Place I’ve Never Been” (Nguyen‚ 2006). “Gravity” narrates the story of a boy with AIDS‚ whose life is slowly consuming like the wax of a lit candle. The author presents the reader with the crudity of enduring such disease mainly from the patient’s and his mother’s perspective. The underlying intention
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