Alexus Swain Ms. Palmer Period: 7 8/28/13 Dear Mrs. Auguste‚ My favorite teacher is Mrs. Auguste. She is a great teacher because she is nice and cares for her students. Mrs. Auguste is one teacher that will listen to her students and help them with problems that don’t just include her classroom studies. If I ever need to talk to someone about anything she’s always there. Mrs. Auguste will be greatly missed when I leave after 12th grade. She has been with Miami Jackson Senior High School
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What would you do if you found out you were dying of cancer? Would you able to make jokes and laugh it off as though it were nothing? Would your humor be a way of denying the truth? People use humor in different ways. In "The Approximate Size of My Favorite Tumor"‚ Sherman Alexie tells how one man tries to use humor to deny the reality of his terminal disease. He shows how humor can be taken too far. This story demonstrates how humor can destroy one part of your life as it helps you cope with another
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How Celebrity Culture Affects Our Lives Posted in: Arts & Entertainment‚ December 2010 Diane Qi‚ Arts & Entertainment Journalist One of the strongest influences in the lives of many North American teenagers is celebrity culture. Tabloids such as people‚ and TV shows like e-talk and TMZ fuel our appetite for details about the personal lives of celebrities‚ while the style statements lauded by pop stars determine trends in fashion and beauty. But‚ the truth is that this carefully nurtured
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My two favorite places Everyone has their secret special places that they go to or places just to simply get away or look for advice at every once and a while. I am not anyway different than anyone else‚ as I also have some very secret places where I go when I need privacy or just seeking much needed advice. One of my places is the lake in the wintertime. There I can escape from the everyday mess and can think more rationally or just simply soul search. The lake is located approximently 45
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My Favorite Movie In the 1880s‚ the first silent movie‚ titled ‘Roundhay Garden Scene’ was produced by Louis Le Prince in the United Kingdom. Since then‚ movie making technology had progressed and the methods of storytelling became more interesting. There are a variety of movie genres nowadays‚ but the genres do not necessarily reflect the true quality of a movie. For example‚ a person could be entertained and learn more from watching a comedy movie‚ in which the values of friendship‚ honesty
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My Favorite Mistake Madeleine Albright on the time she stuck it to Putin. Jul 25‚ 2011 1:00 AM EDT Madeleine Albright.‚ Cindy Marler / Hollandse Hoogte-Redux When I was America’s biggest diplomat‚ I made a really bad mistake. This is how it happened. In 1999‚ President Clinton‚ Defense Secretary William Cohen‚ and I were in a room together‚ celebrating the 50th anniversary of NATO. It was a completely accidental thing; we were just sitting and joking around‚ and we pretended to be the “See
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Throughout the short story‚ “My Favorite Chaperone‚” written by Jean Davis Okamoto‚ the siblings Maya and Nurzhan do things to deceive and trick their parents‚ all in an effort to help one another‚ as they try to adjust to life in the United States. The story itself is about Maya and her family‚ who moved to America from Kazakhstan. Together they overcome challenges from others and from themselves‚ and in the end they are a stronger and more developed family. At the beginning of the story‚ Maya
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Music as art. My favorite music style. Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence that are organized in time in a special way. Its common elements are pitch (which governs melody and harmony)‚ rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo‚ meter‚ and articulation)‚ dynamics‚ and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. In the historical context the development of music is inseparable from the active development of person’s sensory abilities. Course of the auditory development of the
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on Long Island‚ near the now married Daisy‚ and begins the process of recapturing her favors. I have read this book in my junior year of high school. It was I truly memorable book because it was taught by an enthusiastic and descriptive teacher. It’s what isn’t written and the hidden‚ subtle meanings between the lines and my potent reaction that makes this book one of my favorite classics of American Literature. Also Fitzgerald’s elegant‚ almost dance-like‚ symbolic and deep prose; yes‚ many might
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I really don’t think I have a favorite; I think I have a few of favorite pastimes. My favorite pastimes are NASCAR‚ baseball‚ and football for sports. Others would be watching television or movies‚ and probably sleep. I think my favorite pastime of them all would be NASCAR. I started watching NASCAR when I was really little. I always was sitting in front of the television every Sunday. For the past five years we have been going to Michigan International Speedway for the whole weekend when the Sprint
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