Thorner School sixth-grader Stephen Bush‚ Reagan School fifth-grader Paityn Boyt and Discovery Elementary fourth-grader Jessica Stump emerged as winners at the annual Bank of America Essay and Speech Contest held (tonight) May 5 at University Square in Bakersfield. The three were the best at their grade levels from a finals field featuring 31 of the area’s top essayist-speakers. Each had three-to-five minutes to deliver their speech from an essay they had previously written on "Traditional Libraries:
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I have faced several challenges as a writer. From freshman year to senior year of high school‚ I have taken English classes to improve my writing and communication skills. Once in my Freshman English class‚ our teacher had us think about a topic we were interested in and then write about it. Back at that time I had struggled with writing essays‚ so I would go after school to receive tutoring help from my teacher. She was helpful on guiding me through the research process and then using sources to
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The Sense of Responsibility Can Change Students The story of “Freedom Writers” was set in Long Beach. Erin was a new teacher who believed the way to stop racial hatred is to change the young’s minds. The students in the school where she worked divided into four camps: whites‚ Latinos‚ Cambodians‚ and blacks. Every group hated each other. Erin wanted to change this condition and wanted everyone to change. In fact‚ she did it. Now here is question. Why Erin could do something that others did not finish
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diversity swept across the United States of America. What is diversity? Diversity implies a wide variety in gender‚ race‚ culture‚ ethnicity‚ age‚ and other characteristics of certain groups ("Diversity‚" 2006). Diversity is present in every possible aspect of life. It does not matter where one goes or what one does in America‚ no two people look or act exactly the same. America has been and still is known as a nation of freedom and diversity. Today‚ America is considered to be the "melting pot‚"
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were made to study on average 16hrs a day. The writer of stated how foreign countries valued education so much more than us as a whole‚ and how the first generation children of immigrants had a roughly 40% greater chance of not completing school because of the adopting in culture. I said to myself “Are Americans lazy?” I felt this couldn’t be true when as a collective whole people travel from all over the world to take part in all the resources America has to offer. Why come here to learn to become
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of our studies on “2000 + Years of Christianity” We look at the Pentecostal movement in America. http://andnowyouknowmore.blogspot.com In the late 1800 a renewal of the Pentecostal Revival broke out. It is sometimes difficult to get a good assessment of the Pentecostal movement. In my research of the movement‚ I read many books and paper on the subject. The following is one excerpt. Christianity in America‚ edited by John D. Woodbridge & 4 others who quotes from 65 contributors. Published in 1983
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you deserve‚ about people wanting what they don’t deserve. About whites thinking they own this world no matter what‚ you see‚ I hate white people.” Wow! This is one of the most powerful and emotion-filled quotes that was said in the movie Freedom Writers. The movie is about a Caucasian high school teacher named Erin Gruwell that gets a job at a California public school and gets the challenge of teaching a group of kids that are deemed “unteachable.” Very quickly‚ she finds out why no one wanted to
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Whose America Brittney Gregg ENG 491 Julie Miller June 30‚ 2014 Writers use what they know to make their work into something that can be treasured for years. They share what they know‚ they paint pictures with their words that allow their readers to get a glimpse of their lives and in some cases they use what is going on around them to share what they are feeling‚ or what they are not feeling. In some cases the writers use other pieces of literature or other people’s ideas to get
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South America South America is a continent located in the Western Hemisphere‚ mostly in the Southern Hemisphere‚ with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by
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Poverty is an epidemic that has swept the American nation many times over. Whether it be quietly lingering under the surface‚ or blatantly staring us in the face as it is in this current recession‚ it affects people across America on individual‚ community and national levels alike. While there are many causes and effects of poverty‚ it is important to view the issue of poverty and its causes from all angles when one seeks to tackle the problem. These factors include socio-economic status‚ mental
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