An Open Letter to Ninth Graders Preparing our students‚ long before they become our students. Patrick Sullivan Related Items: Social Class and College Readiness College-Readiness Checklist Dear First-Year High School Students‚ I am one of the co-editors of What Is “College-Level” Writing?—a 2006 collection of essays that focuses on the difference between high school writing and college-level writing. Because of my work on that book‚ I’ve spent a great deal of time in the last five years thinking
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3/6/10 Journal 8 “An Open Letter to Ninth Graders”‚by Patrick Sullivan is not just a “letter” to “ninth graders”. It as an article to the general public and those of which are interested in higher education offered at colleges. Some of the key points he talks about in this letter that tell you how to succeed are‚ reading‚ writing‚ thinking‚ listening and “grit”. Patrick Sullivan in detail describes to you that reading is essential to being successful in a liberal arts education. In addition to
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Author’s use indirect characterization to describe actions and the appearance of a character. Direct characterization states what the character is like. Motivation is how the characters behave the way they do. With this in mind‚ Vera from‚ “The Open Window‚” can be used as an example for direct characterization. She is a 15 year-old girl that can be described as a self-possessed‚ talkative‚ and liar. In Source 2 page 90 ‚the author states‚”Said a very self-possessed young lady of fifteen.” This
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don‘t bother about it. But‚ what about their descendants and the other beings? The oxygen level in the air goes down‚ but the carbon dioxide level is rising. It is a result of too much logging. The smoke exhausted by vehicles‚ factories‚ and open burning cause the air pollution. The chlorofluorocarbon released by air conditioners and refrigerators; and the nuclear weapons used during wars cause the ozone depletion. More ultraviolet rays from the sun can pass through the ozone layer. These cause
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ready to drown and be put out of my misery at any given moment. My little‚ meaningless‚ insignificant life could be held in the vast unforgiving palm of nature. Which actually happens to be exactly what is happening in Stephen Crane’s short story The Open Boat. The story chronicles the struggle of four men lost at sea. The main character‚ the correspondent‚ has quite the crisis about half way through where he realizes he could very well die at any time. Not
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Destiny D. Aquino AMST 100A 2ND Critique To Grow in the Open Air: The Connection Between Religion and Nature in Thomas Cole’s The Course of Empire Thomas Cole‚ a founder of The Hudson River School‚ can be considered one of the most famous American artists. The Hudson River School focused on creating landscapes of the continental United States in a pastoral setting in which humans were one with the their land. The Hudson River School artists accepted that the beauty and diversity of the American
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Angelica Galvan Professor Frost Composition I September 10‚ 2014 Don’t read this without thinking The expectations that students just out of high school have to meet in college are different than what they are used to. In “An Open Letter to Ninth Graders‚” Patrick Sullivan establishes his opinion on the most important college-readiness skills– reading‚ writing‚ thinking‚ listening‚ grit and attitude. Sullivan’s knowledge about the needs of college freshmen comes from his experience as an English
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Open and Closed Source Systems June 24‚ 2013 Open and Closed Source System What Open Source Means Open-Source means it is free. No one owns it‚ so there is no source code‚ no key code‚ and no licensing to purchase. When Linus Torvalds created Linux‚ he determined that the more people or‚ the more minds delving into the software can make the system more creative‚ more improved‚ and the possibilities are endless. Thus‚ he gave Linux to the world as a free open-source operating system ("Damicon;
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The Open Boat by Stephen Crane is a story describing four men that are trapped together in a small boat or dingy. The men aboard the boat are a captain‚ a correspondent‚ an oiler‚ and a cook. The men were aboard a larger boat that crashed off the coast of Florida and are now searching for the safety of a light house they remember. After making a homemade sail and some brisk paddling they finally get near the coast. They spot some people and begin to signal for help but the people only respond
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1. Suppose that an open box is to be made from a square sheet of cardboard by cutting out 6-inch squares from each corner as shown and then folding along the dotted lines. If the box is to have a volume of 486 cubic inches‚ find the original dimensions of the sheet of cardboard. 2. A toy rocket is shot vertically upward from the ground. Its distance in feet from the ground in 5 seconds is given by s(t) = -16t2 + 169t. At what time or times will the ball be 162 ft. from the ground? Round your
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