That’s the minimum I run on a daily basis when in season. Some days‚ it is closer to eight miles. Why do I share these numbers with you? Because the simple fact that I am a cross country runner should tell you a lot about what I will bring to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s campus. Cross Country runners are good teammates. We always have each other’s backs and support each other in most of the things we do. We like to have fun while in school‚ but when it comes to education we take it very
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“‘This is crazy. How can this be for real? Somebody sent us here. Somebody evil’” (Dashner 62). The Maze Runner‚ by James Dashner‚ is a 374-page dystopian fiction book about a boy named Thomas‚ who arrives in a mysterious setting of a glade with a maze‚ where boys show up with no memories of their previous lives‚ just their first names. The only way out of the glade is a maze‚ which Thomas eventually finds the solution to‚ leading to the boys being able to escape. In the book‚ the theme that from
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Why is it that Frankenstein and Blade Runner present similar perspectives to humanities use of technology despite being composed more than 150 years apart?” in your response make detailed response to both texts. The desire for social progression has always shrouded society. Both Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) were produced during eras of technological exploration. Through depicting technology breeching moral boundaries through context‚ characterisation
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Ong‚ Gabrielle Louise English 10 B Writing Mr. Barry January 23‚ 13 As children‚ Amir and Hassan enjoyed doing things together‚ but Amir never considered Hassan and him to be friends. Amir thought and felt this way because he knew that no matter how time would pass‚ it wouldn’t change who they were. In the end‚ Amir would always be a Pashtun and Hassan a Hazara. They did feed from the same breast and they grew up together‚ so nothing was going to change that either. Amir is afraid to
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English Honors 2 Summer Work 1. When the novel begins and Amir says “I became what I am today at the age of twelve‚” he is referring to when he witnessed his friend get rapped and made no action to do anything about it. His assertion is not entirely true‚ because he underwent many other life transforming actions. Amir was changed by the facts of growing up with no mother and a unusual afghan father‚ his character was undoubtedly changed when he went back to Afghanistan and found out that he and
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Jay Lewis 5/19/13 Period 6th Rough draft In the novel Lord of the Flies‚ the author William Golding‚ proposes that the primary reason individuals descend into savagery is the influence of others on their natural instincts. When faced with a question of survive how will most humans react? In the novel Lord of the Flies William Golding shows multiple times in the book how piggy is represented as the intelligence of the group
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Karim Zeidan The Kite Runner Theme Essay Khaled Hosseini’s kite runner has many themes that are significant. This book also has themes that are hidden to the reader‚ to find these themes the reader needs to think about the events that occur in the book. In this book redemption‚ discrimination‚ and violence play a big role in the events in this book. Redemption is one of the most important themes in the kite runner. Throughout the story‚ Amir is trying to redeem himself because of many events
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novel‚ The Kite Runner‚ by Khaled Hosseini‚ is very similar to a roller coaster ride‚ as it has a lot of complicated twists and events. And not only that‚ a myriad of emotions‚ shattered lives and the quest of self-discovery blends in beautifully in this masterpiece novel‚ The Kite Runner. But because of its intense content‚ it is potentially upsetting. Now‚ If you think about it‚ a lot of novels are based on real situation that people go through‚ but out of that many‚ The Kite Runner will be one
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Western culture for over a millennia until the arrival of the Scientific Revolution. Following from this‚ in this essay one will explore into Aristotle’s views on tragedy and final causation and comprehend how these can be applied to the movie Blade Runner. Aristotle‚ in his Metaphysics‚ laid the ground down for his theories of substance‚ of which the most important and influential one would be the final cause‚ or telos. This theory provided an explanation to the natural position of each
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For most high school students‚ spring break is a time to go to the beach with your friends or family or just a time to relax away from all of the stress that comes with school. Although lying on the beach with the people that mean the most to me for a week sounds wonderful‚ I chose to do something different and make a difference in the lives of others during spring break of my sophomore and junior years. Along with thirty other adults and high school students‚ I traveled to rural locations in the
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