English 12 Thirteen Reasons Why By Jay Asher Jay Asher grew up in California‚ and has always had a thing for books. Growing up‚ he worked in several different book stores and libraries. He attended Cuesta college right after he graduated high school‚ majoring in elementary education. He then transferred to California Polytechnic State University where he left in his senior year. He decided he wanted to pursue a career as a serious writer. Thirteen Reasons Why is Jay’s first novel‚ and
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‘Why men and women still can’t have it all?’‚ a question battling the gender odds in many aspects and a question that is yet to be discussed. In her 2012 article‚ "Why Women Still Can’t Have It All?"‚ Anne- Marie Slaughter a successful career-oriented woman discusses her struggle in being away from her family while working in Washington and the reasons behind women not having it all. After she left her job as the Director of Policy Planning at the State Department‚ she returned home with the desire
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“Why can’t Mr. Right find me?” This has been a common question on many people’s lips‚ which have been explained at the previous chapters. But‚ in this chapter‚ we shall found out more on why Mr. Right can’t find you? Have you ever asked yourself this question; am I too materialistic or needy to guys? Some ladies‚ though pretty and attractive but lack their life-mate and have remained mostly singles for the major part of their lives. First‚ what is materialism? Materialism can simply be defined as
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The Best Position What American sport is the most popular to watch and exciting to play? The answer is undoubtedly is football. And the best position to play is the running back. The running back is one of the most important positions on a football team‚ and it can be the toughest position to play--mentally and physically. The running back has various duties on the field‚ and he has to excel in all of them. This position handles the football more than any other position on the field except for the
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The Reason Why E-Book Can Not Instead of The Real Book The E-Book becomes a popular tool recently‚ but it can’t instead of the real book now. The history of E-Book can traced back to 1990s in the U.S. Someone wanted to invent a book that can read more conveniently‚ but it still had a lot of problem until now. Some people believe that the E-book will change into more and more useful than real book‚ some people do not. Everyone hoped a new product can help us more additionally. It’s easy
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Taking Risks What I Already Known/What I Want to Know While reading Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air‚ I began to wonder why individuals take extreme risks. Over the course of this novel‚ a team of highly trained mountain climbers attempts to climb Mount Everest in 1996. Several die‚ get injured‚ and go missing. Death becomes very familiar to the team of climbers. In the book‚ Hall and Hansen get stranded‚ Hansen runs out of supplemental oxygen and cannot continue; Fischer also gets stranded‚ Hansen
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1 WHY DO PEOPLE TAKE VITAMINS? Why Do People Take Vitamins? Tanya Goodden Thammasat University Author Note ID: 5306643xxx Business English Communication Program‚ Thammasat University. Correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed to Tanya Goodden‚ Business English Communication Program‚ Thammasat University‚ Thailand. E-mail: xxx@hotmail.com EB 333 2 WHY DO PEOPLE TAKE VITAMINS? Abstract This research was performed to determine the main factor that influences people‟s
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Simple seven steps to live to 100 Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to start to take seven steps to be free from diseases and live to 100 Central Idea: By taking the seven steps‚ many people can get less disease and live longer. Method of Organization: Monroe’s motivated sequence. Introduction Do you want to live to 100‚ do you want to free of heart diseases‚ cancer and blood pressure? That maybe can be realized. 100 years old is an accessible age‚ in history‚ Sun Si miao died at the
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Elizabeth I and Henry IIIV were both very successful as rulers‚ but which one was more successful? Some might say it was Elizabeth for defeating the Spanish Armada‚ but others might argue that it was Henry because he succesfuly broke the English church from the Roman Cathoic church. Today I aim to answer that question Historians argue that one reason for Elizabeth’s success because she never got married (or at least‚ there is no record of her ever getting married.). The reasoning behind this says
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1020-059 10-17-13 My take on The Take I’ve seen a lot of documentaries‚ most of which I was able to understand‚ when I signed up to watch the take I was not informed that the majority of the film would be in Spanish… Now I couldn’t understand a lot of what the locals were saying‚ however the documentary was narrated thus giving a good understanding of what was going on. Of the limited amount I was able to understand The Take is a documentary following the lives of Argentineans taking back
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