Joana Martinez Elizabeth Saur English 99 September 24‚ 2012 Response to ‘City out of Breath” From the very first line in which author Ken Chen begins his essay made me anticipate some sort of hike that they would be going on or a mission of some sort. “So all night‚ we only walk in one direction: up” Could it be that they are escaping from somewhere? Are they on a vacation? Further into the reading I realized that they are in the city of Hong Kong and that he and his father are being led through
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Take Your Best Shot by John Coy is about a middle school boy by name Jackson and his three friends Gig‚ Isaac‚ and Diego and it’s the start of the basketball season. But with so much drama off the court‚ how can they focus on their performance on the court? The target audience for this book readers who are grades 3-6 and ages 8-12 who are interested in basketball and are working through similar issues that are present in the book such as grades‚ parent divorce‚ and parents in the military. The genre
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There has been a lot of controversy on whether or not we should have school uniforms by next fall. We as students believe uniforms take away freedom of choice‚ they are impractical‚ and a strict dress code would be a better alternative. First‚ school uniforms take away individualism. They do this by not allowing students to pick what they want to wear. They take away from students showing what they stand for or believe. When everyone has to wear the same thing we begin to forget our own personal
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and whom Sophie has only seen in photographs and dreams. Noting a sudden sadness in her aunt‚ Sophie spontaneously presents her with the daffodil-decked Mother’s Day card which she had made as a surprise for the following Sunday. But Atie refuses to take it‚ insisting that it is for Sophie’s mother‚ and that she will accept a card only on Aunt’s Day. In the evening‚ the neighbors gather for a konbit potluck feast. Over ginger tea‚ Madame Augustin begins questioning Atie about a mysterious package
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In “Just Take Away Their Guns‚” by James Q. Wilson‚ Collins Professor of Management and Public Policy at the University of California at Los Angeles‚ the author shows what is wrong with each side of the argument. In the first paragraph‚ he says‚ “The president wants still tougher gun control legislation and thinks it will work” (Barnet and Bedau 124). But‚ he continues on to say how this will not affect the illegal use of guns. About 200 million privately own a gun and one-third of that 200 million
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Hospitality Research Project Final Proposal Experimental research study into compliance with food safety of Chinese takeaway restaurants 中国餐馆 (Chinese Restaurants) Semester 2012/2013 Module 1 2nd November 2012 Sandra Drössler: 251534 Yuanyuan Yang: 86665 Stenden University of Applied Science International Hotel Management Leeuwarden The Netherlands Declaration of own work 1. This work is exclusive composed by Sandra and Yuan Yuan. 2. This work has not been accepted in any previous application
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inspired her to stand up for children’s right to an education. It didn’t take much for her to realize that her destiny was to advocate for the rights of girls’ education. Growing up in her country‚ the Taliban managed to gain control and commenced a campaign to destroy all government institutions. They began destroying girls’ schools since they believed
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One take-away from Native American Perspectives that helped me understand Native American history more was the idea of regimes of truth from French philosopher Michel Foucault. This idea was vital in understanding Native American and settler colonial relations. Foucault said‚ “Truth is a thing of this world: it is produced only by a virtue of multiple forms of constraint. And it induces regular effects of power. Each society has its regime of truth‚ its “general politics” of truth: that is‚ the types
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The article “JUST TAKE AWAY THEIR GUNS” written by James Q. Wilson gives a detailed look of why people may take an anti-gun control stance. Reading the title‚ you may expect this article to be for gun control‚ but in the first paragraph it’s clear what side the author is on. Furthermore‚ he continues that getting guns out of the hands of Americans would be an impossible task. Providing evidence for that claim he states that “There are some 200 million guns in private ownership” (Wilson 1). Knowing
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Should the National Government take away gun rights? One‚ should it be the States rights? If the National Government took away everyone’s guns no one could protect themselves. But if citizens are armed they could protect their family‚ friends and themselves. If everyone is armed they would be safe but also dangerous. It’s a right to bear arms but it’s the common good that’s not everyone is armed‚ that’s where background checks come in. When someone buys a gun they have to be checked for any criminal
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