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    I’ve given over a hundred tours during my time at Tufts. Which sounds exhausting even to me. But I’ve learned a lot about both tour guiding and tour taking. During this time‚ I’ve really started to figure out some ways that you can take advantage of your time on a college campus most effectively. So without any further ado‚ here’s my guide to tour-taking. 1. Do your research. And this doesn’t mean that you have to spend two hours the night before your tour looking up statistics‚ or even that you have

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    TERM PAPER: “women should be given a chance to become a leader” The purpose of this paper is to argue with orthodox statement that saying men is meant to be a leader and to prove that women also have the ability to be a leader instead of men. As part of that‚ it is obviously show that the deeds of women have not always been acknowledged as it’s because‚ most societies have been patriarchal. According to Oxforddictionaries.com‚ patriarchal means “relating to or denoting

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    Emily Dickinson’s poem‚ Luck is Not Chance‚ brings out the deeper meaning of what luck is. In the poem’s fourth line‚ she uses personification to explain that fortune is earned by hard work‚ not by chance. In my grandfather’s case‚ his family never had chances‚ which made every opportunity that he or his siblings received seem like luck; however‚ it was really the hard work that everyone put in‚ towards their education‚ that brought them the success they had. Dickinson emphasizes this point further

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    Do criminals deserve a second chance? That is the primary question that comes to the jury mind when they pass the final verdict. Everyone knows what a prison is‚ but no one has any idea how prisons work from the inside in all of the different countries in the world. In the article "Norway’s Ideal Prison" by Piers Hernu‚ the author describes how Bastoy‚ a prison located in Norway‚ treat its prisoners completely different than any other prison around the world. However‚ in the article "The Prisoner’s

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    N° 19‚ 2013 / 421-435 / ISSN: 1659-1933 The Role of Risk-Taking Behavior in the Development of Speaking Skills in ESL Classrooms Irene Marín Cervantes Escuela de Lenguas Modernas Universidad de Costa Rica Abstract This essay presents an overview of different perspectives of the risk-taking construct in the development of speaking skills in the second language classroom. Its main purpose is to examine the role of risk taking in the acquisition of a foreign or second language and the

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    few pages I will analyze statistically the chance of winning or losing on your first roll. This game is played with two dice each of which have six sides this means that there are 36 possible combinations that can occur when a rolling these two dice. Also because of the nature of this game the odds of rolling a certain number are reset at the beginning of each roll. Therefore before even beginning to analyze this game of chance I already know that the chance of rolling at ten on the first roll is the

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    this essay Draut claims that college is more of a vice than a reward and believes it’s the lack of funding that caused this. Meanwhile‚ Anya Kamenetz‚ a recent Yale graduate‚ observes this issue from her own perspective in her essay “Waking Up And Taking

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    Explain the critical importance of poverty in affecting outcomes and life chances It is a recognised fact that poverty has a detrimental impact on many areas of a young person’s life. As a child‚ growing up in an impoverished family‚ many opportunities for development and growth will be unobtainable. The educational performance of children is affected by financial status. Parents who are working but low income may feel the pressures of financial stress‚ debt‚ long working hours‚ overtime pressures

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    come from legalizing marijuana because their minds are clouded by the stereotypes associated with the average ‘pot smoker’. Dismiss the corny jokes and stereotypes for a second and consider the truths that are unveiled. In Timothy Egan’s “Give Pot a Chance‚” Egan looks beyond the stigma of smoking weed and points out the benefits that will come from legalization. Although the government is wrongfully hindering us from legalizing marijuana‚ it should be a national wide policy due to the large

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    Taking a Stand Taking a Stand Nursing profession is constantly changing with the development of new technologies that lead to a new level of responsibility. The new level of responsibility challenges nurses torespond to different and difficultsituations in the health care industry‚ especially in protecting the human right‚ dignity of patients and their safety. Nurses hold adistinctive position as patient advocates‚ regardless of their respective areas of practice; either in a home health‚ clinic

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