much to say about writing for myself. Writing doesn’t mean much to me. I am not a writer. I am an orator. However‚ writing does mean something to my wife. I love my wife. She loves to write. She spends hours a day writing. I watch words flow from her fingertips as she writes page after page. She doesn’t let me read much of what she writes‚ but when she does‚ I can see the passion and the joy that she has for what she writes about. I wish that I could write with such a fire. Writing helped my wife to
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Day 1: Claims: 1.) The schools in America are failing. 2.) If we don’t start working to improving them now‚ they will just continue on in this downward spiral. Grounds: In Alabama 18% of 8th graders are proficient in math‚ 14% in Mississippi‚ 40% in New Jersey‚ 35% in Connecticut‚ 40% in New York‚ 26% in Arizona‚ and 24% in California. These statistics further prove the claim that many schools in America are doing well below average work in teaching and preparing students to get jobs and be
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Mariam Itawi L. Pignotti ENGL 120 30 October 2013 Joel Stein Reading Notes According to the article‚ this generation is pretty much screwed. Most of us are narcissistic and have horrible ambitions in life. Technology runs the world now; elementary students don’t even know how to use an encyclopedia. More young girls would rather be Jennifer Lopez’ personal assistant over the CEO of let’s say Quicken Loans. Nowadays‚ we act like we care‚ but in reality‚ what are we doing about it? We complain
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that alternative high school‚ and is now the mother of a three-year-old and a high school graduate soon to attend college. After the ceremony‚ many of the graduates shook my hand‚ hugged me‚ took photos with me‚ and asked me questions about my book and my life. Other students hovered on the edges and eyed me with suspicion and/or shyness. It was a beautiful and painful ceremony. But it was not unique. I have visited dozens of high schools—rich and poor‚ private and public‚ integrated and segregated
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What makes superman so darned American Summary Gary Engle says that superman is a great American hero. He compares him to another one of his personal heroes when he was younger .JOHN WAYNE ..he says THE ONLY TWO AMERICANS WHO NEVER STARTED ANYTHING‚ WHO ALWAYS FOUGHT ONLY TO DEFEND THEIR RIGHTS AND THE AMERICAN WAY." The core of the American myth in superman A Immigrant An orphan taken in by the Kents Raised in a middle class ethic home Protects metropolis‚ Earth‚ then the
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Critical Reading‚ Writing‚ & My Learning Patterns When I was reading the four stories from the learners in chapter three‚ I noticed that each of them used different patterns to write their papers. Makayla was one learner that used sequence first. She was very inquiring when it came down to what she was asked to do. Makayla needed to know too much and in this case it led her to have a duel and repetitious assignment. The advice I would give Makayla would be to field fit this‚ trying to focus
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Superman and Me. By: Sherman Alexie Essay by: Julia Thompson "When life gives you lemons‚ make lemonade." In the short story Superman and me‚ by Sherman Alexie it shows us how this metaphor is used without it even being said. Alexie unlike most Indian kids in 1998 had a passion to read. He got this urge to read from his father‚ someone that went out of his way to buy any novel‚ magazine‚ or book that he could get his grip on. Reading material was stacked throughout the house‚ Alexie would read
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Superman is a hero right? Superman saves people’s lives so I guess Johnny is like a Superman. So my definition of a hero is a person who cares about others‚ a person who cares about people’s safety‚ a person who is always happy well a lot of the time. I think Johnny a lot of the time is a happy person. Even tho he killed Bob doesn’t mean he a bad person right? He may think he is and some other people may think he is‚ but in my opinion he’s not he killed bob for Ponyboy and himself. The socs were
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Paper Proposal Cindy Sherman was one of the well known and most respected photographers in the late twentieth century. Rather than doing self portraits for her photographs‚ Sherman depicted herself in the roles of B- movie actresses. On one level‚ Sherman’s work appears to be subversively linked to ‘low’ art characterized by ‘b-grade’ film and photography‚ on another level‚ her work is regarded as the modernist ideal of the ‘high’ art object. Sherman has raised challenging and important questions
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Before Douglass knew anything about reading and writing‚ everyone regarded him as a slave‚ as well as himself. But when he started to contact to alphabet‚ he knew how wretched his condition is and the seed of running away and no longer being a slave began to sprout. It’s the first time for him to realize the importance of freedom. After that‚ he continued to find a proper and safe chance to escape‚ in the same time of learning how to read and write‚ which may help him in a necessary occasion. That’s
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