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    The Most Important Problems in Today’s World There are many problems facing the world in today such as a nuclear weapon‚ a conflict of Middle East area‚ starvation in Africa and so on. Of course‚ above problems are also serious but I think that the most serious problem facing the world is an environmental problem and to be specific‚ I’d say a global warming. Albert Gore states “Global warming will be the greatest environmental challenge in the 21st century.” So what is The global warming

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    Although there are many great quotes in different books‚that shows different themes‚ The Giver has some of the most memorable. Three quotes that are the most significant in the novel demonstrate the themes of wisdom‚pain and hope In the Giver‚ the theme of wisdom is shown through this quote‚” The worst part of holding a memory is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared” (p.154).The meaning of this quote is that memories need to be shared. For example‚ by sharing memories

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    This school year I have improved a lot academically in a couple of ways. Now in school I am more profesional‚ and resposible in my work. When we get our assignments the first thing I do when I get home is start to workon my most important assignmetns woth the most points. Before in middle school I really didnt care about the grade I would get or if my assignmetns where late‚ I didnt really think if it was something important. Know that I am in highschool I realized that even late work counts because

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    The four most important lessons that I have learned this season are‚ have to assemble a helmet‚ how a football practice is run‚ how a football team travels‚ and how important an equipment staff is to a football team. The first lesson is how to assemble a helmet. Every game this season we wore either a different helmet of changed the decals on our most notable white helmets. Having the ability to say on my resume when applying for jobs in the football industry that I can assemble a helmet is extremely

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    Paper 1 Lee Anne Bache 7 June 2013 In A.S. Byatt’s The Thing in the Forest‚ it seems as though Primrose has moved on from the childhood trauma to which she and Penny were exposed. The two girls grow up in very dissimilar ways: Penny finding ways to mask her trauma‚ and Primrose extroverting herself to cope with it. The text suggests that extroversion is a healthier coping method than masking. Byatt’s characters Penny and Primrose have many similarities‚ yet their differences are what shape the

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    “We have almost grown accustomed to it; was is the cause of death like cancer and tuberculosis‚ like influenza and dysentery.” (271) Paul had felt like that war was similar to the sickness. I feel like death from war is like sickness because no one knows whether they are going to die or not. When the recruits join war‚ they never know if they will survive or not. They are there to protect their country. Once the recruits join war‚ they are willing to die for their country. This is similar for diseases

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    to fight for freedom‚ a better world‚ and what is right‚ war contradicts itself. The very same soldiers that fight in defense of these values have them taken away because of their experiences at war. The negative effects are just as big as the positive effects of war. A nation can never really win in war because of this. Instead war just stays a neutral thing. There are many people who instead of staying in the middle‚ gravitate to either end of the spectrum. Some who fall on the far right believe

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    What do you think was the single most important invention of the Industrial Revolution?Why and what impact did it have? Be specific. I strongly believe that the single most important invention of the Industrial Revolution was alternating electric current (AC current) . AC current‚ invented by Nikola Tesla‚ is involved in everything around us today. From outlets and electric heat to a majority of common household appliances‚ AC current is seen in a large portion of what we today consider as “everyday

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    What are the most precious thing in life that we should care about Childhood is the happiest time of a person’s life. When a child is born‚ a new life starts. By passing the years he/she develops the skills‚ learn from the experience and starts to explore the life as it is. Children are taken as innocent human beings. Some people remember their childhood as happy one‚ others may disagree.  In this century we can hear many sad stories about the life of a child. For example‚ some parents don’t

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    Nikita Keenan 7/14/12 Throughout Tim O’Brien’s novel‚ The Things They Carried‚ the persona of the author often serves as a medium between the translation of emotion felt by characters in the story to the reader of the book. By developing fictitious versions of events that transpired while serving in the Vietnam War‚ O’Brien’s character is able to revive memories from the past as well as spark feelings of understanding and empathy in others. Surprisingly‚ the tone of the narrator rarely peals

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