in grades 1-12 while conducting a series of workshops with them. The book is divided into four topics: ‘The Self and the Inner World’‚ where the young poets write about topics such as growing up‚ their bodies‚ food‚ and reflect about people and events that define them; ‘Where We Live’‚ where students express their thoughts about sounds‚ nature‚ and the community they live in; ‘Anybody’s Family’‚ presents poems about ethnicity‚ the children’s family members and their feelings toward them; and ‘The
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the End of the World as We Know it In the last century the world has been predicted to end 9 times. These dates include: 1910‚ 1914‚ 1936‚ 1982‚ 1999‚ 2000‚ 2001‚ 2011‚ and of course 2012. Signs that “the end is near” are everywhere! They can be seen in the hundreds of doomsday websites‚ shows on The History Channel‚ and the ever so credible Hollywood film “2012”. Aside from the media influence‚ there are also “historical” and “scientific” theories that support the end of the world‚ none of which
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WHERE SHOULD WE LIVE? Where should we live? It is difficult to respond to this question. Some people prefer to live in a big modern city like San Francisco or New York City with many advantages‚ such as high education‚ good healthcare‚ entertainments facilities. While others choose to live in a countryside like Mendocino or Humboldt county where it is peaceful and relaxing. From my point of view‚ I would like to live in a big city‚ as there would be more opportunities for a growing-man like
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Every human for himself. Since the beginning of time‚ the world has embodied the depravity of hatred and mistrust among humanity. Through time the world has witnessed uncountable wars resulting in death‚ and today is not at all an exception. The source of mankind’s everlasting self-destruction is‚ quite so‚ human characteristics such as mistrust‚ prejudices and bigotry‚ which appears as irredeemable traits that forever and always will haunt and ravage our global society. Consequently‚ a lot of people
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Context: Michael Pollan is an American author‚ journalist‚ activist who focus on American food issues. His essay “The Way We Live Now” appeared in New York Times Magazine on October 13‚ 2003 (http:// http://michaelpollan.com) Under consideration is the debate in his opening paragraphs. Summary Worksheet Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation [2001] Main claims: 1. As Eric Schlosser
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old that I realized I needed help. It still took me a full year to finally get to courage to ask my mom to get me into therapy. I felt weak and embarrassed‚ so I didn’t ask for help until it was almost too late. 2. State the topic: Many choose to live with mental illnesses because they are too embarrassed to
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illegal substances‚ and committing crimes of the gang and a aggrevated robbery. The drugs that the police had gathered from arresting these violent people were meth‚ crack‚ cocaine‚ MJ‚ and codeine. I had asked if our neighborhood is a bit safer now since we got these violent people off the streets and that more guns and drugs had been taken off the streets and put
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educational requirements like apparatus and appliance maps‚ charts and globes‚ libraries and laboratories‚ magazine and newspapers‚ museum and gymnasiums. An ideal school should have a close distance to its hostel. If we want our country to be an ideal country‚ we should make our schools to be ideal. Every students deserve to be grown up in a culture of high
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SERVICE LEARNING: CONTRIBUTING TO THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH WE LIVE BY APPLYING THE KNOWLEDGE WE HAVE Milena Ristovska‚ M. Sc. Teaching Assistant at Faculty of Economics University “Ss Cyril and Methodius” Skopje‚ Republic of Macedonia e-mail: milena@eccf.ukim.edu.mk Abstract Although well-established and with a long tradition in different countries worldwide‚ service learning is a completely unknown practice in Republic of Macedonia. This is the reason why the author attempted to make a
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Probability of Things I Do They’re many things in life that involve the uses of probability and it is apparent that it is used in everyone’s life today including myself. While people think math is irrelevant after graduation‚ statistics is heavily used especially in regards to probability. While people do many things‚ some of mine that deal with probability are playing a game of pool‚ as well as the probability of how many games our football team has a chance of winning‚ and another example
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