Have you ever been a part of a discourse community that has changed your life? For me Ballet Dalton was the discourse community that changed my life. This community of dancers quickly became my extended family‚ mainly because they made me feel welcomed and wanted. I cannot imagine life without joining this community. Ballet Dalton was where I finally felt like I belonged. This was a community of dancers who would encouraged and helped each other reach their complete potential. Ballet Dalton
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Nothing will ever be the same was the constant refrain after the twin towers attacks. But in daily life it doesn’t seem like much has changed. In 2001‚ I was in first grade‚ and nothing in my daily routine changed. Some of my classmates who were Arab or Indian had a tough time coming back to school since the terrorists were supposedly Islamic extremists from parts of the Middle East. This made my friends and I look at them differently. I was never really friends with any of them‚ but I felt sympathy
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paid attention to before. For me‚ the most significant world event I have experienced was 9/11. Though I was very young‚ I remember my mom turning on the news and just starring in awe. She didn’t know how to react exactly‚ but I remember the shock on her face and how she seemed scared. I was too young at the time to really think much of it‚ but now thinking back to it‚ I understand why she was so shocked. It was an event that changed our country completely. Security at airports were made extensively
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How To Discover Your Life Dreams I have an assignment for you. Do you want to know why you were born? What your sacred mission in life is? Here’s what you do: Schedule a few hours for a personal retreat; a whole day is even better. Get your calendar and cross out that special day with a fat red pen. No one touches that day. It’s your date where you discuss your life with God. Take that extended time of personal reflection and bring these questions with you. Here are some “heart questions”
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Assignment: After reading Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal‚” write your own half-serious satirical solution to a problem in modern American society. Some specifics: Your final product should be at least five paragraphs long. It should have a structure similar to Swift’s essay‚ should contain a similarly sarcastic tone‚ and should implement some (if not all) of the four major satirical techniques: exaggeration‚ incongruity‚ parody‚ and reversal. Process: 1. Read and analyze Jonathan Swift’s
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conquered by Oak Grove and had no chance of turning the game around. This is one of my immense defeats where I had not lived my life to the fullest. In addition‚ I didn’t do my homework and I wasn’t worried about my grades or my future. My story takes place after my unexplained seizures which had taken a lot from me‚ limited me‚ and had changed my whole perspective of life; how important is it to try and care for things even when it’s not going my way. At the beginning of my sophomore year when California
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Have You Lost Your Nut Graph? If you have‚ then I know a way you can get it back. On the other hand‚ if you don’t know what a nut graf is‚ you wouldn’t know that you had never had it in the first place‚ right? A nut graf‚ is a concise‚ catchy‚ sharp‚ and highly targeted opening sentence‚ designed to grab your readers’ attention instantly and to hook them to your post. In journalism this first‚ catchy‚ highly targeted opening sentence is called a nut graf (graph)‚ and is a summary of‚ or the
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personally know that I have changed as a person. During 8th grade I was a bad kid which would make trouble throughout the school day. As graduation came closer i felt the need to change my ways and become a better person. My father had once told me about St. Lawrence and how he went there for his high school years. After hearing about what the school offers I felt it would be a good choice for me. I am thankful for choosing St. Lawrence as my high school because it has changed me over the years into who
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Picking up and starting over in life isn’t always easy. When New Netherlands was first discovered the people living there experienced this. They had to think of ways to bring people into their new colony and ways to make their colony strive. Through sponsors giving out land and hard work‚ the people were able to make a go of New Netherlands. Eventually‚ King Charles II granted all of the land that included New Netherlands to his brother‚ the Duke of York. Duke of York eventually renamed New Netherlands
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Laura Furdge Dr. McDaniels ENG 495 February 5‚ 2013 Analysis of Characters in Flannery O’Connor’s “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” is a short story written by the American author Flannery O’Connor. It is one of ten stories in her short story collection called A Good Man Is Hard to Find. In this Southern Gothic tale‚ we are introduced to a mother and her daughter as they sit on a porch in an impoverished country town. A man‚ Mr. Shiftlet‚ crosses their
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