written by Veronica Chan This school holiday‚ I spent most of my time at home‚ although I already knew this was going to happen‚ I still eagerly awaited the holidays to bring a break from‚ school work‚ extracurricular activities and tests. For me‚ spending the holidays at home is much more fun than being at school. On the last day of school‚ I eagerly waited for the school bell to ring at 12:40pm and on that day the time flew past. Then‚ I felt like a caged bird that has just been set free. I hurried
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Watching You The government has many ways of keeping us safe here in the US. Most people aren’t informed of just how far the government has come to make the US as safe as it is. From reading the article “Watching You” I now know to which degree that the government is watching us. The argument about whether or not the government’s surveillance on Americans is a violation of privacy or not has been going on since “a 30-year-old former contractor for the National Security Agency (N.S.A)‚ leaked details
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likely to consider suicide than non-victims‚ according to studies by Yale University. Bullying is an epidemic that is affecting our society in the worst of ways hurting our youth and a disgusting disease that has plagued our world. Shane Koyczan is a spoken word poet‚ he created the poem "To This Day" about bullying and how to overcome it and fight. He uses text features like an anecdote to build a relationship with him and the audience‚ or the organization of the stories he presents to increase the
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Jonathan Yun This I Believe… Have you ever wanted to make a difference? I have and I believe that everyone should be treated equally. No one should be treated differently just because of their physical feature‚ their mental disabilities‚ and if they practice and preach a certain religion. I believe that no matter what race you are‚ how slow you learn‚ or if you’re Buddhist or Christian everyone should be treated the same and equally. There was a point and time where I‚ myself struggled with
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‘So this is Nebraska’ is a poem by Ted Kooser in the postmodern age. The poem had been written in present tense‚ probably to emphasize the current state of rural Nebraska‚ which is a small village in America. The poem describes a Sunday afternoon in July in Nebraska and this is mentioned in the third stanza of the poem all the other descriptive language in the poem is used to explain this setting. The very first paragraph is a compound complex sentence. The purpose of this is to slow the pace of
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appeasement started. Nowadays‚ in general‚ people think Chamberlain was wrong and he shouldn’t do appeasement. But it isn’t true. Even if appeasement failed and war started‚ I think appeasement was good. It’s true that appeasement doesn’t look like good. In fact‚ it had lots of disadvantages which looked very huge. At first‚ it made Hitler stronger. Through appeasement‚ Hitler had lots of lands and confidence he can do anything. For example‚ when Germany invaded the Rhineland and Austria‚ Britain and France
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I read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise. I enjoyed reading this book and would recommend this book to other people. There was one main character throughout this novel. The main characters name was Amory Blaine. Amory Blaine was a very attractive man who was truly in love with himself. Blaine fell in love with several women throughout the book. He truly falls in love with a woman named Rosalind who eventually ends up breaking his heart by marrying someone far richer than himself. With
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The Reason of the Respondents for Watching Music Videos The two most common reasons on why the respondents watch music videos are to understand the meaning of the song by the artist and for pure entertainment. Respondent A- Derry (COE) “Nanunuod ako ng music video first and foremost for entertainment kasi kapag nanunuod ka sa kanila‚ it’s like you are watching a movie‚ there’s a story although meron namang mga music video na talagang walang kwenta or sabihin na nating
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increasing amount of violence on television‚ and this is having a negative impact on children’s behaviour. At present‚ television plays an important role in everyone’s lives‚ especially in children’s lives. Television has become a "member" of almost every single family on our planet. And not just an ordinary member‚ but a very important one‚ because the time spent next to it exceeds the amount of time spent together with any other family member. Gone are those days‚ where children used to watch only ‘Tom
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This I Believe I believe that to be an American means to believe in yourself and stand up for what you believe in. So I have a story to tell about a boy in my third grade class and what he believed in. In my third grade class at Fort Crawford we had a variety of students but one student was very different than the rest of us. His name was Gino and he was a Jehovah witness. Gino was everyone’s friend and we did not treat him any differently than everyone else but my classmates and I didn’t understand
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