Navdeep BadhanMs. DornfordENG3U1 – 08 May 30‚ 2014 Ambition and Its Negative Effects guilt An individual’s ambition can be a crucial factor in aiding one to achieve their goals. However‚ one’s obsessive desire to achieve their goals can have a series of destructive effects potentially leading to their demise. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ is a novel that depicts the consequences that relate to one’s obstinate devotion to their goal. Characters in the novel strive to achieve their individual
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If I have three days left‚ what should I do? “Someday someone might come into your life and love the way you have always wanted. If your someday was yesterday‚ learn. If your someday is today‚ cherish and if your someday is tomorrow‚ hope.” This is my philosophy in life. That life is too short so enjoy it to the fullest. I am contented and satisfied on what God’s gave me. Like friends‚ I know God know that we all need someone to share each happy day; to be a source of courage when trouble comes
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American University of Sharjah Department of Writing Studies WRI 101: Academic Writing Spring 2014 Instructor: C. Horger Meeting Times: Mon/Wed 8:00‚ 9:30‚ 11:00‚ 12:30 E-mail: chorger@aus.edu Meeting Location: Lang 102 and 109 Telephone: 515-2717 Office: Lang. 220 Office Hours: 10:00-12:00 S/T Course Description Academic Writing challenges students to recognize‚ understand‚ and
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Beowulf could have gotten someone else to kill the dragon overlooks the problem that perhaps no one else had the capability to kill such a dragon. Hrothgar and his people fought Grendel but never had the strength to defeat him. Grendel ruled over Heorot and slaughtered multiple citizens and thirty of the best men‚ and continued to murder every night. The island was in distress and fear‚ in addition‚ the people knew their king as a powerful and mighty leader‚ but paralyzed in fear he did not have a plan
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1. The origin of progressivism was the Greenback Labor Party of the 1870’s and the Populist Pary of the 1890’s. Progressive reformers included militarists such as Theodore Roosevelt‚ who thrilled to the stenuous life‚ as well as pacifists such as Jane Addams‚ whose loftiest goals included the abolition of war. The two chief goals of progressivism are to use the state to curb monopoly power and to improve the common person’s conditions of life and labor. Overall‚ the goals of progressives were continuing
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What you would do before‚ during and after an earthquake? Earthquake is a natural phenomenon that happens all over the world. It causes a lot of horrible losses and sometimes even human losses. It shivers even when we talk about it‚ it’s like been played with‚ you can think only about one thing that your life is about to end. So what you would do before‚ during and after the earthquake if you knew that it might happen in a week?! At the beginning you must know how to be prepared is a good question
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author‚ title‚ and context‚ and explain what the lines mean. 1. Everything about her had two sides to it‚ one for home and one for anywhere that was not home...." The first quote is from “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?”‚ written by Joyce Carol Oates. It is in reference to Connie‚ who is a teenager. She is no longer a girl‚ yet she is not a woman. She would leave home she looking one way and arrive at her destination another way. 2. She would have been a good woman . . . if it had been
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"What do you call an intelligent blonde? A Golden Retriever." What a typical example of a blonde joke known by almost everyone. Yet‚ are these jokes‚ based on unfounded premises‚ such entertaining? Why is it so rare to hear jokes of this sort about brunettes? Does this fact have anything to do with the so-called "dumb blondes stereotype"? Furthermore‚ how many of natural blondes‚ or to say "fair-hair" women or men exist? According to scientists‚ the population of blondes is declared to be 1.8 to
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courses; it is fair more versatile and transferable by supporting future interactions and embodies lifelong learning. The implications of collaborative approaches to learning and the way in which advancing technology influences the way in which we interact with each other will be also discussed in this paper. Collaborative approaches to learning have been proven to suit the needs of
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We have the same question that ‘why do we have to do homework every day?’. Most people explain about the harms of homework‚ but why don’t they explain about the goods too? I think we have to change our way of thinking because homework does more good than harm. Firstly‚ homework helps us to allocate our time because of our research; we have to find more extra knowledge in order to do our homework. When we do homework‚ we can’t waste the time with the ridiculous things‚ and homework motivates us to
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