goal was to work with a topic that I would enjoy. The opportunity to work on a Hogwarts house sorting survey geared towards your CU Summer Scholars Harry Potter class provided me with that enjoyable topic. As I started to work with the other members of MacAlystre’s Magisters to develop our deliverable‚ I realized that my teamwork skills were also being honed. This is most apparent because I had both positive and negative experiences with each of my teammates. I think that having a better knowledge
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When I was in high school we had a teacher that was a very creative in the ways he taught us. He was always coming up with ideas to prove points to our class. I remember one day that was like any other and I suppose that there had been several people who had not been turning in assignments for a few weeks and he had been mentioning to the class for days that we need to be turning in our homework. He always stressed good grades and said that the doing homework would help us on an exam. He decided
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be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not?” --- Andre’ Gide‚ Autumn Leaves • Thesis Statement: This quote is important to me because it inspires me to be who I am and not what everyone else thinks I should be. • Authority (Story): I have always felt inferior to other people because they told me I was. They told me I was weird and that I would never amount to anything. I believed them. I thought that I could never do anything as good as anyone else. So I tried to act
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Kiss My Ash by William Severini Kowinsky I could barely speak. I was having lunch with the young editor-publisher of the In Pittsburgh alternative weekly in the summer of ’89. As a contributing editor and a regular columnist‚ I had always written about anything I wanted‚ exactly as I wanted‚ and smoking was one of my recurring subjects‚ though by no means the dominant one. But I knew immediately I couldn’t change his mind. He was already committed. "We can’t run any more stories on smoking
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communication that a person will probably use. So‚ it’s no wonder that a person will judge another person within the first thirty seconds of laying eyes upon them. Unfortunately‚ being judged by your appearance is by no means an effective way of determining what a person is like on the inside. Although‚ almost everyone will be judge like this daily by people they encounter throughout the day. It’s amazing how more times than not‚ it is a negative judging and not something positive about a person. Everyone
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buy one‚ finally a formal occasion where I got to dress up in a fancy gown with high heels‚ my Mom took me to the mall. Even though it wasn’t quite prom‚ it was still a formal dance‚ a celebration of completing middle school and entering into high school. While I shopped with my Mom I could sense her excitement for me. It was exciting and special for her to see her little girl growing up. We shopped and shopped‚ I must’ve tried on a hundred dresses until I found the perfect one. It was pink with tiny
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Before Starting: The behaviour I have chosen to increase in frequency is going to the gym more often. I love going to the gym as it makes me feel strong and happy. Quiet recently I got a trainer to motivate me to go to the gym and push beyond my limits. Towards the end of our six month sessions‚ I had become addicted to weightlifting. I would do it first thing in the morning and cardio in the evenings. However‚ that was during the first semester‚ when I had less school work and was able to control
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English101/ Narrative Essay I never thought the day would come where I’d have to admit to myself I had an addiction. The hardest part was to except the fact I was an addict of painkillers and admitting it to my family so that I could get the help and support needed to get clean. The road leading to my addiction started with the factors of my childhood‚ always trying to fit in and not being supported emotionally from my parents. Having a child at the age of sixteen was the second factor‚ which
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I agree with the fact that Sophocles’ Oedipus had suffered from the Oedipus complex because Oedipus has shown that he is part of the triangle of being the young child who is “in love with one parent and hating the other” (Freud 472). If a person is one to not get over this stage in his childhood‚ to detach from his mother and forgive his father‚ then the conflict of the triangle has not been resolved leading him to be psychoneurotic. In the next paragraphs‚ I’m going to discuss why I think
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necessary? What is death penalty? Death penalty is when a state or the government issues the punishment of execution to some one who has committed a crime. It has always been one of the most highly debated issues in the United States. Many Americans are against the capital punishment or commonly knows as the death penalty because they fear its too expensive or there are religious reasons to oppose the death penalty or some other reasons. But my point of view is just like the bible and what it says "an
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