June through August‚ when I was young‚ entailed family trips around the state. In September‚ when asked about my vacation‚ I would say brightly‚ "I visited Mexico‚ Paris and Lebanon‚" and then in a quieter voice‚ "without ever leaving Missouri." Although my family didn’t go far‚ we were always learning. The show-me state attitude instilled at an early age‚ while riding in the back of a Buick Riviera‚ resurfaces each year around this time. Because I took leave from my writing responsibilities this
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Poker Speech Outline Poker Informative Speech Specific Purpose: Inform the audience that poker is a game of skill. As a result‚ it is profitable in the longrun. Introduction – Who likes money? Excellent me too! - That’s one reason that I play poker. - Explain the story of how I learned to play poker from my father and what I’ve accomplished with poker [To Build Positive Ethos + Grab Attention] - Poker is not gambling if you understand the game. Poker is beatable
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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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fellow eighth graders! I hope that you’re all paying attention‚ because believe me‚ this speech was not easy to write. I don’t want to waste too much time‚ so let’s jump right in. I believe that the ideal class president would have a set of brilliant qualities- intelligence‚ perseverance‚ the list goes on. However‚ we’re all human‚ and we can’t all be perfect presidents. Some qualities that I possess that would be suitable for class president are openness and fairness. I can’t really say intelligence
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D.A.R.E Essay I learned in D.A.R.E that smoking and doing drugs can affect how you breath and it will turn your lungs a black moldy color. D.A.R.E helps you make good decisions on what to do if somebody asks if you want a cigarette or if they want you to drink with them. One of the things that I learned in D.A.R.E is peer pressure and peer pressure can be bad or good. One of the things that you feel when you have peer pressure is stress and what do I do. One example for peer pressure is if
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I have changed a lot as soon as I began high school. I started changing by not doing my homework and not doing class projects. When I was in middle school I would always do my homework every day and keep my average high‚ but know i’m going down on my average as soon as I went into high school. When I started high school I made myself a promise. I told myself the same thing I told myself in middle school “I will do my best and do my homework all week”‚ but that didn’t happen. It was already the last
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How I Learned to Drive was written by Paula Vogel. It is written in an autobiographical style‚ although it is never truly clear whether or not it is autobiographical in actuality. The story is about a woman (Lil’ Bit) in her 30’s looking back on her experience of being molested by an uncle (Uncle Peck) from the age of 11 through 18. The brilliance in Vogel’s writing is that despite the subject matter‚ Uncle Peck doesn’t come across as a “monster-like” figure. Instead he seems like a regular person—flawed
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09/27/10 Ms. Adams AP English language How I Learned to Read For me learning to read was an extensive and boring experience; I took reading for granted and never suspected of the great knowledge that was hidden in every book‚ I thought was useless; the revelation came afterwards. It all started at home. I was about to be five years old and my mom was teaching me how to write my name. In my head I understood nothing of what I wrote but as far as I know that was my name‚ which would follow me
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Although I don’t remember exactly how I learned to read‚ I guess it sort of came to me as a little child when my parents used to read me prayers and stories from the Bible. In middle school‚ reading was essential in getting a good grade for English with the "Accelerated Reader" system being implemented at our school. Basically‚ it was a online program where you would be able to take tests on books once you have read them‚ and each book had a certain amount of points based on its difficulty and length
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improved to the point that I wanted it to be before basketball. I have somewhat followed my goal of trying to run at the track‚ but I have been unable to run or workout 4-6 times a week. From where I was at on September 30th I have improved and compared to this time last year I am in much better shape than I was at the start of basketball season last year. One reason why I may have not reach this goal was setting the bar slightly too high. Instead aiming for quantity I should’ve leaned more towards
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