Have you ever been to a college class? Did that class only consist of two exams‚ a midterm and a final throughout the entire semester? How much stress did you feel around the time those exams came around? These are the types of problems that Patrick O’Malley argues against in his essay “More Testing‚ More Learning”. In this essay‚ O’Malley takes the stand presenting the fact that there are courses in college that provide infrequent testing. He lets it be known that this is not the most effective
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YOU MUST RUN VERY FAST TO STAY WHERE YOU ARE To begin with I would like to say that the topic of the essay may be thought as a great metaphor for life. If we ask how much time and energy do we spend just to hold on things and go outside the status quo it will be an honest question. From the one side we can say that the majority of time we spend each day is spent running just to stay in the same place. To continue with I can say that the percentage of the day spent on our growth seems to be very
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Professor Hauth-Forgie English 102 19 February 2014 Arnold Friend or Arnold Foe ‘Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?’‚ a short story by Joyce Carol Oates‚ takes place in the mid-sixties and revolves around two central characters‚ Connie and Arnold Friend‚ who mysteriously appears at Connie’s home and tries to coax her into coming with him before ultimately forcing her. Arnold Friend is a much debated character among critics‚ largely due to hints of inhuman abilities and his intentions
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In the short story Where Have You Gone Charming Billy‚ Tim O’ Brien‚ examines a conflict with the main character Paul Berlin and his internal fear of dying. The story takes place around 1965-1973 during the Vietnam War. It is Paul’s first day at the war and he has been fighting his anxiety. He has already seen one of the twenty-six soldiers in his platoon die of a heart attack because of tripping a mine bomb. Many soldiers continuously tell Paul to just get used to the fear of the jungle however
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Home Is Where The Army Takes You. How very true this statement is. Homelife was often everywhere and nowhere at the same time for us. We didn’t settle roots anywhere. We have never invested in anyplace or with anyone. Sure‚ my story isn’t unique in the enlisted world. Plenty of brats faced the same challenges every day and like me were able to find their own solutions to them. I love meeting new people‚ going to new places and trying out new things. But I had never been able to meet someone new and
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Don’t Forget Where You Came From The Dominican Republic was ruled by one of the most ruthless dictators‚ Rafael Trujillo. Julia Alvarez’s father was involved in the underground movement to overthrow the country’s dictator‚ which was uncovered and forced the family to flee the country four months before the founders of that underground‚ the Mirabal sisters‚ were brutally murdered by the dictatorship. Determined to show her adult independence from her family‚ Yolanda returned to the Dominican Republic
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02/20/2013 How do we Become Who we are? Everybody has their own opinion on how you become who you are. Everybody is different no matter how hard you try to be the same. Just like John Holland and Carl Joung‚ people try to justify the reasoning behind how we become who we are. Unlike the theories we have learned about in class I don’t believe it is possible to catergorize people or put them into groups. According to the birth order affect you should be able to catorgerize yourself into one
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places they go they see tall sky scraping buildings with a vast population. Some people speak different languages‚ have different skin color‚ and even live in different style homes. In the story “Where are You From” by Patricia Parker she wants to just be known as American‚ but her english isn’t perfect and her skin color is not while. So‚ people commonly ask her where she is from or where her real home is when in reality America is her home. As the story goes on‚
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Why You Are Stuck where You Are in Life: Escapism Before passing away‚ my grandmother spent 50 years in an abusive relationship with my grandfather. She never got the courage to leave no matter how bad it got. Instead‚ she would escaped using fiction novels and a TON of movies. No matter how bad it got‚ she would forget as she would escape into her own little world. I love my grandmother‚ but that’s not a life worth living. But you might be doing the same thing my friend. You never faced your
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Where there’s a will‚ there’s a way "Where there’s a will‚ there’s a way" means that there is nothing impossible to achieve if we are determined to achieve it. It says that people with superior will and resolute determination succeed. People who have own wish and motivation can reach to their goal. If people have wish they are looking forward and for opportunity‚there is no justification.A wish is a hope or desire for something. If you have wish you should be active‚ be the leader (but not
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