Why I Write By Joan Didion From The New York Times Magazine‚ December 5‚ 1976. Copyright 1976 by Joan Didion and The New York Times Company. Of course I stole the title for this talk‚ from George Orwell. One reason I stole it was that I like the sound of the words: Why I Write. There you have three short unambiguous words that share a sound‚ and the sound they share is this: I I I. In many ways writing is the act of saying I‚ of imposing oneself upon other people‚ of saying listen to me
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Should Every Kid Receive a Trophy? Years ago when I played Basketball I never got a trophy and that was pretty depressing and I never got influenced to work harder. When you give a kid a trophy for participating they will want to work harder so they can get a better bigger more achievable trophy. When they earn a trophy they love it because they received an award or it can possibly be their first trophy. Many people argue that 81% do not think that kids should have a trophy. That is because
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chance‚ well I have had a real life situation with this‚ when my friend was rude to me I didn’t give her a second chance and I told her I wouldn’t forgive her because of what she said‚ but now I feel like I should have given her a second chance. I knew she was sorry and I knew she didn’t mean to but I couldn’t forgive her‚ I still had those memories in my head. So I never forgave her or never gave her a second chance. “Starting all over again is not that bad because when you restart‚ you get another chance
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I was walking home on the long broken up concrete path from the bus stop to my house‚ should I? Or should I not? When would I have the time? What would other people think of it? Why should I fight for it without help? I was so confused about what I wanted to do. I pondered these questions for hours. I didn’t know what I should choose. I felt like the wind was howling “CHOOSE! CHOOSE!” I didn’t know what to do and I felt like a predator trying to choose a sweet but hard to catch prey or easy but
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Why do players in different sports get paid differently? In hockey you can make over 12 million dollars in one salary but in football you get way more then that sometimes. How come some players get salary more just for being only a little bit better than the other players. When some football players start‚ they seem great and get payed a lot but the players that have played for a while are getting payed less. We want to know about it. In football the players get payed because of their contracts
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Kids should not get paid to do chores. Chores are a main part of life. It gives people responsibility. There are many reasons why I believe this. Chores have to get done whether you get paid or not. Everyone in a family needs to pitch in on the house sometimes. It teaches people responsibility. Parents do not get money to do chores‚ so why should kids? There are many things you can do to earn money‚ but helping around the house is not one of them. These are a few reasons why kids should not get
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Evan Moore If I Should Die Before I Wake 11/16/20 My story If I Should Die Before I Wake is about a sixteen year old girl named Hilary‚ she is an angry girl. Hilary is angry because her mother didn’t take care of her when she was a kid. Hilary also is angry because she blames the Jewish Boss for being cheap and not buying right materials for the building her father was killed in because of it collapsing. I have never felt as angry as Hilary before‚ but I do get upset sometimes when my family
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Why should kids get trophies for doing nothing? I mean kids don’t pass school just for being there. The major issue about this problem is if kids should or should not get participation trophies‚ some professional athletes have thrown away or sent back their kids participation trophies‚ but most parents think they are good. I think that kids do not need participation trophies‚ they should get trophies for their talent‚ not because they are there. The mindset of these kids getting trophies is almost
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smashing the four minute barrier. Befor this the four minute mile seemed impossible but yet it had been done. Then only a few years later a young runner Jim Ryun was the fust high school runner to break the four minute mile. He ran the mile in 3:59.0 as a junior. Then in as his senior in 1965 he smashed the world rected in 3:55.3..This really pushed runners to train and run hard.
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Who Should We Put a Price on Talent? Steve Yeager played for the L.A Dodgers until 1976‚ the year of his tragic accident. Yeager was waiting in the deck circle when the bat of his teammate shattered. A jagged chunk of wood splintered off the bat and flew directly into Yeager’s throat. He collapsed‚ and while blood spurting from his neck‚ he was rushed to the hospital. Somehow‚ he ending up surviving‚ but money had a great deal on his case. Most baseball players get paid payed over four million dollars
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