N. Hart English Honors Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar #7 Explain why you think this book will or will not be read 100 years from now. Support your opinion by stating specific events in the story. One hundred years from now I believe this book will be read as it contains most problems faced by incoming freshmen in high school. The book is well written and is fun to read as the main character‚ Scott Hudson employs literary uses while he writes in his journal to his unborn sibling
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“Why does America needs its nerds”? In the passage “America need it nerds”‚ author Leonid Fridman expresses his fear and concerns on why Americans needs their nerds. Fridman emphasizes his argument by comparing and contrasting American’s on-going social beliefs and misperceptions of nerds and the actual role taken on by the nerds and why the role that they play is so vital to society. Friedman begins with‚ “bringing to our attention”‚ the type of terms our society uses to describe the “intellectually
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A question everybody has on their mind is‚"Does praying help students in school?" Others may urge that students should not pray in school because most students are atheist or that students would not study because they would pray to pass exams ‚ but on the contrary‚ students are most likely to excel in their schoolwork‚learn to respect others/be modest. Students actually excel more in school and have higher grades than those that don’t pray.A recent study done by Oxford University‚ studied their
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There are many reasons why we study William Shakespeare’s plays today. There is the insight to human nature that he knows well‚ allusions to old mythology and legends‚ and others such. However‚ one reason stands out above the rest: his power of language. Also this power of language is clearly shown in his play‚ Othello‚ through Iago‚ the antagonist of the play. Iago‚ who is an ensign of Othello‚ is furious that he was not given the promotion to lieutenancy. As a result he uses his craftiness and
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Schedule I drug. For this paper‚ I will discuss both sides of the debate on whether marijuana should be de-scheduled and legalized‚ nationally‚ under the federal level. To evaluate the main argument‚ it is important to understand what a schedule is and why marijuana is considered a Schedule I drug. Per the D.E.A. website‚ a schedule is a classification
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It is dangerous for people to work in sweatshop conditions. Most people agree that sweatshop labor is very bad and no one should have to work in those conditions. This is why companies should do everything they possibly can to eliminate manufactures who utilize this labor. This can be done by auditing companies before hiring and while the work is being done‚ raising penalties and consequences businesses face for knowingly
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without general knowledge among the people.” Knowledge is defined as having a familiarity or awareness due to education or experience. We know‚ because of our ancestors have the knowledge and access to education to maintain our liberty. However‚ are we preserving that liberty? In 1940‚ only seven percent of African Americans 25 years or older had completed high school (We the Americans: Blacks‚ 1993) and slavery was abolished in 1865. This was primarily because after slavery African Americans were left
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WHY GERUNDS IS USED IN ENGLISH ??? Answer : This is because gerunds is used to express an action that is happening and often the person thinks that is the only use. It can also be used as a noun or adjective. Sometimes the gerund may be used to introduce a noun phrase like‚ “Ordering in a restaurant is difficult especially when it is crowded.” The average person probably thinks that the gerund is only used in the present tense in order to relate an on going activity. If you were in the process
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I think that we should have laws because without laws there would be a lot of chaos going around and everything would go off hand. There would be a lot of murders going around and most might be the innocent people being killed. It would not really be fair on them and the murderer would need to be punished for this or whoever was part of the crime. I also think that people would not have peace if there were no laws because there would perhaps be a lot of riots and wars going around. People may also
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robbed the museum. In this episode‚ along with others‚ there are various scenes in which viewers see Lightman and his group interrogate suspects and point out facial expressions and movements of the body that indicate a lie (or something hidden) versus the truth being told. We can also see the Lightman group subconsciously cross-examine regular people as they are trained experts in the field of deception and psychology. Although there is no fool-proof universal signal for deception‚ there are
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