2/1/2011 "Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit‚ a never ending process." ~ Lawrence M. Miller What happens when you think you have reached "excellence"? Most will just stop because they think that they have reached it and there is really no need to go further. Well‚ have you ever wondered what was on the other side of excellence? How will we ever know unless we take a peak and strive for better? As Mr. Miller stated‚ it’s a never ending process. We are always looking for ways to improve our
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What did you do to fill those two months? Most kids would just sit around all day waiting for school to start. But if you were out trying new things and meeting different people‚ Thomas Jefferson would be proud. As Jefferson once wrote: "Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." I agree with this statement and believe that staying active will ultimately lead to progress. For instance‚ while Bob sits waiting for the jobs to come to him‚ Sally is actually
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Why Was ’Jack the Ripper’ Never Caught? In 1888‚ 5 horrific and brutal murders were committed‚ which the police believed were all by the same man. This particular case‚ even today‚ intrigues people all over the globe due to the fact that the perpetrator was never caught. He’s known to the world as ’Jack the Ripper’ because of the vicious way in which he mutilated his victims. The four main contributors to him not being caught were the police investigation and incompetence‚ media sensationalism
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The Priest finished off his final words‚ I tried to savor them knowing that after today I wanted to forget it all; not because I didn’t care‚ it was quite the opposite actually! It’s just that I know it would be what she wanted. As much as I tried and begged she kept flooding my mind‚ it’s impossible to throw something like this over your shoulder and ignore the remnants of the past. The blackness of the day contrasted with the overwhelming sunshine and broken heat waves. It was all too much
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Alex Bauer Informative Presentation Outline Topic: New York City General Speech Goal: To Inform Specific Speech Goal: I want my audience to recognize what makes New York City the city that never sleeps. Introduction I. Attention Getter: I want all of you today to imagine yourselves walking down a street‚ but this is no ordinary street. You feel like you’re a mouse in a maze‚ the skyscrapers are keeping you trapped within the city‚ thousands of people walking in different directions‚
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NEVER LET ME GO – KATHY H’S ROAD TO LIFE: HAILSHAM: Kathy reminisces about her time at Hailsham and events involving her two most important friends. Ruth‚ a charismatic but manipulative and dishonest ‘queen bee’ and Tommy‚ a kind boy with a bad temper who is disliked by the other students. She recalls watching Tommy from the sports pavilion where the girls and his friends bullied him. Kathy was concerned that Tommy would get mud on his favourite shirt so she tried to interfere with the tantrum
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Elie Wiesel: Never Forget Elie Wiesel has written over thirty novels over the course of his life. These novels directly affect society in general and especially impact Judaism. He has contributed not only to his race and religion but to ever human soul who reads his work. Elie Wiesel does this by not allowing any to forget the Halocaust of the Jews. "Elie Wiesel was born in Signet‚ Transylvania on September 30‚ 1928. He grew up the only son of four children‚ in a close-knit Jewish community
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Both the text‚ “I never had it made” and the PBS review‚ Jackie Robinson: an inside look‚ have some similarities and differences. Both the excerpt and video mention how important the world series was to him‚ but even though that is one similarity‚ the excerpt talks about of people of such importance to him for example‚ Rachel‚ his wife‚ and Branch Rickey. PBS’ video talks more about Robinson’s private life or his life before baseball. Before he broke the color barrier‚ Jackie Robinson fought in the
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The Knife of Never Letting Go Patrick Ness "But a knife ain’t just a thing‚ is it? It’s a choice‚ it’s something you do. A knife says yes or no‚ cut or not‚ die or don’t. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again." “The Knife of Never Letting Go” by Patrick Ness‚ is truly‚ an extraordinary piece of literature. The story is about a boy named Todd‚ who is about to be a man‚ in one month’s time. Todd lives in the New Word‚ a world where
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Dimond 1 Never Let Me Go Psychoanalytic Critique Although facts about the life of an author cannot often be found in a work of fiction‚ authors have a tendency to write stories based on their life unconsciously. Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of many award-winning science fiction books‚ very obviously not based on anything in his life. This psychoanalysis will attempt to show Ishiguro’s unconscious writings. Psychoanalysis was first invented and used by Sigmund Freud‚ a famous Austrian neurologist
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