Senior Prize Winner - Katherine McIndoe‚ age 18‚ New Zealand Commonwealth Essay Competition 2013 “To boldly go”: a letter to the lost girls To the lost girls‚ My name is Katherine. I’m a girl‚ just like you. I have grown up in New Zealand‚ and I go to university. Ever since I was little‚ I have had this feeling that I can do whatever I want to do‚ that my future is not my fate but something that I can choose. I see no obstacles‚ only opportunities. No one can force me to do anything that
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Literary Devices of Out‚ Out Robert Frost’s poem Out‚ Out‚ effectively uses multiple literary devices to create coherence and a deeper meaning. This poem is an example of Frost’s work that illustrates rural life and colloquial speech‚ which he was famous for writing. The poem is set on a farm and focuses on a young boy completing his chores‚ only to be distracted by his sister which leads to is death. Robert Frost’s Out‚ Out‚ illustrates the commonality of death through the uses of rural imagery
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XOPS Paper Presentation Competition Date -21/11/2010 “Progression of our nation towards Go Green” 1. Introduction You only have to look around and think to understand and realize the graveness and urgency‚ of why we need to “Go Green”. The computer you are using to view this document is guzzling up power and generating heat from its processor‚ thus adding to its carbon footprint‚ this is without mentioning the hazardous metals used while making it. The clothes that you are wearing might
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One of the first poems I’ll be analyzing in this essay is by Robert Frost‚ “Out-Out”. Frost has a unique method of embodiment to create certain emotions in this poem. The buzz saw‚ though in a sense‚ it’s a type of tool‚ is better known as being‚ aggressively snarling and rattling as it does its work. When the sister makes the dinner announcement‚ the saw demonstrates that it has a mind of its own by “jumping” out of the boy’s hand in its excitement. Robert Frost wouldn’t like to lay blame for the
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The rapid explosion of social networking is starting to affect corporations. Believe it or not‚ employee use of social networking sites while at work isn’t the only reason corporations are running into problems. corporations themselves have started using social networking sites for a multitude of reasons‚ such as marketing‚ employee communications‚ and emergency response services‚ just to name a few. The reliance on social networking use has introduced some serious vulnerability issues for these
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CASE: SHOULD WE GO BEYOND THE LAW? ETHICAL DILEMMA - The right to make profit versus the duty to protect the environment. OBJECTIVE - To make the company realize the importance of protecting the environment. - To help Chem-Tech become an ethically and socially responsible company. CONCEPTS / ANALYSIS - Sta Clara University published the five sources of ethical standards that can guide a person in making an ethical decision. Below are two of the five approaches they suggested: The Utilitarian
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In my opinion‚ the Electoral College should go. I have three reasons why the Electoral College should be either get rid of. My reasons are that it focuses more on smaller states than big states‚ Hamilton had other intentions for the Electoral College‚ and the Electoral College was meant to be for small states so it would be more equal. The first reason is that the Electoral College focuses on more smaller states than big states. Not only does the Electoral College pay more attention to small states
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(“Famous”). She was pointing out that the way children are treated affects them in the future. Almost everything about the children’s lives will affect them in the future. This begins with the people who are most involved with the children. Parents need to make many decisions carefully to make sure their child’s future is the best it can be. One of the most important decisions made is the choice for the mother to stay at home with the children and not work or work and send the children to some
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Some people find it shocking that the U.S already has about 3‚000 year round schools. People are debating if students should go to year round school. Some experts say it is better‚ some others say it is not. Should Kids have to go to year round school? Most believe they should. One reason kids should go to year round school is‚ some families don’t have the money to send their family on vacation or send their kids to summer activities. So kids will start getting lazy and all summer‚ every day kids
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dm-3 and 0.15 mol dm-3 and my aim is to find out exactly what its concentration is. To do this I have been given solid anhydrous sodium carbonate and a range of pH indicators. With this solid anhydrous sodium carbonate I can make a solution of known concentration by mixing it with distilled water to make sodium carbonate solution (which is an alkali solution). Once I have mixed this solution I can use it to perform a series of titrations to find out accurately what the concentration of the acid
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