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    We have bad institutional habits and the educational system will continue to be the way it is because our system is outdated and that’s how it’s always been. The U.S. education system does what it was designed to do. The problem that were facing is that it was formed over 100 years ago in a different time period, for a different need, in a different economy, to satisfy a diverse life style using the technology that they then had. Ken Robinson illustrates that our education today was built on the

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    Do people deserve second chances? We need to learn from what we did wrong and remember to not repeat them again. From this we can look back and reflect and analyze the consequences then seperate what is right and what is wrong. In the story “The first stone” by Don Aker, the protagonist named Reef decides to throw a stone at a windshield of a car that eventually puts an innocent girl named Leeza in a terrible condition. After the news are spread around, Reef must undergo the consequences. His

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    "Man in the Mirror" was written by Glen Ballard and Siedah Garrett and co-produced by Michael Jackson, and released from the album Bad on August 31,1987 and released as a single January 16,1988 (YouTube). Siedah Garrett had an idea about a man looking in a mirror in her head for quite some time and took her ideas to her writing partner Glen Ballard. Once Garrett shared her lyric ideas, Ballard added some soulful vocals to help make the song become more powerful, which helped make the lyrics even

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    Sonnet 95 Summary

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    rose, and on the other hand, he is compared to a destructive worm, but all his dark side of life is hidden under his good looking and charming nature. What is important about this poem is the manner in which the speaker reminds the young man about his bad behavior and draws examples that makes him feel sorry about what he does behind his good-looking nature. By the use of diction, imagery, diction, images, metaphors and other figures of speech, such as tone of voice, allusions, syntax and structure of

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    Greasy Lake Summary

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    undermine their self-proclaimed “bad”-ness? That the narrator and his friends are regretful by the end of the story discredits the claim. Also, they are confounded when a situation turns out bad which makes it seem like they haven’t been in that situation before. Finally, when their self-proclaimed badness is tested, they falter and are uncommitted to being bad anymore. In conclusion, being regretful, confounded and uncommitted undermines their claim of being bad. Speaking about the narrator and

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    by helping other kids button the buttons on the back of their coat. The difference between loss and release in their community is that a relises is something either good or bad, it could be good because the elder could of lived its long life and it would be released in a remembering way. On the other hand being released on a bad term can be, because of breaking too many rules or being malnourished of different during birth they would release you. A loss on the other hand is because of a death from

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    Have you ever had a good or bad experience with social media? Have you ever been a part of a protest that was started on social media? I think that social media is a good thing because you can have so much fun on it and even make friends on in. Without that you would be limited to the kids in your neighborhood and in some places there are not a lot of kids that you can make friends with or they do not live close so you have to drive there. That is all fixed with social media. Like recently I have

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    Whenever you go to the movies or a play, someone taller than you mostly always sits in front of you. You can never see the movie or the play correctly, and you mostly miss part of the movie or the play. Well, this invention will save you from those horrible times. It’s called the Inflatable Booster Pants! It gets really annoying when someone sits in front of me that is taller than me. You can’t see the movie or play correctly. I mostly always have to switch seats with my parents or my brother during

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    Severson Broken Windows

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    When Severson notes that “The world is full of broken windows nobody meant to break,” he most likely is referring to the unintentional wrongdoings we that we commit towards others. These are also the type of accidents that usually wouldn’t be morally acceptable to walk away from with no comment. Like if one was to step on another’s foot, it would be rude to just brush it off and not apologize even though it was an accident. I agree with Severson in the sense that I understand the I’m always hurting

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    Having a true friends, who is blunt, is a real blessing. It means that you have an extra resource that others may not have. Here are few of the many benefits of having a friend who is blunt. Blunt people have a strong moral compass This means that they will fight for what’s right. They are not afraid to passionately go after things and people who are standing in the way of getting things accomplished the right way. People who are blunt speak their minds and hearts You may really want to say

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