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    integrating sourced information into a paper where I presented original and compelling ideas. For example, I used direct quotes from an interview given by Russian Grandmaster Garry Kasparov to help illustrate the unbelievable extent of the formidable Soviet chess machine. Knowing how to go about this sort of research and incorporate my findings into my papers will definitely be an essential skill for my future career as a scientist, and I appreciate the practice English 1101 has afforded me. Henry David Thoreau

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    Reading chapter 3, was about learning about the game room business. The main argument Bourgois was trying make is in the first paragraph for this chapter. “Selling high-volume, inexpensive products is an inherently boring undertaking that requires honest, disciplined workers in order to be successful. Such businesses are inherently rife with traditional management versus labor confrontations, as well as internal jealousies or rivalries within employee hierarchies.” ( Bourgois 2003, 77) Bourgois

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    Joel tends to orient himself toward students that are like himself in several aspects. First, he tends to orient himself toward other bright students in his class. The roughly ten students that Joel was observed spending his time with were reported to be some of the brightest in the class. After an activity where Joel was asked to draw himself and the students in his class that are “closest to” him, Joel drew several students that he said were smart. Secondly, Joel tends to orient himself to students

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    Past, Present, and Future: Artificial Intelligence vs Human Intelligence Since of the technological era, people have experienced different change of lifestyles because the human´s needs have increased through over time. Consequently, technology has taken different ways: robots, search engines, and social media since the last Industrial Revolution. Therefore, people have been concerned with those changes that are happening now and are going to happen in the future. That is why in his essay, “Better

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    these values embedded within the young chess player, Josh began to show everyone who he really is. One of the many challenges that Josh faced and overcame was the constant pressure from his father and his chess teacher. After learning that his son was quite the chess player, the father signs Josh up with a teacher to further enhance his abilities. While this may seem harmless, it began to take a toll on Josh. The boy no longer wanted to participate in chess due to new ideas and systems implemented

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    When you were young you may have played the board game Monopoly. Monopoly is a game to learn about wealth through purchasing real estate. Each player chooses a symbol to move about the playing board while buying and/or trading property title deeds. When the player has a monopoly, all of the title deeds with the same color, they can then develop the property by purchasing four green houses which finally, hopefully, becomes one red hotel. Players whose symbol lands on an owned property must pay the

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    quite feisty. Waverly Jong was a prodigy at the age of nine. She ruled chess on the streets of San Fransico. Stubborn enough to quit for day, but too soft to make it on her own. Two different beings, from a folktale and from the womb of her mother. They're on different paths but it seems as if they're spirit merges as one. Waverly Jong was born in a cozy home in San Fransico. One christmas year she discovered the game of chess. Long hours at the library, books upon books, knowledge being poured

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    eventually, though neither of us knew it at the time, chess games.” Through this new interest in chess, Waverly will learn to hone her mental skills along with her playing skills.

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    The novel opens as Chaol, a royal guard, is retrieving Celaena, an assassin, from Endovier, the concentration/slave camp she has been in for the past 350 days. He then takes her to Prince Dorian, who has summoned the assassin to see if she would be capable of competing for him. The competition is to acquire the next King’s Champion. The King’s Champion basically does the dirty work for the ruler. The king is a arrogant, nasty man who has been dominating kingdoms throughout the land of Erilea. He

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    STATEMENT OF PURPOSE I wanted to become a car racer. Why? I wanted to buy batteries from my father and so I wanted to become a car racer. This was one of my dreams when I was a child. Strange isn’t it. Such a big world and you wouldn’t want to choose a single dream. I consider myself very different from others. I have seen many dreams but never have stuck to a single one. But when it is time to decide your future, I would love to pick out my best one. One of my best dream was becoming a mechanical

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