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    chance in life by helping them overcome the dilemmas they encounter in their daily lives. When it comes to writing essays, I try to be a perfectionist which is my strength. I prefer to take my time with my essays and have them well written and thought out, however, it can also be a weakness as well. Since I prefer to take my time to make it perfect, I find myself spending more time then I should on an essay, only letting it consume much of my time. However, I do not mind writing essays one bit,

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    Introduction If you asked me to describe my life in a short essay it would be highly difficult for many reasons. From being a country boy from Bunn, North Carolina, to enlisting in the United States Army, and being deployed to Afghanistan the story of my life has token many paths. In this essay I will take you down the road of me trying to enlist in the Marine Corps and becoming a soldier in the United States Army. The Drive to Join As a young man I have always had the ambition to serve my country

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    College and Career Essay There are several ways to start looking at colleges, one is by a way of research. Deciding what college career to do after high school can be difficult because of schedules and working, which is very time consuming. While doing all this, there is still the problem of determining the future of our careers. During the high school journey, trying to figure out your life before that wonderful graduation day, and, trying to be an adult can cause more stress in life. This research

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    of Berkley students were caught plagiarizing directly from the Internet. This is surprising considering the consequences of plagiarism. Along with these college statistics, another interesting statistic from “Plagiarism.Org” is that 58.3% of high school students let someone else copy their work in 1969, and 97.5% did so in 1989. This is a huge increase. It is up to personal opinions to determine whether the Internet has caused this increase, and if it has, what is the percentage at today? College

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    especially when it came to producing an essay. During the last few years of high school the focus in my English classes was on how fast you can write an essay. This was good in getting me prepared for standardized testing, but not good at preparing me for college. That being said getting back into the swing of outlining, drafting, and revising was difficult for me. After writing draft A, I felt like I had a solid paper because if I was back in high school that would have been my only shot. Through

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    School Uniforms and Their Effect on Education      Going to public schools all my life, I heard the gossip of "fashion" and "whose wearing what,"pretty much everyday; at least in the four years of high school where it seemed that looks mattered the most. As people grow up, the way they present themselves becomes more and more important. Leaving a good mark in high school means a lot to some people, and some are ready to do whatever it takes to make that mark, whether it be putting someone down

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    Overlook to Be Successful There will always be those who strikes their hardest to learn even though others downgrade them. In the essay “Super Man and Me” Sherman Alexie explains what happen in his personal life while he was still at school. Alexie is an Indian boy who loves to read ever since he was a little child. “A little Indian boy teaches himself to read at an early age and advanced quickly” (497). However the non-Indians expected less from the Indians kids. They expect them to be stupid and

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    express his opinions in his writings. He wrote about the sociopolitical conditions of his time. For a man whose career started as a dishwasher, he came a long way to be known as the great author he is known as today. In this paper George Orwell's early life, his variety of jobs before becoming a writer, his many successes and failures and some of his best known novels and critiques of them, and his sad death will all be discussed. George Orwell was born in Motihard, Bengal, India on June 25, 1903 (George

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    On this first half of the school year in ELA class I have learned about sign posts to help me understand better what I read and to be aware of my thoughts while I am reading. In writing I have learned how to organize my sentences in the text and to avoid writing too much just to make my essay longer. In speaking and listening, I learned not to speak swallowing words and also about maintaining a good posture while presenting a project. I would say that some of my success in my work is that now I know

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    line between formal and conversational writing. After that assignment if the students continued to abbreviate, she said she would deduct points from their grade. Ms. Harding tells us about another experience she had with a student who had written a midterm paper using the text symbols and she gave the student a C. Then it pans over to various teachers who teach all grade levels. With this info this leads me to believe that it is a narrative essay because its trying to tell you

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