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Hard Work, Good Timing, and Dumb Luck: A Recipe for Success I make my way to the podium on the stage, and place my name placard before me, on it is MO-SCANLAN, and I gaze out at my audience of 350+ delegates, waiting patiently to hear what I have to say. Glancing to my left, I see Victor Agbafe, the young man who was thrust into the spotlight earlier that year after being accepted to all eight Ivy League schools, who was my collaborator for this speech because of all of the people in this room,

Out of the numerous different avenues available, academic politics is one of the most tangible for discussing, debating, and analyzing political opinions. While it is common for disagreements to occur among students with differing political opinions, a new form of dealing with this conflict of opinion has now become the act of no-platforming speakers on controversial topics. While first created to avoid giving fascist political groups a platform to speak, no-platforming has now taken the form of

My heart pumped as if it was victimized in a heart attack. The pulse seemed to be rising higher and faster as time shortened. I glanced back, sought out for clarity. You could see my shivering body stranded at the middle of the hall during the afternoon. All eyes on the overwhelmed kid, wondering to see what she has to say in the event. Was this really happening? I closed my eyes for a second, taking me back to early morning where this event took place. Today was the speech-and-debate summer competition

Daniel Cooper AP English Mr. Cohen 9-24-14 Senior Project Basketball is more than just a sport Dwayne Wade was born January 17, 1982 in Chicago, Illinois. Most people see Wade as just an NBA star who has a lot of money, but most people don’t know the full story of what he has been through in his life and how he got to the NBA. When Wade was born, his parents separated a short while after and custody was given to his mother. Then because of the crime in Chicago and

alleged doping. In that interview as well , Lee, who tested positive for a banned substance last year when he was world number one, said he would, however, return to competition if his appeal was successful. He was suspended after traces of banned anti-inflammatory agent dexamethasone were found during a doping test conducted right after his semi-final match in the World Championships last year. Furthermore, the two-time silver medallist at the Olympics, Lee Chong Wei was out of action for eight

“With Friends Like These” I had never subscribed to the idea of “trusting nobody”. After all, life is so much better with friends, isn’t it? Maybe, as I found one year ago, these two things aren’t mutually exclusive. Perhaps you cannot trust your friends, and still have them. Maybe, just maybe, this is too dramatic for what truly happened. However, I am sure that after seeing what happened that day a year ago, anybody would agree that what happened was a betrayal of the highest order. “Josh, are

Epstein uses Donald Thomas as an example to support his claim by comparing his success to Stefan Holm. Donald Thomas was an inexperienced high jumper who had an incredible amount of success leading him to participate and eventually win the 2007 World Championships. Stefan Holm was the reigning Olympic champion of the high jump which used discipline and many years of practice to achieve success but was defeated by a neophyte. Epstein provides information about studies conducted on

Things I am good at: art, playing the cello, school, and pretending that I am good at doing things. Things I am bad at: grammar, spelling (in fact I misspelled grammar while typing the word), writing, and pronunciation. I have always assumed that I am naturally bad at English; however, after twenty-five minutes of deep thought, I concluded that my teachers taught me to hate English. Teacher’s failure to properly motivate and teach kids the important elements of English caused me to hate it; it is

Weimin Deng (Tuesday Section) Debate as a Life Background History of Debate In my sophomore year of highschool, I joined the policy debate club. Policy debate was an intensive academic activity where teams of two would engage in discussions on the best government 's policy to enact. There would be two teams in each debate round: affirmative or negative. The affirmative would have to propose a policy that the U.S federal government should enact based on their constructed advantages for implementation

Speech and debilitate I am afraid of many things; I fear heights, large crowds, death even fucking moths, all of which I have justifiable reasons for but my biggest fear the fear of public speaking is nonsensical. I know it is a ridiculous fear there is no inherent danger involved in speaking publicly it’s no different from a personal conversation just louder but for some reason I can’t get over it and trust me I’ve tried. In my senior year of high school, I was given a throw away assignment something