As an incoming freshman I did not like English that much. It was too much writing and reading. I started to like writing. I passed. Becoming a freshman maybe stressful or nerve wrecking to most. You may think that as soon as you walk in the gates that all people are staring at you. When in reality not everyone is really looking at you. It’s mostly the nervousness that gets to you. Within the first couple weeks of high school mostly everyone will feel overwhelmed but it will go away, it just takes
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I have always preferred reading over movies and television. When I first received the book for this class I was confused on how we would use this in an English course, I began reading the first few pages of the book and by the time I sat the book down I was halfway through it. I tried to continue my other chores and course work but, the book kept drawing me back to it. I’ve read almost all of it and plan to reread it again when I’m done. The comments that I have to share is how unfair, deceitful
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Some of the semester challenges were to be able to take notes from the book To Kill MockingBird we got to take notes on. For the first semester that was my first book to take notes on. To understand which of the notes were the correct notes from the book to use for when we had test on the book. That was my one of some problems on the first semester. I had the problem on how to write specific notes which could help me if I needed them. My second problem was on presentations that we had. What I think
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In the fall of 2014, I was admitted to the Thomas Jefferson School of law. It was an exciting and rewarding opportunity for me. However, during my time in law school I encountered some life situations that affected my ability to put my full focus in school which resulted in me being distracted from my course work. Instead of asking for help, I kept things to myself as I had done for so long, and unfortunately I was not able to succeed alone, which then lead to an unfortunate academic issue which
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How does the University of Chicago, as you know it now, satisfy your desire for a particular kind of learning, community, and future? Please address with some specificity your own wishes and how they relate to UChicago. Every time I talk about UChicago, I speak with what I call my “hyper accent”, characterized by excessive hand gestures and fast talking --and an occasional jump in excitement. “The Core and the ‘life of the mind’ spirit, a city bustling with opportunities, the House system, the zany
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You’d think that for a teenager (a high school senior at that) writing such a self-regarding thesis would be a piece of cake. Well, you’d be wrong! Having sat at a desk for hours upon hours, staring menacingly at a blank page and scouring through my slowly but inevitably malfunctioning brain for any tips concerning my -so far- second-rate personality was most definitely not on my schedule, but here I am. Alright, maybe “second-rate” is too harsh of a label. Pending? Would “pending” be a better fit
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In a world so filled with technology and media choices, it has become easy for some to frequently claim that “the book was better.” While the debate surrounding this issue has been around for quite some time, there is now a fairly new incumbent into the realm of entertainment, the audiobook. Audiobooks are now a more and more accessible form of media consumption, one that, on the whole, meets with far less criticism than its visual counterparts. While obviously not a real book, the act of simply
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It may be possible in our society today that books will no longer be used but I don't think it will happen. Books may be replaced by computers and electronics but I don't feel that people will totally lose interest in books. Lots of people really like books. Books keep history recorded. When you have a question about science you look in a book. I don't think that Bradbury’s depiction of a society without books is realistic.There wouldn't have been any book burnings such as the ones that happened
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appropriate voice needed in an argumentative essay. Argumentative essays should not only include a position on the topic, but it should also use emotional and logical appeals directed toward countering the opposing argument. Since originally submitting the paper I’ve made stylistic revisions including, not posing rhetorical questions that I leave unanswered which suggest a different style of writing such as a magazine or something less formal than an academic
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My first paper was a little rocky. At first I could not settle with a topic. When I would start to write a paper I would think it was not good enough and change it to something else. I changed my paper three different times. It was just hard for me to get started and it was also hard narrowing down my topic because I felt like what I was talking about was so broad. Turns out when I finally picked my topic my paper was headed in all the wrong directions. I ended up having to change a lot of things
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