Technology/Paper #2 The first article “How a Demon iPad Stole My Summer Vacation” by Doyle McManus I found to be a mirrored image of what most average family vacations probably are like. I agree with most of the viewpoints McManus points out in his article. The biggest one being the disruption technology has caused in the family. Family time is nothing like it used to be, not only on vacations but also in the household. Like McManus points out, family time spent together used to consist of outdoor activities
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Burkett Composition 1 18, September, 2012 My First True Love The first time I left my country to study in the United States, my girlfriend gave me our framed picture. That was our first picture taken together on the night we first met each other. Every time I look at this picture, it takes me back in time like a time machine to that night. It wakes up emotions and memories from that summer. I remember, that summer, I was on vacation in Montenegro with my best friend. We were spending days on
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I was born in China, and at the age of 12, my family and I immigrated to the United States in hopes of extended opportunities and better education. Life isn't exactly easy for immigrants being subject to language barriers and general unfamiliarity to a brand new country is a significant hurdle to overcome. "It's time for school," my mom said. I knew this day would come, but how did it come so fast. As I walked into the classroom, I could feel sweat beading on my forehead and my heart pounded hundred
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a nice mini vacation that was much needed for my family and I. My families ranch was a nice getaway for my family and I because we got to spend quality time with each other; something that is very rare when we are at home. My family and I went to spend time with some family members at their ranch and spent three relaxing days there. My mother had planned to leave on Friday evening and come back on Sunday evening. During those three days, we settled into our rooms, went fishing, spent time by the
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My family is not Jewish, nor are we descended from politicians. None of my ancestors were prisoners of war or openly homosexual, nor did they fight in Europe during the 1940s. So maybe I can not talk about the Holocaust as a fifteen year old high school student and argue for all of those in killed the concentration camps to be remembered, and yet I want to do so anyways. Last summer, during a week long vacation to Washington D.C., my family visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This
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Summer Jobs for Teenagers This summer, while all of your friends were on vacation or going to work outs every morning, did you find yourself having very little to do? If you told your parents this they might have suggested a number of things, such as join a new extracurricular activity or get a summer job. Usually a teenager’s initial thought when told to get a job is negative, and there could be several reasons for the negative thoughts, such as they think it will be boring, they envision it to
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communication March 30, 2014 I interviewed my friend Akiyoshi he is 38 years old, i know him because he is one of my coaches for soccer. I decided to interview Akiyoshi because he is Japanese and he goes every summer to visit his family. This interview was mainly for my class assignment, although I am interested as well. I too, will be visiting japan next year with Akiyoshi. I will be playing for a team for two months and I am actually interested in learning how communication and culture is treated
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As I drift to sleep I see the sun making its descent behind the line of towering mountains, the beautiful dew-dappled flowers flowing over the edge of the roof on their lush green vines, and the glow of lava flowing down the sides of the volcanoes. I feel the chill of the evening air, and I’m happy that I remembered to bring my favorite sweatshirt. I hold my cup of coffee close, warming my hands. This roof was my sanctuary during the week that I spent in Guatemala during the summer after my ninth
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Across the Fence At my twelve years of age, my wise self thought I had been through it all, having I had been in a car wreck, I already spoke two languages, I had been to a decent amount of funerals, and I had gained and lost friendships. That year I realized life was only beginning and while I was calling my experiences “life experiences,” God was clearly laughing at me. In 2007, at twelve young years of age I found myself in the middle of a cartel war. The war between the cartels and the government
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a bad experience, going on vacation, or having a child. I have had a few life changing events. Notably, during the last semester of my senior year, like many, I began to develop a serious case of "senioritis". In less than two months I had to bring four failing grades up, in order to graduate. Although this may seem like a trivial event so some, it taught me the most valuable lesson I have learned to date: hard work pays off. I was not the best student in high school; I failed at least one class each
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Profile/Reflection My mother raised me as a southern belle. I grew up in a little town 20 miles south of Nashville, Tennesee. I embraced southern charms, my drawl, and the expectations to be “ladylike” on most occasions. However, my father taught me how to bait my own hooks and that if I was going to learn how to drive, it would have to be on a stick shift. My dad was the only father I knew, although he adopted me at the age of four. My biological father had been abusive to my mother, physically
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1. I signed up for this course so I may challenge myself, and so I won’t have to take another course in college. I went to Mr. ‘s office one day to speak to him about my schedule, as he was looking through all my classes, he asked why I wasn’t in Advanced Placement English. As soon as I had told him that I did not want to join the class, he explained to me that I had scored extremely high on the PSAT and that it would be a shame to let my mind go to waste. I was given a day to decide whether or
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This spring, I traveled overseas to Tokyo, Japan and Beijing, China. The experience made me aware of the differences in culture and lifestyle than in New York. Eleven cramped and uncomfortable hours later, I was officially a tourist in Tokyo. I never understood the difficulties with being an outsider in an unfamiliar place. It was very easy to get lost because of the lack of street signs and no one spoke an ounce English. I adapted quickly once I became acquainted with the location of the hotel and
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Carrying capacity is a key concept for understanding how tourism can affect a destination. Carrying capacity is the number of people that a given area can support within its natural resource limits. If more people than this number use the destination, it starts to deteriorate. The natural social, cultural, and economic environment cannot remain in a healthy state for present and future generations. Put another way, carrying capacity measures how many people can be in a place comfortably, without causing
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eastern jews became a complex transforming form poor immmigrants to having the freedom to obtain wealth. The change in the concept of poverty would begin to alter the jewish way after they settle in America. Late in the 19th century American workers spent much less time then Europeans in food. The majority of their wages were for luxuries, having the jew sit back watching and learning. AFP/Getty Images A woman surnamed Chu (left), 77, attends the hearing of a case against her daughter and husband
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planning to “repair that boat”. I am going to put the oars into the oarlocks and begin to row across the Sound.” (Naylor, 282). Instead of cooperating with the rest of the community, George prefers to take an enormous risk, one that will probably lead to his death, for an off chance that outside help will be able to find a cure for his wife. Naylor then reinforces to the reader George’s belief that he alone can help Cocoa, considering that “They burned my boat,’ I spit out. ‘Because they like you
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Describe how you have taken advantage of a significant educational opportunity or worked to overcome an educational barrier you have faced. As a low-income student of color, my family's socioeconomic class limited me to living in an unfavorable suburb in Southeast Los Angeles. A significant amount of inadequate ramifications came along with living in Huntington Park, such as the underprivileged schools. After completing middle school, I became conscious of my educational imbalance. I was able to
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Emma Grindle 1 Mr. Murillo English 095 20 March 2013 An experience I will never forget I had only been to Mexico a few times in my life, and had never seen it in any aspect other than vacation. Little did I know that the most rewarding experience I would have would be serving in an orphanage in another country I knew so little about. Being adopted I was able to connect with children in the orphanage. The feeling of helping and working with children helped inspire me to work with children
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keep friends with himself—here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy. (Stevenson quoted in Bartlett F.Q. 825) This summer, for the first time in my life, I cried when I watched a part of my family drive away. I spent a week with my sister, Mandi, and her husband, Barry, and her son, Trustin. The week consisted of swimming,
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“I fought with this volley of noes, which he ignored,” Ashley told ABC’s Diane Sawyer. “Who knows? Maybe he heard them as maybe. Maybe he heard them as yeses. Maybe they turned him on.” Shaken, she left Weinstein’s hotel room. Though she told her parents, agents, and a few Hollywood actor friends what had taken place, Ashley says no action was taken. She didn’t feel powerful enough to accuse Weinstein publicly (and she feared the professional backlash that she knew would come with exposing him).
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nineteen-ninety-six, my mother had just gotten news that her father, my grandfather, had passed away. She was distraught, simply because she couldn’t get to the funeral back in Colorado because of a slight impairment of being nine months pregnant; she then realized that her father wouldn’t get the opportunity to meet his grand-daughter. Two weeks later my mom found herself in agony, she couldn’t stand up, my dad wasn’t home, my oldest brother was at school, and my other brother was with the neighbors. My dad had
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From a very young age, I have been interested in the way businesses are run: how shops are laid out, how they sell themselves to the customer, asking myself why are similar products so differently priced? My enthusiasm for businesses grew from spending countless hours after school in my youth at my father’s furniture business in Northern Pakistan. I was intrigued by by the 00923414417799 Ever since whenI was little there have always been business career that have sparked my interest that I’ve wanted
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1. I was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, but have lived in Lincoln, Nebraska for the past 17 years of my life. My parents and I came as refugees from the civil war that lasted from 1992-1995. 2. I am fluent in both English and Bosnian. 3. I go back to visit Bosnia every few years; I went back this summer by myself for the first time and it made me really appreciate my family there the most. I really miss seeing my grandparents and my aunts, uncles, and cousins. 4. I personally adjust
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Culminating Task Part One: My life is a life in which no one will ever have and no one will ever change it, except for me. I am who I am and this is me. My education has defined me in so many ways, from switching schools to joining sports, all of this has shaped my intellectual and social skills I possess today. From kindergarten until grade 2 I switched so many schools in the same town, not because I was bad, but because we moved a lot. It changed me, not in a bad way but in a good way, it made
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Kathleen, in 2008. For a moment, an emergency room doctor stepped away from the scrum of people working on Rory Staunton, 12, and spoke to his parents. “Your son is seriously ill,” the doctor said. “How seriously?” Rory’s mother, Orlaith Staunton, asked. The doctor paused. “Gravely ill,” he said. How could that be? Two days earlier, diving for a basketball at his school gym, Rory had cut his arm. He arrived at his pediatrician’s office the next day, Thursday, March 29, vomiting, feverish and with
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that could be done to celebrate it. She received money and a few treats from relatives. In 1998, my mother began attending high school. The transition from middle to high school was a frightening experience. Being thrust into an entirely new environment, leaving old friends behind, and surrounded by utter strangers would be sure to bring distress and worry. High school was no joke. In middle school, my mom took it less seriously and occasionally fooled around. But here, grades mattered. The workload
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Simon Jacobi, was a banker . Carl was the second son of the family, the oldest being Moritz Jacobi who eventually became a famous physicist. There was a sister, Therese Jacobi, and a third brother, Eduard Jacobi, who was younger than Carl. Eduard, but did not pursue any academic career, but followed instead in his father's profession as a banker. Jacobi's early education was given by an uncle on his mother's side, and then, just before his twelfth birthday, Jacobi entered the Gymnasium in Potsdam. He
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Smarthinking's E-structor Response Form (Your marked-up essay is below this form.) HOW THIS WORKS: Your e-structor has written overview comments about your essay in the form below. Your e-structor has also embedded comments [in bold and in brackets] throughout your essay. Thank you for choosing Smarthinking's OWL; best wishes with revising your paper! *Strengths of the essay: Hi, Monica—I’m Janet R., and I’ll be your tutor today. Thanks for submitting your work for review. You’ve done a nice job
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end stakeholders were forced to absorb massive losses as their shares in stocks fell sharply. The Rigas family hid billions of dollars in debts by falsifying its financial records, and blatantly lying to their investors about it. They recklessly spent millions of dollars of company funds that
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in life seems close to our own. This aspect of our spending is not new--competitive acquisition has long been an American institution. At the turn of the century, the rich consumed conspicuously. In the early post-World War II decades, Americans spent to keep up with the Joneses, using their possessions to make the statement that they were not failing in their careers. But in recent decades, the culture of spending has changed and intensified. In the old days, our neighbors set the standard for
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