thesis statement should tell the reader exactly what your essay will cover. Here’s the thesis statement from your essay: “Here are a few examples on why High School and College are different there is the commute and the building and money spent on how you get to college.” It appears that you’re doing a compare/contrast essay between high school and college. That would be your topic. Then you give your reasons, the commute, the building, and money. What I want you to do is clean your thesis statement…
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In my lab meeting last week, my advisor talked about two new high school students are going to join our lab this summer. One of them is a kid who joined with us last year. I was working with him a few times. Surely, he is a bright kid, and now he is waiting to go to Standford University. For another kid, we haven't met. From my advisor's story, he seems to be a very bright kid with master degree skills. The interesting part is members in the lab seem to feel a little jealous these kids. One of member…
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researching and comparing topics for writing is going to be crucial for my college career. Lectures have been given by my teachers in the past on how to do this but, I always ignored them because I thought my writing ability was a lost cause. I am beginning to realize that it was not my writing that was terrible, but the mindset I had towards my own capabilities. There will be difficult assignments in college compared to anything else I have ever received, but I am looking forward to seeing my knowledge…
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religion or law that everyone has to follow. Women can only have one child. I’m comparing and contrasting my childhood to the kids in China, because there childhood experience is definitely different than most of ours in the United States of America. When I was kid, I did so many different things. I know I changed from time to time. I swear I had different best friends every summer. I lived in East Moline, Illinois most of my life. When I turned around the age of three, I lived in Moline, Illinois…
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that came along with the great football imagery. The book is about a High school that is in a small town that only really cares about football. Really that’s what small Texas towns are some people call them football towns and the way the author presented this city he made it seem like this city was the birthplace for football. The author begins the story in Odessa Texas which is mainly known for there oil and their High school Odessa Permian. The book jumps right into two adays which is practice…
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Sixteen Candles is a delightful coming of age tale written and directed by John Hughes. It is one of my personal favorites and I wish I could say that John Hughes directed my life. It portrays many different social and emotional behaviors we learned about in class such as differences in gender, SES, and how cliques form in children with similar backgrounds (Berk, 2014). The film covers a wide range of developmental stages and goals in young adults. I will focus on the main character Samantha Baker…
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adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/back-school-shopping-has-changed-forever-159639 Journal article review No. 1 I chose an article from the Journal http://www.adweek.com. My choice was an article of this journal, entitled " Back-to-School Shopping Has Changed Forever. Nielsen, Retale studies show seasonal shift—and the dominance of digital". As the title suggests, the article is about a study, which depicts how the shopping behavior of Back-to-School articles has changed over time. One study…
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and was the one that told her to follow the yellow brick road. Threshold Guardians: the wicked witch. She was trying to distract Dorothy on her path to Oz. Herald: the good witch, ion, tin man and hay guy. They were all giving her motivation to keep going. Shapeshifters: when she meets her dog once again after the wicked witch took him. The Shadow: is the wicked witch. She represents the dark because she is the evil one in the whole movie. The Trickster: I put as the lion, tin man and hay guy. Throughout…
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September 12th, 2013 In the story “Red Dress” by Alice Munro, a young insecure girl gains confidence in herself when an older High School girl shows her that she can have the life she wants. 1.) At the beginning of the story, the narrator attempts to sicken herself to get out of going to the Christmas dance because she is not ready for the sexual competition or tensions of High School. a. ) While getting ready she constantly tells herself that she is unattractive and compares herself to hideous things…
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star of the school musical. I wasn’t anybody’s high school sweetheart; I don’t have a mountain of friends who completely and totally adore me and I don’t captivate every room I walk into. I am not going to some glamourous private college in New York or California or Europe and I am not blonde, which for some reason is how I always pictured myself graduating when I was a freshman. I have not gotten to the point in my life where I succeed at almost everything…
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