... To earn a position of a discourse community one must possess accurate knowledge, establish reliability of members to be accepted and learn to persuade other members of the community. I once held a position in part of a discourse community on my high schools drill team; there I established reliability with others, learned to become a leader and gained knowledge of skills. One may question my position as a member of my drill teams discourse community. I began dancing ... to take an initiative and wanted a position other than member on the team; so I tried out for a Social Officer position....

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... it was the freshmen's fault. I guess this was kind of like a test to prove how much we were really committed to being part of the team. A member of a discourse community must learn to appeal to the emotions and values of other members of the community. There was so much talent in the program ... on to keep the good results coming in. In the three previous paragraphs I use the appeals of logos and pathos. I showed the pathos appeal through sharing the experience of a defeat with my fellow discourse community members. I accomplish this through the specific allusion to the long journey that...

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... verbal ability. Teachers lectured, politicians spoke, the assumption if one could speak well one could write well became a social more. Since no printing press or form of publishing existed, no formal way of writing was demanded for a successful career. Education systems believed in preparing students for society which at that time relied very little on writing, causing almost no emphasis ... or curriculum for writing. As America industrialized it brought forth new professions requiring more and more communications through writing. The lack of formal writing skills emerged as these new g...

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... School is to get you ready for collage. It is also to continue the process of getting you ready for life. In life you are going to need the skills and knowledge that was taught to you in High School. You are going to need to ... face by reality. You will have nowhere to go but a community collage or J.R collage, or get a job at McDonald's. I also think that you should not have to question the purpose of High School, it is just common sense to go. Since I am in High School and I know how important it is I want to do the best that I can. Last year I had ... ...

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... Bryant learned to play basketball at an early age and attended Lower Merion High School, where he led his team to the state championships and was named High School Player of the Year in 1996. After high school, Bryant trained with the Philadelphia 76ers, and was the 13th pick in the First Round ... of the 1996 NBA Draft by the Charlotte Hornets. Charlotte then traded Bryant's signing rights to the Los Angeles Lakers for seven-year veteran center Vlade Divac. Bryant made his NBA ... in 2002 against the New Jersey Nets. Bryant was also named MVP at the NBA All-Star game in 2002. Though ...

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... or another. When I was in high school, I was able to choose a career to study for a day. This involved going to work with a person in that field of work. I chose to go to work with my grandma. It was more about seeing why she keeps going to work every day more than it was the career I wanted to ... study. On that day, I learned why grandma got out of bed and went to work with a smile on her face. Nursing was not just a job. It was a career that allowed her to meet patients that needed her. It ... helping people. Becoming a nurse is rewarding. It is challenging at times, but when you see ...

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... least $22,000 per year plus benefits. SUMMARY .I am a self starter and a perfectionist who can work on my own or with others. One of my strong points is to produce above and beyond what everyone else does and present my work in a different and distinct manner. I shall be persistent until the work is done ... duties include preparing and teaching classes for library and computer for the entire school (Pre-K-8th Grade), substitute teach for the junior high classes, provide a community service for the Veteran of Foreign War in which cards are made to be brought to St. Albans Hospital ever...

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... who doesn't give up easily. I like challenges and I enjoy the way it makes me come up with different solutions. In different aspects of life, challenges always come everyday. I've already been in many situations that I almost gave up but I always try to keep in mind that there is no pain no gain. Whenever I ... enter the seminary because I taught that it would just distract me. I focused on playing basketball and music as a recreation. I became a student council in music when I was in senior year because of my skills in music. My band used to play in different schools whenever they hav...

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... three strengths together, I can make a great animation film. However, by doing so, I must develop more qualities for myself. These qualities include one of the most important things in life, teamwork. Therefore, I still have a long path before I reach my destination. I want to be remembered as one ... of the best animation creator in the world. I want to strike everyone's heart when they watch my animation, and I want my animations to ... person I value most. I would love to see where space leads. The unlimited stars and distance will be very interesting to see. This is also one of the...

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... only other troublesome perception I had developed was that classes were going to be challenging very challenging. Hearing students talk about the work load scared the hell out of me. I came from a magnet high school that demanded a good deal from students and work that surpassed this seemed a bit over the top. After ... five days my worries have died down but there are some underlying truths to the perceptions that worried me for all of those two days befor I left for college. In reality there isn't too much to be worried about. This college does an outstanding job ... orienting new stu...

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... where the road goes? Only Time." -Enya "Only Time"- When I was nearly nine I was sent to a magnet school called Gunsalas Academy. The chocolately brown building consisted of uniforms,saddle shoes, and teachers older than your grandparents. Way back then I had no clue what highschool was, let alone college. In around the 5th grade my path began ... and so I was signed up into the program. That summer was spent in a sweltering building with a bunch of strange kids I didnt know, but would soon have three years to get to. This is when I began taking more of an interest in the computer field. ...

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... and whatever you learned and experience will lead it to its future. On the other hand, we have lots of choice to make during this stage. Example, I am graduating this year from high school, I got to make a choice of what I should do after graduation. Should I go to University, Collage, go to work and/or sit home ... in the society, learn how to be fit in the really world. This is also the time to start a family and start a brand new life. Example, after graduation of university, I would be around 25. I plan to work a few years and during that time I"ll find my steady career that may suppo...

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This is the story of a boy named Hajime, growing up in Japan, and trying to find meaning in his life. The book starts out with Hajime in grade school, and is a school outcast because he ... . People assumed Hajime was spoiled and arrogant, which was not the case. Hajime became friends with his neighbor, Shimamoto, who also happened to be an only child. The spent all of their time together, and spent many afternoons at Shimamoto's house, listening to her father's records. A favorite was Nat King Cole. Probably one ... of the reasons they were such good friends was because they were two of a k...

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... School" by Brenda Tan, talks about the DSA routes and the causes and impacts of entering schools through DSA. The recent Raffles Institution students not able to enter Junior Colleges has sparked a buzz about IP and DSA schools. I do agree with the author's point of view about students entering branded schools that the DSA routes to branded schools are tough and ... arduous, and might bring about many negative impacts to the student, one of which has been displayed by the RI students who did not perform to standards. DSA students that are accepted to the branded schools they have to go ...

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... the speech. His main point is that middle class economics and expanding opportunities works and will continue to work. Helping people afford childcare was one of the issues he addressed. In America, we need childcare because usually both parents in a family work, or there is a single parent household ... and the parent works. Raising minimum wage was another issue since a full-time minimum wage worker in a family of two earns $14,500 a year, placing them below the poverty line. He then talked about providing guaranteed paid sick and paid maternity leave to ... his views and his stance o...

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... charged with sexually abusing younger teammates. The high school that the boys came from was Mepham High School from Bellmore, New York. The charges consisted of kidnapping, assault, unlawful restraint and false imprisonment. Two of the players and 16 years old and the third one are 17 years old. Prosecutors were not sure if this case should be transferred to ... They make up social groups because they have things in common with football and with hazing. The boys got into a groupthink matter because the three of them conformed together and decided to hurt teammates of theirs. Not one of ...

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... could say the way your parents and grandparents may have dated when they were teens. Due to the fact, United High School has an uneven distribution of males and females this survey may not be completely accurate according to a national survey. It may be called biased. Many hypothesis made were supported ... percent said at seventeen. This being a parents nightmare, students were asked when they felt the first physical emotion being kissing should occur. Thirty-nine percent of the students felt a second date was good time. Twenty-nine percent thought on the first date and twenty percent o...

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... From the first day it was filed, the divorce lasted for two years. I was unaware exactly why the divorce was happening. Kevin has accused my mother of doing drugs and being an extreme alcoholic which shocked me as well as everyone else. Everyone that knows my mother knows that this wasn't even remotely related to ... I had been crying so much that I didn't think there would be any more tears left for me to cry. The divorce put me into a huge stage of depression. There were times that I would constantly eat no matter if I was hungry or not. The divorce had an unhealthy effect on me that ...

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... was picking me up from school that day. She first stated that there was some good news awaiting me and she said I had wanted this for quite some time now. Of course I could not guess what it was so I just pleaded with her to tell me. When I finally persuaded her she told me that I had received a call from the hiring manager ... but two weeks prior to this phone call. I had wanted this job ever since I started filling out applications in my late sophomore year at Bosse. She then gave me a piece of paper that read," Evan is to show up at Target on Wednesday August 13th at 8 P.M. and ask f...

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... an educator. During my final semesters as an undergraduate in xxx, I realized that while I enjoyed the idea of physical or occupational therapy, I did not enjoy the daily monotony of those careers. I found myself essentially surviving each day of my preceptorship rather than relishing my experiences. As my time as undergraduate came rapidly to a close, I began to look for careers that would not only ... , this entrepreneurial spirit provided a transition to several years in the finance industry as a certified financial advisor. With each passing day in finance, I realized that though thi...

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... interested in the studies. But, in my high school, high school teachers does not encourage students to get curiosity about studies, such as English, Classical Japanese, History, etc. Of course, there were some interesting studies, but especially the three classes were boring. Firstly, high school English classes don't encourage students to get curiosity. We cannot improve our communicative ... put an effort on examinations. Accordingly, I couldn't have curiosity about Classical Japanese. Therefore, teachers should not focus on only translation, but also the meanings of stories which is ...

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... stages "not the stages we play in Mario". The first stage is as a child, then student, followed by adult, and then old. We enjoy eighty percent of life's happiness when we are student. This is some what being experienced by a student about whom I am going to write. Robert is a grade twelve student, ... born in Bangladesh, nearly seventeen years before on eight of august. He came to Canada in nineteen ninghty seven and before that he lived in Bangladesh. He lives with his parents, it seems that his family is ... listening to rap music, reading books, and writing about it in school assign...

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... with today's clothing styles and the name brand clothing. Uniforms It could help increase self-esteem in our children's attitudes toward learning. Parents spend hundreds of dollars each year on clothing trying to keep up with the new styles. In today's society kids can wear just about what ever they want to ... care if it is modest or not. School uniforms could help us to address and eliminate these problems. (1) School uniforms may go against the laws of being an individual and expressing who we are, but on the other hand it might keep other things from happening. School uniforms may be ...

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... to a predominantly black high school. I didn't know how to dance when I got there, but I was always willing to watch and learn from the other students. I befriended a group of girls who taught me how to grind. I thought it was fun and it is the way that I dance best to this day. I had more ... of an expectation that the hip-hop dance was going to be more like the bump and grind dancing from the clubs, but I have been pleasantly surprised, ... pleasant because I am learning something completely new that I think is very fun. I am miffed because I think I suck at it. It is a lot of fun, and...

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... I part ways with them. I have made some really good friends here and I know that I will stay in touch with them for a very long time. Outside of school, I enjoy many different activities. I am the captain and starting goalkeeper for the soccer team, and I also play for Allegheny Force in the winter and spring. ... to look for a job I will be prepared with whatever comes my way. Last year I took AP Language, and while I learned a lot, I feel like most of it doesn't apply to everyday life. I believe that this class will teach me many skills that I will be able to use later in life. I hope ...

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