Most words I wrote in pre-school were never legible without the assistance of my teacher. ... I wrote down every little detail that crossed my mind. ... I would play sick in the morning so I wouldn't have to go to English Language Arts. ... Everything that I will hand in will not give me any happiness when I am asked if I wrote that paper. Right at this moment, writing these words on this blank sheet of paper, I am rubbing my eyes and playing with my hair trying to find the right words to say how much I dreaded writing this autobiography. ...

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According to Judith Harris, who wrote an article on her thoughts about parents really mattering, she thinks that peers matter much more than the parents. ... Now when I look back on my middle school years, I realize that my parents really did not play a part in my life at all and if I was writing this back then, I probably would have agreed with the statement, but looking at it now "the long run later, I see that my parents really played more of a role in my life than my peers. ...

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I saw boundless potential in my computer, at first with what now would be feeble tasks like playing games, basic word processing, and browsing the internet; with time I developed a better understanding and found other useful functions. ... To keep track of our customers I wrote a program in C++ to store their information. ... Computers play a progressively more important role in our lives and this trend is not likely to expire. ...

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Salinger wrote The Catcher in the Rye in the 1950s. ... Holden always saw himself catching these children who were playing on cliff above a field of rye. ... The book that he wrote The Catcher in the Rye is really just is book about complaints. ...

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Arthur Miller wrote a brilliant play about one man's quest for fame and fortune that led to his demise. ... Willy believes that when Biff played football in high school, he was the most popular kid in school. ... At the end of the play the reader learns that Willy's company has taken him off of salary and he worked solely on commission, but he does not tell his wife. ... While playing cards with Charley he has a fantasy of when Ben came to see Willy and told him about how he went to Africa and came out of the jungles with diamonds. ... The downfall of Willy Loman was caused by h...

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The author Ben Joravsky wrote the book. ... Arthur was playing against guy's three years older than he was and he was still the best in the neighborhood. ... Joe's would be able to pay Arthur's tuition if he played basketball for them. ... Additionally, he ripped cartilage in his knee and some schools were wondering if he could ever play again. ... Arthur and William still play pick-up games down at the playgrounds they became great. ...

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Thurber also wrote about the special treatment of jocks at Ohio State. ... When I played football in high school, the special treatment my teammates and I would receive the week of an important game was incredible. ...

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This part of the book plays a crucial role in Hucks self-discovery. ... At last I had an idea; and I says I"ll go and write the letter - and then see if I can pray. (205)" When Huck wrote the letter his conscience felt clean and he felt releived. " I felt so good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now." Huck has a very difficult time with this situation because religion played a big part in everyone's life. ...

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As Kathleen Hoover-Dempsey et al wrote in a 2001 article in Educational Psychology: "parents decide to become involved in students' homework because they believe they should be involved, believe their involvement will make a difference, and perceive that their involvement is wanted and expected"" (206). ... There is a wide range in how parent feel their role in education; as Kelli Staples wrote in Teaching Exceptional Children: "Some parents view education as the primary role of the school with little need for parental involvement. ... While I was lucky to have a family that agreed with t...

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When I was in Grade 7, I was selected to be the Vice-Head boy of the school and in the same year I wrote my ZIMSEC public exams and I obtained six units. ... At ordinary level I wrote twelve subjects and I obtained eleven 'A's and a C, breaking the school record. ... I joined the school's senior baseball team and I enjoyed playing for the team. ...

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Timmy and his family prayed he would get a scholarship to play football in college. ... Based on Timmy's sophomore and junior years of football at Sino High School, most people were pretty confident Timmy would be offered a scholarship somewhere to play football. ... In Timmy's first football game of his senior year, Timmy broke his leg and couldn't play another game for the rest of the season. After his injury all colleges lost interest in recruiting him to play football for them. ... They wrote each other, and told each other about the chaos in both their count...

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In the Transformation of Man article written by Solomon Asch, he basically wrote that the society changes people, and we become human by changing for the better. ... I grew up playing a lot of sports because I loved to run around so much. ... We didn't even play football or basketball at all, when we used to play it everyday after school. ... So he used to play catch with me in the dark outside, and he even bought me a football that could be seen in the dark so we could play catch whenever he was free. ... He was always in honor classes in school and never played any sports. ...

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Well I complied and when the weekend came I did not call that person and I ignored them so I could go play basketball with friends. ... I changed quickly and wrote letters to everyone I disappointed and upset. ...

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At school was the only time I ever wrote actual papers or sentences. ... When writing, I would prefer to write fiction, I tend to receive motivation or material from when I was very young and used to play with sticks and make believe in the woods where the woods soon became a new world that no one has ever seen. ...

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Even though I only have been playing football since high school I have noticed that is the second greatest thing that has ever happened to me first being my mom. ... You may think that I seem like such of a boring person in the way that I only wrote about football and family but the way I see it is that those two things are the only things that I need make me who I am. ...

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The bard was very talented, being able to produce play after play in very short periods of time. What is even more amazing is in those short lengths of time, he wrote beautiful poetry and prose, and many quotations and common phrases have been adopted in everyday language today. ... The most popular of Shakespeare's tragic plays end with death, usually of the protagonist. ... Aside from a depressing ending, these plays all end in a violent or self-destructive way. ... Such a setting provides a heightened reality, not just for the characters in the play, but for the reader as well. ...

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Granted, that towards his high school years, he had to play the role of the father figure in his house, but it was his own fault that he had a hard life. ... When he was forced to play the role of "daddy," I think he thought that he was truly going to follow in his father's footsteps. ... If he wrote something that was not really that appealing, he would respond with "I told you that I was not any good."...

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I wrote my first full-length story for the first time in third grade. ... Staying indoors has always been more comfortable to me than playing around outdoors. So, while all the other kids were playing out in the park, I would be cradled up in my room reading. ...

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Danielle, my sister, and I spent countless hours together playing games, watching movies, playing outside, but most of all enjoying each other's presence. ... As I was walking off the bus, the bus driver wrote "24" on my hand so I would remember what bus to get on at the end of the day. ...

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Parents, Patrick went on to note, can play additional key roles in the achievement of high academic success. ... They can guide children in the productive use of their free time, monitor and limit the amount of time watching television and playing video games. ... He is quoted as admitting that Teacher's unions also have a role to play in helping students achieve and maintain high educational standards. ... He went on to say that teacher unions must play a key role in this transformation by putting school reform issues front and center and that they must ensure a quality teacher in ev...

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Learning to be Myself Looking at society through a biased scope can make many see minorities as a lesser form of life. Being born into a minority in today's world has shaped me very differently in comparison to the majority. Ever since I was a child I felt as if I was being pressured into thi...

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Schroedinger's Cat Erin Schroedinger wrote about an experiment performed on a cat in a box. ... When you level the playing field, we"re not going to shave off the high points; we"re going to fill in the holes and valleys. ...

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Growing up, I became increasingly frustrated when I couldn't hear or misunderstood what was being said to me. I am a lip reader that follows along with voice. I believe this is how I acquired literacy as growing up with hearing loss. It wasn't until first grade when I struggled with understanding M...

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The last element that students should play a role in is to have a strong college admission essay. ... For instance, this student, Andrew Giordano, from West Nyack, NY, wrote about his essay about smiling. ...

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Teachers can play a vital role in helping these students become more socially included in school. ... Some students wrote very negatively about having ASD and felt that they had a 'bad brain', were mentally disabled, or retarded. ...

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• Grade Level: High School