During the first few weeks of class we started to learn how to write our names. I knew then that I was thankful for a short name because I had a hard time writing it! ... " I turned that in with just the one line on it. ... We needed a good topic sentence, that hooker sentence that captures your reader, three statements along with three supporting details to support the statements, a fantastic personal life experience, and the best conclusion that anyone has ever read. ... Now I have written the final words of this autobiography and I smile at the last period placed at the end of this la...

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• Grade Level: High School

Elsa came to the United States with her family twelve years ago. ... Even though, the United States is a big opportunity for Elsa's parents to start a new life but unfortunately, Elsa's parents does not want to come to the United States, because they will faced numerous problems in living in this new environment. ... There was not much they can do with the Americans". ... She was grateful that she had a chance to come and start a new life. ... I totally understand the meaning of this sentence that education is really important in one's life. ...

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However YK regrets moving to Vancouver because most of his friends which he met and associate earlier were back in Toronto. YK has many different kinds of hobbies, such as practicing soccer, jogging, sitting in front of the computer for many hours doing web design or chatting with friends and going to Chapters and stay there from opening to closing. He also enjoys volunteering at different places because it's a good way to meet new people and learn new things. ... I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene...

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My 6th grade year started with me walking into the gym and being astounded by the sheer number of kids that where there sitting in the bleachers. ... Approximately one week later I officially started my school year. ... This man was instantly made the center of attention and with no real understanding off why he was happy people started getting mad at him. ... He explained in short sentences between bites before it started to make sense to me then he could go in more detail. ... As the weeks passed Chris and I stopped being losers and started making more friends with other people as they stopp...

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Later we still had to fill these little boxes, but they were forming sentences. ... But I started to structure the main part in paragraphs with paying attention that the text is coherent. ... I remember that I sat in front of my computer monitor and started to write. ... In the next papers I could handle with it. ... Furthermore I blame the university for that, because we never had real instruction on how to write a term paper, and we had to learn it by doing. ...

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(this sentence doesn't make sense) I moved from fear to excitement as it drew closer to the time when my first class was about to start. ... As the students began to pile into the room I started talking to some of them and getting to know the people I would be spending the next sixteen weeks with. ... He was a sixty year old German with long grey hair. ... He started to lecture us about the history of the world and how civilization started. ... I was lost and to top things off I was going to be late to my class because of it. ...

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I was in classroom number 102 with Mr. ... He's amazing with his students and with anyone else that would walk into the classroom. ... There was also a writing area, where the students picked different words from a bag and had to write different sentences with those words. ... When I walked with the girls from Mr. ... Gonzalez was speaking and all of a sudden one of his students started talking or drifted away from paying attention, Mr. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Home is the first place where children start to learn. ... Home used to present a warm place filled with love where everybody wished to be. ... Kids feel, "because the movie stars can do it, I can do it too." With this horrible sentence stuck in their mind, nothing can stop them from being crazy. ... School violence decreases along with major factors in society today. ...

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" It was very annoying hearing it at times because I couldn't even get my whole sentence out without him interrupting me and saying something along those words, but I'm happy I have my parents for support. ... I walked up to my principal, and he was joking with me about my shoes saying that he was surprised I didn't trip or anything while walking. ... I graduated with one of my best friends and did it for my other best friend who was in heaven. ... Seeing happy and excited faces all because of my accomplishment gave me the happiest feeling. ... I started tearing up a litt...

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I just couldn't watch them hurt Patrick" (Chbosky. 151) As a result, his grades dropped slightly as he was sentenced to one month of detention. His oldest sister began to worry about him in addition to his family becoming slightly overprotective as they start to suspect something is wrong. ... Granted, Charlie is a fictional character, but I still made the connection with my family history. Lastly, Charlie learns more about himself and his feelings when he sees his crush suffer from her breakup with her boyfriend Craig. ... He even remarks, "But because things change. ...

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He never seemed to notice that I could not get along with my cousins and relatives. Its not because I was a snob. ... Unfortunately I gave up because I couldn't speak no more than a couple of complete sentences after that whole year. ... That was also a disadvantage for me, because I thought that I could pick up some Mandarin by mixing around with other Chinese peers. ... I felt like I had a chance of starting over a new life. ...

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That hit a soft spot in him because that bike had been through so much with Pham. ... (What does this last sentence mean? ... Use an example or quote from the book to support this last sentence or delete). ... My experiences as a Korean American are similar to Pham's.As for me being born and raised in America there was plenty of conflict from the start, but I always fought back. ... Back Even in high school the typical Asians that always hung out with just only other Asians sometimes called me a "sellout" because I never hung out with them. ...

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Germany on the other hand has kept stride with the advancements while keeping true to their heritage. ... Children have very close relationships with their parents. ... My nephew once told me a story about a German foreign exchange student he was very good friends with. ... Starting at the age of six every child must enroll in school where they will attend full time up to 10 years. ... We get to vote this person into office with a majority vote. ...

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On the first day of speaking with Sarah, she has informed me that she did not like the fact that she brought in for this evaluation because she believes that she is not a bad teenager and that she only needs some assistance in coping with her behavior issues. ... Because Sarah is having more behavioral issues in school and she is hanging out with a not so desired crowd she is showing some signs of considering suicide (McWhirter, J. 2012). ... Sarah has avoided any real time in a juvenile facility and she will now have to face this type of punishment as her form of sentence. ... I would start...

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But for them, it was this way with all the teachers the students were there because they had to be, not because they wanted to be. ... The vocational students explain to him that they don't need to know "this stuff" because it doesn't have anything to do with what they will be doing for a living. ... McCourt took this opportunity to teach them about grammar and sentence structure. ... She comes behind my desk, faces the class, and when she leans over the attendance book it's easy to see her blouse is too small and that starts the woo woo all over again." ... I know she's...

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In my early years of schooling I remember being frustrated with the rules and the lack of flexibility with school. ... I started Wirreanda High School (an urban school located south of Adelaide at Morphett Vale with around 800 students) half way through year ten after convincing my parents how unhappy I was at the private school. By the time I started at Wirreanda I had virtually given up on school and so I only did what I thought was the bare minimum to get through. ... On the other, there is the world of television with its emphasis on imagery, narrative, presentness, simultaneity, in...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School