It's like the last week of my junior year in college before our summer break. ... We met some females who were also staying in the hotel and we all partied. ... We had bears walking around us freely and the people were not scared at all. ... We seen a few waterfalls were they said we could swim we could see some people in the background horseback riding. We went fishing in a stream and caught a couple of nice bass, which we were allowed to take back with us. ...

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So one might wonder, what can we do to improve our education? ... In the Finnish education system, students receive a tuition free education. ... Imagine the states if this change were to come into fruition. ... " As I stated before, if a significant push in academics were to happen early then, given time, that generation of motivated students will pursue education. If we think about all of the children and teenagers who dropped out because they didn't receive enough attention or were not motivated enough to pursue college, certainly in this group there were individuals who at one po...

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The first reason homework should be banned is because it shortens your free time. Since so much time is spent doing homework because we get given so much, less time is actually spent doing what we want. For example we may want to spend time with our family members, relatives, friends or doing extra curricular activities like exercising, but we can't because most of our free time goes towards doing homework. ... Due to the loss of free time homework should be banned. ... Due to the amount of stress that homework causes students, grades can lower and this may cause more stress towards the ...

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Soon, we were on a first name basis, but I didn't call him Ronald, Ron, or even Ronnie; I called him what my dad and my teammates called him, "Do." ... Before the game I went to Do to get my pre game talk. ... That day, we put up a hell of a game. ... We had been practicing all fall and the night before try-outs, Do knew that I was worried about making the team. ... We were given thirty free throws to shoot in three rounds and the girl who made the most would move on to the next competition in Hawthorne. ...

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If the new law were passed it would be very beneficial to my personal situation. ... If we have after school activities past 6 P.M it will most likely be an inconvenience to our parents when we need rides home. ... Most of the teachers I know would like to get home at a reasonable hour meaning before 6 P.M. ... Many of these people would experience much easier lives if this law were passed. ... No one wants to live a hectic life, especially if it were to be caused by an after-school activity. ...

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I try to deal with the problem before the problem begins or gets out of hand. ... When a problem arises I, disucss the situation with the students involve seeing if we can come to a solution together. ... I' ll take away free class time or assign extra assignments. ... They were suspended for a couple of days and their parents were brought in for a conference. A week after they returned to school they were fighting again. ...

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I was not necessarily scared to be away, but I was a little worried about the transition from the skate free ways of high school that I was very used to. ... Consequently my noticing did not help out too well because I continued to procrastinate throughout the semester and found myself in deep voids that were extremely stressful. ... My girlfriend and I had been dating for almost a year before I made my way to college. ... Before I had left her and I had only spent very little time apart from each other. ... And as for Kari and I, I believe that we will get by quite well now that we have c...

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"We don't need no education" (Pink Floyd, Another Brick In The Wall). ... Before joining the Army and before even procuring a first job, I remember very early on in a class at school, we typed a huge amount of commands and numbered lines into a computer. ... I really wish I could remember the type of machines we used in the class and what type of language we used to make those simple programs. ... Pizza Hut, McDonalds, Phar-Mor Video, and Chic-Filet were but a few. ... Travel, money, education, experience, rent-free living, I was sold. ...

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Some of them were really good teachers and I will remember them for all my life. However, some of them I didn't like so much and they were my nightmare. ... We called her "Miss Dictionary" and she was a main cause for our jokes. ... Asim, made a history class very pleasant, which I never liked before. ... If a student understands a subject, and feel free to express his or her opinion in the class, we can say that a teacher did a good job. ...

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My dad always laughed about that car, about what it looked like before. ... Football games, parties and social events came and gone as I spent my free time working on my dream. ... With no clue where we were, we just drove into the night. ... Even though we were still on the ground, it felt pretty close to what I must imagine heaven would feel like, peacefulness and complete bliss. ... We sometimes forget what is really important, and what we should be focusing on the whole time. ...

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We can barely have a long conversation because we have school and our parents have work and sometimes not even during dinner time because maybe we are not hungry, or we are busy. ... Sometimes my Sister or I don't eat during dinner time because it could be either we already ate, and we were on a tight schedule. And during the remaining 5 hrs, there is 1 hour for Dinner, 2-3 hours for school works or free time. And that remaining time we have left is when we rest before we go to school or work again. ... Not all Parents were able to finish High School, but some still want to study, but th...

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I sigh and wonder why the school's administration requires the students to take a class that, if it were on the Internet, would delight Mirsky (creator of Mirsky's Worst of the Web), as yet another addition to his list of worthless sites. ... There was no way to know if the assignments given were ever going to be collected, or, if they were, if they would be graded. Still, in the second semester we covered the fundamentals of chemical equations, which was generally not a topic that was covered before junior year. ... A month before school reopened for the fall, I was called in to tal...

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The children [must be] freed from the workshops and sent to school". Before this time, the formal education of a child was virtually unheard of, let alone given serious priority to. ... Revolutions were taking place all over- Mexico, Russia, Argentina, England, and China to name a few. ... We can observe that education reforms among American schools are generally working. ... Yet, many advocates were willing to pick up the broken pieces and stitch them back together as are many today. ...

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There is always the other students that seemed like they were ready for Harvard in the second grade; but anyways, so we all arrived at graduation last summer. ... At last I was free from adolescent bondage, homework, and detention! ... So again the cycle of school and work began before I knew it. I had my entire future mapped out before July arrived. ... The first few weeks were lonely because I had no friends to spend any time with on campus. ...

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Her father, my grandfather was in the ranks of the Ethiopian military and decided it was most wise to flee the country before the rebels overthrew the dictator. ... My family would learn multiple languages and stay in multiple countries in Africa for four years before finally escaping to an over illustrated "promise land." ... My mom and family were able to overcome all of the hurdles that lay in their paths way and all now live lower middle class lives. ... But as we all know, things do not always turn out as expected. ... I want to learn until the day that I pass, Id like to be free restr...

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They were: my science class, the manner in which I came to take Spanish III in my junior year, and my experiences with high school basketball. ... There was no way to know if the assignments given were ever going to be picked up or, if they were, if they would be graded. Still, in the second half of school we covered the principles of chemical equations, which was not a topic that was covered before my junior year. ... A month before school reopened for the fall, I was called in to talk to him about a conflict with my scheduled classes. ... I became more organized to make up for having les...

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I can't remember much about him until we moved in with him in Delaware before my 6th birthday. ... It even got worse through the years, when we moved to New Jersey right before my 2nd grade year and that's when I really started to notice a difference in my mom and my hatred for my step dad increased. ... I don't blame my sister it's not her fault that her parents were crazy. ... So my grandparents told my mom and my steep dad that they were bad parents and that they were the reason I was leaving. ... It's like I'm finely free....

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A Tribe Apart Before I began this book I was not very excited or interested in the topic of the book. ... They were all artistic, but couldn't pursue it because of the money issues. ... Society tends to judge him before knowing him which is part of socialization. ... She helped her friend in her time of need and she babysat children in her free time. ... We talked about this subject in class discussion and some said we shouldn't let them know so much. ...

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How parents open their children to proficiency even before they enter school is critical for the later improvement of reading. ... In spite of the fact that signs like these appear to be safe to just about anybody that has experienced the government funded training framework, we can see the negative effect they have on youthful understudies, for example, Rodriguez that decipher them the wrong way. ... He soon made a rundown of books to read in light of the fact that they were viewed as great books. ... It is my hobby, when I'm bored I read, when I have free time, I read. ... It got to t...

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I also noticed that the plays that we were constantly going over in basketball seemed harder and harder to remember, comprehend, and understand. ... I found myself daydreaming about going to the beach, warm fall Tennessee nights with the frogs croaking, and being that free spirited teenager desperate to cruise the strip one last time before going home. ... My mother and I came up with a game plan, and we were seeing ADD through to the end. ... It did not matter to her what time we went to bed, she was going to make sure that I was getting it. ... I looked deep within me and pulled out my grit ...

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My teammates also helped me to gain more confidence in myself; after only a few months, we became a family, enduring victories and losses together. ... Thus, I embraced this spirit and worked hard to cultivate my English skills, though there were many times I embarrassed myself. I often went to school before classes to practice speaking with my teacher. ... Though pigeons and squirrels were the only audience for my monologues, being free in that open space gave me confidence. ... " whenever we step on the court, groups that I formed for projects or clubs functioned with this same attitude...

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Classes were 45 minutes long. ... Students take a lot of subjects, but the subjects were already chosen; therefore, we couldn't pick which subjects we wanted to take. ... We were in different schools because in America there are 3 levels of schools. ... Our classes were almost an hour long, we had 30 minutes lunch and we also had a school bus, something that we never had to use before. ... Students in America are free to wear what they want to wear, they can come wearing a costume or something and no one would really care. ...

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High school is a "free" education, but college is not free and can be expensive. ... College means an opportunity to start from scratch, reinvent yourself, and be cooler than you were in high school. ... There is no chance to be somebody other than how they knew you from before. ... This can oftentimes mean who were popular in high school find them as unpopular and anonymous in college. ... High school life is where we learn on how to be better and correct our mistake that when we go to college, our preparation would make life and problems easier to handle....

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The Dream Act is a bipartisan agreement that will give young people who were brought to the United States as children a path to legal status and the chance to serve in the military and go to college. ... According to the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), "the children of undocumented immigrants are far more likely to drop out of high school than students who were born in the U.S.... Arianna Salgado, a leading undocumented student activist who has worked with government officials on immigration reform, was quoted in an article by Deanna Bellandi, where she states, "We deserve the sam...

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Then before schoolhouses, children were educated in their homes by their parents or a nanny. ... My son went through the public school system for many years, and we even tried the charter schools. ... In my family we have completed lessons around a campfire during a family trip. ... In most schools there were budget cuts that had cut classes back, and even some schools were cutting recess time. ... A surprise that many don't know, online schooling is free; many school districts will pay for enrollment. ...

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