I've conquered math, science, and history like gold, but faced with writing, I would coward with fear. ... A sentence of mine starts with "I", "It", "Because", "The." It is difficult for me to think of new ways to begin sentences or use sentence patterns that I see in other people essays. ... Now, in this English class, I am once again faced with what I tried to avoid for so many years, writing. ... Because I've put away writing for so long, I have to almost relearn everything from the beginning. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A quote from his last deployment reads, "Just because war is hell and beyond, doesn't mean you can't have a little tough fun to break the repetitive damage on your mind" His attitude has changed drastically, altering his discovery in quite a harmful way. ... As the novel progresses, sentences become more fractured and truncated. ... In seeing this, Kyle starts to contact home more often. ... The technique of fractured sentences is demonstrated in a call from Chris to his wife Taya. ... I'm on op, but I wanted to let you know that I've accepted something" &q...

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He responded to these charges by saying he was doing it because he believes in the gods, if he did corupt the youth it was by accedent and it was not a crime and he did not want to corrupt the youth for fear that they might turn on him. An Athenian jury found Socrates guilty of corrupting the youth and disbelieving in the gods and they sentenced him to death in 399 B.C.. ... Since avoiding the sentence of death handed down by the Athenian jury would be an action in disobedience the state, Socrates decided not to escape. ... But, after spending time looking at it, it startes to make mor...

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The worst part was, the young man was only nineteen, and his life was just starting. ... I believes so, because when you are embarrassed in front of 11 other people (in this case jurors) you do not know, really lowers your self-esteem. ... I think this one sentence could really put anyone down, and make anyone feel embarrassed, and maybe stupid. ... Quotes like this one convinced me that #8 was very wise and intelligent person: "If he heard anything at all, he still couldn't have identified to voice with the el roaring by..." ... I am more than sure, that if it was not for #8, the you...

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Now, with that leading sentence you make think that this essay is going to be about my belief in our great country, which I do believe in, but that is not what I'm going to write about and support. ... The reason I incorporated my first sentence into this intro was because we all know that fact, and sports have been around much longer. For example, there is the belief that Hercules, a son of Zeus, had started the ancient Olympic Games. ... They are organized with their school because they have a certain amount of time to get their stuff done. ... The benefits are endless in sports and pe...

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Right from the start I did not like him because he was portrayed as a mindless drone . ... This sentence refers to when the narrator finds one of the large fighting machines motionless in field running idle. I found that this was the climax because all of a sudden you realize that the Martian inside the machine must be dead. ... The novel ended with what I think was a fair end logical ending. ... With us it would be as with them , to lurk and watch, to run and hide; fear and empire of man had passed away." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Although the book starts of with a usual inquisitive narrative hook, it is really lacking in an imaginative plot, climax and ending. ... I think this highlights his improved state of mind from the start to end, for instance Christopher forgives his father and passes his A grade math's. ... For instance in one scene in the book Christopher exclaims to a lady trying to help him "ill stab you with my pocket knife". ... The use of correct English such as grammar and sentence length and construction are purposely left inimitably inaccurate. It therefore becomes apparent that Christop...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The text is divided into four stanzas with four lines each. ... The thatcher is Heaney and through the use of straw he describes the way he writes his poetry: preparing and assembling each thought and idea and putting them first into words, then into a sentence, finally to make a poem. ... He arrives unexpectedly with few tools as necessities. ... The third stanza goes into more detail as the thatcher starts on his work and Heaney on his structuring the poem. ... I think this is because taken to a different level, he imagines poetry as something that you dig in for in your brain and once fo...

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He wrote a newspaper article about his experience on the life boat with the survivors. ... Using this wood we started a fire in the grill and started thawing out the meat on one side of the grill and left the flame on the other. ... My friend being a quite good hunter went out and returned back a few hours later with news he got a doe. ... It started. ... This sentence was a great foreshadowing line because it tells us right away that it was going to be rough for those four men on that boat. ...

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The first sentence of the chapter, "Buck did not read the newspapers," is misleading. It is also worth noting because it is repeated. ... Between the two instances where this sentence appears, London seeks to toy with our conceptions of dogs and people. ... He much prefers to hunt and amble with the Judge's offspring. ... Once he is ripped away from his former life, the royal fashion of Buck's life starts to fade as these dirtier instincts for pain and toil begin to surface. ...

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From the opening sentence, the narrator dismisses Robert because of his disability. ... When we first started going out together, she showed me the poem . . . ... But, this is a relationship that started once the narrator was drunk and high, and disassociated with reality. Sure, the two men were talking and it seems that they were bonding on some level, but the narrator only started to open up because he was on drugs and alcohol. ... The narrator was unable to form a relationship with Robert because of his prejudices of anything different then himself, and because Robert was blind, the nar...

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In the first sentence of the book, he starts out by saying " f you really want to hear about it, the first thing you"ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that a David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." ... His negativity is the first thing you notice about this character when you first start reading this book. On page 42, when he's fighting with Stradlater, he says, "I didn't even answer him. ... On pag...

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If you start cloning people who think against human kind or like Hitler and any other kind of person than you wont want to clone people. ... For there a human kind should not take advantage of that and try to play with god and his creations. ... If this world start cloning than you don't know how this world would run. ... So by looking at Huxley sentence you can see what is he mean by that and its true that when that start cloning soldiers than this whole world will have more fighting and war instead where it should be more peace. ... The whole of Khan 4 a factory staffed with the ...

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I can always identify my biggest strength because it has been with me as long as I can remember and that strength is my dependability. ... I say this only because I am always someone's back-up just in case things don't go according to plan and this interferes with my life, but I wouldn't let that stop me from being there when needed. ... I will start with the weaknesses first. ... When I let others finish their sentence they see that I am really listening and not just tolerating them. I've decided that I will work on fortifying my strengths once I get at least halfway wi...

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However, silence is something many people ty to avoid because it makes them feel lonely or depressed. ... What can't be expressed in words with speech can always be shown through body language and looks. ... As well as stopping someone from talking in the middle of the sentence while trying to convey their opinion is also considered rude. During a movie it is rude to start talking as well as sipping the straw to try to get every last drop of your soda. ... Many people try to fill silence with needless noise. ...

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• Grade Level: High School