SAMPLE COVER LETTER SAMANTHA PIERCE 14 Brattle Street Cambridge‚ MA 02138 (617) 495-3108 spierce@jd13.law.harvard.edu December 1‚ 2010 Miriam A. Nunberg Staff Attorney U.S. Department of Education‚ Office for Civil Rights 32 Old Slip‚ 26th Fl. New York‚ NY 10005-2500 Dear Ms. Nunberg: I am a first-year student at Harvard Law School and am writing to apply for a volunteer summer internship with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights in New York City. I learned about your organization
Free Law
that students receive by parents‚ school‚ and society to succeed‚ has caused students to take some drastic actions. Many students are pressured by their parents to excel in school. Although many parents think that pressuring their kids to get good grades may be helpful‚ in reality‚ it can become overbearing. In the case of many students they are already balancing out school‚ work and extracurricular activities. Pressure on the part of the parents may only stress them out more than what they already
Premium Extracurricular activity High school Education
The Cold War was a pivotal era in the twentieth century. The term Cold War itself‚ popularized in a 1946 speech by Prime Minister of Britain Winston Churchill‚ describes the ideological struggle between Democracy and Communism that began shortly after the end of World War II and lasted until 1991. For the foreign policy of the United States‚ the cold war defined the last half of the twentieth century. It was a war of ideas‚ of threats‚ and of actual fighting in the countries of Korea and Vietnam
Premium Cold War World War II Soviet Union
The social science experiment I conducted involved me violating a social norm and observing the reactions I would get for doing something considered “not normal” by societal standards. I monitored the reactions of five different groups throughout the experiment to get the best results. I rode the elevator five times but instead of standing the “normal” way which is facing the door an unspoken social norm I stood the wrong way. I stood backwards facing the back instead of the door. I got various reactions
Premium Sociology
V for Vendetta vs. 1984 comparison Intermediate prompt: Discuss some of the similarities of how the totalitarian style of government depicted in the film V for Vendetta and Big Brother in George Orwell’s novel 1984 use the media to control the population. *Norsefire‚ the political party that reigns over England after a nuclear holocaust attempts to control the population through propaganda in the media. In the movie it seems as though everyone has a television in their home and there is only one
Premium Nineteen Eighty-Four
English III Section G 6/5/2012 Final Paper Women in the Odyssey and A Midsummer Night’s Dream Throughout history‚ women have usually been seen as weak and without power. However‚ women such as Helena‚ Hermia‚ Titania‚ in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Helen‚ Circe‚ and Penelope in The Odyssey are not weak. Instead‚ they are very powerful but in different ways. The women of The Odyssey and A Midsummer Night’s Dream threaten male power but in different ways. In The Odyssey‚ Helen is a
Free Odysseus Odyssey Trojan War
Alliya Rashid June 30‚ 2014 Why Grades Are Not Good For Students Every student wants to brag that he or she is an “A student”. In schools‚ students’ abilities and levels of intelligence can be measured by a series of letters from A to F on a piece of paper. A is for excellence‚ B is for good‚ C is for average‚ and D and F means you’re fail. This system is called Grading System. Parents can reward‚ for good grades and can restrict privileges for lower grades. In my opinion‚ grading doesn’t affect
Premium Grade
In Beowulf’s appeal to Unferth‚ Beowulf uses Pathos when referring to his swimming match against Brecca. Beowulf makes the audience feel sympathetic for him when he uses vivid descriptions and has an emotional tone when he tells them of how he had to fight off sea-monsters and extremely harsh conditions. He also admits that he made a "mistake" in his challenge with Brecca. This also adds to the empathy that the audience was already feeling for him. Admitting that he made a mistake makes Beowulf’s
Premium Logic Rhetoric Comedy
7 Bad Study Habits A College Student Must Not Have Page 1 of 4 www lumosity com Ads by Google 7 Bad Study Habits A College Student Must Not Have 80 By emievil Bad Study Habits Can Break a College Student’s Grade I’ve been teaching part-time for the past one and a half years. My subjects? Basic business concepts and basic accounting for information technology students. I enjoy what I do and I like my students (so far). That doesn’t mean though that I’m not a strict one. In fact‚ I
Premium Christmas Education Student
a. Why does Budget Director Paula Harper feel such disappointment in Water Department Chief Engineer Mason’s behavior - and vice versa? Budget Director Paula Harper felt disappointed in Water Chief Engineer Mason’s because in her point of view as a Budget Director‚ she had to make a cogent recommendation to the Manager about additional personnel request. To do that‚ she had to have all information that she asked to Mason and his staff. This information would be used to determine whether they need
Premium Costs