The Odyssey A LETTER TO MY SON 12th March 2041 Dear Son‚ Happy 13th birthday‚ my dear son! Congratulations on becoming a teenager. Both your mother and I cannot believe how fast you have grown. I have chosen this book‚ The Odyssey‚ to guide you as you grow into a man. My English teacher‚ Mrs Jones‚ FORCED us to read it when I was your age ( and although it was VERY boring at first (especially the complicated timeline)‚ we were soon engrossed in Odysseus’s swashbuckling adventures
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June 20’ 12 Dear Richard Sigmund‚ My name is Kimberly I’m fifteen years old and I bought your book “ My Time in Heaven” yesterday (June 19’ 12). I got the idea to start reading books about people dying and coming back life after the day that I went to the carnival last week. I went to the carnival with my family and on my way back home we started to talk about how if you play a song backwards you hear another message. Its called backmasking. If you don’t know what it means I’d rather you look
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Is Pearl a child‚ a guide‚ or a monster ? Pearl is the only child among the main characters of the book‚ and she doesn’t really influence the plot. Nevertheless‚ she is not less important than the other characters. If we assume that the characters of the fiction are meant to make the reader think‚ Pearl is meant to make the characters of the story think. Even her mother wonders who she is: " O Father in Heaven‚- if Thou art still my Father‚- what is this being which I have brought into the world
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Hello Friend‚ I have decided to write a letter to you about drinking‚ which I didn’t think I would have to do. Anyway let’s start. Drinking is very dangerous if you consume a lot. You can have liver damage‚ brain damage and many other problems that will eventually lead to death. When you drink you could get into a car with a complete stranger and they could start driving under the influence of alcohol‚ which can result into a car crash which could take your life. Anything could happen when you’re
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Gene testing on unborn children is a revolutionary method that is available to doctors and would-be parents of late. The main objective of gene testing is to know whether parents are carriers of any genes that could hypothetically cause a genetic abnormality. It is important to understand the condition where genetic testing should be recommended in society as there can be benefits of getting the test done on an unborn child. This issue however should not be compulsory because there are many factors
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better person. You understood my problems and tried to solve them on a personal level. I feel truly grateful to you for being the person you are‚ inside and outside the classroom. I will strive to become like you because even after so many years what you taught me is still relevant. Thank you for your patience because you could have just labeled me as lost case and walk away but instead you helped me‚ and I appreciate that. I truly respect you and I’m glad that I had you as my teacher‚ if I could I would
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Dear Sir/Madam‚ I am writing to apply for the Multimedia Design and Communication Degree programme in [UName]. I am currently studying at [High School Name]‚ and I am specialising in mathematics and computer studies. My aim is to be a web designer‚ therefore I would like to gain deeper theoretical knowledge and practical experience in the field of multimedia design. What particularly appeals to me in this course is the opportunity it will give me to fully understand the steps through which
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L9/26/12 Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence Virginia‚ 1776 Dear Thomas Jefferson: I am writing to you‚ to express my opinion on the Declaration of Independence. It is something that our country is based off of‚ so I feel as if I should be giving you my feedback on the matter. The Declaration is very well written and captures all the aspects of what our freedom should be‚ but there are a few things I must point out‚ which I will get to later. There were not a ton of let downs‚
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Fall semester of 2010. I was dismissed for my poor academic progress & a low GPA after the semester of 2008. I am aware that I could do much better to affect improvement in my academic standing. One reason why I feel that my academic progress went down was because of my hearing. Although I have had a hearing disability for some time‚ I was unaware that there is a device called an “FM system” which is able to amplify a professor’s voice. All through my last semester I was having difficulty hearing
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when it gets super hot is the elderly.For instance my grandmother‚she is old school and doesn’t like an ac‚so you can just imagine how hot it gets in her house that’s what worries me.The elderly are very fragile and as you might know the older you get the weaker your immune system gets‚that includes the way your body battles the heat‚ so when the temperature hits 100 I find myself worrying about my grandma.Maybe there are some ways to help out my grandmother like installing an ac for her or take her
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