small waves breaking on the shore of a beautiful‚ glimmering lake and off to the side‚ a rusty‚ green shipping container with a boarded up window. If you look at the container closely‚ you can see a faint sign scratched into the paint that reads “Sharon High Sailing.” Four years ago‚ inside that grimy old container‚ I met my team. They were motley group of individuals‚ the valedictorian‚ a jock‚ the chess team captain and a boy on the verge of failing out‚ but they all had one thing in common‚ a
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Swarthmore College Professor Barry Schwartz published an op-ed in last Sunday’s New York Times entitled‚ “Rethinking Work.” The essay begins by noting that a “survey last year found that almost 90 percent of workers were either “not engaged” with or “actively disengaged” from their jobs.” So 9 out of 10 “workers spend half their waking lives doing things they don’t really want to do in places they don’t particularly want to be.” But Why? Perhaps human are lazy and just dislike work as Adam Smith
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Q1.Do you think certain job is only for people with certain characters? Do you think certain job is only for people with certain characters? Elle is a good example to proof certain job is not only for people with certain characters. Elle was studying fashion merchandising (in Southern California college) before she determinate to study Harvard law school. After hearing that sudden news‚ Elle’s parents and friends are not so encouraging her and did not have faith to Elle that she can achieve
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Idealization and Dissappointed The speaker in "The Blue Dress"‚ by Sharon Olds‚ idealizies her father but is soon disappointed when she realizes her father is much different from what she picture. The girl is led to believe that a blue dress given to on her birthday was from her father. Later on she realizes that she was mistaken and that her father in all actually did not give her the blue dress. Instead of letting go of the facade her father had created she embraced it as an actual reality:
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Alex Upton “1954” by Sharon Olds is a poem displaying the horrors of an instance of rape and murder of a young girl by a man named Burton Abbott in 1954. Olds uses a frantic and horrified tone highlighted by a careful choice of diction to express her messages that any ordinary-looking person can disguise evil and the current justice system has a hypocritical eye-for-an-eye mindset that only ends up destroying human life. The structure of “1954” is built on enjambment and broken sentences. This
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In On The Subway by Sharon Olds the narrator contrasts two worlds to develop both portraits by comparing a white wealthy woman to a African American young man. By doing that she uses imagery by describing the appearance of both characters. Also she uses tone to explain the fear the white woman had because she felt threatened by the black man. He also uses organization to reveal how the white woman changed her mind from the beginning of the poem to the end. Olds uses imagery for the readers to imagine
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Her article titled‚ Living with Overactive Imagination: the highs the lows‚ and the completely off-the-wall‚ adeptly explains what it is like to have an overactive imagination. One example Sharon Vogiatzi says in her blog “OI (overactive imagination) is perfect for when you’re interacting with children.” She was the only person her sister would let near her to take out splinters because Vogiatzi was affable and would tell her sister the needle
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the past taking place once‚ never or several times actions taking place one after another action taking place in the middle of another action Past Progressive A: He was speaking. N: He was not speaking. Q: Was he speaking? action going on at a certain time in the past actions taking place yesterday‚ 2 minutes ago‚ in 1990‚ the other day‚ last Friday if sentence type II (If I talked‚ …) when‚ while‚ as long as at the same time action in the past that is interrupted by another action Present
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The nucleus is the most obvious organelle in a eukaryotic cell. Virtually all eukaryote cells have a nucleus (red blood cells lose theirs and so are enucleate for most of their life-span of 180 days). It is surrounded by the nuclear envelope‚ a double membrane with contains a large number of pores. Molecules enter and leave the nucleus by these pores. The two lipid bilayers of the double membrane are separated by a gap of 20 to 40 nm‚ called the perinuclear space. The nucleus contains the cell’s
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Summary Tears of a Tiger is the first book in Sharon Draper’s Hazelwood High trilogy. The novel begins with a brief newspaper article about a fiery automobile accident in which one Hazelwood High student‚ Robert Washington‚ was killed. The article also notes that Andrew (Andy) Jackson was injured in the wreck and that he had been drinking and driving. The next chapter consists of a flashback locker-room conversation between Andy Jackson and Robbie Washington from the night of the accident. The boys
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