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    which makes me glad that we didn’t read Shakespeare this time around. Chances are that Much Ado About Nothing isn’t exactly like Romeo and Juliet, considering that they’re, you know, different books, but I feel like I would still have the same, stale reaction to it. Shakespeare’s writings are older than Cyrano de Bergerac, making them harder for us to understand and relate to, and making us less interested and attached to the story as a result. While Cyrano wasn’t set in modern times, it still…

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    The carp could act as however it is being portrayed as or it could mean something important to what it is being associated with. Many mythical symbols have a beginning, such as the carp. There are stories about the origin of the carp, but those are not one-hundred percent true. “The real origin of those coloured creatures was in truth, more of an accident than by any real intentions and they are truly ‘man made’” (“Origins and Myths” 1). The carp was discovered unexpectedly instead of having a…

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    After watching the performance Rooted by Tim Miller, one specific moment that I found particularly powerful was when Tim kept mentioning, that he and his partner, were getting married on the day the Supreme Court ruled in favor of gay marriage. I found this to be the most powerful because it made sure that everyone in the audience understood the importance of that specific day. Tim and his partner, Alastair, were married for over 20 years, but their marriage wasn’t recognized by the United…

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    Academic Writing Analysis

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    essays, research papers, academic journal, etc. Some characteristics of this writing includes planning and outlining. A proper outline is crucial for academic writing. Not only will outlining help the writer formulate thoughts, but also show the reader certain relationships between topics. Furthermore, academic writing also involves proper tone, meaning that there is no slang words, abbreviations, or too many clichés. This leads to the language of academic writing where the paper…

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    what a comma splice was and how to avoid it. Turns out, it wasn’t like that at all. In the class, we followed along with the reading of the book. We discussed the importance of events and put into practice marking the book with thoughts, questions, reactions. By the end, my copy of To Kill a Mockingbird was full of yellow, red, blue, and black writing. Throughout the writing of the essay, English Support was the class…

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    Writing is an enormous aspect for a little and shy girl. Writing was a form of escape that could show true and raw emotion through a single piece of paper. Words flowed and shaped worlds and mastered characters true features, physical and mental. Writing was never perfect for this little girl, she would create small books and read them to a group of rowdy toddlers. She was always detached from the real world because she could always create several other worlds and make them her own. She would…

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    I was given the task to conduct an experiment that required me to observe reactions of others at a public place and to take notes. Along with the note taking the instructions indicated to do nothing. Literally nothing, to stand there and be unoccupied, or be involved in normal kinds of activity, that include playing with my phone, looking in my pockets, whistling, or such that was going to distract me from accomplishing this project successfully. This weekend on September 10th, 2016 I decided…

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    about the meaning of writing. The chapter we read, called What Is “Academic” Writing? by L. Lennie Irvin really drill down the thoughts and guide us to what writing can be. I thought writing is a response. We write become we have a response or a reaction to something. You can start off with a sentence onto a paragraph and eventually to an essay. Writing can be very lovely but is there such thing as perfect writing? It seems that everyone has a different mean to what writing means. However, your…

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    Walden Two: A Book Review/ Reaction Paper The book talks about the adventure of a professor and two soldiers with their girlfriends and friends when they were invited to go to a society where capitalism does not run the society and activities beyond our imagination is allowed. Frazier, who is the founder of the society, accompanied their guests, which is the professor and others, until the very end. Each day the guests learnt something and even surprised from the activities…

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    Why Do We Lie

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    Has lying influenced the individuals that we are today. Over the course of the past week i have been keeping a lying journal on the amount of times i would lie. Analyzing my daily results, I have came to the conclusion that i told sweet little lies more then anything else. “ They make it easier for people to get along.” - Bella Depaulo. Is it something we all have grown accustomed to but why do we lie? Is it a copping mechanism or is it to comfort the feelings of others to the statement…

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