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it affected their lives. Influential figures like Mao, know the inside workings of the event, how it started and the actual purpose. Understanding China’s twentieth century history requires both writings of influential figures and the stories of ordinary people. Researching both sides is beneficial because it offers a clearer understanding of what occurred. Writings of influential figures, especially of political leaders like Mao,…

How To Be The Best You Can Be In College There are two different types of mindsets in this world. You can have a creator or a victim mindset. A creator mindset is where you find solutions to your problems, they have what you call personal responsibility. Victim mindset people are the ones who make excuses for themselves to make it feel like they are not at fault for their actions. These two kinds of people are usually in a different time period in their life, either they are not mature enough…

Mei Vandervelde, the author, develops the thematic conflict by using rhetorical devices to emphasize certain points, project the feelings of the character and to keep the reader moving through the piece in a way that they end up focusing on key, intentional points. The authors goal in this piece is to build to a specific climax. In the beginning there is a small climax, a foreshadowing of what is to come and to show the conflict between the character and the river. Vandervelde uses polysyndeton…

Textbooks VS Technology With the world leaning towards being technology based, many question if this will lead to full time digital learning for schools. This then leads to the battle if schools will stick with their textbooks and handwritten notes or switch over to ebooks, chromebooks, tablets, etc. They both have plenty of benefits to them. But along with the good points, there tends to be bad ones as well. They both are designed differently and teach in different ways. What students want to…

Come back with me to the year 2011. It's eighth grade, I'm freshly fourteen years old, and I feel like I'm at the peak of my life. We are going on a skating field trip as a school, and I decided this was the time to prove myself. Girls were watching, everyone was there, if there was a time that belonged to me, it was then. I had never skated before, but I knew that I would be amazing. How couldn't I be? I was the great Austin Howard, a menial task such as roller skating should pose no threat to…

Gannon definitely ruffled some Democratic feathers and his opposition were determined to dig up more dirt from his past. To illustrate, Jeff Gannon wasn’t even the reporter’s real name! It was an alias for James Guckert and that’s where the details became much more interesting. It turned out that James Guckert’s private life embodied the polar opposite of what the Republican Party stood for. Guckert had owned, operated, and worked as an escort for his military-themed, homosexual escort websites,…

Ryan Sheckler It all started when he was fourteen from nothing to everything he dreamed of being. When Ryan Sheckler turned pro he had a whole new life ahead of him. Ryan was young when he wanted it all. What would you have done if you turned pro at fourteen? Ryan knew exactly what he wanted. He looked up to Tony Hawk since he was little and watched him do tricks. Ryan's pro skater life has turned his world around. He has made an impact to most kids in the world. Ryan has reached out to kids…

Causes For The Growth of Canadian Tire Sukhdeep Singh Student Id – CO688384 Introduction Canadian Tire Corporation(CTC) Limited is a Canadian retail company which sells numerous types of goods and provides great services to fulfill the basic necessities for all Canadians. Do not get tricked by the name tire, it actually sells an extensive range of products and goods like automotive, sports, leisure, toys, home accessories, and even various types of food. CTC was founded in 1922 and…

Technology today is a great assistant for many daily tasks to people all over the world. It can be used for anything as simple as looking up directions to get somewhere to getting research to help create a presentation. The Internet helps display information that has been posted by people all over the world with a wide range of knowledge. Part of the reason it is so great is because it is easily accessed. The Internet is becoming more and more commonly used in the learning environment, and…

Goals are set so you can achieve them. But if you don’t set them what’s the point of life? If you set them too high you will never achieve them. So you have to be realistic. Realistic goals give you a meaning in what you are doing. After that goal is set, you work your butt off to achieve that goal, and that 's exactly what we did. It was March 1, 2012. We had just finished walking around the rink to get a sense of where everything was but most importantly where the judges were and what we…