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    I am very thankful for taking this course as I feel I have vastly improved in multiple areas of my communication. I had never taken a course that involved writing a paper and then presenting a speech on it to the class. It was either one or the other, not both. That is what intrigued me to take this course before the semester started. For myself great strides were made in my ability to convince readers through the toulmin model, learned in this course. Help was received along the way…

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    to go to college, but I was to let him decide what he wanted me to major in. My first time at University of Mobile was when I went to the orientation. I left orientation in and I headed back home wondering if I had made a mistake in choosing this school. I was scared and overwhelmed by all of the different events and personalities I had encountered that…

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    maintained a low B. For University 100 and Philosophy 112 I have kept a high A. For my Biology 160 class I have not worked on assignments, like homework. I usually work on that’s class homework last so by the time I start I am already tired. For the rest of this…

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    Flowing cherry blossom petals are telling the end of spring. I was a middle school student in Japan who did not have any interest in playing sports. It was about lunch time, and everyone was eating lunch. I was eating my lunch and thinking what I am going to do for the rest of the lunch time. After I ate my lunch, I begun to walk around the campus of Oyaba middle school, the school that I spent two years of my precious adolescence, and I saw my friends, Shugo and Takumi, playing basketball at…

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    His class color was orange, and since they cycle around, that was to be mine. Perfect, I thought, I can keep being him. I was just as smart as Avery. He made good grades his whole life, so I of course had to. My brother went out for tennis in high school, so when I became a freshman, I tried out. I made the team and the comparisons to Avery followed soon after. How we setup to hit the same, how we served the same, and even how we ran the same. My coach, Stockwell, started saying I was better…

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    to a small group of high school students. These students had unknowingly started a case that would end up making a huge impact on how the public school system may limit a student’s freedom of expression. Starting at the beginning, students John Tinker and Christopher Eckhardt wished to protest the war by promoting peace the way they went about this was by deciding to wear black armbands with a peace sign on them. However, even before they could wear them to school the school board heard of their…

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    The state that I was born in has established a process to determine the level of knowledge gained during a school year. The Oklahoma Board of Education has a requirement that every student take standardized tests at the end of each school year. These sets of tests are commonly called “EOI.” EOI stands for End of Instruction test that are supposed to determine the level of knowledge gain on the corresponding academic level on a yearly basis. Also the test is a means for the state to…

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    these all have in common? They are schools in Keya Paha County, or well were schools. Many of our past schools have had to been shut down and made the kids got into town or a different school. We must keep our schools open, for the sake of our town, our people, and our sanity. The academically progressive schools in the beautiful Keya Paha County are vitally important and crucial to the well-being of our county. Today we will discover the history of the schools in Keya Paha County. Next, we will…

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    most children’s lives, but sometimes it’s hard to reach that goal when it’s hard for the kid’s to focus. Most kids drop out of school not because they want to or they’re forced to, they do it because they feel as if they’re not smart enough…

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    (Buckley). Loans are one of the easiest payments that a student and parent can choose as the student goes through college. "Whatever the size of your college savings fund, you will probably face some financial anxiety when your children head off to school. Even if you 've managed to piece together every last dollar that college will cost your family, it 's still wise to look at some other options such as paying for part of the expenses with subsidized loans.” When looking at the big picture…

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