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- 1371: The Things They Carried
- The Things They Carried Jimmy Cross is the Lietenant, he always carried letters from a girl named Martha, who was a junior in college. She was not his girlfriend and they were not love letters, but he was hoping some day she would be. He would dig his foxhole wash his hands and unwrap the letters and read them ...
- 1372: Being Unprepared
- ... tests because I didn't study. I have also gotten lucky, and passed them with a good grade. I recall a story of one of my mother's friends, Mary Kirby. When she was in college, she had an anatomy test. All of the people in the speech department had to take this course, and not many of them did too well. Mary did not study for this particular test, and ...
- 1373: Lifetime of Choices
- ... or windpants? Most of these choices are trivial, but the few that are important affect you for the rest of your life. Your major is one of these choices. I am presently enrolled in the college of education, but I am debating between this and law. This is not an easy choice. Money is an important factor in deciding upon a job. To continuing living my kind of lifestyle and the ...
- 1374: Knowledge VS Intelligence
- ... the same outcome were reached. We were punished for coming up with our own way of doing things. Punishment for independent thinking seems to be a common occurrence in High Schools. I have discovered in college that this train of thought is beginning to change. Professors seem to encourage individual thought and new ideas or processes. In math there is a base given in order that the students may expand and ...
- 1375: The Souls of Black Folk
- ... is seen as the center of material prosperity where the 'golden apples' have become the figurative goal of a nation obsessed with becoming richer at any cost. He goes on to say, "But the true college will ever have one goal,-not to earn meat but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes" (69). Meanwhile the true egalitarian aims of the American nation have been profaned ...
- 1376: Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and Anne Bradstreet: Relationships With Others
- ... from of God. I am confused with my spiritual self just like she is. And just like bradstreet with the loss of her grandchild she was terribly sad, so am I with the move to college and my slowing communication with my old best group of friends.
- 1377: Usage of the English Language
- ... be useful; therefore, they have become commonplace. A noun used as an adjective is another usage variation. Some examples of nouns being used as adjectives are “car seat,” “radio antenna,” “bank account,” “business day,” and “college student” just to name a few. As society becomes more sophisticated, and medicine, science, and technology introduce new concepts, new words are developed as a necessity to understand those new concepts. Science and technology take ...
- 1378: The Rest are Just Boys Clubs
- ... school I had nothing left to do. I felt an emptiness, an emptiness cold and black in nature that seemed to never leave my side. Persistent almost to the point of paranoia. I was starting college, something I had been looking forward to for years, but now seemed almost foreign. I would be on my own left to fend for myself with no comfort from family or the familiar faces that ...
- 1379: Review of Ernest Hemingway and Writings
- ... spent much of his life trying to escape the "repressive code of behavior" (CLC, 177) that was pushed upon him as a child. After graduating high school in 1977 he chose not to go to college and instead became a reporter for the Kansas City Star, where he remained for seven months. His oppurtunity to break away came when he volunteered as a Red Cross ambulance driver in Italy. In July ...
- 1380: Compare and Contrast: "Dead Poets Society" and "Day of the Last Rock Fight"
- ... similarities and differences. In the two stories there are differences which include the schools the children go to. In “Day of the Last Rock Fight” there schools are k-8th grade where it is all college kids in the other story. The students in “Dead Poets Society” go to school and live on campus. In “Day of the Last Rock Fight” they go to school eight class periods and come home ...
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