Peer Draft

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Unit 3 discovery draft

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ASAS helps kids shoot for the stars

After-School All-Stars, a national organization that was founded in 1993 in Los Angeles by Arnold Schwarzenegger, is dedicated to providing children with a safe haven.
Schwarzenegger decided to start the program in order to offer a place for at-risk children to spend time. In fact.according to asasny.com, there are as [...]

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Invention Strategy for unit 3

Invention Strategy

Topics of Interest

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- My favorite book
-I have read it many times
- Very large novel
-Complex themes, motives and characters
-I love the character Francine and her relationship with her father
- There are some parts that are irrelevant to the main message of the story
- I can talk about the [...]

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Construction causes major headache

The St John’s website, www.stjohns.edu ,   displays pictures of green sprawling lawns, majestic academic buildings and smiling students as they leisurely walk to class. This gives a false impression of the Queens campus these days, and when prospective students come to visit, they are surprised- in an unpleasant way. What they see pales in [...]

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Orr Review

A movie review has a big impact on the cinema world. People from all over the world open their newspapers, magazines and surf the web to read reviews on movies they were thinking on seeing. As they read, their decision is reassured that it is worth to spend the money to see the movie or [...]

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How to Blog

The internet is a vast place full of all kinds of things. There are sites to get email, read Hollywood gossip and stock exchanges. There are sites for weather reports, obscure facts and gourmet recipes, and there as websites devoted to blogging. Almost all people current in the world of technology are familiar to the [...]

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Floating Workshop 4/15

Here is my essay on Unit two.
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The true captain planet

Al Gore seems to be getting the last laugh these days. According to www.nytimes.com , On October 12th, Gore, who lost the 2000 presidential elections by the skin of his teeth, was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday. The award was also shared with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which [...]

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Scott movie review

Reread Scott’s article and, after watching the film, find a place where you can build upon the ideas found in Scott’s article. In other words, if you were doing a floating workshop on Scott’s review, what would be some things you might recommend for a revision? What else do you think could be written in [...]

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