A Crash into Greatness
 
Lights shine, breaks screech, fear absorbs the mind and you crash; you collide into life. The film Crash is a 2004 Paul Haggis masterpiece crafted in a way to show how racism and individual prejudices can dictate the way we live and indirectly handicap us from seeing reality. Crash is a film [...]

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Peer-Review Draft Unit 3

Here is my second draft of the movie review on Crash… hope you enjoy it!
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Gossip Girls

Gossip is this toxic poison of the mouth that we just can’t seem to get away from. People love to hear about the latest scandal and drama because it entertains them. Many people create gossip in the form of vicious rumors in order to feel better about their own lives. I think that spreading gossip [...]

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What is Education?

In our nation there are so many opportunities in the field of education that is one truly superior to the other; is it that good education is solely based on the curriculum?  There are many that prefer to be home schooled rather than attending the kind of school that I am all too familiar with. [...]

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Tahoe the Great

One of my favorite places on this earth is Lake Tahoe in Northern California. As a child my family and I would drive up to Lake Tahoe so often that it felt like a second home to me. My grandfather owns a cabin in Tahoe and over the years it has become a family and [...]

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Marriage in Our Society

There are many arguments against as well as for gay marriage and I must say that the only arguments that stroke a cord with me are for. I think that all human beings regardless or race, religion, or sexual orientation have a fundamental right to wed. I think that to segregate people into groups of [...]

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Discovery Draft for Unit 3

After presenting my invention work for my review, I have now picked a topic and wrote the first draft. My review is on the 2005 film Crash, I hope you enjoy it! crash1

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Cancer will be Defeated

Research is important in all aspects of life, but one in particular that I find extremely important is cancer research. I think that it is very central to finding the cures that millions of people suffering form cancer need to survive. There are plenty of treatment plans for cancer patients, like radiation and chemo-therapy but [...]

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Beauty in a Bottle

There is an obvious obsession in our society with beauty products; anything to enhance the way you look. There are creams, gels, toners, scrubs, and just about anything you can imagine dedicated to making people beauty. I have to admit that I have fallen victim to propaganda in the beauty business and can honestly testify [...]

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Invention Work For Unit 3

invention-work-for-unit-3     In my writing composition class the students were asked to produce brainstorming work for Unit three which consists of writing a critical review. This is my invention work for unit three and I have to admit that choosing a subject to write about was very difficult because there is so much that I wanted [...]

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