The three areas from the english course that I have devloped the most in is critical thinking, writing and collaboration. The first area that I feel I have improved the most in is critical thinking. Critical thinking is a very importnt skill and is defined as the objective analysis of facts to form a judgment. The reason why I believe I was able to imporve my critical thinking is due to all of the class readings. We read several things from poems, to short stories to actual books and as a result
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Write a to do list: A to do list will help me prioritise what tasks i need to accomplish from least to most important and allows for my day and duties to be more manageable. I can check off my tasks and mark them off once completed which allows me to see my progression and enables a sense of achievement with in myself each task i for fill completely. This method also allows me to to comply with deadlines in my work schedule.Whilst i am focusing on my to do list i should also be asking myself some
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How does the University of Chicago, as you know it now, satisfy your desire for a particular kind of learning, community, and future? Please address with some specificity your own wishes and how they relate to UChicago. Every time I talk about UChicago, I speak with what I call my “hyper accent”, characterized by excessive hand gestures and fast talking --and an occasional jump in excitement. “The Core and the ‘life of the mind’ spirit, a city bustling with opportunities, the House system, the zany
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You’d think that for a teenager (a high school senior at that) writing such a self-regarding thesis would be a piece of cake. Well, you’d be wrong! Having sat at a desk for hours upon hours, staring menacingly at a blank page and scouring through my slowly but inevitably malfunctioning brain for any tips concerning my -so far- second-rate personality was most definitely not on my schedule, but here I am. Alright, maybe “second-rate” is too harsh of a label. Pending? Would “pending” be a better fit
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In a world so filled with technology and media choices, it has become easy for some to frequently claim that “the book was better.” While the debate surrounding this issue has been around for quite some time, there is now a fairly new incumbent into the realm of entertainment, the audiobook. Audiobooks are now a more and more accessible form of media consumption, one that, on the whole, meets with far less criticism than its visual counterparts. While obviously not a real book, the act of simply
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It was a few minutes after 10pm on a Monday night and I had just remembered that my rough draft essay for my dual enrollment English class was due the next day. Even though I wrote the date it was due down, I always pushed it off to do “another day”, well another day became that night. I had to write 500 descriptive words about the nature of opening and eating a tootsie pop; I didn’t even have a tootsie pop. I knew I would have to improvise, so I grabbed the old lollipop in my pantry and started
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It may be possible in our society today that books will no longer be used but I don't think it will happen. Books may be replaced by computers and electronics but I don't feel that people will totally lose interest in books. Lots of people really like books. Books keep history recorded. When you have a question about science you look in a book. I don't think that Bradbury’s depiction of a society without books is realistic.There wouldn't have been any book burnings such as the ones that happened
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Cookie”, was an analytical 8-point paper about The Odyssey, and it was quite literally the worst paper I have ever written. It was so terrible, that I couldn’t even make it through the first paragraph, when I attempted to re-read it. I remembered my writing not being horrible, because, otherwise, I wouldn’t have turned it in. As I recall, it was so bad, that you didn’t even grade it, because I would’ve gotten an F (thank you about that, by the way). This paper exemplifies the very beginning of my
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(optional) Please briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work experiences. (250) Shortly after I moved to the United States, I enrolled in an origami class. The art of paper folding was familiar to me but also difficult to master. I remember my struggles to keep up with the class and worries that I wouldn’t make any progress. Squash-folds and folding diagonal halves were steps that I had a very hard time doing. I often fell behind in class, or someone would help me with the
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Once enough time has passed that I am under some pressure to start putting pen to paper, I gather my laptop, a pencil, and some paper. I prefer making notes about the topic of my assignment on a piece of paper before actually writing any drafts. I make short, simple notes, so it does not usually take very much time. After I have researched my points, I make a basic outline for my essay. This helps me keep my paper organized and make
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