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       I found the story about Denzel Washington writing a donation for Fisher House Foundation when he went to visit Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas very interesting. It made me think that there might be more celebrities trying to use their millions of dollars for something useful. The e-mail states that ...

    I found the article “Why Johnny Can’t Think” very interesting. I had never thought about why students have a hard time retaining information in classrooms; I just accepted that most of them were bored by the subject or had bad memories, like myself. After the article used the example of athletes going out and playing the game to ...

The topic of lowering the drinking age is a very difficult one. Both sides have so many pros and cons involved that it’s impossible to look at all the facts and make a good decision. Over the years, after talking to many different people on their views of the drinking age, I’ve decided on two different ideas for dealing with the drinking ...

Exercise A I tried to do a little variation with exercise A, since other people have already picked that one. While walking around campus, I observed the 3 different pairs talking while they walked to or from class. It seemed like the three pairs in this case though weren’t all that ...

    From reading “The Lanyard” by Billy Collins, I noticed that the author obviously loves his mother and appreciates everything she has done for him. After looking through a dictionary and finding the word lanyard he quickly goes back to a memory about making his mother a lanyard. He talks about all the things that she did ...

On the main page of the Mindset Lists, I saw that the Class of 2011 was for people mostly born in 1989, so after reading the 2011 class, I decided to go look at the Class of 2010 list, since I was born in 1988. After reading both, I disagree with a lot of what these lists say, especially the Class of 2010 list, but I can relate to that ...

People use different avatars to portray themselves in many different ways. They can use them to seem more interesting to the other people on the web, or they can make them look like themselves. Other people use them to show everything they wish they could be or to just change a couple things about themselves. These three examples show three ...