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i couldn't find any famous people that were talking about my topic because only news casts talk about it. Actors really don't hear much...The Ramayana
The Ramayana is one of the most told stories in India. The story begins with the king , Dasaratha as he realizes he is getting old: “...Position Paper for Brunei Darussalam (Climate Change)
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The other side of Me
by gorsha on Monday, June 17, 2013 - 15:21
This school year I think I could have done better and push myself to do better. As a student this year I have learn a lot of things about myself and came a long way. I have improve, but I wished that I just had motivate my self more. There was a...
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Did you Know?
by gorsha on Monday, June 17, 2013 - 15:16
The words that are add to the Oxford Dictionary online is amazing. When teenagers are writing a essay or a short paragraph they can actually know that some of the words that they are in the dictionary now. Some of the words that are added to the...
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SDEMC 10th Grade Podcast Project, Gender, War, Peace Building, Jeremy, Daisy, Manuel
by KendraMadden on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - 16:03
This is our 10th Grade Podcast Project based on the USIP Gender, War, and Peace Building prompt.
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SDEMC 10th Podcast Project, Gender, War, and Peace Building: John, Cassie, Jazmin, Sharlet
by KendraMadden on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - 14:59
This is our 10th grade podcast project based on the USIP Gender, War, and Peace Building prompt.
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SDEMC 10th Grade Podcast Project, Gender, War, and Peace Building: Natnael, Destiny, and Omar
by KendraMadden on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - 13:50
This is our 10th Grade Podcast Project based on the USIP Gender, War, and Peace Building prompt.
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Arts and Entertainment
My Developing Writing Skills
by casjas on Monday, June 10, 2013 - 23:59
My school year experience was more than what I expected. I expected it to to be facile but it was not. It actually was a bit challenging. The reason for this is because we had to learn 200 vocabulary words. I believe I tried a lot at the...
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Thumbs Up for Improving Change
by malyar on Monday, June 10, 2013 - 23:17
School hasn’t been very fun or facile, but overall it has been a great experience. Although the end of the school year was hard and the most stressful time out of the whole year, I really think I did good. Besides being lazy and slacking of last...
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Writing Class Affect On Me
by nunant on Monday, June 10, 2013 - 22:17
The end of the school year was not difficult in my opinion. I thought it was easy, but a lot of teachers gave a lot of assignments. Not that I should complain, most of them were really fun, but just a lot of work to do. As a student this year, I...
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How One Writing Course Changed Me
by rodeme on Monday, June 10, 2013 - 21:23
Although this was not one of my best years academically (yikes!), I still had a pretty good school year. I slacked off a bit on the last semester but hey, that is what the smell of summer does to me. This year as a student, I felt I could have done...
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School's out !
by sanfra on Monday, June 10, 2013 - 21:00
Whew! School is finally coming to an end. The moment I have been awaiting for has finally arrived. This year has gone pretty smooth and I feel great to say I ended well this year. I have developed as both a person and student. There were tons...
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Booktalk
The Darkest Minds By: Alexandra Braken
by 17zhul on Friday, June 14, 2013 - 11:33
When Ruby work up on her tenth birthday, something changed within her. Her parents didn't know her because Ruby accidentally wiped away her parents memory. So, when she woke up, her parents didn't know who she was. And they sent her to Thurmond "...
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Enders' Game by Orsan Scott
by 17devkotaa on Friday, June 14, 2013 - 00:58
The book is about a young and talented by named Ender, born into a family with a very smart brother and sister. Peter who seems extremely evil, and valentine who seems to be the protector. Ender is basically forced to go to battle school at the age...
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The Darkest Minds By: Alexandra Bracken
by 17zhul on Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 18:20
"I wished that Cate could come and take me away from them, back to the only people who would ever embrace me for the monster I was" -Page 287.
So far I read around 350 pages of the book and it's great! This quote was said after she used her powers...
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The Christmas Wedding by James Patterson
by 17oconnellb on Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 18:13
50 something year old widow of three years Gaby Summerhill is remarrying. the groom can be anyone of three suitors. his identity will remain anonymous until the wedding on Christmas day. It will be the first Christmas the family will have been...
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Indignation by Philip Roth Summary
by 15KatesJ on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - 19:52
Recently I finished reading the novel, Indignation, by Philip Roth. I greatly enjoyed reading the novel and found the story to be quite interesting. The novel takes place in 1951 in America, which was during the second year of the Korean War. The...
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Connected Research
Social Pressures on Teens
by zoep on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 08:36
In the blog post, “Social Pressures on Teens,” from Bizymoms.com. 1997. Social Pressure on Teens:social pressure. [online] Available at: http://www.bizymoms.com/teenagers/social-pressure.html [Accessed: 18 Jun 2013]., the author talks about the...
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What A Year!
by telmck on Monday, June 17, 2013 - 17:17
This school year was hard and easy and the reason for that is because of the grades and the different classes. The end of the year for this school year was very hard because of all the teachers talking about grading, test, making up work, and summer...
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Are We The Master or What?
by telmck on Monday, June 17, 2013 - 16:11
Within this link “http://mentalfloss.com/article/31363/35-modern-words-recently-added-dictionary” their are different words that people have added to the dictionary and some are cool and some I have to think twice about. When it comes to these...
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Words are Omnipotent
by leoglo on Monday, June 17, 2013 - 11:25
The definition of a word is a single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing, used with others (or sometimes alone) to form a sentence. Words reflect one's thoughts and emotions Human personality gets formed and changed under the influence...
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My Experience !
by leoglo on Monday, June 17, 2013 - 00:43
At the beginning of the school year I thought that having a writing class was stupid because I already had n English class. As time passed my opinion changed. I realized that Writing class was different than English class. I enjoyed learning...
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español
El Apagon & My Version Of El Apagon
by anthonyf on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 - 12:05
"El Apagon" is a play set in New York City around the time of the blackout that occurred in 1965. The play was about a man by the named of Jose Luis Gonzalez who is a Puerto Rican.
In the beginning of the play he talks about how the barrio (the...
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Sobre mi País Argentina
by AnabellaC on Tuesday, November 27, 2012 - 10:54
Yo vivo en Argentina, el país más al sur de Latino America.
Mi país tiene muchos lugares verdes turísticos para gente que viene de afuera. Tiene playas amplias, tiene lugares con nieve donde la gente hace ski y va de vacaciones.
A los argentinos...
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Murga La Unión
by MiluB on Tuesday, November 20, 2012 - 10:00
Yo bailo en una murga. Una murga es un grupo de chicos que baila con trajes divertidos.
Me gusta la murga porque es muy duvertida. En mi ciudad hay muchos grupos de murgas.
Yo me uní al grupo el año pasado. Somos un montón de chicos en el grupo....
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Mi carta para mis Abuelos
by evelyns on Friday, November 9, 2012 - 02:57
Se trata de una carta a mis abuelos de mi experiencia en México, explicando lo que iba a hacer la próxima vez que vaya.
Querido Abuelos,
Desde que viene de México solo pienso en volver a México. Cuando estuve en México aprendí muchas cosas del País...
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Greetings from Argentina
by GiselaO on Tuesday, November 6, 2012 - 10:35
Hello, I am from Argentina, from Tandil, a beautiful town.
I like English. I like playing soccer.
This is a picture of my town.
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From the Middle (6-8)
United Nations Speech Syria VS Turkey
by marzias on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 19:40
Fahmeda:
Good morning delegates of the General Assembly and chairperson. My name is Ahla Osman and along with Mehtab Bahar, we are honored to represent the country of Turkey. We are here to discuss the matter that Syria’s civil war will soon affect...
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speech usa
by Gehad H on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 16:53
Welcome Ladies and gentlemen. BY GEHAD STACY AND CINDY :)
We are honored to be here and we appreciate that you want to listen to our opinions on our conflict here. We will be speaking about what is happening in the USA.. Everything that is affecting...
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Lily's Powerful Watch
by 18abdelm on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - 18:33
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In the story Lily's Powerful Watch there is a lot of action going on. In the beginning of the story you can see that Lily is bullied by the "popular group" at school. She really hates it, but is too scared to say...
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Dylan's Secret
by 18fisherz on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - 14:06
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This story shows how Dylan learns the importance of making the right choices. Dylan goes to a private school for rich kids, but he only goes there on a scholarship. In fact he is very poor which makes him hungry and...
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The Very Greedy Mouse
by 18fut on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - 14:06
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The Very Greedy Mouse is a story of a mouse that sees an apple and is very happy. He pushes it to his home that is a hole in the wall of a human’s house. The apple was too big to fit inside the hole but because he was...
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Gaming and New Media
My Skills as a Music Promoter
by ruthv on Friday, June 14, 2013 - 09:24
Recently, I did a Hangout with Paul. It goes for 58 minutes, but I found a few places in our interview that show some of the different things I do in my work with Sensato http://www.sensatosworld.com/ and on my own site http://lomapesao.com/
I used...
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Modern Technology
by cabenm on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 11:23
In Lisa Eadicicco’s article, “15 Technologies of Today We’ll Still Be Using In 2030”, from nbcnews.com, the author lists fifteen types of technology that the world will still use even in the future.
When we consider the issue of technology, some...
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Letters to the Next...
Letter to the next mayor
by Hectorh on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 17:03
hector Hernandez 6/8/13
Freshman Writting Mr.Nordlinger
Dear next Mayor,
Next mayor I feel like guns are to easy to get your hands on in the year of 2013. This leave you citizens in danger of being harmed or even death. Only in...
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Final Reflection
by tamjen on Monday, June 17, 2013 - 13:44
Tamika Jenkins
Ms. Aboulhosn
Writing 10
10 June, 2013
Final Reflection
This year as a student I feel good. I would feel better if I had gave it my all this year. The thing that was good about this year is that...
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Final Reflection
by trakad on Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 23:24
Throughout the school year, I feel as though I have developed as a student and learned a lot. I have especially augmented my vocabulary in writing class thanks to Ms. Aboulhosn. In all my classes, I value my teachers because had it not been for them...
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letter to the next mayor about guns
by Natashad on Monday, June 3, 2013 - 15:11
natasha de la cruz
letters to the next mayor
my respond for the next new major in the future is to control the management of owning guns.a lot of masecure have been happening and the guns their...
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Letter to New York City Mayoral Candidate Anthony Weiner: Stop and Frisk
by LissabethH on Thursday, May 30, 2013 - 10:22
May 28,2013
Dear Anthony Weiner,
My name is Lissabeth Hernandez and I am 18 years of age. I live in upper Manhattan, in Washington Heights. I am not a registered voter but I am aware that you are running for mayor this year 2013. The reason I am...
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Our Space (K-5)
Hurricane Stories
by CarolineDerbes on Wednesday, November 7, 2012 - 10:34
Given what people in New York and New Jersey are going through with Hurricane Sandy, I thought Youth Voices readers might like to see some writing by third graders in response to Hurricane Gustav a few years ago.
Hurricane Gustav arrived, Labor Day...
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My Shell
by Hayden0306 on Wednesday, October 31, 2012 - 14:47
Beautiful
Like a glimmering lake in the sun
it shines so very brightly.
On the outside.
On the inside,
it feels smooth,
silky.
But it doesn't shine as brightly,
it may be bright,
on the outside,
but on the inside,
it
seems
faded.
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Documentary
by AllieMD on Friday, March 2, 2012 - 11:45
Ocean acidification is a rising problem on Earth. It is a term used to decribe the rising acidity in the oceans. 1/3 of the carbon dioxide we edmit from burning ficil fuels is absorbed by the oceans. This equals to 1 million tones...
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A fish
Blue peach colored
Happy and good to be free
Black and green
A sea creature
Tobie
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Our Stories and Poems
Leaving the year that shapes my future
by corste on Monday, June 10, 2013 - 23:59
The school year has been a long year. The end of the school year is approaching with only less than a week away. In the end it does not feel as though much change has happened, but when I look back and think about it there has been a lot of change....
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Goodbye Sophomore Year
by casdei on Monday, June 10, 2013 - 22:12
As the last day of my sophomore year approaches a somber feeling overwhelms me. My 10th grade year was better than my freshman year. I made a lot more friends and got to know my classmates a lot more. My teachers were amazing and I learned a lot. As...
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Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Tell Me How this Year has Gone
by encsha on Friday, June 7, 2013 - 13:16
This year has been my best and favorite year of high school so far. Honestly, I do not know why students in my school always complain and want to leave the school. Green Dot New York Charter School is a great school that makes sure to push every...
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The Ending Surprised Me
by YeidyN on Friday, May 31, 2013 - 14:10
I couldn’t quite help the thought of just not being able to go through the whole summer with them. I remember when I was on vacation to Dominican Republic with my whole entire family, aunts, uncles, cousins. I was so excited that they were there...
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The Last piece of Memory Left by my Grandfather
by ChrisS on Friday, May 31, 2013 - 14:08
Last piece of memory left by my grandfather. I can’t remember his face nor the time spent with him. But only the soothing sweet sound of the harmonica I was given. The smooth metallic harmonica had this futuristic feel to it. But that not what...
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Video Conversations
Observing Birds in Soundview Park (North) 5-21-13
by angelc on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - 11:58
Shamar, Ruth, and I talk about the birds we saw in Soundview Park on Monday 5/20.
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Bird Observation at Soundview Park
by miguelc on Monday, April 15, 2013 - 13:23
Shamar, Angel, and I decided to make a Detox video based on today's experience at Soundview Park. On Wednesday we'll begin working with boats on the Bronx River.
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A Tree Swallow Takes Over
by ruthv on Tuesday, April 9, 2013 - 09:54
Yesterday, we went to Soundview Park to observe birds, and we saw a lot of robins, phoebes, black sparrows, and tree swallows. We were observing the boxes we made to see if any swallows were inside. At first there wasn't, but for some reason I had a...
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Bird Watching 4/8/2013
by shamars on Monday, April 8, 2013 - 14:16
Today I saw some pretty cool birds and they all had really interesting colors and they all were different shapes. I think that the weather was just perfect for bird watching and all of us had a great time watching them. I hope the rest of the days...
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Installing Nest Boxes in Soundview Park - Detox, March 21, 2013 11:21 AM
by angelc on Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 11:42
Yesterday we cleaned up a bird house, then watched and analyzed birds. After that then we went to another park and put up nest boxes that we all had built.
This is where we put our nest boxes:
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