The Champion’s Blog (You already know who dis is)

            The death penalty doesn’t serve anyone any justice. It is just a pricey, easy and nonproductive way to get rid of someone who has committed a horrible crime. Execution is quick and painless, but living in prison your whole life can drive someone nuts. Sure the person may deserve to [...]

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The sky, reddened by a typical Midwestern sunset, begins clouding over just before dusk.
But no threat of rain can stop the twenty thousand rock fans from flocking to Cincinnati’s River-front Coliseum to see and hear Pink Floyd.
The concert is still three hours off yet there are several thousand pumped up early birds decked out in [...]

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What does guilt mean to you? Is it the feeling you get when you did something that you knew was wrong? To me guilt is the feeling of knowing what you did or are doing is untrue to your beliefs. If something you did makes you feel regretful in a sort of negative way, that [...]

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1. According to the author a rant is a high-flown, extravagant, or bombastic speech or utterance; a piece of turgid declamation; a tirade. The baseball example qualifies because it fits the definition of a rant, they are just dragging out this conversation of derek jeter and joe torre.
2. The rant has changed in the age of [...]

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To me being happy is just feeling really “up” and having no worries and being stress free. happiness comes when certain events occur that just really satisfy you. You can also be happy in general, just when life is going good, everything is falling into place and you are enjoying everything that you are engaging [...]

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After reading the hook I am left confused. I don’t think this is a good hook at all because I am not interested in reading about the authors grandmother and her stories. Especially because it says the mid-1920s, this is extremely boring to me. The conclusion is written to try and convince people that just [...]

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1. Swirling and swirling the ocean was. I looked and thought oh no a hurricane, we are all going to die, but then I thought about it and I realized that the way the ocean swirled and the way the wind blew so hard, was kind of a awesome sight.
2. Drool covered half of the [...]

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How does Rittenberg hook the reader? What’s happening?
He hooks me as a reader by connecting his age with mine. When he said his game it kind out sucked me in and made me want to read on.
What specifics does Rittenberg use to emphasize how older generations saw horrible things in their lifetimes?
He talked about the [...]

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T. Susan Chang wrote about how she felt about the world being digital. She says that she was sucked into it when she got a computer in college. She says from then on she became more and more engaged in the digital world. Although all this digitalization is happening she says she likes to keep [...]

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I am a strong writer when I am in the mood. If I get in the groove when Im writing it’s hard for me to stop. But it is hard to find me in that groove, most of the time I sit down to write and I just can’t think of what to write. Last [...]

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