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• Leaving school for college is considered to be a new stage in your life. The party is over, and it is time to treat everything more seriously than you used to. As you know, your enrollment depends on three major items
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• The way you studied at school is undoubtedly critical for enrollment. The committee shows a preference for those candidates who proved their desire to study and improve at the educational establishment.
• Present your advantages by successful examination passing and attract the committee with your personal paper.
• The personal essay is a representation of yourself. It comprises of several essential parts that we are going to tell you about in the next paragraph.
• It must not be identified with self-advertisement as your main idea is to deserve approval, not to require it.
• Is there any plan of personal paper writing? What information to take into account? What is a format of a personal essay? These and many other questions may bother you while starting your script.
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• The essential information must include the following
• Self-introduction
• Accomplishments
• Self-introduction is a beginning of your work here your task is to say a few words about yourself name, surname, the reason for choosing this educational institution and so on.
• Accomplishments start your main body. In this paragraph, you aim to stand out by your achievements that are diplomas, certificates, awards, prizes, nominations, etc. Tell about the things that have a connection to your course. If you are going to enroll the course of Management Marketing, do not boast of your progress at biological experiments.
• Hobbies. Here you can mention everything you are fond of sports activities (football, swimming, dancing, box, etc.), art (painting, photography, sculpturing, singing, music composition), science (various experiments and investigations), charity, etc.
• Your intentions include your plans for the nearest future. It describes you as a mature person who already decided what he is what profession to have, what to achieve, and so on. Also, it implies the contributions you can make to the college you intend to enroll.
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The Death of Iran’s President Does Not Bode Well

By Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh

Mr. Gerecht is a resident scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Mr. Takeyh is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, has not always seen eye to eye with his country’s presidents. Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani nudged the Islamic Republic too close to the West for the supreme leader’s liking. Mohammad Khatami rattled the conservative elite with subversive talk of how faith and freedom could coexist. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was too insubordinate and too populist, while Hassan Rouhani’s flirtation with the Americans and his disappointing arms-control agreement drove him out of the inner circle.

President Ebrahim Raisi, on the other hand, was Mr. Khamenei’s ideal partner. A lackluster manager with dispiriting rhetoric and a vicious streak, he was steadfastly loyal to Mr. Khamenei, who is 85 years old, and an integral part of his plan to ensure a smooth succession. Mr. Raisi’s sudden death in a helicopter crash on Sunday has thrown that plan into disarray, scrambled Iran’s backroom politics and could further empower a younger, more radical generation of politicians that would bring further repression at home and aggression overseas.

Mr. Raisi was a revolutionary with an ideologue’s integrity. Early on he was appointed to various prosecutorial roles, where he regularly sought — and secured — the execution of regime opponents. In 1988, he firmed up that reputation by serving on the so-called death commissions that executed upward of 5,000 political prisoners. He then spent much of his career in the regime’s darker corners, becoming the head of the judiciary before being elevated to the presidency.

Despite this deep experience and loyalty, it wasn’t clear that Mr. Raisi would be a suitable successor to Mr. Khamenei, a development many observers and Iranians feared. The challenge of managing a government at odds with much of its population and the international community requires an unusual mixture of cunning, intelligence and cruelty. Mr. Raisi only possessed the last. But even if his ascension was uncertain, Mr. Khamenei still relied upon the cleric to help manage the coming transition: Mr. Raisi was reportedly part of a three-man committee vested with the responsibility to choose the next supreme leader.

Mr. Khamenei will now need to find someone else as reliable to execute, as ruthlessly as required, his vision, and arrange another contrived election to install him. This will not be easy: Iran’s political system has been so relentlessly purged of those present at the creation of the republic that little of the old establishment is left.

The new political landscape is largely dominated by younger men who openly lament the older generation’s corruption, lack of revolutionary zeal and unwillingness to take on more forcefully a fading American imperium. And because Mr. Khamenei must rely on this new group to sustain the revolution’s values and keep the theocracy intact, he will have to take their sensibilities into account as he considers both the next president and who should succeed him as supreme leader.

This new cohort has been toughened by battling various popular insurrections. Many have served in the security services and the Revolutionary Guards. They have a strong showing in the hard-line Paydari Party, which now holds the majority in Parliament. Among its most vocal members are Morteza Aqa-Tehrani, one of the party’s leaders, and Mehrdad Bazrpash, the minister of roads and urban development in Mr. Raisi’s government. They favor presidential contenders like Saeed Jalili, a former nuclear negotiator, who has demonstrated contempt for international norms and democratic accountability.

Mr. Raisi had little to say about matters beyond Iran’s borders. Foreign affairs really wasn’t his domain, though he did support the regime’s imperial adventures and recent clash with Israel. But Mr. Khamenei’s more youthful disciples have come of age as America has been retrenching in the Middle East, enjoying the talk in Washington of getting out of America’s so-called forever wars. Unlike many of their “neither East nor West” elders, they’ve welcomed the Chinese and Russian alliance with Iran and see the international arena, unlike the home front, as a domain where they can succeed.

The rising influence of this younger generation in the wake of Mr. Raisi’s death may also have a significant effect on Iran’s nuclear calculations. What appeared to be Mr. Khamenei’s cautious approach to constructing and testing a nuclear device may give way to voices eager to get on with it. The effort, on the other hand, of marshaling multinational proxy forces to do Iran’s bidding in the region will almost certainly persist unaltered, as its success is hard to question.

The larger issue of Mr. Khamenei’s succession, of course, also still hangs over the republic. It is often suggested that his son Mojtaba might assume his father’s mantle. The Islamic Republic may have dispensed with charismatic authority and theological erudition as preconditions for that post, but it does not favor dynastic succession, which is still seen by revolutionary leaders as an indulgence of Persian monarchs and Arab presidents. The younger Khamenei may continue to have an outsized role in the background, but his formal promotion would be difficult for Iran’s leaders to justify. That means another hard-line cleric of some stature and close ties to the security services will likely be considered, such as Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, a member of the Assembly of Experts tasked with selecting the next supreme leader.

All this augurs poorly for the Iranian people and the international community alike. The generation on the cusp of taking power sees domestic oppression and foreign aggression as indispensable to the success of the revolution. They are even more resentful of the public’s widely held democratic aspirations than Mr. Raisi’s generation, equating all forms of dissent with sedition against the republic and the faith. Mr. Raisi’s death may give these younger men an opportunity to finally have their day.

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Personal Essay. 250 words. What can you carry? . Brainstorm: make a list of all the things you can carry—think both literally and figuratively. You have to have at the very LEAST 15 things on your list, but you should brainstorm for 3 minutes without talking to anyone—only writing. Characters.

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Personal Essay 250 words

What can you carry? • Brainstorm: make a list of all the things you can carry—think both literally and figuratively. You have to have at the very LEAST 15 things on your list, but you should brainstorm for 3 minutes without talking to anyone—only writing.

Characters • Those who struggle with the conflict • PROTAGONIST (main character) • ANTAGONIST (the person in direct conflict with the main character)

Characterization • Indirect Characterization: when the author does not tell us what the character is like. We learn about the character from his speech and actions and dealings with other characters. • Direct Characterization: when the narrator describes a character directly and tells us his/her qualities. Examples?

Directly? How do these thingscharacterize people? Indirectly?

The Things they Carried Tim O’Brien

Character Case study • Character’s name: • What does the character carry? • How does the object indirectly characterize this character? What does it tell us about him?

Indirectly characterize yourself. • Think of an object/idea (or several) that represents you. What is it? Describe it in detail. • Describe how this object/idea indirectly characterizes you. What does it tell others about you? • Name some personality traits associated with your object/idea

Narrative Essay • What you can Carry Topic • What are some of your life time goals and what makes them valuable to you? • You have just completed your 300-page autobiography. Please submit page 217. • Think about something you never did in high school but wish you had. Discuss why you didn’t do this, why you wish you had, and what you think/hope the difference would have been. • Discuss some issue of personal, local, national, or international concern and its importance to you.

Now, turn your responses into a NARRATIVE essay…Some ways to start---but make sure you are creative! • For ________ years I have carried ___________. • I have had to carry______________. • I proudly carry _______________.

For more than ten years I have carried “Forever” in my wallet. While literally I only carry a worn pink piece of eight by ten paper with faded black ink that whispers the song by the Beach Boys in my mind, what I really carry is a promise. The room is colder than I remember. I can hear the air working overtime trying to maintain the temperature while the heat intensifies outside. I sit in the simple, black rubber chair staring at my hands and wondering if I made a mistake. The tiny gift box sits beside me and I feel the nervous butterflies tap-dancing in my stomach. When he walks in, I can’t help but smile. He sits down next to me and says three words, but not the three you might expect. He says, “I’ll remember forever.” I hand him the box and thank him, while trying to fight back the tears and he barely has time to grasp it before we are interrupted by a flood of people and I walk away feeling the loss acutely. The card, a thank you for the tiny box, is waiting for me in my cubbyhole the next day, and as the pink slip of eight by ten paper flutters out I know I’ll remember forever too. Occasionally, I will unfold this promise and slowly trace the worn creases of the paper and remember a time of innocence, love, and excitement. I will remember who I was, who I am and who I want to become and I will whisper a prayer for the human race to hold onto the gift of promise forever like I do. Indirectly Characterize yourself Let’s look at you… What does this tell you about the writer? How does this SHOW you rather than TELL you about the person? • Let’s look at the sample…

Writing Handbook Page 8 • Step 1: Read the two paragraphs. • Step 2: Identify the major differences b/t the two by creating a T chart. • Step 3: form an opinion • Decide which is better • Have a SPECIFIC example to back up your response

SHOW don’t Tell Page (Writing Handbook)

Writing Handbook Page Jackie ran a race last weekend What is the action verb here? Notice that action verbs help you be more concise We are running in a race. What is the helping verb here? Notice that many helping verbs can also be linking verbs… • Linking verb • Passive • Connect the subject of the verb to additional information about the subject (see pg. 11) • Helping verb • Passive • help the main verb in a sentence by extending the meaning of the verb • Action verb • Active! • Show that the subject is doing something, not just existing. Keila is a shopaholic. Ising isn't something that Keila can do. Is connects the subject, Keila, to additional information about her, that she will soon have a huge credit card bill to pay.

Action verbs SHOW rather than TELL. • The man is a monster. • Does this show or tell? • Not very vivid…in fact it’s dull. • So…change it to action to show he is a monster. The man ripped off the sheep’s head and ate the eyeballs with a sickening squishy crunch.

List at least 4 action verbs you can use in your essay Turn your list in Remember the rough draft is due tomorrow!!!

Group work The best essays…

Step I: individual work • Read the each essay to yourself and write your opinion about the writing and style in the boxes below.

Step II: Individual work • CIRCLE ALL THE ACTION VERBS IN EACH ESSAY

Step III: Group work • Discuss with your group the pros and cons of each essay and compile two separate pro/con lists.

Step IV: Group Work • Decide in your group which of the two applicants you would accept to your university (you may only choose one) and back up your response using examples form the essay and the advice given to you.

Step V: Individual Work • Draft the acceptance letter to the student and cite something from their essay that led you to the decision.

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