Semester 1
If you were absent, you will
find the writing prompt you missed here. You must make up the work you
missed in class. |
Week 1 |
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Closer to Free, the Bodeans
- Don't go around saying the world owes you a
living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain
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Week 2 |
- "Kind words can be short and easy to
speak, but their echoes are truly endless." Mother Teresa
- "Even if you're on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers
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Week 3 |
- "We must become the change we want to
see." Gandhi
- "We all have wings, but some of us
don't know why." INXS
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Week 4 |
- "It is our choices that show what we
truly are, far more than our abilities." Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter)
- "Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind.
You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head."
Garrison Keillor
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Week 5
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- "When the character of a man is not clear to
you, look at his friends." Japanese proverb
- "Nothing's so loud as hearing
when we lie." Toad the Wet Sprocket
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Week 6 |
- "My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump
or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to
do was keep swinging."
Hank Aaron
- You make a living by what you get.
You make a life by what you give. Winston Churchill
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Week 7 |
- "I fear more harm from everybody
thinking alike that from some people thinking otherwise." Charles
G. Bolte
- Never let your sense of morals get
in the way of doing what's right. Isaac Asimov
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Week 8 |
- "A lie gets halfway around
the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
Winston Churchill
- Twisted Logic by Coldplay
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Week 9 |
- Keep away from people who try to belittle
your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great
make you feel that you, too, can become great. Mark Twain
- I dread success. To have succeeded
is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider,
who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship.
I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not
behind. George Bernard Shaw
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Week 10
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- "You can never get enough of
what you don't need to make you happy." Eric Hoffer
- Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate
life. Bertolt Brecht
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Week 11
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- "The dictionary is the only place
that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay
for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing
to pay the price." Vince Lombardi
- Your Life is Now by John
Mellencamp
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Week 12 |
- If A is success in life, then A equals
X plus Y plus Z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth
shut." Albert Einstein
- "I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent
less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting
her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
E. B. White
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Week 13 |
- "He who limps is still walking."
Stanislaw J. Lec
- "The greatest mistake you can make in
life is to be continually fearing that you will make one." Ellen Hubbard
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Week 14 |
- "Never mistake motion for action."
Ernest Hemingway
- "There is nothing in a
caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." Buckminster
Fuller
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Week 15
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- Always bear in mind that your own
resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
- The most pitiful among men is he who
turns his dreams into silver and gold. Kahlil Gibran
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Week 16 |
- Try not to become a man of success but
rather try to become a man of value. Albert Einstein
- When people keep telling you that you
can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it. Margaret Chase Smith
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Week 17 |
Work on semester projects |
Week 18
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Semester Exams |