Prompt Write a short story that starts with this line: “I should have known it was a bad idea, but that didn’t stop me.”

Focus Points
Essay Structure
Make sure your story has a clear introduction, body and conclusion.

Hook
Make sure you have a hook in your introduction that gets the reader interested in your story.

Use descriptive language
Make sure to use descriptive language in your story to help create a picture in the mind of your reader.

Conclusion
Make sure you are leaving the reader with an ending. Resolve the conflict or leave your reader wondering what will happen next.

Read the excerpt from pat mora’s essay "the leader in the mirror." i hoped that most of the students were going to enroll in college. the confetti would be for their private celebrations, those solitary moments when they had passed a test that worried them, finished a difficult paper at 2 a.m., found a summer internship. sometimes, even when no one else is around, it’s important to celebrate when we have struggled and succeeded—to sprinkle a little confetti on our own heads. what is the author’s purpose in using confetti as a symbol? the confetti represents celebration. the author uses confetti to encourage her audience to celebrate success. the confetti represents celebration. the author uses confetti to teach the students how to plan a celebration party. the confetti is a symbol of college graduation. the author uses the symbol to reward college graduates. the confetti is a symbol of summer internships. the author uses the symbol to encourage signing up for summer internships.

What style should a speaker use when preparing a speech for his or her school's parent teacher association? a. excited b. casual c. strict d. formal

How can you paraphrase this, this is about golden age fallacies.these are all rational people who know that older is not necessarily better, but many are taken in by this fallacy and seem no longer able to reason with any degree of reliability