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Keeping a journal, then, can do a lot more than simply improve your writing. Like a hot bath or a long walk, making a journal entry can be a soothing ritual, a break from the rest of your hectic daily life. It can also be a way to identify problems in your life and possible solutions to them. Finally, writing in your journal can help you live more fully – to notice things, to savor and remember them.

In conclusion, keeping a journal is a good habit to form. There are many benefits that will make your life better.

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Keeping a journal, then, can do a lot more than simply improve your writing. Like a hot bath or a long walk, making a journal entry can be a soothing ritual, a break from the rest of your hectic daily life. It can also be a way to identify problems in your life and possible solutions to them. Finally, writing in your journal can help you live more fully – to notice things, to savor and remember them.

In conclusion, keeping a journal is a good habit to form. There are many benefits that will make your life better.

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Keeping a journal, then, can do a lot more than simply improve your writing. Like a hot bath or a long walk, making a journal entry can be a soothing ritual, a break from the rest of your hectic daily life. It can also be a way to identify problems in your life and possible solutions to them. Finally, writing in your journal can help you live more fully – to notice things, to savor and remember them.

In conclusion, keeping a journal is a good habit to form. There are many benefits that will make your life better.

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Varsity and club sports require a great deal of time and effort from athletes. The school district should recognize that team sports encourage physical activity more effectively than P.E. class and spark more enthusiasm from students. It is more important for student athletes to become well rounded academically by taking electives than to take P.E. class, since they already understand the value of fitness.

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Varsity and club sports require a great deal of time and effort from athletes. The school district should recognize that team sports encourage physical activity more effectively than P.E. class and spark more enthusiasm from students. It is more important for student athletes to become well rounded academically by taking electives than to take P.E. class, since they already understand the value of fitness.

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This conclusion ends a persuasive essay that urges establishing marine parks to preserve coral reefs. How might you add a summary of major points to this conclusion?

Given the extraordinary fragility of the coral environment, it is vital that protected marine parks be established to preserve the living coral reef.

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As we have seen, coral reefs take thousands and thousands of years to build. However, they can be destroyed quickly by pollutants, by untrained divers, by anchors, and by ships going aground. Given these perils and the extraordinary fragility of the coral environment, it is vital that protected marine parks be established to preserve the living coral reef.

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This is the legacy she left us, the understanding of things all of us take for granted. Through understanding, let us assure that all people everywhere can live in freedom so that a book like The Diary of Anne Frank will never be written again as a true story.

—Gerda Weissmann Klein,“A Diary from Another World”

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This is the legacy she left us, the understanding of things all of us take for granted. Through understanding, let us assure that all people everywhere can live in freedom so that a book like The Diary of Anne Frank will never be written again as a true story.

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This is the legacy she left us, the understanding of things all of us take for granted. Through understanding, let us assure that all people everywhere can live in freedom so that a book like The Diary of Anne Frank will never be written again as a true story.

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It is in the midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines something more important than woodlot politics, and news of the wind and weather. This is especially likely to happen on some gloomy evening when the snow has buried all irrelevant detail, and the hush of elemental sadness lies heavy upon every living thing. Nevertheless, my pines, each with his burden of snow, are standing ramrod-straight, rank upon rank, and in the dusk beyond I sense the presence of hundreds more. At such times I feel a curious transfusion of courage.

—Aldo Leopold, “Pines Above the Snow ”

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It is in the midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines something more important than woodlot politics, and news of the wind and weather. This is especially likely to happen on some gloomy evening when the snow has buried all irrelevant detail, and the hush of elemental sadness lies heavy upon every living thing. Nevertheless, my pines, each with his burden of snow, are standing ramrod-straight, rank upon rank, and in the dusk beyond I sense the presence of hundreds more. At such times I feel a curious transfusion of courage.

—Aldo Leopold, “Pines Above the Snow ”

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It is in the midwinter that I sometimes glean from my pines something more important than woodlot politics, and news of the wind and weather. This is especially likely to happen on some gloomy evening when the snow has buried all irrelevant detail, and the hush of elemental sadness lies heavy upon every living thing. Nevertheless, my pines, each with his burden of snow, are standing ramrod-straight, rank upon rank, and in the dusk beyond I sense the presence of hundreds more. At such times I feel a curious transfusion of courage.

—Aldo Leopold, “Pines Above the Snow ”

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Of all the causes that attract the attention of these young people, the plight of nature is one which may truly be a last call. Things wild and free are being destroyed by the impersonality of our attitude toward the land.

—Carolyn and Luna Leopold, Introduction to A Sand County Almanac

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Of all the causes that attract the attention of these young people, the plight of nature is one which may truly be a last call. Things wild and free are being destroyed by the impersonality of our attitude toward the land.

—Carolyn and Luna Leopold, Introduction to A Sand County Almanac

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Of all the causes that attract the attention of these young people, the plight of nature is one which may truly be a last call. Things wild and free are being destroyed by the impersonality of our attitude toward the land.

—Carolyn and Luna Leopold, Introduction to A Sand County Almanac

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What better way to fight the destruction of nature than to place in the hands of the young this powerful plea for a land ethic?

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Of all the causes that attract the attention of these young people, the plight of nature is one which may truly be a last call. Things wild and free are being destroyed by the impersonality of our attitude toward the land. What better way to fight the destruction of nature than to place in the hands of the young this powerful plea for a land ethic?

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Of all the causes that attract the attention of these young people, the plight of nature is one which may truly be a last call. Things wild and free are being destroyed by the impersonality of our attitude toward the land. What better way to fight the destruction of nature than to place in the hands of the young this powerful plea for a land ethic?

—Carolyn and Luna Leopold, Introduction to A Sand County Almanac

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The final question encourages readers to make a connection between their lives and a land ethic that will fight the destruction of nature.

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It is difficult to go to the stars. But it is not impossible. There are not one, but many, many future-magic technologies, all under intensive development for other purposes, that, if suitably modified and redirected, can give the human race a magic starship that will take us to the stars.

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It is difficult to go to the stars. But it is not impossible. There are not one, but many, many future-magic technologies, all under intensive development for other purposes, that, if suitably modified and redirected, can give the human race a magic starship that will take us to the stars.

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It is difficult to go to the stars. But it is not impossible. There are not one, but many, many future-magic technologies, all under intensive development for other purposes, that, if suitably modified and redirected, can give the human race a magic starship that will take us to the stars.

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It is difficult to go to the stars. But it is not impossible. There are not one, but many, many future-magic technologies, all under intensive development for other purposes, that, if suitably modified and redirected, can give the human race a magic starship that will take us to the stars.

And go we will.—Robert L. Forward, Future Magic

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It is difficult to go to the stars. But it is not impossible. There are not one, but many, many future-magic technologies, all under intensive development for other purposes, that, if suitably modified and redirected, can give the human race a magic starship that will take us to the stars.

And go we will.—Robert L. Forward, Future Magic

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