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ESL - Real English Videos & Lessons. Completely Free! Real English is a Registered Trademark of The Marzio School. The Daring Librarian Transcripción Fonética AFI de Textos en Inglés ¡Hola! ¿Tienes un texto en inglés y quieres saber cómo pronunciarlo? Este transcriptor en línea de texto en inglés a transcripción fonética AFI convertirá tu texto en inglés en su transcripción fonética usando el Alfabético Fonético Internacional. Características: Elija entre la pronunciación británica y americana*. *) American transcriptions are based on the open Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary.

College 101: The Four Most Common Types of College Essays and How to Approach Them Essay is not a four-letter word—though you may feel like using a few of your own when it comes time to write one. Most students would rather swim in a vat full of sharks while singing the national anthem (sharks + singing = Shmoop's worst nightmare) than sit down and write an application essay. And hey, we get it. It's easy to shrug off brainstorming, outlining, and agonizing over essay prompts for a Saturday afternoon snooze or four back-to-back episodes of The Walking Dead. But we also know that, sometimes, all you need to get started is a gentle little Shmoop. (Hint: It means to move things forward a bit. These essays should be… fun. But the nice thing about applying to colleges is that you’ll be able to recycle some of the essays you write for different schools, so you'll probably only have to write 3-4 essays at most. 1. “Some students have a background or story that is so central to their identity that they believe their application would be incomplete without it. (Source) 2. 3.

Excerpt from Prose Works And so good-by to the war. I know not how it may have been, or may be, to others—to me the main interest I found, (and still, on recollection, find,) in the rank and file of the armies, both sides, and in those specimens amid the hospitals, and even the dead on the field. To me the points illustrating the latent personal character and eligibilities of these States, in the two or three millions of American young and middle-aged men, North and South, embodied in those armies—and especially the one-third or one-fourth of their number, stricken by wounds or disease at some time in the course of the contest—were of more significance even than the political interests involved. (As so much of a race depends on how it faces death, and how it stands personal anguish and sickness. As, in the glints of emotions under emergencies, and the indirect trait and asides in Plutarch, we get far profounder clues to the antique world than all its more formal history.) Such was the war. Share This

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