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Paradigm Shift Rough Draft

So far this is pretty much the history of the paradigm shift I’ve chosen (I have about 3.5 pages so far). I’m planning on going into more detail about the USC and Penn State scandals. I’m having trouble defining the … Continue reading

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Fall Fling

In honor of the Halloween season, this week’s passion blog is dedicated to Halloween at my all-girls Catholic high school, focused specifically on the Halloween dance we hosted called Fall Fling. Let me paint the picture of what Fall Fling … Continue reading

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Paradigm Shift: College Sports

Hopefully this is big enough to read… Please let me know if there’s anything I can add to it!  

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“A Dog’s Grace”

I opened Kimberlee Berlin’s article from The New York Times because it was the featured article of the newspaper’s opinion webpage. There was an illustration of a dog in an empty room with the title “A Dog’s Grace” and a … Continue reading

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Kairos

This week’s passion blog is a little different from those I’ve written in the past. My previous blogs have focused on concrete ideas (uniform, spirit, boys, sports, and religion), but this week I’ve chosen to discuss Kairos. Here at Penn … Continue reading

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Idea for Paradigm Shift Paper

I’m considering writing my paradigm shift paper on the shift from personal communication to instantaneous communication via technology. In my grandparents’ generation, communication was primarily face to face. They wrote letters to each other and held brief telephone conversations. These … Continue reading

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Religion

This is my first time ever attending a secular school. I was a Catholic school-er for thirteen years, and, before that, I attended a Protestant preschool. Hearing about Jesus on a daily basis was the norm. In grade school, we … Continue reading

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“My Angel”

There are a lot of Justin Bieber haters out there. I personally was a “Belieber” for about three years until he started to change from a relatively innocent pop star who sang catchy love songs into a skinny eighteen-year-old with … Continue reading

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President John F. Kennedy: Inaugural Address 1961

(As of right now, I don’t have a fully formed introduction or conclusion.) In 1960, John F. Kennedy won a hotly contested presidential election against Republican and former Vice President Richard Nixon. The United States was in the midst of … Continue reading

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Sports

High school sports were a blast. I’m sure a lot of you played for high school sports teams and know exactly what I’m talking about. I’m not saying they weren’t a lot of hard work (I remember being so sore from preseason … Continue reading

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