1. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.

2. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

3. It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

4. And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

5. It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned Coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

6. Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

7. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.

8. Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

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um ok, good for u :) hope u like your college and be safe and happy

Understanding My Father by A. Gautam My father was not an emotional person. He didn't talk much either. On those rare occasions when he did, he never used more words than what was needed. As a result, I did not benefit from a first-hand account of the Cultural Revolution. Instead, I was forced to gather information from other sources. But that wasn't good enough for me. I wanted to hear it from him. We left our country for America when I was just a child. I never knew if my father had worked in the revolution as a peasant, solider, or a revolutionary intellectual. I tried to picture him writing big-character posters and holding great debates with his fellow revolutionaries. Did he use big words? Did he sometimes skip classes to meet with the comrades across China? These were questions I often asked myself. I wanted to ask him if he believed that the right to air one's views fully really existed in his youth. As an only child, who was brought up to think that education was my only key to prosperity, I didn't know why my father did not finish his degree. My father's friends behaved just like him—quiet, laborious, and mysterious. They all looked at me with eyes full of love and hope. Only once, did I hear one of them speak about the past. Uncle Chen recounted something about "not being a Communist," "arrest," and "freedom." It was then that I realized my parents and their friends had always talked to each other in Mandarin, the language I could no longer grasp, when they spoke about their lives back home. At that moment, I regretted my dwindling Chinese vocabulary and the opportunities I had already missed. 9 Based on this excerpt, the Cultural Revolution in China A. provided safety for people who didn't support communism. B. encouraged all citizens to be involved in changing the nation. C. discouraged the citizens from holding meetings and debates. D. demanded that the revolutionaries move to other countries.

could anyone help me answer this question

Identify the third-person, singular, masculine pronoun in the passage. I love art. I often visit art galleries with my friend Aurelia. Aurelia works with me at the bakery. Every month we visit the art gallery on Jade Street. The gallery manager is an old friend of my mother. He was her neighbor when they lived in Jackson County in Louisiana.

PLEASE HURRY!!! - 19 - points - ON EDUNITY!! - UNIT TEST

Read the excerpt from The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.

WOMAN ONE

(a little reluctantly)

Well . . . sometimes I go to bed late at night. A couple of times . . . a couple of times I'd come out on the porch and I'd see Mr. Goodman here in the wee hours of the morning standing out in front of his house . . . looking up at the sky.

(she looks around the circle of faces.)

That's right looking up at the sky as if . . . as if he were waiting for something.

(a pause)

As if he were looking for something.

There's a murmur of reaction from the crowd again.



How does Woman One’s claim about Les Goodman affect other elements in the story?

The neighbors become more sympathetic toward Les Goodman.
The neighbors become even more suspicious of Les Goodman.
The neighbors become less frightened of Les Goodman.
The neighbors become more protective of Les Goodman.

How can you make six into a odd number

Please help. This question is from the book divergent.

PLEASE ANSWER ASAP!!!!

What are two reasons on how Brutus was a patriot?

In A Separate Peace both Leper and Finny share their ideas about war; Leper thinks that war is a test and that only the strong survive but Finny thinks that the war is fictional and unrealistic. How do these two ideas impact Gene? How does he respond to these opinions about war? * 5 points

. VERY IMPORTANT PLEASE AWNSER AS SOON AS POSSABLE I WILL BE GIVING BRAINLYEST
Read the excerpt below, and then select one prompt. You will choose to write either a narrative essay or an informational response paragraph.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, excerpt
By Mark Twain

When Tom awoke in the morning, he wondered where he was. He sat up and rubbed his eyes and looked around. Then he comprehended. It was the cool gray dawn, and there was a delicious sense of repose and peace in the deep pervading calm and silence of the woods. Not a leaf stirred; not a sound obtruded [interrupted] upon great Nature's meditation. Beaded dewdrops stood upon the leaves and grasses. A white layer of ashes covered the fire, and a thin blue breath of smoke rose straight into the air. Joe and Huck still slept.

Now, far away in the woods a bird called; another answered; presently the hammering of a woodpecker was heard. Gradually the cool dim gray of the morning whitened, and as gradually sounds multiplied and life manifested itself. The marvel of Nature shaking off sleep and going to work unfolded itself to the musing boy. A little green worm came crawling over a dewy leaf, lifting two-thirds of his body into the air from time to time and "sniffing around," then proceeding again—for he was measuring, Tom said; and when the worm approached him, of its own accord, he sat as still as a stone, with his hopes rising and falling, by turns, as the creature still came toward him or seemed inclined to go elsewhere; and when at last it considered a painful moment with its curved body in the air and then came decisively down upon Tom's leg and began a journey over him, his whole heart was glad .... Now a procession of ants appeared, from nowhere in particular, and went about their labors; one struggled manfully by with a dead spider five times as big as itself in its arms, and lugged it straight up a tree-trunk. A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it—which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous [trusting] about conflagrations [fires], and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once. A tumblebug came next, heaving sturdily at its ball, and Tom touched the creature, to see it shut its legs against its body and pretend to be dead. The birds were fairly rioting by this time. A catbird, the Northern mocker, lit in a tree over Tom's head, and trilled out her imitations of her neighbors in a rapture of enjoyment; then a shrill jay swept down, a flash of blue flame, and stopped on a twig almost within the boy's reach, cocked his head to one side and eyed the strangers with a consuming curiosity; a gray squirrel and a big fellow of the "fox" kind came skurrying along, sitting up at intervals to inspect and chatter at the boys, for the wild things had probably never seen a human being before and scarcely knew whether to be afraid or not. All Nature was wide awake and stirring, now; long lances of sunlight pierced down through the dense foliage far and near, and a few butterflies came fluttering upon the scene.

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Select only one prompt. You will choose to write either a narrative essay or an informational response paragraph. Choose one of the following tasks and complete a short essay:

Prompt Choice 1 (Narrative Essay)

Read this sentence from the story and the prompt below. Write a well-developed narrative essay.

...a gray squirrel and a big fellow of the "fox" kind came skurrying along, sitting up at intervals to inspect and chatter at the boys, for the wild things had probably never seen a human being before and scarcely knew whether to be afraid or not.

Have you ever come face to face with an animal-a bird, a squirrel-in the wild who was not afraid of you? Recall a time when an animal acted in a way that seemed unexpected. Write a narrative of your experience.

**Be sure that your narrative has a clear beginning, middle, and end. Use your mature voice, specific details, sensory descriptions, and dialogue. Proofread your work before submitting.

Prompt Choice 2 (Informational Response)

Review the excerpt above. Answer the following question in a well-developed paragraph.

What character traits does Tom demonstrate when he is lost in the woods?

**Be sure to re-state the question in your topic sentence and use specific examples and details from the story to support your answers. Proofread your work before submitting.

The team not only won the championship, ____________. Select one: but they also broke the record for most goals in one game. but they are breaking records for most goals in one game. records were breaking for most goals in one game. breaking records for most goals in one game.

1) Which sentence uses a figure of speech?
Our conversation, like the storm clouds forming and
A) dispersing above us, never could get anywhere
definite.
The music of the marching band outside wafted
B) inside the gymnasium where the boys were
practicing basketball
The gymnasium had to close down for a few weeks
while the managers had the floor redone to replace
broken tile.
All of the kids in the hallway sat down at one time
D) and got out their lunches, refusing to eat in the
cafeteria.

Pls help dOnT have much time I’ll give brainliest I need help really bad

Please pick one of the answer now

7. What is a sentence fragment missing​

i have to type a page of Informational what should i do afton family mha or 5 nights at freddys

why do people ask me if this is a dating app!!!!!!!

Question 8 of 10 Read this excerpt: Thanks so much for honoring me here today. I'm totally excited about the fact that I'm receiving such a prestigious award. I want to thank several people who have had a hand in my success. They are really awesome and have helped me every step of the way. Thanks, everyone! What is most inappropriate about this excerpt from a speech given at an award ceremony recognizing the speaker's community service?

What is the difference between active and passive use?
Which type of screen time do you engage in more?
What screen activities do you value and what do you want to cut out?

Describe the people living in Harappa and mohenjo Daro that existed in the Indus Valley

Select the correct text in the passage.
which sentence in this excerpt from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion reveals that Henry Higgins is proud to be an English speaker?
THE NOTE TAKER: A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere-no right to live. Remember that
you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespear (sic) and
Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a billous pigeon
THE FLOWER GIRL: (quite overwhelmed, and looking up at him in mingled wonder and deprecation without daring to raise her head): Ah-ah-
ah-owowo!
THE NOTE TAKER (whipping out his book Heavens! what a sound! (He writes then holds out the book and reads, reproducing her vowels
exactly Ah-ah-ah-ow-ow-oo!
THE FLOWER GIRL (tickled by the performance, and laughing inspite of herself: Garn!
THE NOTE TAKER: You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days. Well, sir, in
three months I could pass that girl off as a duchess at an ambassador's garden party. I could even get her a place as lady's maid or shop
assistant, which requires better English. That's the sort of thing I do for commercial millionaires. And on the profits of it I do genuine scientific
work in phonetics, and a little as a poet on Miltonic lines.

In your own words, define the term “bad evidence" and explain how this idea
may have played a part in Adnan's case. Use a specific example

That builder never does anything right. what is right adjective ,adverb, preposition ,noun

In Chapter 1 of Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different, which family member’s characteristics made a lasting impression on Jobs and helped to shape his character as an adult?

his mother
his father
his sister
his uncle

Neither slang nor colloquial expressions are appropriate when ______________________.

journaling
journaling
writing school assignments
speaking with your parents



PICK EVERYONE THAT IS RIGHT

can i please get real answers opinion or not, and not with jack and jill. please.

Think of a short story that you’ve read that has meant something to you. It can be one of the short stories from this unit or one that you’ve read on your own. Think about why you like the story you have chosen. Then, compare and contrast the short story to other stories you’ve read. Explain what makes the story you chose stand out more than other stories. Did the point of view make the story particularly appealing to you? Did the characters or the setting draw you in? Was the writing style inviting and approachable? What was it about the story’s message and ideas that interested you?

The narrative voice in this passage shows that Squeaky

Chapters 5-7 pg. 47-65
1.
What is the mood inside the lab the night the monster comes alive? Use at least two pieces of
textual evidence to support your response.

what will happen if media spread false news?

Describe Kendrick Lamar, be sure to talk about his background music and some of his achievements why was Lamars 2018 Pulitzer Prize win a surprise? Include facts and details...

PLEASE HELP!!! Which of the following literary strategies does Chief Joseph use to achieve his purpose in the speech, "I Will Fight No More Forever"? (Choose 2)


Question 2 options:


Parallelism



Symbolism



Repetition



Metaphor