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what is the main idea? The student applying for the Teach for America program, which recruits recent college graduates to teach for two years in underprivileged urban and rural public schools, knows that she must convince readers of her suitability to such a demanding commitment, and she has just two short essays with which to do so. She successfully achieves this through examples related to service mission work that she completed in Ecuador before entering college.
shes trying to go teach in urban or rural public school
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What is the context clue of the sentence? His pertinacity, or stubbornness, is the cause of most of his trouble.
Pertinacity
200
Written during a height of US involvement in Iraq, this essay manages the intriguing challenge of how a member of the military can make an effective case for on-line graduate study. The obvious need here, especially for an Air Force pilot of seven years, is to keep the focus on academic interests rather than, say, battle successes and the number of missions flown. An additional challenge is to use military experience and vocabulary in a way that is not obscure nor off-putting to academic selection committee members. To address these challenges, this writer intertwines his literacy in matters both military and academic, keeping focus on applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), his chosen field of graduate study.
how the millitary inproved in iraq
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what is the context clue in the sentence? Rather than be involved in clandestine meetings, they did everything quite openly
Clandestine
300
What is the main idea? The players have to observe the rules of this game. No player except the goal-keeper can touch the ball with his hands. Otherwise he will commit the wrong of handling the ball. Here the other party gets an advantage of charging a free ball. Throw ball, corner ball are such wrongs that give advantages to the opposite party.
the rules of a soccer game
300
What is the context clue of the sentence? Ecclesiastics, such as priests, ministers, and pastors, should set models of behavior for their congregants.
Ecclesiastics
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Whats the main idea? Anywhere someone is lifting a weight, strapping on a football helmet or lacing up running shoes, there's probably a big bottle of green, blue or neon orange liquid nearby. Gatorade, Powerade and other sports drinks have drenched just about every sport in America, from triathlons to pee-wee soccer. But sports drinks are also popular with spectators in the stands, kids playing video games, long haul truckers and office workers. Lots of people chug down sports drinks without ever breaking a sweat.
the main idea is that sports dranks can be good for you and bad for you
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what is the context clue of the passage? The girl was churlish – rude, sullen and absolutely ill-mannered
Churlish
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What is the main idea? It has become a grave concern, particularly as uniformed women take on more roles. Military sexual trauma, which encompasses everything from sexual harassment to rape, is now the leading cause of post-traumatic stress disorder among women in the U.S. military. Female soldiers today are 180 times more likely to be sexually assaulted by a fellow soldier than killed by an enemy. Sufferers often spiral downward into alcohol and substance abuse, depression, and homelessness. "It just pulls the skin off you," said one former Army Reserve officer, who retreated to a mobile home deep in the woods after she was assaulted. But sexual abuse often goes unreported. In 2011, there were around 3,000 official cases of military sexual assault, but a report commissioned by then Defense Secretary Leon Panetta put the actual annual number at 19,000 or more. An anonymous survey of more than 1,100 women who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, conducted last year by the Department of Veterans Affairs, found that almost half said they had been sexually harassed, and nearly one quarter said they'd been sexually assaulted.
more girls get sexually abused in the military then in anyother place
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what is the context clue of the sentence? Because the conflagration was aided by wind, it was so destructive that every building in the area was completely burned to the ground.
Conflagration
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