Letter Of Concern for Mr. Kleats

January 19, 2010

Central High school
123 Main Street
Sportstown, British Columbia
Canada, V2A 666

Dear Mr. Kleats:

It has come to my concern and to that of the children your attitude towards coaching the students. This letter regards these matters and offers solutions that may make yours and the teams experiences more enjoyable.

I would like to address your tardiness and would appreciate if you made a better effort to show up on time to the practises and games so the team can have their fair share of gym time. Of the practises I myself have attended, I feel that they could be better organized. I have witnessed many games my daughter has participated in and notice that the emphasize on competitive attitude towards the opponent is quite hard on the kids. It would be much appreciated if you could take into account this attitude and what it does for the team. With being mainly focused on winning it seems as though some of the players don't receive as much playing time as the more skill full players. Giving a fair share of playtime to all the players will bring them much closer as a team and they will recognize your potential as a coach. Also, the use of profanity on the field towards the players cannot be looked past and can come of as disrepectful toward the players and spectators.

Thank you for addresing my concerns and would appreciate a response on how you would possibly like to address these issues.

Sincerely,


Ms. Antropee

Synthesis Essay

In both short stories “The Most Powerful Question a Parent Can ask”… by Neil Millar and “Be-ers and Doers” by Budge Wilson, the parents show great deal of love for their children and want them to succeed. In the story “The most Powerful Question a Parent Can Ask…” , a short story on how you should let children have their own responsibilities, the parents show a much greater deal of respect than the story of a mother who wants her son to have a desire to succeed in “ Be-ers and Doers”.

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In "The Most Powerful Question s Parent Can Ask" the parent focuses on letting the children have responsibilities. When children are given their own responsibilities they will learn to respect them selves and the ones they love.The author describes how most parents do things they should not be doing because they are " their parent- their guide and teacher, not their nanny". If these small tasks are done by your children it will help them become " confident, well rounded, respected kids". Neil Millar encourages parents to put some responsibility on their children and gives the example on how in some cultures adults give girls and boys great appointments such as putting a girl in a Maasai in charge of " two thirds of the village's wealth".

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The mother in "Be-ers and Doers" is really focused on creating a desire for success for her son. This way of parenting comes of as much less respect full for children. The mother encourages her son to not be like her father and states, " He thinks all he's gotta do is be". She really wants her son to have some drive and be a doer. When her son puts out the fire she is really comes to accept him when she should've all along. The son does not think she is proud of him but only " jest proud o' what you want me t'be". This way of parenting is definitely less respective than the parenting portrayed in the essay.

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Both works display a different attitude towards parenting and how to respect your children, we are given different ideas on how to parent your' children including giving them responsibilities to make them became a good well rounded person who respects his or her surroundings rather than choosing what your child does and drive him for success in which he does not want.

Dave Cooks the Turkey.

In the short story "Dave Cooks the Turkey" by Stuart Mac lean there is many different ways that he creates humour. One way he uses humour is by writing about things that everyone one can relate to, such as late shopping, "Dave and Morley usually start their shopping the week before Christmas. "Was his wife going to leave him? Maybe the train was going to D-I-V-O-R-C-E" is an example of how he uses wit to express humour throughout the story. Another way is humour is used is just the overall predicament of the situation. Dave was supposed to have the turkey prepared for Christmas but he "couldn't find the turkey in the freezer" because he didn't even buy the turkey. Dave stays up through the night to go and buy a "b" grade turkey then in the morning he goes to a first class hotel to get it cooked because his oven would not cook it. At the hotel Dave is spotted by his neighbor, Jim, when checking into the hotel. Steve Mac leans use of situations people can relate to, his witty lines and ridiculous predicaments make this short story humorous.

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Back to the danger at hand. The jaguar was near but not visible to me. The sky was turning dark and dusk was coming close as I had been hiding from this cat for hours. I couldn't let the day end as the dark cat would have its natural camouflage. I

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