Statement of Purpose

 Going to college is a dream that can make other dreams come true. To make this dream come true, you need more than wishing. You need to know how to refer to sources, how to paraphrase and summarize, how to synthesize sources, analyze arguments, have a good pronunciation, be able to debate and know about music and culture.
Going to college includes discovering a new world of knowledge and possibilities. You need to want to learn, to seek for knowledge.I'm fifteen years old and my name is Luisa. I think I'm ready to make my dreams come true.

Synthesizing Sources

Thesis:

Research showed that young people who regularly play violent computer games have a tendency to be more aggressive than those who don't.

Antithesis:

On the issue of violence, the modern media surrounds us with violence. Movies such as 'The Matrix', television programs such as the news, newspaper reports of sports such as boxing, and radio dramas often involve violence.

Synthesis:

The opinions if playing video games is bad for kids are controversial (Walker, 2001; Smith, 2003).Although Walker (2001, pp. 108-124) states that video games conduce kids to have a tendency to be aggressive; Smith (2003) argues that violence comes also from TV programs. In my opinion violence does not comes only from the video games but also from all the media violence involving the children, so only taking the violence from video games wouldn't help kids to be less aggressive. 

Analyzing Arguments

The premises are accurate, because they are based on serious researches about how teenagers have worse grades when they wake up early, showing that 28% of the students can't even keep awaken during classes and that their bodies aren't prepared either to stay awaken.Logically the conclusion is right, because if this hours in which students usually don't learn anything are a waste and can even make the rest of the day's classes worse there is no reason to keep them. So the conclusion that classes should start later is true. The author says that the hormones don't let students sleep early and that a big part of them actually sleep during the first class of the day. The author shows that the researches say that students have better grades in schools   with classes that start later, and that they improved when the classes started earlier, so the two changes must be related.

Classes should start later because this way students would have better grades and learn more since their bodies aren't ready to learn too early according to researches that say that teenagers must not be awaken before 8:00 AM.

Sources

Wheellwright, Jeff. ( 2001, March). Don't eat again, 22, 36-43. Discover.

Summary

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A tax cut for families that earn less than $250,000 a year, an one-year extension of the Bush-era tax cuts, was proposed by Barack Obama on Monday as a continuation of a Bush-era program in an attempt to take out the attention from the unfair tax distribution and help his re-election campaign. (Meckler, L., 2012)

My name is Luisa Camara and I'm fifteen years old. I'm interested in college to learn new things and improve my English. I'll be a good student because I believe that this experience is what will let my dreams became true, and will make me discover more dreams.