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Analyzing Simon's Death From Lord Of The Flies By William Golding

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During my time at Hillsdale, I have had challenges with writing conclusions. In this portion, I will be explaining how I struggled with composing conclusions in the subjects of English and Mathematics.

In the essay about Simon’s death from Lord of the Flies analyzed, I had to analyze a passage from the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding. The passage that I choose was the passage dealing with the death of Simon, the nice child. My conclusion merely restated the position of whether I agreed with Golding or not. I did not get proficient on the entirety of this portfolio piece.

In the Modeling Project we had to model the growth of a company over a certain period of time. I chose to view the growth of the amount of Pokemon Main Series games that were sold. My conclusion addressed the original hypothesis. I did not do well on the entirety of another portfolio piece the Modeling Project. …show more content…

The wave patterns were viewed just like a sinusoidal function. The text that I used provided a competent conclusion that supported the topic that addressed many of the prompts. I also did not get proficient on this piece.

In summary, my conclusion has been getting better along the way. I did not fully understand how to write conclusions with fluency until junior year. To this day, I still have issues with producing effective conclusions for any piece of writing that I need to

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