HELP AT THE SPEED OF SOUND

24 Dizengoff Street

Tel Aviv, Israel
7 April, 2010

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The Manager's Office
"AM:PM" Radio Station
102 Ibn Gabirol Street
Tel Aviv, Israel
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Dear Sir/Madam,
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A little bird has whispered in my ear that your radio station plans to produce a one-hour program for the younger audience. As a constant listener of your radio station, I would like to voice my suggestion for a new program addressed to adolescents living in our city.

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I suggest that you produce a radio program with a unique format, in which disorientated teenagers will have the privilege to call and share their difficulties with a certified psychologist.
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From waking up early in the morning to coming home late in the evening, teenagers nowadays encounter various problems regarding their body image, social life and sexuality. During the adolescence years, teenagers are more likely to be influenced by their peers and some go off track, embracing questionable behavior. Parents are not always supportive of their children, and this lack of consolation results in a ramshackle family structure.

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To conclude, I am downright convinced that launching such a radio program is the most proper move your station can do. It will help your radio station gain far more popularity, but first and foremost it will help bewildered teenagers keep their heads above the water and spend their few adolescence years with a broad smile on their faces.

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Best Regards,
Keran Auster

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I think it's great!

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Daphna.

Have You Ever Visited Planet Hell?

The 28th of February has finally come. It was a day the entire Kugel High School expedition has been craving for all year long. It was the day the Polish airplane took off from the Israeli airport and landed within three hours in the cold city of Warsaw. And then I knew that I was not living a dream and that the journey of my life was about to begin.

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No History coursebook can school people better about the Holocaust enormities than the journey itself. Seeing the places of horror helps slightly realize this devilish notion. During the journey, we visited the Aushwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where the beauty of the green fields is so amazingly opposed to the site's rotten reputation as an accursed death factory. We also visited the Majdanek extermination camp, where the thunderous silence of a seven-ton ashes pile of cremated victims says everything.

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Treading on this bloody ground and singing our national anthem in a voice choked with tears has filled my breast with immense pride. This journey will also be engraved in my mind and heart for its softer and pleasant sections. We strolled along the marvelous square of Krakow and ran from one floor to another in two colossal malls in Poland, looking for souvenirs for our beloved relatives.

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Time has come to return to my precious homeland. Some return with a huge sack of memories. Some return with a massive burden of mixed emotions. Some return with a considerable amount of unsolved mysteries. I return with the recognition that in Israel I was born and in Israel I will live forever on, because there is no such thing like warm home.

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I Loved it!

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Daphna.

A Vacation?

24 David Elazar Street
Holon, Israel
9 March, 2010

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The Manager's Office
"Bon Voyage" Tours
64 Ibn Gvirol Street
Tel Aviv, Israel
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Dear Sir/Madam,
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I recently went on a two-week vacation to Italy, organized by your company. I wish to express my deep dissatisfaction at the standard of the service I was forced to accept during what I thought would be a soothing vacation.

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Your brochure states that qualified guides take tourists on excursions to explore the charm of Italy. However, our guide's explanations were not comprehensible. Every basic question addressed to him was not answered, and he had a noticeable lack of tolerance.
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Furthermore, I was misled to believe that the hotel chosen was luxurious. Much to my disappointment, the service was poor and unkind. When I finally entered my room, I discovered the sheets were unclean and that the doors were broken and could not be locked. Moreover, when I went to the dining room, my hope to receive a fine meal was not fulfilled either.
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To conclude, our guide and accommodation were sub-standard and did not overlap to the promising details your ludicrous brochure contains. Consequently, I request an appropriate compensation within 14 days for the inconvenience I've encountered during my vacation. I believe it is high time you published far more accurate brochures, so that your future customers would not be led astray as I was.
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Sincerely yours,
Keran Auster
Displeased customer

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Excellent.

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Applying For A Job

24 David Elazar Street
Holon, Israel
January 28, 2010

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Greenhouse Organization
18 Strawberry Fields Street
London, England
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Dear Sir/Madam,
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Our planet is suffering. Huge icebergs progressively melt. The Ozone layer keeps on proceeding its steady decline. Weather forecasters report radical changes in the Earth's climate. These facts have always concerned me. The clock is ticking, and still millions of heads are stuck deep in the sand.

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I have been fascinated by our planet ever since I know myself. As time went by, I have acquired a fair amount of knowledge in the fields of Geography and Economy. I have also taken several advanced courses, which encouraged me to study the subject of Global Warming thoroughly.

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I am a hardworking and broad-minded person with an ability to get on well with people from all walks of life. I have outstanding communication skills, which I believe are highly essential, since the organization's ambition is to make people aware of the hazards of neglecting Earth.

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To conclude, I believe my qualifications make me fairly suitable to be a Greenhouse volunteer and help make our planet's future look a bit brighter. Therefore, I would be more than delighted to come to an interview at your earliest convenience.
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Best Regards,
Keran Auster
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Daphna

Virtual Insanity

Virtual schools have recently begun to gain ground, and we can see that more and more education officials are embracing the concept. Virtual learning enables the students to study via the Internet through lessons supervised by a certified teacher. The purpose is to alternate the traditional learning form of frontal lessons.

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Many students and teachers applaud the flexibility that online learning allows. Virtual schools are the light at the end of the tunnel for students, who have hardships enduring the pace of many of their classmates. The fact that every student studies individually with a teacher's online support makes the learning procedure far more enjoyable and productive for him.

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However, some decry the method's rising popularity. Opponents of the new form of learning say that virtual schools lack the fundamental social education brick-and-mortar schools provide. Moreover, students may encounter many technical difficulties, which will definitely disrupt the effectivity of the unique learning process.

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I, personally, consider the method of virtual schools as a highly distinctive form of learning for students living in the current age of developing technology. Nevertheless, I believe that virtual schools should not replace the beauty of the traditional method. To my mind, combining both methods will create a positive learning environment, where students have a golden opportunity to mingle education, convenience and fun.

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Very good, but you haven't ended it, for some reason.

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Daphna

First of All Be Rich. Then We'll Consider If You Deserve Being a Jew.

24 David Elazar Street

Holon, Israel
December 9, 2009

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Ms. Gilat Symon

The Principal Office

Kugel High School

1 Mota Gur Street, Holon

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Dear Madam,

Every year, students throughout the Israeli nation are given the opportunity to explore the harrowing history of the Jewish people under a magnifying glass by allowing them to be a part of a unique expedition to Poland. Many students wish to participate in this unequaled journey, but are compelled to relinquish this desire due to their parents' scanty pocket. Therefore, I would like to complain about the unreasonable price set for the trip, which prevents students from going through this life-shaping journey.

No History coursebook can school students better about the Holocaust enormities than the journey itself. Students must have the capability to pay a visit to the places of horror, where six million of their brothers and sisters were mercilessly brought to slaughter by the accursed Nazis. It is not righteous that a minor portion of students will receive a better education merely because their financial status is better than this of their friends.

At the heart of this delicate subject, I truly anticipate you take action to lower the price of this vital journey. It has been testified more than once that the journey teaches its voyagers lessons of love, brotherhood and peace. On the whole, I believe that it is the government's unquestionable duty to subsidize this journey, but since my request is unrealistic at this point, the least that can be done is cheapening the cost of the journey.

I look forward to your prompt reply.

Sincerely yours,

Keran Auster

Excellent work!

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Daphna.

R-I-P

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The Show Must Go On.

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