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Summary Of My Lazy American Students By Kara Miller

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My lazy American students by Kara Miller, address her experience and her opinion about American students. Kara takes a position when analyzing how she views American students comparing to international students. Kara explains and show different experiences she had with different American and International students to justify her argument about how lazy are American students. Although she gives a unique argument about her believes but I don’t agree with her believes. Kara believe that all international students are better than most of American students. I can understand where she comes from because Babson College, the college that she teaches at, has only over 3000 students, has more than 26% students who are international students, and

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