Lifestyle course: Essay for next week

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Students on my lifestyle course -- I've fixed the topic for next week.

Some of my students have asked about something called "Muggles". As I understand the term, it's simply a way of saying "people that aren't like me".

So that's the subject of this week's essay, and next week's seminar. Write a hundred words all about the people who aren't like you. What motivates them, what abilities they have, what you can gain by understanding them.

Please have the work in my in-tray here by Saturday evening.
Next week's seminar will be on Monday once again. I'll be in my room all day, so whenever you can come by will be fine.

I'll see if I can make any vacancies for new students over the next day or two.

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*The essay is handed in with a note attached to the top of it: Professor, I had difficulty in the writing of this paper, as I have never before encountered the word "muggle" in any of my schooling, and was unable to find it in any of my books. I hope what I have written matches your requirements.*

I was raised in a very upper class family, so I am used to acquiring every thing I want without having to make sacrifices. On being accepted to Wittenberg, my old school, I met Horatio, who quickly became my best friend. Horatio is a "muggle" compared me; he comes from a middle class family, and has had to work and study all his life in order to reach the heights he has. Horatio shows me what life is like for the proletariat, and how regular people can be equally as noble as the nobility consider themselves to be. I am glad to have his friendship in my life.