something missing or I could have done something better. At that time there was nothing that I could have done because I was still new to the country‚ I didn’t speak the language so I had to learn it and I was too young to do anything on my own. After my first year of high school some relatives that lived in Canada invited us to visit in the summer vacation. My parents welcomed the idea of going to Canada for the summer vacation. My cousins lived in Mississauga‚ Ontario which is about four hour drive from
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DON’T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER. The saying ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’ goes a very long way; I learnt my lesson the hard way. I happened to be a very judgmental teenager and I lost many friends that way. Even before speaking with or having any contact with an individual‚ I judged them based on what I saw on the outside. My friends‚ the ones who stuck with me‚ always told me that one of those days‚ I would be taught a valuable lesson; and boy they were correct. I remember the day as
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Name of the Firm The company name VERA SOPHIA EDUCATIONAL SERVICES (VSES) which came from the Latin word vera‚ which means truth‚ knowledge or wisdom and sophia which means love. It was the brilliant concept of one of the proponents’ adviser‚ Prof. Jennette Julian Lozano of Pamantasan Ng Lungsod ng Maynila. The name itself signifies the heart of the learning center which is the inculcation of the love for self development by engaging one’s
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More than 10 million people a year visit the notorious silk market of Beijing. The 35‚000-square-meter‚ seven level piracy temple‚ packed with nearly 2‚000 small stalls‚ staffed by thousands of hard charging take no prisoner vendors‚ offering cheap knockoffs of the leading branded products in the world. Microsoft Windows 7 for about a buck‚ Microsoft Office for $0.75. Each stall is packed with customers from all around the world queuing‚ for the products. Almost from its inception‚ software technology
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Frost describes a young traveler faced with the choice of which road to take. In order to continue his journey he must decide which road to take‚ without the chance to return. In this particular poem‚ Robert Frost metaphorically depicts the average persons thought process of making some of life’s most important decisions. He does this by comparing life’s journey with that of a traveling man who has reached a point in his life that he cannot return. Frost’s poem describes opportunity and difficulty as
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Racial defacing In Malcolm X’s excerpt My First Conk‚ He describes the process to get a conk. He talks about how his friend will do it for free instead of paying for it. He then goes on to list the items they need to buy to make the “congolene” to make the conk. They need “Red Devil lye‚ two eggs‚ and two medium- sized white potatoes… and a large jar of Vaseline‚ a large bar of soap.” Then the drugstore clerk comments about the Malcolm X getting a conk and Malcolm proudly says “Right!” He later
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bright red. It’s now flattened and faded – something that 10+ years of being wedged between the dashboard and windshield of a car will do. It travels with me wherever my car goes and reminds me of one of the first walks on the beach I took with my husband 15 or so years ago when we were first dating. The crab itself isn’t anything spectacular as stuffed animals go‚ but the story behind him is a pretty good one. The tide was going out at the bay and the water where we were walking was ankle deep.
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Cops and Robbers Gone Wrong Elementary school kids love to play various games during their snack and lunch breaks after class. In the third grade tag games were the hot thing to do during recess. Personally I hated playing tag games because I was never the fastest girls‚ and I always seemed to end up getting tagged. I was “it” for hours! One day my friends and I decided to switch up our usual routine of playing tag and chose to play Cops and Robbers instead. As fun and easy as that sounds‚ to
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Losing My First Job When I was eighteen years old‚ I had an amazing job as a welding inspector making more money than I probably should have been for my age. I was with an amazing woman who I had just married. I was on top of the world; I thought I was set for life and nothing was going to bring me down. Then‚ I was suddenly struck off of my high horse. I was never really concerned about the future until I was let go from my job and I was left with no job‚ no money and no backup plan. As someone
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Inspiration All of my life I have been intrigued and inspired from all or most of today’s action sports. I remember growing up watching X Games‚ Dew Tour‚ Red Bull pro events‚ and even the Olympics. I loved watching the professional athletes go down the mega ramp on their skateboards‚ or do tricks on the street course on their bikes‚ or even the motocross riders doing insane trick on their dirt bikes. This all inspired me as a kid because out of all the things you could choose to do as a career
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