God helps those who help themselves Some people are fatalists of the worst kind. They have a very wrong notion about God. They think that since they worship God‚ God will shower all kinds of blessings on them. They remain idle in the hope that God will help them in all eventualities. Such people lose self- confidence‚ become miserably dependent on fate and ultimately suffer failure and ruin. God has blessed us with aptitudes‚ talents and faculties. He expects us to make full use of them. He cannot
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An essay on the damages of adversity Think back to the first time you ever heard of the damages of adversity. At one stage or another‚ every man woman or child will be faced with the issue of the damages of adversity. Until recently considered taboo amongst polite society‚ it is impossible to overestimate its impact on modern thought. Inevitably the damages of adversity is often misunderstood by those most reliant on technology‚ who just don’t like that sort of thing. Complex though it is I shall
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Adversity Roman poet Horace once noted‚ "Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." Horace’s assertion examines the role that adversity plays in the development of a persons character and understanding turmoil and hardships. In times of trouble‚ when adversities are faced‚ ones true character is revealed. As Horace observed‚ prosperous circumstances do not elicit the same talents that times of struggles do. During these particular hard
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We Learn From Those Closest to Us “You will never truly understand something until it happens to you.” My mother says. Yeah‚ yeah I get it. Until you put yourself in someone else’s shoes you know what they have gone through. That’s not what I’ve thought of until something really happened to me. See‚ I’ve never met my father. I’ve always asked her why I don’t ever get to see him and why she doesn’t ever talk about him. When I was a little girl‚ she told me not to talk to any boys. Why? Because boys
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Who Am We: Not Always Who We Think Multi-User Dungeons (MUDs) are cyber-worlds on the internet in which people playing the game can interact and even play as though it is a real world. In each of these different MUDs‚ gamers can have multiple profiles. Each MUD contains different characters to play with. Should internet users trust these players that they do not know and can not see? In Sherry Turkle’s article “Who Are We‚” Turkle talks about all of the benefits of using MUDs‚ such as building
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Relationships with others help define who we are” Dylan Mamo “No relationship is ever a waste of your time. If it didn’t bring you what you want‚ it taught you what you don’t want”. Primarily‚ the individuals in our life shape and mould our personality to construct who we are known as in the most challenging situations of our existence. These situations symbolise moments of sincerity and in some instances‚ demonstrate hatred and regret. This essay will highlight why relationships mould who we are‚ though‚ on
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Failures Help Us to Succeed Failure is something which everyone has to experience during their life. One may has thousands of failures‚ which range from a very little thing like cooking an unsuccessful dinner to something that can determine our future‚ even whole life. But the attitude towards failures is the most important thing that can change our life. When we experience failure‚ what we should do is accept it‚ instead of running far away from it. There are two reasons why failures
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Adversity is a word I could laugh at‚ I refuse to let anything steer me away from my path to success. At this point in my life I understand what is important to me‚ and I know what I want to do in my time here on Earth. The previous words are describing my fairly good life in the present‚ but my past is a completely different story. At the age of eight years old‚ my whole future was changed. My father passed away of pancreatic cancer. Honestly‚ I did not even know what that disease was. I just knew
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up without homes and proper care. There needs to be changes in our system to help aid these less fortunate people‚ providing affordable housing‚ or giving them financial aid wouldn’t solve this problem completely‚ but it would be a start to helping millions of people get the help they deserve. The first reason that we should help homeless people is because The United States is wealthy enough to afford it. In our country we believe in unity‚ and that we’re only as strong as our weakest citizen. The
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AP Language and Composition Definition Essay Ms. Matz 2/13/13 Adversity Adversity is defined as a condition marked my misfortune‚ calamity‚ or distress (dictionary.com). Whether miniscule or detrimental‚ every person has dealt with an adverse situation at some point in his or her life. Based on this‚ it is not being presented with adversity that separates one person from another; it is how they deal with it. The 2011 Andover High School football team walked onto the field every
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