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    Have you ever read an autobiography “I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban? Well‚ when the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan‚ one girl spoke out. That one brave girl was the author‚ Malala Yousafzai Malala refused to be silenced by laws and fought for her right to an education and all education for every girl and woman across the world. On Tuesday‚ October 9‚ 2012‚ when she was fifteen‚ she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in

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    Surfs Up If You Dare

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    Surfs Up If You Dare Surfing is challenging sport which has been around since the third voyage of Captain James Cook in 1769. It has been an integral part of the Hawaiian lifestyle and actually predates Cook’s writings but just how far back it goes is unknown. The Polynesians were the masters of surfing and the best boards and beaches were open to only the upper-class and royalty of Hawaii. The working class citizens had to subside using boards made with unskilled hands‚ poor wood‚ and beaches

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    Why Are You Wake Up Octavia?

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    She woke up to the sight of her small but spacious bedroom. As she got up from bed the burning sun beam through the window down on her‚ causing gold blindness. She walks around her mess of clothes on the floor and walk to the bathroom to brush her teeth. After she finished brushing her teeth‚ she walks to the neat‚ tumblr‚ fresh white painted bedroom to wake her sister up to get to school on time. She shrugs her while saying “wake up”. Her sister woke up with a messy frizzy hair and reply with a

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    Believing in Yourself

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    One of the most prevalent obstacles that individuals are challenged by everyday is believing in themselves. Many people doubt their talents‚ skills‚ opinions‚ and many other aspects of their lives; these individuals squander a lot of their time away with this negative style of thinking. If a person is looking to improve themselves‚ and their life‚ it is essential to understand the importance of believing in themselves. If a person misses the opportunity to accomplish this very important

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    Just Being Yourself Essay

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    little bit easier. Technology has improved our communication and social interaction by making it possible for us to get information from one place to another in seconds and for people to travel great distances‚ including over the ocean in a lot less time. It has improved education by broadening our horizons and allowing us to experience and share different cultures with each other and enabling us to connect with new people from all around the world. Technology has made it possible for medical patients

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    Finding Yourself

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    Finding yourself is a part of growing up; a part that is hard‚ long and confusing‚ and now imagine having to find yourself in those harsh teen years with one more factor: am I American or am I Mexican? This is the question that a lot of young adults have to ask themselves in consequence of being brought at a young age to the United States. In this paper I will discuss the experience of five people including myself that were brought in to the states at a very young age all with their parents dream

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    Metaphor for Yourself

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    Create a metaphor for yourself using something you would find in your kitchen or your garage. List as many similarities or relationships between yourself and this object as you can think of‚ then elaborate on this comparison in an essay. Why is this object a good representation of you? If I took a quick look around my kitchen‚ I would probably find my reflection in a wooden spoon. Not literally‚ as it is not a metallic spoon‚ but figuratively. Because like me‚ a wooden spoon is a well-rounded

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    Loosing Someone

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    Perfect weather for a few drills around the track‚ coach decided to cut practice short and have us enjoy the rest of our evening. My friends and I had time to spare while we waited for the activities bus to take us home. Having nothing to do‚ we walked to get something to eat. I had a bad feeling about something but I ignored it and didn’t think about it too much. It was almost 6 O’clock‚ so my friends and I headed back to school so we could catch the activities bus. The activities bus had finally

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    google yourself

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    Google Yourself How can googling yourself for the first time change future decisions? I never thought about googling myself in a million years so it caused a lot of anticipation. What was I going to find‚ will I be disappointed‚ and how am I being perceived. After researching myself and viewing what all came up on the search engine I was shocked. There was only just a few links that inquired my name. I found a guest book that I signed for my favorite music artist and a baby registry and an account

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    Truth About Time The conception of time is seemingly self-evident. Tick‚ tock. A minute consists of sixty seconds‚ an hour of sixty minutes‚ a day of twenty-four hours‚ and a year of 365 days. It is quite rare that the fundamental nature of time itself is ever even brought into questioning. What is time? What do we mean when we say time? Is time even real? These questions have all been contested and an answer has been long sought. It rarely occurs to us about how little we know about time‚ yet‚

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