tutor and Gisella was my main boss. What I admired most about Gisella‚ was her intelligence and her empathy. Her knowledge of literature and her ability to think critically‚ always inspired me to push my intellectual abilities. As a student‚ I knew I had good insight. However‚ Gisella was always able to help me gain a deeper understanding within texts. Another aspect that Gisella held‚ was her ability to empathize with others. I have seen her assist students with learning disabilities‚
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DBQ 15: The Debate Over American Imperialism Catriona Whalley Imperialism was not a proper and legitimate policy for the United States to follow at the turn of the 19th century. Americans defended their country’s attentions with ethnocentric‚ hypocritical‚ and overall un-American rationalizations. They imperialized for their own profit and benefit‚ and had no true justification behind their reasoning. While Americans did not usually claim that they anted to maintain
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How Dance Has Affected Me If I had to give one reason why dance has changed my life‚ I would say that it’s because it gave me so much within the numbered dance we had together. When I was 5 years old I asked my mother if I could join ballet. I had been growing obsessed with it for the past year of my life. I loved to watch videos of ballet recitals that my cousin Lucy had performed in. I was extremely jealous of her. She was tall and thin and she looked regal and poised while she was running around
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HAN TRAN ENG091 How popular culture shaped me? There are a variety of information sources providing updated news such as computer‚ television‚ newspaper‚ etc. Thus‚ people can receive these information everytime everywhere. It cannot be denied that most of the news that teenagers interested in is about “star news”. “Star news” is all information of famous stars which is not only about their albums‚ movies but also about their privacy. In my country- Viet Nam‚ “Hallyu Wave” is becoming the most
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of saying a particular sentence to a person. Let us take the sentence ”Hello‚ how are you‚” if you are greeting a very important person‚ you would say it in a very sophisticated and well-mannered way‚ such as ” Good afternoon Mr. Ahmed‚ how are you feeling today?” Whereas if you are meeting your bestfriend‚ the language you speak turns more into slang‚ such as ”Hey bro‚ what’s up?” Therefore the way language reflects me is that when I have to have a conversation with a person‚ I carefuly choose the
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My College Experience Referring to my college life and how it has changed my life is amazing. I once thought of college as just a bigger high-school with all the high-school drama involved‚ but I was way wrong. The challenges I went through last spring have made me stronger this semester. In my college experience I have experienced three different challenges; such as my fears‚ how I feel the college life is different and finally how the college life has changed my way of thinking. My fears pertaining
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in one way or another including mine. I learned a very important lesson about the disease that afflicted my grandfather when I myself had a bout with alcoholism. I have always heard from my father what a smart boy I am. My father also talks of how much I remind him of his father‚ I’m mechanically inclined‚ have good common sense‚ and I have an intelligent personality. But I always found a way to screw things up and make a mess of myself. I couldn’t hold a job‚ I was failing out of school‚ and
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A BLACK WOMAN’S JOURNEY: FOR COLORED GIRLS Created in 1975‚ For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf‚ focuses on the struggles of black women not only from that era‚ but issues still pertaining to black women 35 years later. Shange’s powerful choreopoem is comprised of seven women trying to "sing a black girl’s song…. Sing a song of life‚ she’s been dead so long"(Shange 18)‚ creating a voice for every woman. None of these women possess a name‚ only a color‚ to show
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Super Size Me opens up by introducing to several statistics about America‚ obesity‚ and the link between fast food chains. This gives the viewer an idea of how things have shifted in the past few decades from a healthier way of life‚ cooking at home with the family to how families are today. Especially in America with more people eating out more and sometimes multiple times a week. Morgan Spurlock‚ the filmmaker of the documentary‚ being of excitant health for his age decides to do an experiment
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While reading the poem ’This is a Photograph of Me’ by Margaret Atwood‚ it is shown that while growing up she was blurred‚ unimportant and she was never heard. The writer talks about a picture that was taken a long time ago. We don’t know many details about the picture‚ not even simple things such as whom it is about‚ but we get the sense that the author is talking about themself being in the picture. It is proven that the speaker has written about themself when Atwood states‚ “…If you look long
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