Maddison Connolly Ms. Clinning ENG 3U1 30 April‚ 2013 Ambition: It’s Easy to Dream a Dream‚ but Much Harder to Live it Napoleon Bonaparte once said: “Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. It all depends on the principles which direct them.” From this quote‚ one can see that great ambition is crucial to experience success whether it is achieved in an honest fashion‚ or a morally questionable one. In the novel The Apprenticeship
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It was the first day of senior year‚ the gateway to our future. My friends and I gather at our usual spot‚ the corner near one of their homes‚ buzzing with the excitement of new outfits and the comfort of shared laughter. The walk to school was brief‚ 10 minutes‚ but with each step‚ the weight of impending finality grew heavier on my shoulders. As the school gates loomed before me‚ my heart raced—a cacophony of nerves. I was on the brink of adulthood. Senior year was not just another academic term;
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My collage is based on the characters‚ events and themes of Something Wicked This Way Comes. The book was written by Ray Bradbury and first published in 1962. From this novel‚ there has been a movie adaptation. It begins with “First of all‚ it was October‚ a rare month for boys.” The setting of this story is in October which explains use of the image of leaves. The lines represent a spider web‚ this is my interpretation of the book because everything in the story is linked. Something Wicked This
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Authors create suspense by making the reader feel something wrong is going to happen in their novel. Some authors that do that are Edgar Allan Poe and Ray Bradbury in their stories‚ “The Tell-Tale Heart”‚ and “The Pedestrian.” Edgar Allan Poe uses suspense in his story‚ “The Tell-Tale Heart” when the old man the narrator is trying to kill wakes up and does not go back to sleep. “I had my head in‚ and was about to open the lantern‚ when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening‚ and the old man sprang
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What do I consider to be the best things in life? Someone will say that those are nice clothes‚ cars‚ houses‚ travelling‚ but for me those are happines‚ family‚ friends‚ love‚ smile‚ hugs‚ laughter‚ health... These things money can’t buy‚ they have to come from our hearts (like love and laughter) or maybe from God (like health). I agree that our life can be much easier when we have money to buy everything we need‚ but where is the limit to what we need? Many people are addicted to
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My mother has been recently diagnosed with a chronic disorder called dysthymia‚ which is a mild to moderate depression that can last two years or more and that is classified as a mood disorder. A mood disorder is where mood is severely disturbed (Ciccarelli & White‚ 2014). My aunt believes that my mother’s feelings may be related to chronic stress over money. My aunt and I agreed that the best therapy for my mother would be psychodynamic therapy. Psychodynamic therapy is a newer and more general
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ingredient for her peach cobbler: 4 cups love 5 spoons of hope 2 cups loyalty 2 spoons tenderness 3 cups forgiveness 4 quarts faith 1 cup friendship 1 barrel of laughter Take love and loyalty‚ mix thoroughly with faith. Blend it with tenderness‚ kindness and understanding. Add friendship and hope‚ sprinkle abundantly with laughter. Bake it with sunshine. Serve daily with generous helpings. Then you should have a scrumptious peach
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relatives to come together for food‚ laughter‚ and conversation. My favorite tradition is when the women of the family‚ young and old‚ come together in the kitchen to prepare Thanksgiving dinner. There is such a feeling of warmth and love‚ that‚ I think sets the tone for the whole day. The men are usually gathered around the largest television or running errands back and forth to the grocery store. Children are running back and forth playing‚ filling the house with laughter. Soon dinner is done and all activity
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The sun hadn’t yet managed to wake up‚ but we had. Our family had already been in the frigid road for an hour before the sun managed to wake. Three oblivious kids in the car‚ not knowing where they were going and were woken up early was not a good mix‚ but we were to curious to figure out where we were going to care. We soon crossed the California border and our imaginations had gone to work thinking of every possibility‚ then my parents told their secret; we were going to explore General Patton’s
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The way music plays a major role in the book is because it helps the dwarves‚ the goblins‚ and the elves with the feelings they feel while they are singing a song.The other reason it helps them with there feelings is because it makes them get out the anger they are facing while they are singing.Music helps sometimes whenever someone is feeling down and someone else tries to help them feel better so instead of talking they would put on that person’s favorite music.Also whenever someone is feeling
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