The quote‚ ¨Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself” by Alice Walker means multiple things. First off‚ to me this quote means‚ the best kind of happiness is the one you earn. Last year‚ in the Hillsborough science fair‚ I won best presentation overall. That day I was truly happy‚ not only because I won‚ but because I earned this happiness. To conclude‚ I would like to say that the best kind of happiness is the one you earn. There
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The World War 1 novel‚ Johnny Got His Gun‚ by Dalton Trumbo‚
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The article “Was My Father the Reason JFK Got Shot?” explain how Sophie Yarborough became curious of her father’s political career. She decided to do a bunch of research of find out information herself. Sophie always heard of the bullet that killed Kennedy and wounded Texas Gov. John Connally; however‚ it wasn’t until a few years ago that she realized that it killed her father dreams too. Her father was Don Yarborough. He was a lawyer who ran for governor of Texas three different times. He wanted
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How My Life Got Better After the Revolution October 12th 1949 Hey there! My name’s Lu Xiao Mei and I’m 16 years old. I’m from Liu Ling‚ but since I’m a woman and only 16 I don’t have a career. Instead I live with my husband‚ Wang Huang-Fu whose 19 years old‚ and his family and help clean up around the house and care for the youngest. In my family I have my mother‚ Liu Shou Mou‚ and my father‚ Liu Da Nu. Also I have my little sister‚ Lu Tan Rong‚ whose 8 and my older brother and his fiance‚ Li
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HAPPINESS I’ve Got a Golden Ticket by : Roald dahl I never thought my life could be Anything but catastrophe But suddenly I begin to see A bit of good luck for me ’Cause I’ve got a golden ticket I’ve got a golden twinkle in my eye I never had a chance to shine Never a happy song to sing But suddenly half the world is mine What an amazing thing ’Cause I’ve got a golden ticket It’s ours‚ Charlie I’ve got a golden sun up in the sky I never thought
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light when all you have is darkness ? Emily Dickinson wrote the two poems “We grow accustomed to the Dark & Before i got my eye put out” these poems are about not having sight‚ but not having sight has a deeper meaning than just not being able to see. Losing sight can mean being lost with no direction‚ and that’s the idea you get with these two poems. She said in the poem “Before i got my eye put out “The Meadows - mine - The Mountains - mine”.They were no longer hers because of the darkness . Lots
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No one decided to be born the way they are‚ no one of colored got to choose their skin color when they were born‚ they were just born like that. Various individuals of colored skin wished they were white for the reason that African Americans got treated abysmally‚ they wanted to change who they were for the reason that they wanted to live without fear. Therefore‚ there should not be racial division between
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Marilyn Chin’s “How I Got That Name” is a poem that serves as a criticism on how Asian-Americans in their efforts to fit into western society have lost part of their cultural identity. Lines 36 through 57 compose the second stanza of this poem. The second stanza of this poem has an overriding tone of outrage. Chin begins the second stanza with the use of an ironical device “Oh‚ how trustworthy our daughters‚ / how thrifty our sons!” (lines 36-37). Chin then proceeds by telling us how Asian-Americans
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however‚ reading an autobiography written by an individual that has lived with a disability offer a firsthand experience. It depicts their struggles and triumphs in life. With a lot of thought‚ the book that I chose to read was Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio (Kehret. P‚ 2003). There are many reasons to why I chose this book and from reading this book I hope to reach my learning goals. From reading the first section of the chosen book I will make connections to the readings and main idea of the topic
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How Britain got so fat Sarah Boseley Obesity causes potentially lethal diseases and The National Health Service in Britain is spending billions of pounds a year treating heart attacks‚ diabetes‚ cancers and lots of other consequences caused by obesity and unhealthy lifestyle. It is in many expert’s and healthcare organisations’ interest‚ to reach a resolution to the increasing problem‚ but who is to blame for this huge health and social problem? And maybe even more important‚ what is the reason
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