There is still a part of me that hopes every day that you’re alive and I haven’t found you yet. I will have searched the far corners of the earth before I let myself believe you dead. I dream of you every night‚ then wake with the bitter taste of regret fresh in my mouth. You abandoned me. You have marooned me on this earth‚ and it is dark without your light by my side. All that fills my mind is when you were still beside me. I distinctly recall one summer when we were not quite children anymore
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"You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing." - E.B. White - "I always knew that when I looked back on the times I cried I would smile. But I never knew that when I looked back on the times I smiled I would cry." "My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my desperation." - Helen Keller - "One day at a time‚ this is enough. Don’t
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YOU MUST RUN VERY FAST TO STAY WHERE YOU ARE To begin with I would like to say that the topic of the essay may be thought as a great metaphor for life. If we ask how much time and energy do we spend just to hold on things and go outside the status quo it will be an honest question. From the one side we can say that the majority of time we spend each day is spent running just to stay in the same place. To continue with I can say that the percentage of the day spent on our growth seems to be very
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Angela Patrice A. Gamil THY3 2BLIS Where Am I Going? Sometimes I see myself as a child‚ and the world is my playground. I aim to walk barefoot around it‚ mindless of the stains. I know I’m not always on the mountain top‚ nor above water‚ but it won’t hurt if I dream a little‚ will it? So I still want to clench my fists on things that are quite impossible to some people‚ but are possible to me. I dream of travelling to different parts of the world‚ meet different people‚ know
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Have you ever been to a college class? Did that class only consist of two exams‚ a midterm and a final throughout the entire semester? How much stress did you feel around the time those exams came around? These are the types of problems that Patrick O’Malley argues against in his essay “More Testing‚ More Learning”. In this essay‚ O’Malley takes the stand presenting the fact that there are courses in college that provide infrequent testing. He lets it be known that this is not the most effective
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of horsemen which he wielded against the defenseless villagers of Eurasia‚ both arguably great leaders just went at it differently. This is true of all leaders‚ including those featured in “The Flying Machine” “Leiningen versus the ants” and “Where have you gone charming Billy”. Of the three characters featured in leadership roles or roles of power in these stories‚ The Emperor from “The Flying Machine” exhibits the
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Compare and contrast two people whom you admire. I believe that human will only keep on moving when there is a motivator for them. For me‚ what motivates me to be a kind and helpful person are the two people whom I admire. One of them is Ms. Kelly‚ my English teacher when I was in Standard Six‚ and the other one is Madam Tan‚ the aunty who lives next to my house. Ms. Kelly is a very kind person. She always teaches us to help those people who are in needs and she also never tired in helping
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In the short story Where Have You Gone Charming Billy‚ Tim O’ Brien‚ examines a conflict with the main character Paul Berlin and his internal fear of dying. The story takes place around 1965-1973 during the Vietnam War. It is Paul’s first day at the war and he has been fighting his anxiety. He has already seen one of the twenty-six soldiers in his platoon die of a heart attack because of tripping a mine bomb. Many soldiers continuously tell Paul to just get used to the fear of the jungle however
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their son or daughter make life changing decisions. Decisions like which colleges to go to‚ or to decide to marry their high school sweet heart. A teenager’s loss of innocence is the focal point of Joyce Carol Oates short story “Where are you going? Where have you been?” featuring the main protagonist‚ Connie. Connie is forced to face the ordeal of becoming an adult at the age of fifteen in a matter of minutes. She spurns her parents in an effort to be rebellious‚ she goes out at night with her
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A Discussion of Rollerblade: Skates to Go Where You Want to Go Rollerblade is known as one of creator of the sport of in-line skating‚ which also develops faster than other manufacturer. As a leading of manufacturer in the in-line skating market‚ Rollerblade improves its technologies‚ programs and commitment constantly‚ trying to provide consumers with a good quality of skates and skating experiences. In the article‚ it mainly introduces its history‚ key segments. In this article‚ it describes
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