What is your most precious childhood memory? There are several memories from my childhood. There are only a few that are very precious to me. The memories that stick out the most from my childhood‚ are the time when I played football for the middle school‚ and we won the Florida state title. Another precious memory I have‚ is when I was 13‚ and I hit a homerun to win the game. There was another memory from my childhood that ment a lot to me‚ and it was when I made an interception for the high
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What rewards your life? “Look to Me‚ and be saved‚ All you ends of the earth! For I am God‚ and there is no other.” Isaiah 45:22 (NKJV). I heard the question asked last night. “What rewards your life?” The answer was; to deeply appreciate those‚ who love you by loving them back. That’s what life is all about. You can ruin your life by desensitizing yourself. We are all afraid to say too much‚ feel too deeply‚ to let people know just how much they mean to us. But not God‚ in fact‚ we find in this
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In President John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address‚ he provided what is quite possibly one of his most famous quotes: "My fellow Americans‚ ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what can you do for your country." This was followed up by‚ "My fellow citizens of the world‚ ask not what America will do for you‚ but what together we can do for the freedom of man." Exactly 44 years after Kennedy’s Inaugural address‚ it might be worthwhile to revisit the implications of this statement. Can
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What are you building with your Blueprint? Can you sweep streets with the same passion that Martin Luther King used to inspire others? On October 26‚ 1964‚ Dr. King gave a speech to a group of students at Barratt Junior high‚ six months before his assassination. In Dr. King’s speech “What is your Life’s Blueprint?” he asserts that everyone should be the best they can be‚ no matter who or what they do. In his “Life’s Blueprint” speech‚ Dr. King uses metaphors‚ personification‚ and similes‚ in order
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sings about his life of pain‚ feeling lost‚ and being alone. Many people automatically concluded that he was referring to his drug problem or his wife‚ he may have been referring to those things‚ but it goes deeper than that. Everything is not always what it seem. While listening to him sing this song with so much emotion‚ I feel his pain. In his voice‚ I hear that pain‚ and it resonates with me in many different ways. I lost many things within the past few year’s friends‚ loved ones‚ joy‚ happiness
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The Jazz Age Jazz. The style of music that just makes you want to dance. The blues‚ a kind of music that makes you want to cry. The 20’s were famous for great jazz and blues entertainers such as Louis Armstrong‚ Bessie Smith‚ and George Gershwin. The most famous of all though is Duke Ellington. Duke Ellington playing at the Cotton Club. The Duke as he is also known as is a Jazz legend. Ellington is a pianist‚ a composer and a bandleader. The Duke started playing professionally at the age of 17
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I Am David book/movie comparison Have you ever seen I Am David or read the book? If you have‚ you could probably see a lot of differences between them. The plot is fairly similar‚ but the complications are different. The differences from the movie and the book can just pop out in front of your face‚ almost like its telling you that this is different. To start off‚ the setting of the story (book) I thought it would be some sort of dark pastels because how David’s mood is in the story I thought
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described by Johnathan Edwards is “a great furnace of wrath‚ a wide and bottomless pit‚ full of the fire of wrath.” For this average teenager in America‚ my definition of hell is much different than the hell of 1953’s Johnathan Edwards. For me hell is a term used to describe the unknown. What I am trying to say is that there is no hell‚ it is just a floating concept created and used by some people. I believe that we‚ as humans created a place known as hell in order to scare and control other people. For
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on eliminating social inequality and injustice‚ but rapid urbanization continued racism‚ and most importantly the Vietnam War‚ had created a stark contrast of the promises and reality of the time. If we apply Hofstede’s four cultural dimensions to 60’s there’d be two contrasting cultures which are almost mirror representations of each other. The majority culture was on the right characterized by older age‚ a high power distance‚ masculinity affinity‚ and uncertainty avoidance‚ and individualistic values
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Throughout the 1930’s many people in the United States had to suffer though a Great Depression that caused many Americans to lose many things‚ starting from their jobs to even their own pride in themselves. How ever this was different for the people who lived in the south‚ the southern people were not only just affected by the Great Depression they were also affected by heavy racism and strongly enforced Jim Crow laws. With the enforced Jim Crow laws‚ these laws heavily restricted the life of a colored
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