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    Relationships with others help define who we are” Dylan Mamo “No relationship is ever a waste of your time. If it didn’t bring you what you want‚ it taught you what you don’t want”. Primarily‚ the individuals in our life shape and mould our personality to construct who we are known as in the most challenging situations of our existence. These situations symbolise moments of sincerity and in some instances‚ demonstrate hatred and regret. This essay will highlight why relationships mould who we are‚ though‚ on

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    No matter how much we try we cannot change who we are. No matter how much we try we cannot change who we are. A change is defined as the act or instance of making or becoming different and is very difficult to achieve‚ however not impossible. Our physical characterisitcs and how others perceive these characteristics and what we post online affect our identity and are generally impossible to change. On the other hand people can change who they are‚ such acts can be seen with gender changes or plastic

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    mandatory would help the school systems. School uniforms would help unruly classrooms‚ also students would not have to buy expensive clothes and students would not get killed over tennis shoes. Schools that have adopted uniforms have reported several advantages. Some school systems including ones in Miami‚ Detroit‚ and Los Angeles have adopted a voluntary uniform policy. Under this plan schools do not require students to wear their uniform‚

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    Schools are to unpopular belief are an extremely expensive “business” to be operational. A schools budget is sucked to the bottom of the barrel each time something is required to be bought‚ or paid for. That being said there are occasions when the money does not go far enough to cover for all of the schools expenses. Demanding answers to be found‚ activities within the school will be at the greatest risk of receiving specific funding cuts; possibly dropping the activity entirely from the school.

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    How Do We Communicate?

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    Investigation Problem: • We are going to find out what is communication and how do we communicate in different ways through different things. We are writing a investigation now to understand what are we going to do for creating a new movie about communication. Guiding Questions: • What is communication? Communication requires that all parties have an area of communicative commonality. There are auditory means‚ such as speech‚ song‚ and tone of voice‚ and there are nonverbal means‚ such

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    background and circumstances might have influenced who we are but we are responsible for who we become What I’ve Learned: ~that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life. ~that we are responsible for what we do‚ no matter how we feel. ~that either you control your attitude or it controls you. ~that sometimes when I’m angry I have the right to be angry‚ but that doesn’t give me the right to be cruel. ~that maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you’ve had

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    “Discovering who we are and where we belong can be challenging” "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." Ralph Waldo Emerson’s statement illustrates the difficulty of establish one’s true identity and sense of belonging. Humans are no means anti-social creatures and one of our quintessential traits is our desire to belong. Belonging gives us a purpose in life‚ it boosts our self-esteem and it provides us with a sense of security

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    Modern media coverage bombards us constantly with reports of charitable acts by those in the public eye‚ as well as advertisements that encourage us to share what modest wealth we possess. Our society teaches us from a young age that if we are given any kind of expendable resource‚ we need to share it with those less fortunate‚ those who cannot afford or even fathom the basic necessities. This can be seen early on with the very basic concept of sharing toys in the sandbox and continues through adulthood

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    Why Do We Laugh

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    Why do we laugh? Where did laughter come from? Is laughter good for our health? These questions come out of my mind whenever I laugh or hear someone laughing. Laughter is to the heart. It raises spirits‚ eases life’s challenges‚ refreshes and heals. We may came from different countries‚ have different cultures and beliefs‚ but we are all human‚ and share the universal language of laughter. The magic of laughter is that it is contagious. We don’t need to know or understand what we are laughing about

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    think Ericsson adopts a confessional strategy by admitting she tells lies to support her thesis that "We lie. We all do." (3). The author begins her narrative with a "lie"‚ "The bank called today and I told them my deposit was in the mail‚ even though I hadn’t written a check yet." (1). The effect is strong‚ capturing reader’s immediate attention and getting immediately to her main point at that we all laying for whatever reason. 2. By classifying lies the author tries to distinguish the reasons why

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