Vietnamese American “If you are depressed‚ you are living in the past. If you are anxious‚ you are living in the future. If you are at peace‚ you are living in the present.” ― Lao Tzu As I left the Indianapolis airport at almost midnight‚ I knew that I was in an unfamiliar place‚ however‚ I couldn’t see it either. Compared to the sparkling night cities in California where I grew up in and left behind‚ here it was almost completely dark‚ with only the dim highway lights to aid our vision. I
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The Cattle Barn It’s a small lot on our farm‚ with white and red tin siding that many people overlook. It’s right next to the voluminous silver towers of our mill. It’s a place where many lessons are learned and see many “joys and discomforts” of agricultural life all throughout the year. Starting in the middle of December all the way to the beginning of July is where I get to watch my project grow and develop. As soon as the herd sees me stumbling down the hill‚ they race to the gate and acknowledge
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luggage into the rental car at Keflavik Airport. We’d just landed in Iceland‚ and already we were silenced by the landscape. "It looks even more amazing in person!‚" Josh said as we took it all in. Since we met during at a gathering at an old friends’ house‚ Josh and I had dreamed to traveled extensively through the world together‚ from the canals of Venice and Amsterdam to the mountains of Austria and Italy‚ but Iceland was our main place of excitement to visit. The surrounding lava field resembled
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The urban sprawl of Suva held so much of my early life from my parent’s first house at PTC to my birthplace at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital with its rusting sign and broken strips of barbed wire atop the chain-link fence. It was here that I was shown the hospitality that is present in every facet of life in Fiji we simply walked
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With a lawn chair slung over one shoulder and a large cooler in hand‚ I struggle to slam the trunk of my Ford Expedition. I embark on my trek up the steep‚ grassy incline to the field‚ making sure to feel my pocket for the bottle of Advil I promised to deliver. Besides the coaches meticulously raking the field and chalking the foul line‚ there is no one around. The rickety‚ rust coated bleachers remain barren in the sliver of shade. I unfold my chair‚ positioning it at the perfect angle to view the
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fascinated by them because of how different they were from everyone else. What made them seem so different was that they did not own a TV. That was definitely something out of the ordinary for the main character who grew up with one. He sneaks around their house‚ and watches through their windows in amazement as to what was going on during dinner because they were all together talking. This almost seems foreign to the narrator. David begins to mention how different they were at school. Other kids noticed what
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There were many other places where we camped including Gatlinburg‚ TN‚ Pickwick Dam‚ Lake Travis‚ Este Park‚ CO‚ Bull Shoals‚ AR‚ and the many times back to Rio Dosa staying at either the South Fork campsite or the Apache RV park‚ Dinosaur Park in Glenn Rose for the bluegrass festivals‚ Branson‚ just outside of St. Louis camping with Larry and Sandra‚ White Sands‚ Carlsbad Caverns‚ and Palo Dura Canyon On one of the trips to Apache Mountain outside of Rio Dosa‚ we were asked to sample some of the
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We all grow up at some point in our lives‚ but when you are forced to make mature decisions before they have all the necessary skills can make your childhood unpleasant as well as difficult. Matteo Alacrán‚ a boy from the nation of Opium‚ was not brought into this world like the rest of us he was placed inside the womb of a cow‚ where he grew‚ until being cut out. This changed the way many people would look at him in his life. He was a clone to many until his world was turned upside down by “himself”
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Kyle Jordan: English 9 – Chapter 19 Descriptive Writing: Create a Monster Descriptive Essay: 1. You will generate a list of 10 characteristics common to monsters. 2. You will plan and write a descriptive essay on a monster you create including the following: what the monster looks like‚ what the monster eats‚ where the monster lives‚ what the monsters personality is like. 3. You will identify‚ interpret‚ and create sensory descriptions‚ also called imagery. Repulsive looks‚ incongruous
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the industries and individuals take the water pollution as a serious problem. And they need to introduce some regulation for the discharging of waste water‚ such as fines. For the individuals‚ there are many simple things we are able to do. For example‚ do not throw medicines or chemicals into
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