Once again I find myself in a daze in the most familiar place‚ ’The Crossroads of the World.’ With my feet planted to the ground‚ I stand tall in amazement. Surrounded by tourists on all the wrong time zones and people who make a living‚ dressed in what was once someone’s childhood hero. The enormous‚ impersonal crowds make crime and inappropriate behavior easy to hide. Bumping elbow to elbow‚ making it no accident to push their way through. Crowded streets and confused foreigners trying
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I feel most comfortable in a place where a sense of calm envelops me—a place that brings peace in its own unique ways. To escape all my troubles I always go on a walk by myself. Walking to class reminds me of all the times I walked around my neighborhood in my hometown. Outside my dorm I noticed the many sorority posters on all of the girls doors around me. In the elevator I caught a glimpse of a bright green notice about the Tiger Transit service for Clemson students. This was most evident and
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As human beings‚ knowing the different cultures surrounding us is of a great importance. The book “Foreign to Familiar” by Sarah A. Lanier‚ studied during Life skills class‚ is based on what Lanier refers to as “cold” and “hot” cultures. Several examples of her own experiences are introduced to the reader in this book‚ giving the reader an often broad idea of what she wants us to know. The main topic of discussion in term one and term two of our Life skills class‚ was college life‚ though the main
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chapter TE CO PY RI GH D Getting Familiar with Computer Basics MA TE Are you ready to start learning about computers? This chapter will help by introducing you to the computer and showing you its benefits and uses. You learn about the different types of computers‚ take a tour of a typical personal computer‚ and learn the difference between computer hardware and software. 1 RI AL Discover the Computer ........................................4 Benefits of Using a Computer..
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We go to school to learn and study. What’s strange is why we still have to study things that can’t be applied to our everyday lives. Like in math‚ why do we have to study X and Y when it wouldn’t be applied in real life. It’s not like we’re going to buy in the department store and the cashier would say this cabbage price is x5 – y9. That would be ridiculous. We can’t apply that to our daily lives. So why do we have to study such things. When guys flirt with a million of girls some would say
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Pulitzer prize novelist Alice Walker is best know for her stories about the life of African American women‚ their struggle with society for survival‚ racial‚ sexual and economical equality and spiritual wholeness. She writes through her personal experiences. Most critics consider her works as feminist‚ but Walker describes herself as a „womanist“‚ showing appreciatiation of women and their abilities no matter what the colour of their skin is. She was born in Eatonton‚ Georgia‚ a small town where
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Corrina Bryceland ‘Dark Encounters’ Imaginative Essay The wind howled around me like a pack of starving wolves as I entered the cemeteries rusty iron gates. Yet it seemed so wild and chaotic that it reminded me of home‚ so it didn’t bother me at all‚ I was used to it. My brother’s headstone was only a ten minute walk away so I let myself drink in the moonlight and the memories the cemetery held. I remembered the first time I went there with my mother‚ just after Jason died... She led me down the now familiar mud track past the eerie
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life. With his friends‚ he is trapped in a seedy urban underworld in spite of the efforts of his family to get him clean. However‚ Mark has a secret desire to make more of his life‚ and finds himself facing a choice; staying with his friends in his familiar environment or starting his life over. ‘Trainspotting’ is a very controversial film‚ which touches upon quite a bit of themes‚ though drug abuse is certainly the main issue dealt with; Mark and his friends are all addicted to heroin and the film
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Exhaustion hit me like a sledgehammer. Trudging down the long route of the forest hike‚ I longed for an icy-cold drink. I kicked a pebble and scowled. Why did I ever agree to accompany Frank on this forest hike? “Hey Joe! How about a race down the last one kilometre?” Frank asked hopefully‚ “Or are you too scared to lose out to me?” I agreed reluctantly and soon‚ we were racing down the torturous forest trail. In a few minutes‚ we were a long distance away from our hiking group and
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A Familiar Society John Winthrop was the power holding leader for the English colonists while traveling and arriving in The New World. When the colonists arrived‚ his ideals for the society were to have a community based on unity and religion and create "A city upon a hill." He believed that leaving the ideals of England’s society‚ would ultimately help him to achieve the city that the colonists strived for. However‚ with his demanding notions for a unified community and high demand for
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