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    shocked‚ flattered‚ and elated‚ all at the same time. As the excitement died down and I began to worry about my salutatory address and a myriad of ideas of what I wanted to say flooded my mind. But‚ as June rolled around and senioritis kicked in‚ my speech felt like just another last minute homework assignment I needed to complete. For inspiration‚ I searched “hashtag salutatorian” on all forms of social media: Instagram‚ Twitter‚ and even Tumblr. Unfortunately‚ these all failed to inspire me and

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    imaginations and creative ideas for the school. We need new ideas to figure out how to plan some of the events for the next school year at yun ang ginagawa namin. We are willing to put forth our best efforts to complete our jobs as well as help out with different events. This only gives us more of a chance to spark our imaginations and come up with creative ideas. We will have to use new ideas combined with past experiences to figure out how to plan our events with a new group of people and less of

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    InCRS 325 Introductory speech “This I believe…” I believe that nothing is impossible if you believe in yourself. Everyone experiences hardships at least once in a lifetime and there are many different ways how each person deals with those hardships. For example‚ some people just give up because they think they cannot do anything about it and some people keep try to work in a way so they can overcome the hardships. I understand that there are some situations that many people just can’t do anything

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    Another frightening figure in Scandinavian folklore are the Mylingen (The Myling). In Sweden‚ infanticide was a fairly common crime amongst poor mothers. The reasoning behind it was either the family was not wealthy enough to afford feeding another child‚ or the mother had conceived the baby outside a marriage. Adultery was frowned upon and ruined many lives‚ and drove people to take extreme measures such as murdering their own infant. During this time‚ the most common places that Mylings were abandoned

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    working and result in eating more junk food instead of cooking a healthy meal. Another major problem why young people lives unhealthy lifestyles is from things that they inhale such as smoke and some even result in taking drugs. I recently saw a figure that one quarter of fifteen year olds are regular smokers and one in three has tried drugs such as cannabis. Smoking and inhaling drugs at a young age cause major problems in adult life and can result in lung cancer and

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    the car. My grandfather was driving. And my grandmother had the passenger seat. She smoked throughout these trips‚ and I hated the smell. At that age‚ I’d take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I’d calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I’d been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can’t remember the details‚ but basically the ad said every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might

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    Terry is resting peacefully on his bed‚ then his sister slam the door open and barge in. Naomi frantically screams ferociously. "What the fuck bro! I was gone for a few days to fix your teacher’s marriage and undo the lust she has for her relatives. Then I have to travel my ass looking for this Amber person and found her ’completely-drunk’ fucking a couple strange men in the alley. Do you know how stressful it is for me to fix all your problems and now...." She grab Terry’s blanket and pull it

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    looking for a revelation at the movies. Sometimes it’s best to go to the movies just to forget about life and its troubles. He is best known for his shaved head‚ his deep voice‚ and frequent swearing. Samuel L. Jackson was and still is a significant figure in American History because of his impact in film and he has opened the doors for a lot of other African-American male actors in the industry. Samuel Leroy Jackson was born on December 21‚ 1948 in Washington‚ D.C. to Elizabeth and Roy Henry Jackson

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    and complex villainous characters. Richard III or The Duke of Gloucester‚ who eventually becomes king‚ is ambitious‚ bitter‚ ugly and deformed. He manipulates and murders his way to the throne and sets the tone for the whole play with his very first speech‚ which is the opening of the play. Richard opens with the lines “now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York‚ and all the clouds that loured upon our house in the deep bosom of the ocean buried” (1.1.1-4). These

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    on the absolute ruin of self that one faces through Socrates words. Straight from his introduction with‚ “Good evening‚ gentleman. I’m plastered‚” (Symposium 213 A) it appears‚ as this speech will be a random comedic interlude to distract from the ideas of the form that had just come about in the end of The Speech of Diotima. However‚ there is an underlying sense of tragedy and the ruin of self behind Alcibiades stories. Alcibiades is completely transformed by Socrates words‚ “If I were to describe

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