and make good grades so that one day they can go to college. I always told my children by going to college and earn a Bachelor‚ Master or even a PHD will provide them great opportunities to achieve big dreams. At this point in my life after almost raising five children in which three of them are now in college‚ I still have regrets for not completing my studies. But it was not until I was laid off from my job due to the recession when I decided to go back to college. However‚ I want to continue my education
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Do you ever just not want to eat the school food because you find it disgusting? Do you just want to be able to go to your favorite restaurant and eat? I would really like to have my choice to pick what I would like to eat and most other teens probably would also. I look around in the cafeteria and I see people wasting the cafeteria food or their either bringing their own food. I believe that if the high school had better food or we were able to have open campus for lunch then students would not
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War; Inman is critically wounded due to the fact that he is a confederate soldier during this time. After about ten years Inman finally decides to go back home to Cold Mountain. Inman wrote a letter to his dearly beloved Ada‚ saying that he will return soon so that they can talk about future plans with each other and also discuss the present and the past with each other‚ like all the hardships and trials each individually had to overcome in order to finally be with each other. Inman escapes out of
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for its diversity and well-rounded society in terms of varying cultures‚ ethnicities‚ traditions‚ etc. But was our nation always like this? And‚ what goes on beneath the surface of this “diversity-embracing” facade? The article The Long History of “Go Back to Where You Came from” in Canada by Michael Fraiman delves into Canada’s history of unjust immigration policies‚ xenophobic societal attitudes and the path to cultivating a multicultural atmosphere. Fraiman adequately reports the emotions of numerous
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The Past We all have a past and in that past we try to regain something significant to us. In the classic novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and set in the 1920s New York. The story centers on the mysterious protagonist whose life is fueled by his dream to reclaim the love of his life‚ Daisy. This mysterious protagonist has a “past” that he is trying to re-write to obtain his dream. His past influence his action and values leading to his demise. This mysterious protagonist
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Feedback: What can go wrong? When identifying a problem in the performance appraisal process‚ managers need to focus on the employee rather than on the performance (Gomez-Mejia‚ Balkin‚ & and Cardy‚ 2010‚ p. 218). Focusing on the employee’s development helps keep a sense of objectivity. If the manager focuses on the performance‚ instead of on the employee development‚ the employee may become defensive. If this happens‚ the effectiveness of the feedback will decrease because the employee may become
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California has free healthcare for families who live in poverty‚ and the passing of proposition 55 will help keep this free healthcare active. Many families need this because they do not have enough money to be able to go to the doctors for even one trip. The online article‚ “CA Can’t Go Back…”‚ by Protecting California expresses how‚ “This prop gives $2 billion a year to low-income families in which can not afford to have non-free healthcare. This way‚ low income families are able to have health care
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I think back through my life‚ to try and comfort me into restful sleep. I remember summers from my middle school days. The images yellowy‚ orange‚ warm‚ happy. Endless weeks abroad‚ the sun almost unbearable in its cruel sunburnt heat. A time when swimwear wasn’t a terrifying thought: flabby thighs‚ see-through bikinis were things I was oblivious to. My parents‚ endless sources of ice-creams and drinks‚ not the embarrassing‚ overprotective people they have become. Every year I would go to summer
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“The Past” “The Past” by Oodgeroo portrays both the author’s resentment for the mistreatment of aboriginals in the past and also depicts her desires. Oodgeroo Conical her aboriginal name also knows as Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska was the first Aborigine women to have her works published in which she used to promote aboriginal rights. Oodgeroo’s has a variety of poems which all are very direct‚ uses accessible rhyme schemes and allusion. Poems such as “Dark unmarried mothers‚ “Time is running out” and
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Sharon Olds’ poem “I Go Back to May 1937” is written as if the speaker; which appears to be female is looking back in time to when he or she’s parents first met and married. The speaker throughout the poem does not seem pleased with the events that unfolded thereafter‚ but nonetheless understands that there is nothing that she could have done to stop it from happening. The poem gives a short glimpse into the life the couple had and the effect it had on the child/narrator. The poem is almost a flashback
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