When I was first asked to give a talk on mothers‚ since it would be mother’s day. I started wondering how Mother’s Day came to be. I was surprised to discover that Mother’s Day has a history longer than Christianity! Ancients celebrated Isis (Mother of the Pharaohs)‚ Rhea (Greek Mother of the Gods)‚ and Cybele (The Great Mother). The worship of these ancient goddesses is similar to the reverence we show to Mary‚ Jesus’ mother as these Mother Goddesses are often depicted with a baby in arms.
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Perseverance In My Life – ‘You’ve Got To Be Kidding Me’ It was a Monday morning like any other‚ cold‚ and the little light that was present squeezing its way through the sky’s grey veil. It was on these bitter twilight mornings that I apprehensively pulled my half-asleep body out from my overwhelmingly warm and comfortable bed. Leaving the house‚ late as per usual‚ I took the normal route through the park on my now daily routine journey to college. The 15-minute walk turned out to be a 10-minute
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Mother Teresa What did Mother Teresa do to show love for others Mother Teresa born 26th of August 1910 was a Roman Catholic nun who is a landmark in history due to the love she showed for God but significantly for others. Mother Teresa founded the missionaries of charity in Calcutta‚ India in 1950. She did so for forty five years. Mother Teresa showed great love for others as she ministered to the poor‚ sick and orphaned. And even the dying. Mother Teresa did all these things while guiding the
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Who is the one helps me grow up‚ gives me advice‚ takes care of me‚ shows me the right way‚ always support me greatly‚ gives me a birthdate and does many many things just for me‚ it’s my mother. I love her and really admire her for many reasons. The first reason that I admire my mother is she teaches me about experience. Experience is what you learn as you go through your life. As a child‚ you always learned that people really nice and generous. That is not true. As you step into the real world
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“Mother Tongue” In the essay‚ “Mother Tongue‚” Amy Tan informs the reader of the language barrier matters that she underwent as an Asian American. Various individuals are looked down upon because of their poor english language skills. Tan shared the experience of limitation‚ intimation‚ and the family talk that she had in her life. She feels bad for having a limitations‚ because she was Asian-American. Her mother speaks broken
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i’ve probably moved more from middle school to now than most people have moved in their lives. I haven’t been moving just to move. Every Time I moved there was a reason‚ maybe not a good reason but there was a reason. When I was in the 3rd grade my brother and I lived with our mom. She wanted to go into the military so she sent us to our dad in the summer‚ and when she got back from boot camp we were supposed to come back. On the fourth of July we were with our dad‚ after that we started to live
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Sol and his father were getting on reasonably well‚ but with his dads drinking problem things soon got worse. By reading the text‚ we find out that Sol’s mother and father have split up‚ and Sol sometimes wishes he went with his mum. We know this because Sol says ‘maybe I should of gone with her. I wouldn’t be having so many days with bad colours now’. It suggests in the rest of the book that his mother left because of his dads drinking problem. I think Sol was very happy with his dad when they
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What’s Weather Got to Do With It? In The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ weather is often an undercurrent of what’s happening in the novel. "When all is said and done‚ the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure" (Alice Hoffman‚ Here on Earth). With weather one is never sure of how the day is going turn out‚ sunny or rainy? The same goes for love‚ loves me or loves me not? Throughout The Great Gatsby‚ the weather and location often reflects the mood and the
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technology sounds great… right? Valuable resources being used for a trip that might fail. Competition between other countries for the power of this trip. Even though Mars is a great place for scientific discoveries‚ is it worth it? People should not spend valuable resources to go to Mars because of how the technology might fail and how grueling the trip would be. To begin‚ we should not waste valuable resources to go to Mars because the technology might fail. In the article‚ “Let’s Not Move to Mars‚”
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Let’s Move – Childhood Obesity Prevention from Pregnancy and Infancy Onward a. Article Citation Name: Let’s Move – Childhood Obesity Prevention from Pregnancy and Infancy Onward Date Published: April 22‚ 2010 Authors: Janet M. Wojcicki‚ Ph.D.‚ M.P.H.‚ and Melvin B. Heyman‚ M.D.‚ M.P.H. Page Numbers: 1457-1459 b. The main idea of this article focuses on First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign against childhood obesity. The authors go into detail on how it can be improved
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