As Bernard M. Baruch once said‚ “Be who you are and say what you feel‚ because those who mind don’t matter‚ and those who matter don’t mind.” I was unaware that my opinion of myself was more meaningful than my peer’s opinion. I had a rough time figuring out who I was and who I wanted to be in my first few years of high school. The first chance I got to poke the popular bubble was taken‚ giving me one shot to embed myself into an exotic‚ unknown social group. What I didn’t know was that this social
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Speaking in “broken English” the grandmother is keen to narrate the events surrounding her daughter Natalie‚ her granddaughter‚ Sophie‚ and her son-in-law John who is also Irish. She does not agree with the American way of raising kids and wishes she could discipline Sophie the way a proper Chinese girl should be raised. The main focus is on how a woman’s granddaughter is growing up differently than how she raised her daughter‚ which brings conflict between the grandmother and her daughter‚ Sophie’s mother
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Eternal Love We were sitting in the doctor’s office when he told us‚ “your wife has breast cancer.” All of a sudden the room vanished and I found myself in a darker room‚ unable to feel anything. I wanted to cry but couldn’t. She was shocked‚ just like me. was staring into my eyes. “Don’t worry sweetheart‚” she said after a few minutes. “I am going to be OK.” She was smiling at me as if nothing had happened. I don’t know how she could be so fearless. We had been married for 23 years; we had shared
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Can you think of a time when you were feeling down and everyone else is having a good time? The best think you can do is cheer someone else up. That sometimes makes me feel better. Not to long ago I wasn’t cheerful around my friends. I was just having a bad day. Neither was my friend Mark. We both were on the same team for badminton in gym. Our other good friend Wade was cheating on us. So that was making Mark mad. I had to cheer Mark up to cheer myself up. Mark was mad as a bee gets when humans
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Outside Writing Assignment #1 Has the question‚ “ What do other people think of me?” ever crossed your mind before? It has crossed my mind before‚ which has led me to many questions. In this day and age people know how to handle a computer‚ I’d like to say I know more than your average bear. Many things are possible with a computer‚ like watching videos or listening to live streams. Every week or so a group of my friends speak about random topics‚ this particular week the gang decided to speak
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The Year I spent Easter Sunday in the Hospital To me Easter Sunday has always been a very important holiday. My whole family always gets together to celebrate it. We always go to the Ranch‚ and have lots of activities‚ and many kinds of delicious food. In the spring of 2010 I was expecting my first baby. It was a great feeling‚ but it turned out that his due date was on Holy Friday ‚ just two days before Easter Sunday. I had been feeling great during my hole pregnancy‚ so when I had my 39th
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First day of January 2010 is the day that I would never forget. Everything that happened on that day will always stay vivid in my memory. It all started with a Sunday morning. Unlike usual‚ that day‚ I woke up with a bright smile on my face. As soon as I opened my eyes‚ my sight immediately looked at the side of the grey cupboard at the corner of my room where I hung the calendar. I was so happy when I saw the calendar and the day of first January had finally arrived. I have been waiting for that
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Moving away from home is a life changing experience for anyone. You have to deal with leaving the people you love and have known your entire life. When you leave home you’re starting a whole new life due to living somewhere totally new for the first time. This can be a great experience for anyone because you’re living somewhere where you know no one and every day you see new faces. Leaving home on your own is a whole new chapter in life. The day I left home was August 20‚ 2011 and I was the most
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As I was calmly sauntering around my house I heard a crash. Then I rushed throughh my living room‚ to see what it was. I slowly opened the door and come to find out it was a spaceship that crashed in my front yard. Not believing my eyes thinking this all was a dream I just closed the front door and whispered" This is just a dream" I opened the door again and realized this wasn’t a dream‚ it really was a spaceship in my front yard. From that moment I knew it was going to be a confusing day.
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He looked at her and smiled meaningfully. There was something unpredictable laying behind the grin. In Anna’s eye beholder‚ Zahid was just an ordinary guy who wanted her to be his companion. Despite‚ Anna was the one who prefered to isolate herself from (the real world) rather than mingling up with the students in her school as she always being boycott by them. Therefore‚ Anna did not dare to take the risk of getting along with him. Anna never put the blame on others for not being warm towards her
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