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    How will I be remembered? This a subject that I’ve thought about a lot during my life. How do I want to be remembered? In my youth I wanted to be remembered as a hero of historic proportions‚ a man who people looked up to as I had looked up to my childhood heroes. A man whose strenth and deeds of daring would live forever. Later‚ in my teens‚ I realized that being considered heroic probably wasn’t everything it was made out to be. I had started to realize that many of my childhood heroes had feet

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    Since I stopped devouring books and using the computer much (because reading triggers migraines)‚ I’ve been bored. I hate being bored. Every hands-on craft I try causes wrist pain that I haven’t been able to conquer. Baking is fantastic‚ but consuming all that I make isn’t a smart dietary strategy. So I’ve decided cooking will be my new hobby. Although deciding to do something I’ve never particularly liked for fun is a little weird‚ it makes a lot of sense. I’d love to have a hobby again. I like

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    It has been said‚ “Not everything that is learned is contained in books.” Compare and contrast knowledge gained from experience with knowledge gained from books. In your opinion‚ which source is more important? Why? Two main sources we gain knowledge from are books and practical experience. Some people think knowledge from books is more important than that from experience‚ others suppose practice brings about more necessary knowledge than books do. Clearly‚ each of them has its own advantages

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    LESSON LEARNED There are many valuable lessons that I have learned throughout my life. The most important aspect of these lessons is that I have gained valuable knowledge through their experiences. We pay money for lessons taught in college and pay emotionally for our personal lessons‚ whether they are taught in school or through a personal experience that usually stands out from the rest. My lesson learned was a personal lesson. I played on my high school basketball team. I have some

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    Week Three Reading Notes Julia Serano‚ Whipping Girl I found this book as disturbing but yet inspiring as well. This book is about a transsexual male to female. Transsexual is a person who has undergone a sex change operation whose sexual identification is entirely with the opposite sex. I could say that the book is disturbing because as I go through words and sentences‚ images keep showing up in my head. He was discriminated because of his change of sex and his behavior (girly boy). Being

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    One year I learned the hard way about shopping the week of christmas. That one year it completely escaped my mind a few gifts that i forgot to purchase for some of my family. On a saturday morning i decided that i would venture out and try to find the last straggling few presents. I thought that if i left this early in the morning since lots of people wouldn’t be up this early on a saturday but boy was i wrong. I asked my mom to drive me to the mall and when we got there i noticed how packed the

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    How do I Learn English ? My full name is Bagas Wiku Gunadi‚ I live in Indonesia and Indonesia is my native language‚ I am a student‚ I learned English very well ‚ Why must I learn English?‚ I should find more reasons to force myself to learn english. 1. English is an Importance Languange 2. Get Access to Knowledge 3. Communicate with People 4. Looking for more Oppurtunities 5. English is Easy to Learn English is not my primary language‚ Definitely I must learn English to

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    Effects of Motivation on Learned Helplessness Learned helplessness is a psychological condition in which a human being or an animal has learned to act or behave helpless in a particular situation‚ even when it has the power to change its unpleasant or even harmful circumstance (Seligman‚ 1975). This feeling of helplessness is generated when the individual has been exposed to previous uncontrollable events and thus learns to fail in the current situation because responding in the past had yielded

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    Julia Kent is an American USA Today and New York Times bestselling author best known for writing edgy contemporary romantic comedy and boundary pushing contemporary adult books. Since starting out in 2013‚ she has attained much success selling over 1.5 million novels with 16 titles making the USA Today bestseller list and four on the New York Times bestsellers. Some of her most popular novels include The Shopping series‚ The Obedient Series‚ The Random Series‚ and The Her Billionaires Series. The

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    Homosexuality: Biological or Learned Behavior Axia College of University of Phoenix Homosexuality is at the front lines of the nature versus nurture debate. Many studies have been conducted‚ but a clear cause has yet to be found. Anti-homosexuals‚ consisting mainly of religious groups‚ believe that homosexuality is abnormal‚ unnatural‚ and can be changed. Because of their beliefs‚ homosexuality must be a learned behavior. Whether homosexuality is biological or learned behavior is still a mystery

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