I Believe Essay Draft 2 09/14/12 Word Count 842 The Power of Forgiveness I believe in forgiveness. I never really understood the meaning of forgiveness. When people hurt me or treat me badly I always thought the best way to handle it is to hold it in. I never showed anger on the outside but just kept it all in. Instead‚ I let it boil inside of me. My kind act toward those who hurt me was a shield from my pain. Most of my kind act was at my mother. I blamed my birth mother
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I believe in miracles. At a very young age I began to get an idea of what a miracle was. Dallin H. Oaks defines a miracle as “a beneficial event brought about through divine power that mortals do not understand and themselves cannot duplicate.” When I was six years old I had my first experience when a miracle took place in my life. I was in our small front yard taking golf lessons from my father in a small cul-de-sac. My father laid down the golf ball on the freshly cut grass. As he swung and hit
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This I Believe I believe that to be an American means to believe in yourself and stand up for what you believe in. So I have a story to tell about a boy in my third grade class and what he believed in. In my third grade class at Fort Crawford we had a variety of students but one student was very different than the rest of us. His name was Gino and he was a Jehovah witness. Gino was everyone’s friend and we did not treat him any differently than everyone else but my classmates and I didn’t understand
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Generous Generosity Generous is an adjective frequently adopted by poets; generosity is a virtue greatly valued by nobilities; generous generosity is a depiction historically inherited by generations. I am always wondering that how does ‘generosity’ develop its personal charisma to attract so much attention? Is it possible to decode its mystery by tracing the origin of ‘generous’? Browsing through books‚ I discovered that some clues keep emerging. From a historic perspective‚ tracing word’s development
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Something I believed that exemplifies me is that I believe in diversity. I especially believe that a University has a well diverse community‚ and how it can grow into a well-respected community. Being in a community that is well diverse‚ will reflect positively on my ability to succeed in a university. Having to be surrounded by different cultures will help me learn and go out of my comfort zone in order for me to fit in. Being in a large community that doesn’t support or speak ill of what I believe can
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2SE 21 July 2013 The Successful Garbage Man I believe in the successful garbage man. This would be seen as a paradox to many people‚ however‚ the success does not come from financial gains but rather the level of happiness and self-fulfillment within the individual. I believe in the thirty year old married man who is content with working at an ice cream shop all day and finally coming home to a wife who loves him regardless of his line of work. I used to think this scenario could never happen
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you have so much going for you!”‚ “But you don’t SEEM depressed‚ you were just laughing an hour ago!” For those struggling with many of life’s abundant obstacles‚ suicide seems like the ideal compromise for the self-destruction and agony to end. I believe that suicide is not the answer because I’ve overcome it myself. I’ve had to learn in the most difficult of ways that suicide is exceedingly traumatic for the friends and family members. 90 percent of people who have taken their own life have a diagnosable
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I Believe In Hope I believe in hope. I’m not talking the kind of hope you have when you are “hoping” for a new car to just appear in your driveway‚ or the kind of hope you have when you “hope” for a new job. No. I am talking about the hope that is necessary for survival. That hope which allows you to persevere through hardships in life because you believe-you know-that there is something better waiting on down the road. This is the hope I believe we all must have‚ and I found this hope for the
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I Believe in Giving I believe that giving is the quintessential to living. Giving for me is like taking a breath of air‚ or the automatic beating of my heart. Giving to others gives me a feeling of happiness such as the sight of a rainbow‚ the sound of the waves crashing on shore or a clear night when you can see all of the stars. It is about making a difference in the life of someone that I may know well or someone that I just met for the first time. The rewards of giving are abundant
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“I believe in love “ When I was growing up‚ through all these years‚ I’ve seen many different people fall in and out of love. My mom and other family members have gone through many relationships with people; some work out and some don’t. I’ve always wondered what it feels like to actually be in a real relationship with another. As a little girl‚ I always thought love was weird and dumb; but now‚ seeing my grandma lose the one she loved so dearly for almost 40 years‚ I noticed‚ that love can be
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