Skating Happy Valley‚ OR From giant‚ steep‚ and scenic hills to going fast down any steep slope within the valley. The sensations from going fast down a hill with only you and your board is an indescribable feeling. To some it may seem as little as a hobby or something to do to pass the time. Yet to me it’s a feeling like no other. As intense as it seems‚ 35mph+ is relaxing more so than anyone but a skater could fully understand. The rush yet soothing feeling of windy blasting against my face‚ the
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brightness of the early morning sun woke me up from my deep sleep. I walked down the stairs with eyes that were half opened still drowned in the lake of drowsiness when the striking red – colored calendar shocked my eyes. ’22 December’ was the date on the calendar. I smiled upon seeing the date. It was mother’s day. Every year‚ my younger brother‚ younger sister and I always plan something special for our mother on this beloved day and this year I was planning to do something different. No more gifts‚ just
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Prado‚ Kathleen Clarisse A1C Life Can Be Happy if People Will It to Be With every year that adds to one’s age annually‚ every individual also gains sufferings as well as questions of doubt about the pleasure and simplicity that was once the definition of life. As we travel further into our existence‚ we realize that life is not always about rainbows. It has been that way since Jesus’ era‚ but in the end‚ our happiness is always up to us. Jesus time was also a time of agony‚ problems sprout
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Happy Days by Samuel Beckett The play ’Happy Days’ is a humorously dark and ambiguous play. The play is primarily a one-woman show. It is an interesting play that wrestles with themes of loneliness and extreme optimism in the face of utter hopelessness. The play unfolds rather loosely as we are introduced to Winnie‚ a middle-aged‚ happy-go-lucky woman buried up to her waist in sand. Behind her and hidden from view sleeps Willie‚ her husband. Winnie goes about her normal routine rituals. She
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Hillel Schwartz‚ author of Never Satisfied‚ observes in the short essay “Fat and Happy?” that in the United States‚ “a fat person’s prior identification is with fatness; as a status‚ fatness comes before religion‚ race‚ sexual preference‚ income‚ gender. Only in a society so content with doing away with fatness could it become such a distinct and negative stigma” (par. 10). Schwartz’s comment gives a brief glimpse into what could be described as the fat society; a never ending series of fat discrimination
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How to raise a happy‚ healthy child is not something that most parents are taught. In fact‚ many just stumble through the entire process‚ albeit with the best intentions. Consequently‚ it is all too common to find an unhappy state of affairs in families‚ with constant friction between parents and children. The main problem with children is how to live with them. The adult is the problem in child raising‚ not the child. A good‚ stable adult with love and tolerance in his heart is about the best therapy
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Throughout southern literature the "happy darky" character is a common character played in incredibly odd situations. The "happy darky" character is an African American character‚ who endures many struggles in life because of their race and social status in society‚ but throughout it all the character still remains in high spirits on the outside‚ but deep down inside the reader knows the hardships of the internal struggles which the character appears to hide. The character Jim in Huckleberry Finn
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Does true happiness exist? Happiness is a pleasant emotion that one appears to have‚ it is acquired through countless stimuli‚ whether they are material or emotional. Having a temporary happy mental state may reflect judgments by a person about their overall well-being. The Happy Man by Naguib Mahfouz shows that happiness is an overwhelming feeling that makes one not function properly in society and in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest happiness is unattainable‚ and patients being confined
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“One Big Happy Family” The article I read was about “one big happy family” Written by Anndee Hochman. The story was about young women whose family life seemed to be the ‘American dream‚ for those of us looking in from outside. However‚ one day author realized that in order to find happiness within herself she should first learn how to listen her feelings. Summer she‚ her family and all other relative’s get-together at their beach house. While she was child it was fun for her to spend summer
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In The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn the ending was not satisfying because finally Jim has the freedom‚ but Huck is not happy. Jim has freedom since Miss Watson is dead and no one is looking for him‚ but he did not have to run in the first place. In the novel Tom states “Turn him loose! He ain’t no slave; he’s as free as any cretur that walks this earth” (Twain 289)! This means that Tom is trying to persuade Jim on how he is free because he is not a slave anymore since Miss Watson died. A family
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