twentieth century “passed” as white to assimilate into the community and live their lives free from fear. In William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”‚ Homer Barron is a mixed race man who “passes” himself as white to succeed in society‚ which leads to his demise when his companion Emily Grierson kills him to avoid scandal. What is “passing”? To understand why Homer Barron would want to “pass” one must first understand what it means. Passing is: “an opportunity to gain
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point in my life‚ I want to graduate from college‚ and obtain a degree in which I would be able to acquire a successful career. How will I go about doing that you ask? First I feel it appropriate that I introduce myself to my audience. My name is Ruthea Buenaseda. I am a 21 year old student currently attending DeVry University pursuing my Associate’s Degree in Web Graphics Design. Prior to attending DeVry‚ and prior to pursuing my program‚ I never thought that I would want to be a Web Designer
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Why I want to attend college Going to college doesn’t just mean getting an education‚ to me it means succeeding to a level of learning to where I can make something of myself and be proud of it. People say they want to attend college because they just want a good paying job‚ but that really doesn’t mean anything. Going to college to get a high level of education puts you in a rank of succeeding to the top. I‚ myself would love to attend college to reach those high peaks that I call my goals. I’d
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TO CUBA Cuba has been on my “must see before I die” list for about ten years now. Something about the impossibility of it made it more appealing to me. I wanted to experience a country that wasn’t dominated by consumerism‚ a place where new trends rarely reached‚ and most of all‚ I wanted to experience what it meant to live a Cuban life. And now‚ since President Obama took a trip to start mending the not-so-stable relations between both countries‚ I knew it was my last chance to visit before McDonalds
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Why I want to become an accountant. Composing. Why I want to become an accountant? Have you ever been in the accounting department? I have been in the accounts. Everywhere numbers and digits‚ and small and large‚ very different‚ but in the end all agree with each other. Accounting! Surprisingly interesting. Mayakovsky Accountant - responsible profession. It requires a mathematical mind‚ here it is all very logical‚ exactly. The main principle of accounting - rigid logic. Some people believe that
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destination and I also have one but first of all I like my country the most‚ which is Pakistan and I could sacrifice myself for my country. The country which is my second favorite county is America. I want to visit America for many reasons. Actually that has been my dream since from my early childhood. America’s culture adores me and me there are many different types of culture living there. America is one of the superpower and has a big contribution to nuclear field and I want to see that all they
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may love or hate the designs we see‚ but we never really think about the person‚ the brain behind all the madness. Where did these ideas come from? Who could possibly think and imagine the images we see for all this work? Mike Salisbury might be the answer to these questions. Mike Salisbury started the first five years of his career as an art director for West‚ the Sunday supplement of the Los Angeles Times‚ in 1967. Because of production costs and failed revenue the magazine was terminated. Before
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life I want to accomplish many things for my family and me. Something I really want to accomplish is to be someone to remember in the future. I want to do something that contributes some kind of benefit to the human kind. I want to achieve something everyone can benefit from‚ possibly something that may save lives. There are many kinds of obstacles in life but I know with my family there to support me‚ I will accomplish whatever I set my mind on. In the future when I go to college I really want to
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I like to think of people in the medical field as everyday heroes‚ I’ve always admired them‚ I enjoy the idea helping those in need‚ whether it is a major-medical procedure or a simple laugh. As I’ve gotten older I started to take in to consideration that maybe this was what I would like to do for the rest of my life just like all people I saw and I admired when I was younger. Now that I am in the 11th grade‚ college is soon approaching and I found myself confused as to how I plan on getting to my
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wonder where life will take them next. Most young adults feel that it is indispensable to enter the work field‚ but I feel that going to college is more important that getting a job once you leave from high school. As a child that has grown in the inner city of New York I feel that going to college is a marvelous choice for self-improve. There are so many reasons I want to go to college; I believe that going to college is the first step to my success. College is not only an education of a career that
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