“Never give up” When someone says you cannot do something‚ it’s only a better opportunity to prove them wrong. Tearing my ACL was one of the worst days of my life. It was my senior year in high school‚ my last year to prove a point. I was hoping I would be recognized‚ I wanted to show that it was my turn to make something out of myself. I went up for the ball and “WHOMP!” My leg flew forward. I fell to the floor more shocked then in pain. I didn’t know what to do. I called my mom and she rushed
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Speak For Those Who Can’t Do the companies L’Oreal‚ Lancome‚ Garnier‚ Maybelline‚ Sephora‚ and Neutrogena sound familiar? All of these companies take part in animal testing. Every year 19.5 million animals die in testing every year‚ and these companies are involved. Products produced by these companies are some that one may use every day. Hopefully whoever uses their products feels guilty for putting those animals in all that pain and torture just to look pretty. Certainly‚ this is not a liable
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been drinking since I was twelve‚ but I don’t think I was exactly twelve. Maybe older‚ maybe younger. I’m a little tipsy now but that’s not what you want to hear. I was once told I drank like an eel‚ I’m not sure what that meant‚ but again that’s not what you want to hear. You want me to sit here and tell you the exact traumatic moment when I began drinking; It was the first time I ever had that nightmare. The next day I asked my dad why drank‚ he said ‘I drink to forget’. He never told me what he was
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TPS-FASTT “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden Title: Perhaps the poem is a description of the coziness and the joy of Sundays during winter; a time for indoors‚ family‚ hot chocolate‚ etc. I expect much imagery pertaining to cold weather‚ togetherness‚ and other winter wonderland type visuals. The word “those” is used to describe the winter Sundays‚ so therefore it is looked at as a common topic. Paraphrase: Both the son and his father got up early on Sundays‚ his father put his
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their poems and works of art‚ such as the poems and art created by the children at Terezin Concentration Camp‚ some of which are compiled in I Never Saw Another Butterfly. Looking at a work of literature through its historical context shows that we can‚ according to Tim Gillespie‚ “[U]se literature to learn something about history” (38)‚ and by looking at I Never Saw Another Butterfly through a historical criticism lens‚ some things about the time period become clearer. The children at Terezin Concentration
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For my gut reaction writing‚ I read “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden. The poem brought back memories of cold winter nights by the fire. My living room has a gas fire‚ and even when it is below 40‚ the living room can still be 80. The second stanza reminded me of the days I would spend cross country skiing‚ especially the part where Hayden says the cold is splintering and breaking‚ because when you are cross country skiing in the mountains around Seattle‚ you can hear each little sound caused
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Those Winter Sundays In the poem‚ “Those Winter Sundays‚” by Robert Hayden‚ he tells a familiar story about the relationship between a parent and a child. The story is that more times than not‚ the child is oblivious to the sacrifices. He talks about the father still getting up on Sundays after a long work week‚ and how he would build a fire to warm up the house before his kids would get out of bed. He would also polish his child’s shoes. He would do all this and no one would ever thank him. “When
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Dylan Benson Ms.Pierson English1- 4th 17 April 2013 Freedom is never free Sometimes in our lives‚ freedom isn’t free. Martin Luther King Jr. said “freedom is never voluntary given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” Marches‚ Sit in’s‚ and the bus boycotts. The first topic to prove the quote is true is with marches‚ Vice President Joe Biden marched with black civil rights leaders Sunday in Selma‚ Alabama to commemorate the "Bloody
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“Never Back Down” I believe in never backing down. My mom told me this when I was young. I heard this was when I moved into my new town. I felt like a stranger and my mom’s words to me were “Never Back Down.” I didn’t know what that meant until after I got home. She told me that it meant I can always learn something new even if the experience was bad. I was in a fight once at school because of a misunderstanding and the first thing that went through my head was “never back down” and my mom also
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Professor Denton English 1A 14 October 2012 Never Marry a Mexican Clemencia said‚ “So‚ no. I’ve never married and never will. Not because I couldn’t‚ but because I’m too romantic for marriage. Marriage has failed me‚ you could say. Not a man exists who hasn’t disappointed me‚ whom I could trust to love the way I’ve loved. It’s because I believe too much in marriage that I don’t. Better to not marry than to live a lie” (69). In the short story “Never Marry a Mexican” by Sandra Cisneros‚ a young
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