on my game and tryout next year. I was devastated; I could not believe it‚ I had thought I deserved to be on that team‚ but the coach did not. Without that day‚ I would not be here playing basketball on a scholarship for Wheeling Jesuit University. That day taught me so much. I came into that basketball tryout overconfident‚ like I had made the team already because I thought I was that good. In eighth grade I was the man in basketball. I could not be stopped. I was always the first one picked
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Calcutta‚ India‚ Aug 26‚ 2011 (Washington Bangla Radio) In India 5th September is celebrated as Teachers’ day as a mark of tribute to the contribution made by teachers to the society. 5th September is the birthday of a great teacher Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan‚ who was a staunch believer of education‚ and was the well-known diplomat‚ scholar‚ president of India and above all a teacher. The day commemorates the birthday of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakhrishnan‚ a philosopher and a teacher par excellence‚ and
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Vipassana (insight) meditation. Therefore mindfulness‚ enriched through daily practice‚ strengthens the ability to be aware of each moment with compassion‚ and a more balanced state of mind rather than remaining in perpetual dissatisfaction. In day to day Buddhist practice‚ “mindfulness is the observance of the basic nature of each passing
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Signal‚ Fire station‚ Horse stable‚ Plant nursery‚ etc. Goals: The goal of MapleBear schools is to establish an enthusiasm for learning and knowledge in young children that will serve as a foundation for future success in the education system and in life. In development of the MapleBear program‚ we have drawn on the best practices in early childhood teaching and learning. MapleBear recognizes that literacy in English is absolutely fundamental to a child’s success in English medium schools. The
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Training Day Even though extreme‚ Training Day shows its audience a real life scenario of the power of temptation and the terror that is happening everyday in many of our inner cities. This film attempts to open our eyes to the idea that no one is immune to corruption‚ not even our police. Training Day is a thought provoking film that addresses the issues of corruption and violence that many people face everyday in our society and makes us face the fact that there is a darker side of the law
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“Graduation Day” As the beautiful sky happily accompany sunrays‚ that shined down on the entrance of the field house where the ceremony of my graduation took place. Someone above must have known it was my graduation day and blessed me with a beautiful day. I was so excited‚ that the night before the graduation I couldn’t sleep at all. I tossed and turned all night‚ thinking about the graduation and if he’d even show up. I waited for this moment for four long years and I will make the best of it
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Throughout life‚ I have had many best days. The best time in my life changed from being the worst times to the best times. Both ways have become milestones that will be remembered forever. The best day of my life was the day I got my car. This was one of the best days because of the feelings I had when I received was very exciting and different from any other feelings I ever had. Those feelings still exist today each time I think about it. This day was really special to me because it was my birthday
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The Remains of the Day Discuss the themes of loss and regret in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day. The story The remains of the day‚ by Kazuo Ishiguro is filled with both aspects of loss and regret. The term Loss is an amount that one suffers due to an event and the term regret means to feel sorry for actions that have been done. These two major themes can be both seen literal and figurative over the course of the novel. The book stresses importance on the past and all that could of
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The Day it Happened did a very good job in conveying its theme‚ establishing its characters‚ and using setting and symbols to convey a meaning important to human experiences. In this short story it is clear that the theme is continual domestic violence against women in some cultures. This is important to human experience because domestic violence in some cultures has been happening for many years‚ and society seems to know about it but doesn’t take it as seriously as it should be taken. In general
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young‚ children learned to use imagination‚ self-entertain‚ and willingly respect their elders. I remember going across the street to play with the other neighborhood kids. I would impatiently wait for them to come out on Saturday morning‚ anticipating all the excitement we were going to have that day. I spent the whole day (until suppertime) outside playing ball‚ riding bikes‚ making mud pies‚ or conquering other planets that were actually just huge piles of dirt.
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