When I first started this class I was very anxious about what to expect. I was hesitant and unsure if I am going to make it through‚ I doubted myself‚ every week I wanted to give up‚ mainly due to the fact as English is not my first language. As the class progressed‚ I felt more and more confident because of the different resources offered by the professor. Those resources were a very good aid in my writing. For example‚ in my first essay‚ the article written from the perspective of Donald Trump’s
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"I think‚ therefore I am" The statement "I think‚ therefore I am" lays the groundwork for Renè Descartes ’ argument in the Meditations. To understand this expression‚ one must put themselves in Descartes ’ place. He started off trying to figure what he can know with certainty. He examined a large body of knowledge and figured out that he cannot be certain of any knowledge at all. Beginning in Meditation Two‚ Descartes searches for the something that must be true no matter what. This led to the conclusion
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Black & White: I am Who I am One thing that truly sparked my attention for this assignment is the title‚ “Who am I and Why Does it Matter?” Over twenty-two years of my existence‚ I still ask myself this question every day. I cannot guarantee that I have an absolute answer‚ for I am still in the process of personal discovery and grasping the concept of personhood that differs at a particular time. What does it really mean to be me‚ especially at this point in time? Am I the same person now as opposed
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Cozma Composition I 27 June 2013 My Eighth Grade Experience The events we go through during life’s course influence our outlook on life and helps assemble who we are as individuals. These events can either have a negative impact or a positive impact. I have chosen to share a personal event that had a positive impact on my life. As a young child I always detested school‚ therefore I never tried to do my best because it was not important to me. Every school year was the same‚ I socialized with my
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I have thought about it and in the past I have had things that changed me for better and for worst and things that I regret doing and not regret doing. Like during junior high I changed my look where my hair was down and I had glasses to hair as a Mohawk and I have contacts. That’s something that I’m happy has happened to me. One thing that I regret was not growing my Jedi’s braid on the right place of my head. In the past I used to be a very good student and not a very good soccer player. Then
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What You Pawn I Will Redeem I found Sherman Alexie’s “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” particularly interesting in terms of style and voice. The narrator seems very nonchalant about all of the events that occur in the story. The main premise is that the narrator‚ Jackson‚ a homeless Native American‚ finds his grandmother’s regalia in a pawnshop and aims to buy it back from the owner. He can buy the regalia back for a thousand dollars‚ so he sets off to try and make the money. The interesting thing
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traits about myself that I had not known about before. I have learned about who I am as a person‚ my values‚ and my beliefs in more depth. Without the social studies class and curriculum‚ I wouldn’t have learned about how each event in my life relates to the concept of liberalism and the history that brought it to it. Social studies have taught me that every concept I have learned is apart of my everyday lifestyle‚ with every moment relating to liberalism. In other words‚ I have learned with the class
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What I’ve learned from Men Is it true that women could learn some useful things from men? And is it right that women are always responsible for every interaction? Is it their responsibility to keep the conversation going well? Also‚ are women too polite in situations so men take advantage of them? And many other questions could be asked; they might or might not be true. Every gender has his/her opinion of these questions; males could answer these questions differently from females. According
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WHAT IF I MISSED THE TRAIN…. (A Recollection of a journey from Bodh Gaya to Patna Junction) The preaching hall overflew with the devotees with supreme mirth at their hearts to receive the sacred empowerment from His Holiness. It was on 10th January‚ 2012‚ the final day of His Holiness’s 32nd Kalachakra Empowerment at Bodh Gaya; the sacred seat of Buddha Dharma. Personally‚ it was my first ever journey to the place inside Bihar and so for Kalachakra. It enthralled me for being able to attend this
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“I was really white and because a cruel fairy stepmother‚ who was understandably jealous of my beauty‚ had turned me into a too-big Negro girl‚ with nappy black hair‚ broad feet and a space between her teeth that would hold a number-two pencil” (Angelou 2-3). This quote from Maya Angelou’s memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings acts as an example of how racism had already made its way into Maya Angelou’s life‚ despite her being such a young age. Maya Angelou portrays this theme of racism throughout
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