“Never Say Never” really hit me like a ton of bricks. While it may be true of smoking being unhealthy‚ in spite of this knowing how smoking and drinking was abominable. I went out on a limb knowing it was beyond my beliefs. However‚ I was more than one hundred miles away in a strange environment. Within a few days‚ I started meeting people from different cities. I became close to this one particular girl and I began to hang with her and her friends. Soon afterwards things immediately changed from
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Samantha Torres Professor Reyes ENGL-3A 21‚ June 2024 “This is Water” David Foster Wallace’s “This is Water”commencement speech was very interesting because of how well was able to engage his audience. His choice of language‚ anecdotes‚ and humor played an important role in delivering his message successfully. These elements have been combined to create a compelling and persuasive message that the audience can relate to. Wallace started off with a tone that was approachable and shied away from the
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wondered what a soundtrack of my life would reveal. Although I cannot realistically have a song playing every time I experience an emotion‚ I have some songs that have stuck with me during significant events in my life that could be featured on a soundtrack illustrating my life. The song “Born this way” by Lady Gaga is very relatable. The song quotes “I’m beautiful in my way cause God makes no mistake ‚ I’m on the right track baby I was born this way”. Growing up as a adolescent in this country
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London Sedlock Sedlock 1 ENC 1101-3118 Ben Rallo Spring 2013 My Goals In This Course My name is London Sedlock and I’m writing about my goals in this course. First‚ learning proper punctuation in writing is important to me. Second‚ I want to learn proper sentence structures and avoid run-ons‚ fragments‚ and comma splices. Also‚ I want to be able to properly use grammar when writing
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I am here to tell this insane thing that I did over the summer. It is a interesting story so listen up.So this summer my grandma‚mother‚sister‚and myself all piled into my grandma’s pick up truck with all of our luggage with us me i brought an immense amount of things with me to keep me occupied. My sister brought two books and my old dsi. The drive was four and a half hours long. The drive was from my house to Kentucky. Once we finally arrived at our hotel we went swimming in the hotel’s pool
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Summary This Side of Paradise chronicles the life of Amory Blaine. Born the son of a wealthy and sophisticated woman‚ Beatrice‚ he attends St. Regis prep school. He is handsome‚ quite intelligent and he earns admission to Princeton. He makes many acquaintances who have the same interests as him and who become his friends such as Tom‚ Burne‚ Kerry and Dick. Toward the end of his college career‚ Amory dutifully enlists for World War l. Upon his return to America‚ Amory meets the young debutante Rosalind
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This is NOT a Horse There were a hundred painted shapes on the ground. We looked at eachother in doubt. “How is this ever going to fit together?”said Maddie. “I have no idea”. Last summer I went to arts camp in Michigan. My friends Maddie‚ Eleanor‚ Jessie and I had been working on this modern art piece for a week and the art opening was in two days. So far we had about one hundred wooden shapes covered in “cream cheese”‚ a mix of plaster like paint and acrylics. I had tried to lay out so they went
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to work was the original goal in the colony. Primarily‚ investors looked at using criminals as a source of generating capital‚ but these short term structures would lead to a large lower class with little political voice‚ and this would become a fear in the upper class. This fear of civil unrest is seen as a shift in the working structure of the government. Overall‚ racism was a major factor in how slavery became the standard for labor in Jamestown; However‚ social stability was the primary factor
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The history of the Umayyad dynasty and Schools The Umayyad dynasty‚ started after the death of the fourth caliph. The Umayyad dynasty comes from a long line of members of the Umayyad clan from Quraysh. Mu’awiyya was the first ruler of the Umayyad dynasty and he started an illegitimate kingship. He and his family members claimed to be imams of guidance‚ and the salvation for Muslims. There first downfall was the rule of the third caliph Uthman. He granted himself more power than the other caliphs
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This Will Hurt. “I’m almost completely certain that it is herpes‚” the kind urgent care doctor says to me. In this moment‚ the floodgates of tears I’d been fighting so hard to keep back open up. “I’m so sorry. But we’ll know for certain in a few days.” She sends the prescription to the pharmacy and I do my best to not cry in the lobby. This was the worst birthday ever. During the days leading up to my 19th birthday‚ I was crippled by what I thought was nothing more than an awful UTI. I did everything
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