Cunningham 1 Ronnie Cunningham Morse English 111 03 Oct. 2013 How I Learned To Swim Learning something new can be a scary experience. One of the hardest things I have ever had to do was learn to swim. I was always afraid of the water‚ but I decided that swimming was an important skill that I should learn. I also thought it would be good exercise and help me become physically stronger. What I did not realize was that learning to swim would also make me a more confident person.
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school‚ like going to Africa to visit young patient suffering from AIDS‚ or wandering around the yard in the soft moonlight to gain inspiration of composing songs. How can you seek inspiration through the combination of love and nature can hardly be learned through professors’ lectures‚ but by using our hearts to feel and to appreciate. Going to the place where people lead a strenuous life as well as experiencing the pain from diseases does help us realize that we should appreciate the happy life we
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some family members‚ I could never have been completely prepared. No book of advice or voice of wisdom can prepare another for the situations and feelings encountered in high school. I can hardly narrow down the three most important lessons that I learned in possibly the four most difficult‚ unbelievable‚ and thrilling years of my life; but‚ I’ll try. Being the oldest sibling‚ and having parents in their own little world I had no one to tell me or guide me. I had to put all my effort possible into
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Lesson Learned There comes a time in everyone’s life when bad things happen that we wish had never occurred. This experience‚ that result in being punished or even disciplined by our parents‚ guardian‚ police or even by a teachers‚ often leads us to learn an important life lessons. Soon‚ we realize that we did something we know we should not have done. Growing up‚ I was always the kid who had to be punished; not because I was bad‚ but by doing and saying stupid things‚ and by keeping the wrong
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Alcoholism: Genetic or Learned Behavior? First‚ before I could answer this question‚ I had to do a little research. Alcohol addiction is a physical dependence on alcohol which occurs gradually. Over time‚ drink too much alcohol changed the balance of chemicals in your brain associated with the pleasure aspects of drinking alcohol. Excessive‚ long-term drinking can affect the balance of these chemicals‚ causing your body to crave alcohol to restore good feelings or to avoid negative feelings
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Gazing up at the stars‚ I thought of all the amazing times I had been a part of. The whole week had been full of zeal. Every day was a payoff of all of the work put into this experience. "Did it have to end so quickly?" I wondered to myself. "Just think of next year"‚ I said to comfort my disbelief‚ "It’s going to be ten times the fun. I’ll make sure of that." After what seemed like years of waiting‚ the day of camp finally arrived. I hastily packed my bags and threw them in my car. My
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A LESSON LEARNED There are many valuable lessons that I have learned throughout my life. The most important aspect of these lessons is that I have gained valuable knowledge through their experiences. We pay money for lessons taught in college and pay emotionally for our personal lessons‚ whether they are taught in school or through a personal experience that usually stands out from the rest. My lesson learned was a personal lesson. I played on my high
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Effects of Motivation on Learned Helplessness Learned helplessness is a psychological condition in which a human being or an animal has learned to act or behave helpless in a particular situation‚ even when it has the power to change its unpleasant or even harmful circumstance (Seligman‚ 1975). This feeling of helplessness is generated when the individual has been exposed to previous uncontrollable events and thus learns to fail in the current situation because responding in the past had yielded
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How I Learned to Drive was written by Paula Vogel. It is written in an autobiographical style‚ although it is never truly clear whether or not it is autobiographical in actuality. The story is about a woman (Lil’ Bit) in her 30’s looking back on her experience of being molested by an uncle (Uncle Peck) from the age of 11 through 18. The brilliance in Vogel’s writing is that despite the subject matter‚ Uncle Peck doesn’t come across as a “monster-like” figure. Instead he seems like a regular person—flawed
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Affects of Learned Helplessness Yilliam Llanes Florida International University Affects of Learned Helplessness Ever been taught to do something and when you try to change your way of doing it‚ you end up failing? You’ve tried but feel like you need to give up? That is learned helplessness. For example‚ in India‚ baby elephants are tied to a pole with rope by their feet and they struggle to break free. They try various times until they have realized they are not able to escape. Once they have
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