EXPERIENCE IS A GREAT TEACHER Penned by Oscar Wilde ‚this quote hardly holds true ‚when taken for its translation literatim .While Oscar Wilde was a great epigrammatic essayist‚ playwright and poet in his own right ‚ one may observe his thoughts ‚ his portrayal of human nature with its subtleties ‚to be suffused with cynicism and highly flawed. His “mistakes”‚ which notably include falling in love with Alfred Douglas‚ earned him –reputation of a dissolute pervert‚ a highly publicized trial
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COMMON APP ESSAY TOPIC OF CHOICE: "EXPERIENCE IS THE BEST TEACHER" Daniel Guerrero My whole life I’ve been told practice makes perfect. Whether it’s in the tennis court or in math class‚ the more you practice something‚ the better you become at it. In the last few years I’ve found out that practicing and doing is not the same thing. Harry Callahan once said‚ _"experience is the best teacher"_ and without a doubt it is. You can sit five hours taking a business class or 10 hours in a tennis practice
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really want doesn’t lie there but somewhere else instead. "EXPERIENCE IS THE GREATEST TEACHER”‚ an old saying that I suggest that they would benefit more from learning than education in school. Life is a series of experiences. Some of the most simple and important lessons of all can only be learned through the hard knocks of experience. I think we need to learn from our mistakes and also from our past. We cannot escape experience. Experience has taught me that I can become anything or anyone I want
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Past clings to us. The actions of our forefathers‚ their experience in life pave our way at present. The books of great authors may not teach us as much as we learn from experience. Lessons of experience may be hard‚ sometimes one may get a severe blow to experience a reality. Whatever the case‚ experience is great master. Preaching‚ sermonizing may prove of no use‚ but personal experience and that too a bitter one forbids a person from repeating a folly. A man who breaks all the rules of health
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Ramona is a hard-working‚ loving‚ single mother of two preschool aged girls‚ Theresa and Rosa. She works overtime every week‚ just to make ends meet for her and her children. Ramona and her children are in poverty. Unfortunately‚ statistics indicate that Theresa and Rosa will struggle to receive the quality preschool education they need to in order to succeed throughout Kindergarten‚ grade school‚ high school and into adulthood. According to one study by Sum and Fogs‚ students living in poverty
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It was weird how just suddenly my seniors had told us to head back to our room. It was only seven in the evening and we had not eaten our supper yet. Without declining their instruction‚ my friend and I walked back to our room with a lot of questions in our heads. Known as troublemakers at the camp‚ we had the feeling that something uncanny was about to happen. As I opened the door‚ I was startled to find darkness occupying our room as candles were lit on every corner of the room. A cold breeze
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wanted a boy. And my father was really never around‚ he spent his time as an alcoholic. The bond I have is with my grandmother. I have spent so much time with her over the years I was growing up. I do not recall much of my childhood or my life growing up. What I do know is things that my grandmother keep telling me over and over in hope that it will bring back memories and stick in my head. I am going to skip over my childhood and start when I was twelve years old. My mother
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Life experiences bring knowledge to people. Having a lot of good and bad experiences helps us improve our way of thinking; it opens our minds and teaches us unforgettable lessons about life‚ lessons that we have to apply in the future. I have lived such a life experience in my last high school year. Along with 12th grade and turning up eighteen years old‚ I was going to become independent‚ ‘on my own feet’ as some would say. Time has taught me how to take fast decisions. Some of them were bad decisions
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document as a Microsoft Word file to an easy to find location on your computer before beginning. Be sure to save your work as you go. You will upload and submit this document through the assignment submission button in the online classroom. Life Event: A significant‚ but not positive nor uplifting event was the death of my father at the age of nine. Explanation: He was in the Air Force and I remember watching him walk out of the door‚ back straight and his head held high. I was in
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Life Experience Winnie Tan After my brother and I had completed our exam‚ we felt happy and wanted to make a trip. So‚ we threw this suggestion to our parents. My father immediately agreed with it because he also wanted to relax himself. We decided to go to Tanjung Manis because that is the place that we can enjoy ourselves by swimming. On that day‚ my brother and I woke up early. My mother prepared sandwich‚ hotdog and chicken wings for us. We put all our gadgets
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