& Lit February 18‚ 2013 The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas Those citizens who elect to remain in Omelas do so at a profound cost‚ and are reminded of their guiltless deal with the Devil each time they visit the child locked in the damp‚ dark cellar. Conversely‚ each person who walks away from Omelas gains an inner strength; they have rejected that contract‚ and therefore‚ have retained their soul. However‚ they forever exile themselves from the superficial‚ blameless utopia that is Omelas
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played sports my whole life since I was just a young kid. Sports have taught me so much in life and have really helped to make me a better person. Sports are a very good opportunity for kids to meet new people and have lifelong best friends. They teach you so many things in life and it has shown in my life especially. Some might think of children playing sports as dangerous and unsafe‚ but playing can teach kids so many life lessons like being a leader on the team or a leader in anything in life and
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’official’ swimming lessons in my life. It’s something I learned from my husband. • He always try to teach me how to do things especially involve in the aerobic exercises‚ because he knows that the aerobic exercise is good for my health‚ especially swimming‚ which has been found to be not only beneficial for my body‚ but also perfect for relaxing my mind. • About 4 years ago‚ on the strength of his recommendation‚ I decided to learn how to swim. So my husband started to teach me. • At first I was
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Baseball is more than a game‚ practice‚ and even a life lesson. Baseball to me‚ has become my life and has made me who I am because of it. This sport has done numerous things in my life to change it forever. The people I have met‚ the things I have learned‚ and the challenges that I have overcome. I believe that this sport has taught me to be the self confident person that I am today. This game started every saturday‚ since teeball‚ in a small town no one has ever heard of called Iowa Falls. My dad
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Why college education is important to me” Richard Alyn Thompson II My full name is Richard Alyn Thompson II. I was born on the 16th day of August in 1965. The child of Carol and Richard Thompson‚ both of whom are now deceased. My parents were divorced when I was young and I never really knew my father or my father’s family. I have one sister who is younger then me. I was the first member of my family to graduate from High School in over one hundred (100) years. To my knowledge no other member
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so what is it that makes me so different? I wear Nike‚ I drive a car‚ I play video games‚ I have chores‚ and could be considered a pretty normal person. I love‚ I laugh‚ I get angry‚ and I have emotions just like every other human being. The one thing I heavily identify with is football. For as long as I can remember I’ve played ball‚ and made some great friends along the way. The picture in the top left is a great representation of this. Football has taught me lessons of leadership‚ perseverance
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Moving away from home can be a stressful experience for young people Nowadays‚ many young people don’t want to live with their parents because they think if they live along‚ they can do whatever they want. But maybe few months later‚ they will find some problems that they never know how to do before because their parents always do everything for them when they are at home. At that time‚ they will feel stressful. However‚ I think it’s a good way to teach them how to live by themselves‚ especially
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to teach me something. And the most important lessons I learned from my parents are hard-working and honest. A hard-working characteristic is hard to be performed. Its characteristic is only for people who want to succeed in the future. If a person who has a hard-working characteristic‚ he or she can easily to succeed if he or she does something. For example‚ when my family was in Vietnam‚ we were very poor. My father had to ride a tricycle to earn money to support for the family from six A.M. to
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take me to the Rancho Santa Margarita lake with my brother‚ Mark. She would save the end pieces of loafs of bread so we could go to the lake and feed the ducks there. My brother and I would attract all the ducks towards us by throwing these pieces of bread into the water. We would also try to feed the humongous koi fishes that used to inhabit the lake. One of my favorite memory from the lake was when my sibling and I threw bits of bread and the birds would catch the piece in mid air. For some reason
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lived here my whole life and have always felt very safe. This a great place to raise a family‚ and being from a small town has made me into who I am today. We have one high school‚ so I am able to see kids from all over the county‚ which is very important to me. I loved the Governor’s Scholar program because of the diversity it represented. Since we are an average size high school‚ it has allowed me to hold numerous leadership positions. I am a class officer and a student body officer. I am directly
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