Maricar Reyes Instructor: J. Cruz EN100-15 September 25‚ 2010 Essay #2 – Descriptive My Graduation Day The most important day of my life had just happened recently this year. The word graduation means more than a ceremony for me. It means changes in my life‚ to reach a higher stage of my life‚ the time to become a new person‚ the time to grow up‚ time to follow my dreams and separate responsibilities from fun. We have fought the fight‚ and we have overcome‚ and we took our final walk in
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Nicholas Spark’s touching poem This is Not Goodbye. Describes the fact that life will end but goodbye does not mean goodbye. “This is not goodbye‚ my darling this is thank you”. The key theme is that in life we will have to say our final goodbyes‚ but instead of looking at it as if it was goodbye we should look from a different aspect and cherish the memories. This is Not Goodbye encourages readers to look at goodbyes from a new perspective. Teaching us there will come a time to say goodbye‚
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"When you both were married on the same day I born then why don’t you invite me on your wedding‚ now remember‚ I will not invite you people on my wedding"‚ the first time I angrily asked this to my dad on my second birthday when I could not even speak correctly. The same question I would ask my dad every birthday using the same words. The same answer I got with a kindly smile‚ "because you were new born and were so delicate to come". My birthday celebration was an amalgam of excitement‚ joy‚ and
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Goals for My Senior Year My three goals for my senior year are to save money‚ get involved‚ and graduate. I need to save my money for my senior dues‚ prom‚ and other important things that are going to go on this year. I want to get involved in school this year with sports‚ activities‚ and volunteering for things. This will all lead up to the most important one of all graduating and being successful. So now I’m going to tell you how I plan on doing all of this by the end of the school year starting
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Two Poems from Revising America: Comparison and Contrasting Essay Recently‚ my class read “I‚ Too” by Langston Hughes and “Dreams” by Nikki Giovanni. “I‚ Too” differs and is similar to “Dreams” in many ways. These two poems are written by two different authors. The subject of the poems is the same. The mood is similar and there is also a similarity between the styles in the poems. These two poems have many similarities and few differences. In both poems‚ the speakers reveal their feelings of inequality
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In the story‚ “This Was Supposed to Be My Column for New Year’s Day”‚ it says‚ “Dr. Perry was a self-hating procrastinator until it occurred to him in 1995 he was not entirely lazy.” Even when he would put things off‚ he would still do little things. Actually‚ doing little things can lead up to doing the important task one is supposed to be working on. Procrastinating‚ which is putting things off until last minute‚ may seem like a harmful tool‚ but it actually isn’t all that harmful. It may actually
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the National Commission on Excellence in Education and directed it to present a report on the quality of education in America to you and to the American people by April of 1983. It has been my privilege to chair this endeavor and on behalf of the members of the Commission it is my pleasure to transmit this report‚ A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform. Our purpose has been to help define the problems afflicting American education and to provide solutions‚ not search for scapegoats
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The most important day of my life had just happened recently this year. The word graduation means more than a ceremony for me. It has changed my life‚ to reach a higher stage of my life‚ the time to become a new person‚ the time to grow up‚ time to follow my dreams and separate responsibilities from fun. The night before the graduation‚ I had invited my family & my friends to attend a graduation ceremony. On my graduation day‚ I woke up early to go get my hair‚ nails‚ and make up ready for
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Nancy R My darkest day February 12‚ 2010 was one of the worst and most unforgettable days of my life. My twelve year old niece was found using drugs. I was in total disbelief and I didn’t know what to do. My niece had been using drugs for months and it went undetected. How could the family miss the signs? How could the attitude changes go unnoticed? I realized that her attitude was changing but I thought it was normal teenage hormonal changes but I was wrong. I felt as if I had lost everything
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I thought I was going to peacefully take my dog for a walk‚ but I should have known better. This was not going to be a very long walk. I only made it to the end of the driveway before i was interrupted by the dog watcher. I stood at the road waiting for a car to pass. As car passed the man in the black beanie hat and sweatshirt appeared from behind the car. I have seen this man before. He passed by my house often and usually he stopped at my yard and pet my dogs when they were outside in there
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