Thinking “Why her?” As I sat there beside a hospital bed holding my grandma’s cold hands‚ I knew the time had come. This was the moment we were all running from but eventually it had caught us up. Then in the blink of an eye it was over… My grandma had been battling lung cancer for most of the time I can remember. Certainly for most of my child hood. She was a very strong and stubborn women‚ luckily for me‚ I didn’t not have to witness chemotherapy; the hair loss‚ vomiting and all the other countless
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Have you ever been jealous of someone who is more successful than you? Have you ever think about why could this happen? It is common that employees complain about their work situation‚ their picky boss‚ and their outstanding colleagues. In every area‚ there are several outstanding geniuses. They stay there‚ and it seems like they can never be surpassed. They are like myths. Have you ever considered why there has always been someone who seems like relax but better than you and stands there forever.
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Being brought up in a house full of hard working American citizens where each person helped the world positively in a different way has helped implant positive ethics and values into my overall character. As a child all I could remember was how hard my family worked. My father would work overtime at General Motors‚ while my mother would put her love for creativity into people’s homes by wallpapering and painting. Growing up in this type of atmosphere allowed me several advantages. I could have
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Austin Knaack Mr. Konen English 11- 4th 11 Jan. 2015 Hard Work to No Work Speech Purpose: Discuss and inform my audience about the value of hard work‚ and how the value of hard work has decreased over time. I. Intro a. Welcome‚ name b. Talking about the value of hard work and how it changed over time c. Hard Work i. Where? ii. When? iii. Why is it not being valued? II. Start of America a. Hard work set the foundation to the new country b. Their hard work (P) i. Countless hours 1. Manual Labor a. Pruning
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Hard Work Beats Talent It was September 10th‚ 2016‚ at the red‚ white and blue cross country invitational. That day was the first day I broke 17 minutes and I got 16 minutes and 52 seconds in a 5k (3.1 miles) and it was only the beginning of the season. This has been one of my goals since freshman year‚ but I just couldn’t reach that last year. Finally‚ this was the year that I reached my goal and‚ It took a lot of uphill battle and dedication through the summer. This summer I ran about 5 times
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The poem that I decided to write from Anne Bradstreet is called “To my Dear Loving Husband”. I love the thought of love; I love the meaning of love. Love to me is a feeling that each individual feels. I connected to this poem because after reading a few lines I understood with what the author was trying to portray. The first line grasped my attention‚ Anne said “If ever two were one‚ then surely we”. To me that’s what love is. Being able to meet someone and fall deeply in love to the point where
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Anne was sitting down at a wooden dinner table writing on some papers."Bethia‚ please sit down with me."‚ she said as she looked up from her work. "I am going to finish cooking us a dinner‚ you can get started on these poems." Anne said as she handed me 3 poems. The first one I read was called‚ "The Author to Her Book". The title immediately caught my eye and I spent a minute or so trying to decipher the meaning of it. I settled on two ideas‚ it either meant that the "Author" was God leading
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I. Title: To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet The title can give the reader a general idea on what is this poem about. Anne wrote this poem to her husband to express how much she misses him and ask her husband to come home soon. She loves her husband very much by the action of sending him a love poem. II. Organization (Stanzaic or Continuous? Importance?) This poem is continuous. It is a one and unbroken piece. The poet is expressing how much she loves her husband and how happy to be
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Classmates‚ My assigned poem for this weeks discussion was "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet. The poem is of closed form comprised of both rhythm and rhyme‚ and gives a vivid image of a woman’s bountiful and enduring love for her husband. Given the time period during which Bradstreet lived‚ and the imaginable struggles her and her family must have gone through‚ a significant other such as this would have been a Godsend. I couldn’t imagine having to go through the struggles that
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Hard Work but No Reward How many times has someone given all that was possible and worked as hard as possible to achieve something‚ but to no avail‚ there was no reward? At some point‚ it has happened to everyone. Nikola Tesla‚ astronomers searching for extraterrestrial life‚ and even Lennie and George in Steinbeck’s novel‚ Of Mice and Men‚ have all come upon this unavoidable conflict. George and Lennie in Of Mice and Men are two “Average Joe’s” just trying to work up enough money to buy some land
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