Have you wondered or thought about why homeless people are the way they are? Is it because they didn’t get an education? I plan to go to college‚ because I want to succeed in life and not be in the streets later on. I also want to make my parents happy. College is right for me. College is fundamental to me for several reasons. For example‚ in the article College Is Worth The Cost‚ by Brooks C. Holtom states that “college graduates earn $2.1 million in a lifetime income compared with $1.2 million
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Jenae Sweet Writing 95 Helping Friends In I Am the Messenger‚ by Markus Zusak‚ Ed‚ an underaged cab driver‚ is given four Aces with three different issues. Throughout his unexpected journey‚ Ed meets new people‚ makes new friends and finds out some things he didn’t ever know about his old friends. Ed finds out how to help them through their own problems‚ and‚ in the end‚ finds out why he is chosen to help them. Ed starts off with one card‚ which is the Ace of Diamonds‚ where there
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I had been only 13 when I decided I wanted to make money. That was an easy thing to do‚ as all young teenagers have desires for things‚ and money is mandatory to buy such things. It was especially easy for me to decide this as I could see my family was struggling. But deciding you have the want for money‚ even if you have the will to work for it‚ and actually feeling the cold hard cash in your hands are two very different matters. I should really start this story with my first job‚ teaching guitar
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An accident I have witnessed Normally‚ it is through the newspapers that we get to know about an accident. It is quite rare that we witness an accident ourselves. About 5 years back‚ I was a witness to a bus accident which is still so fresh in my mind. I was sitting in a restaurant along with my parents. The restaurant was on the first floor and we could see the busy Western Express Highway from the window. I was watching the cars‚ buses‚ and trucks speeding by. Just then I saw a bus trying to
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Lexi Karhnak 1st period “I Have a Dream” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is unquestionably one of the most influential and inspirational speakers of the century. He has left a large dent in America’s society from the speeches he has addressed to the public. Through these speeches‚ he expresses great intelligence in the way he forms his sentences to become an inspirational message that changes society for the greater good of mankind. In his “I have a dream” speech‚ he uses historical alliteration‚ figurative
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he movie I picked was I Am Sam. It is about a grown man who has a mental capacity of a 7 year old raises his baby alone own until child protective services deems him as an unfit guardian. Eventually‚ his daughter Lucy gets taken away from Sam because child protective services say he is not capable of taking care of her. He then goes out and finds a lawyer‚ Rita. She takes Sam’s case pro bono. I picked a random movie from the list‚ started with the first column of movies and typed each one into the
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Film There are many films that I have seen that have left me with my mouth open‚ but there is one film that stuck out from all of them. My favorite film of all time is‚ I Am Legend. This film had so many moments that left me in amazement. It is about a man that spends several years by himself trying to find a cure for a horrible side effect that made the human race lose every bit of its human traits‚ as a result from the cure of cancer. What I loved about this film is that it was not
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Growing up I read almost everyday. Reading took me to places I never thought I would go. I’ve been an alien fighting against others to save earth‚ a lost bird looking for my mother‚ a highschool kid going through what every other high school kid goes through. Of course that was before technology took over my life but I still manage to pick up a book every now and then. I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore‚ one of the most interesting books I’ve ever read‚ is the first book in the Lorien Legacies series
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Apocalypses are defined as the end of the world‚ whereas creation represents the beginning. What comes in between? Once an Apocalypse ends‚ a creation story begins; thus‚ there is a cycle. This cycle is portrayed by Richard Matheson in his novel I Am Legend. The protagonist‚ Robert Neville‚ survives an apocalyptic world war and a dust-storm-carried disease‚ but he survives alone. He is the end and the new beginning. Thus‚ Matheson suggests that within an apocalypse‚ there can still be elements of
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I am from the projects. From a place the looks like a car wreck. I am from a neighborhood that was up to no good. From a place some people can relate to the hood. I am from a stepmom who treats me as her own. From being put back in my place because I was thought I was grown. I am from a lil boy who didn’t want nothing but to have someone to play with. I am from the south with mosquitoes and you will get bit. I am from two split parents that who were never together. From a dad and mom that do nothing
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