of slavery is one that should not be made light of. The dehumanization of blacks during this time‚ forced our ancestors to endure the most devastating genocide in human history. On one episode of the tv show‚ Saturday night live‚ Host and cast member Colin Jost and Leslie Jones discuss the actress Lupita Nyong’o being named as People Magazine’s “Most beautiful person”. Jones questions the standards that defy beauty by comparing America today to America in slavery times. Although Jones’s rant is seemingly
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Most Embarrassing Moment I was in 5th grade at Quail Valley Elementary (QVE). Our class was writing reports on animals. I was a stutterer‚ and had been since I was 3 or 4 years old. I had picked "Sharks" to report on. I knew I would have to read my paper aloud to the class when I turned the paper in to my teacher‚ Ms. R. Knowing that‚ I tried to make my paper as short as possible. Ms. R was a new teacher at QVE. Our principal was disabled‚ and couldn’t walk‚ but she had no problem getting to each
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Period. Bach was born in 1685 in Eisenach‚ a town in Thuringia‚ Germany; he was raised and spent most of his life there. Because a scarcity of finances his career and himself were limited to where he could travel. Unlike many other known composers of the time‚ he never went farther north than Hamburg or farther south than Carlsbad. Consequently‚ many referred to him as “one of the greatest and most influential composers of the Western world‚” particularly of the Baroque Era. (“Classical Net”)
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Pfeffer Reading Journal By: Samira Hasan The story is about Ashleigh (or Ashes as her dad calls her) Ashleighs dad and her mom. Ashes parents is very different from each other. Her dad is a very simple man who is unemployed‚ poor‚ and a huge dreamer. He makes false promises and tries to make people around him happy with false statements. Her mom on the other hand is the straight opposite to the dad. She is straight as a yardstick‚ and certainly not a dreamer. I would call her a realist.
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missionaries to succeed. While serving my mission I learned how to relate with people and turn complete strangers in to life-long friends. Aside from the temporal benefits‚ I matured spiritually in ways that I couldn’t have anywhere else. Serving a full-time mission has taught me what it means to love and serve with no thought of reward. Completing a mission is definitely my most significant achievement to date. Learning/Teaching guitar When I was 12 years old I picked up my first guitar and started learning
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My Most Unforgettable Experience Whenever somebody ask me to relate an experience that I can never forget‚ millions of different experiences comes to my mind. But there is only one experience which I would consider memorable and unforgettable. It was the first time I went to Enchanted Kingdom in Laguna where I rode a roller coaster. Why? The fear‚ excitement and anxiety that I felt‚ is beyond one’s imagination. Let me recall the whole incident. It happened in 2007 where I started my career in
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My most prized possession- My initial thought was how could i possibly narrow that down to just one single item? After fifteen minutes of staring at a blank piece of paper trying to figure out what exactly i cherish most in my life‚ it hit me. The one thing in my life that plays the biggest and most important role in my everyday story is my health. When people hear the word possession they automatically think of an object belonging to one. However‚ it is often forgotten that a possession isn’t always
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grasp would be my CD collection‚ because of its monetary and sentimental value. I have a very large and diverse compact disk collection. I estimate that I currently own close to three hundred. When you take in to account that I paid between ten and fifteen dollars for each one‚ you might begin to understand how precious they are to me. My estimate comes to thirty-five hundred dollars. If viewed as a whole it is one of the single most expensive things I own. Second and most importantly is
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Ocean Depths – Page 25 – Chapter 3 CHAPTER 3 – MORE SCHOOL DAYS MEMORABLE EVENTS While I had been in the hospital‚ my family had moved from our home on Hodge Avenue. I am not really sure why but remember being very angry about it. This meant that upon being discharged from the hospital in May‚ the last couple of weeks of the sixth grade‚ I had to start attending a different school! I attended there for the next two years‚ through 7th and 8th grades. Kennedy Elementary School
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Deadbeat Dads: The Affected Everyone can be affected by the actions of a deadbeat dad. Children of deadbeat dads are the most affected out of all the family members. Children can be affected in many ways which can reflect in their behavior and the way they treat people. Children can also act out by misbehaving around the house to getting arrested for attention because there an absence of a positive male influence. These children sometime become shy‚ distant and even angry in life‚ especially when
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