that as a child‚ I was not exactly normal or average. While most children held the all too common dream of being a racecar driver or astronaut‚ I set my goals more realistically and thought I would most likely end up at a desk job in a cubicle; and while other people’s ambitions diminished while growing up‚ mine grew. I remember the look of astonishment on my parents’ face when I charged “interest” to my brothers while lending money around age eight‚ I could never quite tell if it was a look of disbelief
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The American Dream When I was nine I moved to Newark‚ New Jersey from Ecuador to have a better life. The whole time I was in Newark my mother would always tell me to study hard and go to college because I can do anything I could in this country. At that age I had different plans and having a successful career wasn’t on my to do list. I joined the military at the age of 18 to explore the world and leave Newark‚ because it wasn’t a good place to live. After joining and going through training I did
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Everyone’s America is different. My version of America is Detroit‚ but that doesn’t apply to everyone. America is like a little sister. Sometimes I love it‚ while other times it only causes me frustration. Generally‚ it is a bittersweet thing‚ but it becomes something I learn to live with. Many things have changed since Martin Luther King was assassinated. As African Americans‚ we’ve progressed and strived bit by bit for equality. As Americans‚ we’ve regressed and only created a negative persona
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Dear Director of the Dream Understanding Institute‚ I hope that my information I have come up with will be help to you guys at the Dream Understanding Institute. Dreams can be classified into three types; there are the nightmares‚ the realistic dreams‚ and the fairytale dreams. Each dream can be divided into parts just like a story. There is the main plot‚ with the exposition‚ then the rising action followed by the climax‚ falling action‚ and ending in the resolution‚ unless you wake up in the
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American dream We all have dreams of different kinds. To some people‚ the American Dream is having all that is available in this life. It means having a great job‚ a family and a secure future. To others the American Dream simply means having the opportunity to prove their abilities. My dream was to move to the United States‚ go to school and learn the English language. In this essay I will be talking about my life back in .‚ the steps I took in moving to United States‚ my struggles living in
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Hello! My name is Márcia and in my free time I enjoy dancing‚ going for a walk‚ watching TV‚ listening to music and reading. In the future I would like to be a veterinary‚ because I love animals! I like to treat them and also because I think this is a job that has a lot to do with me. I just hope to achieve this goal because I’d love to work in a veterinary clinic. If I go to an interview‚ I should answer all questions clearly and directly; I should take an extra copy of my CV and some references
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Van Gogh and The Representation of Happiness Through His Own Bedroom Vincent Van Gogh‚ Bedroom in Arles‚ 1889‚ Oil on canvas‚ currently at the De Young Museum (San Francisco)‚ “Van Gogh‚ Gauguin‚ Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay”Exhibition. On a smaller canvas than two other similar paintings‚ Vincent Van Gogh carefully painted for the third time his bedroom in Arles‚ a charming town in the south of France‚ and thus created this approximately 22
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watching his TV show. Miss Orbach and Benjamin yelled back and forth on the staircase for about 5 minutes. Then Miss Orbach realized that Benjamin never came to the staircase to physically see what she wanted. She then went upstairs in the children’s bedroom and turned the TV off. Benjamin got up and said sorry. He and all the other children came downstairs. Miss Orbach has been working on the chore
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A dream within a dream 1. Good morning today I will be talking about the poem a dream within a dream written by Edgar Allen Poe‚ first published in 1827. The poem is a two stanza lyric poem. The poet asks himself if a person can determine the difference between reality and fantasy by asking " is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream". The poet is reflecting his feelings of the time and exaggerating his confusion as he is watching the important things in his life slip away as if they
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I am currently your typical junior high school girl. My priorities consist of getting good grades‚ pleasing my forever dissatisfied parents‚ having some semblance of a social life‚ and trying to get the boy sitting across the room to notice me. Now I am tasked with finding a perspective of the American dream‚ which isn’t exactly on my list. So what is my perspective of the American dream? I guess I could say the typical things such as “through hard work and determination I can live a happy and free
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