place where we live‚ a place of residence (www.m-w.com)." However‚ this is a better definition for a house‚ while home is what’s on the inside. If you don’t have family‚ you don’t have home. Feelings of fear and troublesome problems are mainly dealt with in the home. I feel protected from unknown things in the world because home is familiar to me. A home is not just a house; it is more than a place. A house is just a shelter where you live but don’t necessarily love it. Home is where you love to live
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am proud to be an American for having freedoms that other countries only dream about. I am forever thankful to live in the United States. There so many reasons for me to feel proud to be an American today. The fact that we can get a job regardless whether or not we come from the highest social class or the color of our skin‚ is unimaginable in other countries. We can marry who we want‚ and we can believe in what we want without fear of any kind. It’s taken a long time to get
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“What My Pin Means to Me” As a sophomore at Mercy high school I’ve come to know many things. When you start high school you have no idea that the things you’ll learn‚ the decisions you’ll make and the people you meet will affect the rest of your life‚ but that’s what it’s about. It’s about learning and growing so that when you leave high school and you graduate you will have the skills to go to college and become a part of something. What you don’t realize is that while you spend your four years
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Engagement” by Russell Banks is an interesting one. This essay is about the effects of novels on society and how some literary artists who write protest novels ignore the real purpose of a novel. This essay relates to a novel I read titled‚ Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen which‚ according to this chapter is referred to as a protest novel. Firstly‚ the author of the essay‚ Russell Banks‚ greatly opposes the concept of protest novels. He doesn’t refer to them as works of art. He surmises that
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difference to say it out loud. Among all of my qualities and talents‚ I feel that diligence‚ responsibility and perseverance are the most important qualities to me. These core talents helps develop who I really am. I am highly motivated‚ and love trying new things to help advance my skills. I have always taken an interest in the field of phycology. I am intrigued Explaining behavior less abstractly. It gives me more control over my life and even more insight with my four beautiful children. I understand
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Each person that I have known has taught me something‚ but a significant amount of what I have learnt and implemented has come from my mom. The fact that my mom has had the greatest influence on me is simply because she is the person who has taught me to be responsible for myself‚ something which has also helped me to discover who I really am. Her sense of independence is an aspect that has had a profound effect on me; I believe that independence opens up many opportunities because it requires that
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Darkness in literature is quite beautiful when written in poetry‚ like how John Donne and Edgar Allan Poe speak of death‚ the sense of darkness it gives. By using this method of writing‚ it makes the poems captivating‚ and makes the readers read in between the lines to find different meanings in the poem. It makes the readers feel some sort of connection to the poetry. It makes one question the true value death has in one’s life. If death should be taken as something that is not as big of a deal
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briefly explain my life story‚ and how a beautiful woman named Tracy has been a major influence in my life. I met Tracy in December of 2005 and we became close friends. She has been in my life for seven years now. In the seven years of my knowing her she showed me that I was heading in the wrong direction‚ how to find trust in God and she showed me that I deserve a lot more in life. Growing up‚ my adult life was kind of rough for me. I graduated from
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The best lesson my dad taught me was……. To always be honest. I’m glad he taught me this because at home if I do something wrong and he knows I’m lying and I tell the truth‚ I get in less trouble instead of getting things taken away. He tells me the odds are in my favor if I listen. I agree with him because I wouldn’t want my kids to lie to me. You always get in less trouble if you don’t lie. I only lived for about 13 years but every single second I learned more and more. It always ends up embarrassing
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move in down the street and move out a few months later. There has never been kids my age‚ they are always too young or too old to be friends with. The one friend I had moved to Georgia 3 years ago. A theme I found in the novel is to not judge people‚ my community has helped me learn this. When there were kids my age‚ they were always boys. My brother would befriend them and sometimes they would let me tag along when they would hang out together. We would ride bikes‚ play computer games
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