ernard Cooper is the author of 6 books‚ including the award-winning Maps to Anywhere‚ A Clack of Tiny Sparks: Remembrances of a Gay Boyhood‚ Truth Serum‚ A Year of Rhymes‚ Guess Again‚ and most recently The Bill from My Father: A Memoir. Cooper is art critic for the Los Angeles Times and frequently contributes to The New York Times Magazine‚ Harper’s‚ Nerve‚ The Paris Review‚ and five previous editions of The Best American Essays. His work has received the PEN/Hemingway Award‚ the O. Henry Prize
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liked most maths and hated sciences with a passion. So my career choice had to based more on the math end of things. After High School I attended WITC – Wisconsin Indianhead technical Collage‚ I graduated with an Associate’s degree in accounting in under a year and then continued towards my bachelor’s degree at River Falls‚ WI. I took my education seriously and was extremely disciplined in completing early. I take pride in working hard‚ and my good grades proved that I put in a lot of effort. I did
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My Hero essay My hero is my dad. He is always caring and is always helping my family in every which way he can. Another thing that makes him so good is that he always wants us to try new stuff. When we have sports stuff he will go out of work now and then and take us there and will watch us play. Lastly‚ he is a really good Dad‚ and I love him. One thing that he has taught me to do is how to trim a house. He would take every weekend so that I and he could go to the old house we used to live at
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My name is Phuc Dang. I would like to borrow this opportunity to express some of my deep appreciations to you. First of all‚ I would like to thank you for a wonderful semester. You are an excellent instructor‚ even though I rarely ask for your help in class. You have given me the opportunity to practice more on my writing skill by writing for the papers and quizzes. I really appreciate that. Secondly‚ your lectures about Racism and American Education are somewhat out of my league because those subjects
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In the excerpt‚ “My Hips‚ My Caderas” by Alisa Valdes‚ gives distinctive examples of her life story to develop a meaning for how society perceives women. America strives to fit the perception of beauty because it is the single physical characteristic that makes us matter. Her anecdotes show us how the world shapes our thoughts to brainwash us. Alisa Valdes personal experiences are a service to provide a better explanation of how we perpetrate in order to be welcomed in society. “Beauty is in the
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My dad is my inspiration and has been for years. He’s always there for me when something is wrong and gets at me when I do something wrong. He is a firefighter which is what I’ve always wanted to do. My inspiration for my dad started when I was 5. We played catch in the backyard every day and I promised that I would be as good a father as he was to me‚ to my kids someday. He is very humble and never takes anything for granite. He tells me that he loves me every day doesn’t wait until I’m gone
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better at the same time. Overall with the progress I have made I feel confident about my writing. This is because I have put effort into trying to improve skills that I lack in‚ take more time to read and pay attention to what we are reading in order to remember details about the book‚ and have taken more care in my writing compared to years past. I also made progress with poem analysis. This can be seen in my Midterm Essay. This piece proves that I have made progress because when we first started
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When my friends asked me to write again‚ I decided to start my compilation with something meaningful‚ a themed essay for the My Teacher‚ My Hero theme‚ contrary to last year wherein I had a hard time choosing who to pay tribute to‚ this year is much different‚ it was easy and I believe‚ it is the most obvious choice. Everyone has someone to keep them on their own feet as they walk through life. Normally‚ it would be your parent or friend‚ but mine is different‚ I had kept myself intact with the
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My Major and My Future. Thesis: My major and my future is not so promising. Outline: a. China-Vietnamese relations. 1). Territorial dispute. - South China Sea. 2). Diplomatic tension. - evacuations of Chinese nationals. b. Economic outlook. 1). Principal challenges. - inflation‚ etc. 2). Foreign investment. - confidences
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until its name they knew and called with love‚ and call it HOME. One of America’s most quoted writers William Arthur Ward said: «A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams». And I fully agree with his opinion. My home is my castle. We all know this phrase from our childhood. In actual fact‚ we‚ all human beings have a universal desire to love and to be loved. What a blessing it is to have a loving and peaceful home! What can we do to nurture the sanctuaries of our
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