When people hear how I quit my job as a lawyer after six years of corporate work‚ they assume I burned out and fled the nine-to-five (or‚ more accurately‚ the nine-to-midnight)‚ leaving contracts‚ negotiations and lawsuits behind. In reality‚ I long had aspired to travel the world for a year‚ inspired by a documentary I saw in high school about trans-Siberian trains. Staring at the screen‚ watching birch trees and snow and a railroad track running for thousands of kilometres‚ I resolved to take the
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Ken was my voice teacher. I never admired anyone more than him. He meant the world to me. It would be safe to say that we did not have a typical teacher/student relationship. I was infatuated with him. He was tall dark and had the voice of an angel. But he was eleven years older than I was‚ and he was my teacher. I learned from him‚ I confided in him‚ and I trusted him. I never pictured myself being with him. I never dreamt he would think of me as a ’woman’ and not just a love-stricken seventeen
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I have chosen to write about myself for I think I am creative in my own humble little way. Creativity is seeing the same situations others do but putting an individual twist on the outcome or circumstances surrounding it. The Navy’s Seabees have a "can do" motto which exemplifies creativity. "You probably will not have the resources available so you must think out-side the box to accomplish the job". Most people attempt to accomplish their duties and obligations in a timely manner. "Your assignment
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“I Felt A Funeral‚ In My Brain” In Emily Dickinson’s poem‚ “I Felt A Funeral‚ In My Brain‚” she is describing the mental breakdown of her sanity using a funeral as a metaphor and she does this very nicely within this poem. The first time reading through the poem‚ it was hard to make of it. The second time reading the poem‚ it seemed like her soul was witnessing her own funeral. It was not until the poem became clear that Emily Dickinson witnessed the funeral only by the sense of sound and feel
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Harris Professor Mathewson English 132-01 September 24‚ 2012 How I Broke My Wrist I thought I was going to play a friendly game of football until something bad happened to me. I broke my left wrist and it hurt really badly. I learned that breaking a bone is very painful and recommend that everyone avoid anything that could cause you to get hurt in serious way like breaking a bone. It all started on the weekend when my brother and I were really bored. We decided to go up to the athletic center near
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are simply the results of the decision. Any person could inherit millions of dollars and yet not be successful. We see time and time again when people hit the lottery and yet are still failures. All the money in the world cannot create a successful mind frame. Millions of dollars in the bank can’t change a poor‚ unsuccessful mind frame. That can only be changed from within. I was inspired to write this essay by a person who cancelled a meeting. I was having a string of cancellations at the
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Do you have any person that you admire most in your life? I’m sure that the so-called admiration characteristic is a natural instinct for every human being. Whenever something or someone that fit our appetites feasts into our eyes‚ we surely will come into an action which is known as admiration. We might completely or partially transform in the way whereby our admired persons do. Therefore logically‚ all of us should have the most admired person in recesses of our hearts. There is no exception for
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As I walked down the hallway‚ it seemed endless. I could not feel my feet hitting the ground‚ nor notice anyone around me. I just walked. The smell of the place was intoxicating. It reminded me of insulin or disinfectant spray. I entered her room; it was dark. The sound of beeping machines echoed in my ears. I walked to her bed. She was sleeping soundly. Her body was frail and looked as if she was bone covered with skin. She was weak and tired. The cancer had been eating away at her‚ slowly
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In the short story How I Met My Husband by author Alice Munro‚ the setting takes place in a small country town around the end of WWII. It is easy to tell that Edie feels a little out of place in the Peebles’ house since they are new to the country and are more wealthy than Edie’s family. When Edie was describing her job she says‚ “Mrs. Peebles had an automatic washer and dryer‚ the first I ever saw‚” (Munro 220). This quote shows how not many people were able to afford luxuries like modern day conveniences
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honesty‚ I gave up on any good coming out of late adolescences. That was until at the age of 18 I had my first born‚ my baby girl‚ Nadia. Having Nadia was a immense wake up call for me. There was still some growing up to do‚ but the first time I held her in my arms I felt I found my purpose. It was no longer about me‚ it was all about this little creation that was depending on me to love and care for her. All of the risky‚ self centered thinking ceases to exist. Even though her father and I were both
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