I try to participate in as many community outreach activities as possible. I received a gold medal in the President’s Service Award for my contributions to the community. I volunteered as a tennis coach‚ camp counselor‚ Kumon grader‚ and library helper in the summer following my freshman year. Most my volunteer work has consisted of teaching of some form. Education is extremely important to me‚ and I feel it is the best way to give back to my community. Learning is the focal point of my life‚ and
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A Prayer to End Violence Author: Archdiocese of New Orleans/SComiskey Thursday‚ July 2nd 2009 "To Whom Shall We Go?" To Whom Shall We Go? God of Goodness‚ You know that the violence in our community is out of control. It is taking our helpless and innocent ones‚ it is taking our children. And‚ we confess that beyond the violence in our streets‚ is the violence in our own hearts. We contribute to a culture of violence whenever we give in to hatred‚ fear‚ indifference‚ and our own self-satisfaction
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My teaching this semester occurred in a third grade classroom where I learned so many different things about this developmental level. The first and most obvious thing I learned this semester was that every single student works at their own pace and this can vary substantially from one student to the next. My co-teachers and I taught a unit on writing a book with our students and when students were working on writing their actual book the progress levels of students were incredibly broad. On one
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Grandmother In the story A Good Man is Hard to Find‚ the grandmother plays a significant role. She is the typical grandmother of‚ “years gone by”. She gives critical advice to her son and his wife. She seems to know best when it comes to the children as well. She mentions in the story that children used to be respectful towards their parents‚ when the children make snarky comments about her having to go wherever they went. Aside from her feeling that the children are disrespectful‚ the no-name grandmother
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What I Want To Do In My Future In the future‚ I plan on graduating from high school and going to college to be a collision repair technician. I want to be a collision repair technician because I like to work on cars. When I watch T.V. and they work on cars‚ I start wishing that I could do that too. I love to help my dad work on his cars. I know it’s not a “girly” type thing to do but it’s what I love doing. A collision repair technician evaluates collision damage and performs body repair on
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Who loved whom more - Romeo or Juliet?Juliet’s love was more intense than Romeo.I believed this theory because at the beginning of the story Romeo was lamenting over a girl named Rosaline because he was uninterested in his "love."Juliet also was the one that told Romeo if he truly loved her that he would get married to her.Also if Romeo truly had loved Juliet he would never have kill Tybalt‚Juliet cousin. Juliet love was more intense because Juliet’s first love was Romeo.Unlike Juliet‚Romeo was
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Man Is Hard to Find the grandmother considers herself to be a lady as well as a good person. The grandmother does not think it’s a good idea for the family to go to Florida with a criminal‚ the Misfit‚ on the loose and says that she “’couldn’t answer to [her] conscience if [she] did’” (O’Connor 454). On the trip the grandmother is dressed in a blue dress and a wide brimmed hat‚ even though she was reluctant to go on the trip she was the first in the car. The grandmother says that she is dressed
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The Analysis of the Main Character – the Grandmother In the story “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” written by Flannery O ’Connor‚ the grandmother is the central character who grows and changes with the story develops‚ she is a round and dynamic character. At first‚ she seems to be an unpleasant‚ contemptible and selfish old lady who is skeptical about her religion. But in the end‚ when “her head cleared for an instant‚” the grandmother becomes a real believer of God. And she is heading straight to heaven
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of all‚ I went to Daewon foreign language highschool. After graduated highschool‚ I entered Seoul National University ;philosophy and psychology of law major. I created this major and I made my own curriculum for it. After undergraduate‚ I went to Seoul National University law school. I learned various type of Korean law but I studied constitutional law more deeply. So‚ I had a good relationship especially with professor Song who taught constitutional law. And I studied really hard so I passed the
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After the death of Janie’s husband she has a massive time to herself and to think about her past. One of the things she comes across to while she is alone she begins to notice that she hated her grandmother for her beliefs and values that she made her had. Janie states on page 85‚ “She hated her grandmother and had hidden it from herself all these years under a cloak of pity.” Janie never really let her emotions out until now where she is alone and can concentrate on herself and her feelings. Also
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