spending time in class talking over the list of spiritual gifts and learning more about each I feel like I can better decide what my gifts are. As we went over them I felt that my gifts are encouragement‚ wisdom‚ service. I feel like these gifts are the ones God has given to me. Encouragement is the gift of seeing the glass as “half full”. It is being able to find the positive spiritual and emotional outcome of a situation. The gift of Wisdom is the gift of being able to work through situations. Service
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Irony Essay In the short story The Gift of Magi‚ written by O. Henry‚ you are introduced to Della. A young wife who is determined to buy her husband‚ Jim‚ a Christmas gift. However‚ when the families’ income was cut back‚ Della tried to make her $1.87‚ which was her total savings‚ enough to buy Jim a gift before Christmas. With Christmas being tomorrow‚ she tries to figure out what she is going to do. She sits on her couch clutching to what is all she has. Her small amount of savings reminds
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continue to impact our lives every day so many years later. I am thankful for the beliefs and ideas they based the foundation of our Constitution on. When thinking about the biggest impact on my generation‚ it is difficult to narrow it down to just one or two. However‚ I feel that America’s greatest gift to my generation is Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Speech. Religious freedom has long been a part of our everyday lives even if we don’t think about it every day. Without religious freedom ‚
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I would define childhood as a never-ending vacation. A weekend without a week following and playtime everlasting. A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful‚ and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal. When I try to recall my childhood days‚ many memories comes rushing. They over whelm me with their intimacy‚ beauty and wonder. Some of them very much
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America’s gift to my generation is the freedom of choice‚ the freedom of speech‚ and independence. Many strong‚ brave men and women fought heroically for our freedom and rights‚ and they still fight to preserve the freedoms they attained. Asa Philip Randolph‚ a leader of the Civil Rights Movement‚ once said‚ “Freedom is never given; it is won‚” and that is what our heroes did‚ they fought‚ consequently winning our freedoms. One of our rights‚ as residents of the United States‚ is the freedom of
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GROWING OUT OF MY MOTHERS ADDICTION Your childhood is what essentially shapes how you grow into an adult. We often repeat things we have seen or experienced in our upbringing‚ and that starts the foundation of the environment we create for ourselves and everyone around us. All eyes are on you‚ and what your next move will be to show you’re worth more than what you’re given credit for. Looking back at my early childhood‚ I realize that I was raised in a very strange to others—but wonderful to me—world
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Deep within every persons heart‚ their own childhood experience could be the most valuable memories they have. There could be just one or many experiences. These experiences indicate the turning point from childhood into teenagers which make them so memorable and unforgettable. These incidents could be good or bad and could be beneficial or not‚ depending on which angle you are looking at them. I personally speaking‚ has had good memories and bad memories‚ however the bad ones has stained deep within
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English Comp II 11 December 2014 The Gift of Love: the wisest of all. Written in the first decade of the twentieth century‚ “The Gift of the Magi” is one of O. Henry ’s most famous stories. It is included in The Four Million‚ his first collection of short stories‚ published in 1906‚ and has been anthologized many times since then. According to Kathleen Wilson‚ ("The Gift of the Magi." Short Stories for Students) the story contains many of the elements
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Wil Mathis Mrs. Caccese AP English 17 October 2012 The Ultimate Gift Life is the ultimate continuum‚ because it truly waits for no one. Our time here is limited and our opportunities are unlimited so make the most of what you have and work hard for what you desire. You have an obligation‚ as a breathing‚ conscious‚ living being to make the most out of your life in honor of those who lost this gift. I was 14 years old when my parents got separated‚ in that first week I stopped going to school
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O. HENRY (1862 – 1910) The American short story writer O. Henry was born under the name William Sydney Porter in Greensboro‚ North Carolina in 1862. His short stories are well known throughout the world; noted for their witticism‚ clever wordplay‚ and unexpected endings. Like many other writers‚ O. Henry’s early career wandered across different activities and professions before he found his calling as a short story writer. He started working in his uncle’s drugstore in 1879 and became a
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