Math is not my best subject. I would go as far to say that at times‚ I HATE MATH. Don’t get me wrong‚ I use math every day. At work‚ I have to turn fractions into decimals. I can figure out my change at the store. I am even getting through this Stats class. I just wish I knew exactly why I don’t like math. It might be because it seems like such a foreign language to me. I can remember when I started learning math. I used to sit in my class and use my chisel and rock slate to carve the numbers
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It was quite a gloomy day to be walking‚ but here I was walking home. Today was not the best day of my life. I know for sure that today is the worse day of my life‚ and there is no way that any other day can be worse. Yesterday my parents told me that I was a huge disappointment and they wanted me to go off into the world unprepared and die. Then today I had to face a horrible person. I was already extremely depressed and suicidal‚ yet I did not want to tell anyone around me. For some reason‚ I decided
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Starbucks A Worst Nightmare I was making a grande vanilla bean frappiccino while other customers were waiting in line to have their order taken. Business was slow that day‚ but heck‚ everyday at my job was a slow one. I would think to myself‚ Why the hell am I still working here? when this place gets no business at all. Of course‚ I work at Starbucks‚ not the ones that you see on the corner of the streets‚ but I worked at the one in Target. At my Starbucks‚ we would have one person working
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body. However‚ sometimes dreaming is not so enjoyable. Of all the adults‚ 2-8% has one or more nightmares per month (L. Chanin‚ 2011‚ Nightmares in Adults). Unfortunately‚ I am one of them. In general‚ nightmares are not regarded as serious issues but I think they should be because they can cause serious physical and psychological problems. According to H. Kellerman (1987‚ p. 217)‚ the word nightmare derives from the Old English word “mare”‚ which was a mythological demon who brought frightening
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A/N: a short story done for my mock English GCSE exam‚ where the question was to ’describe a nightmare world’. Instead of going for the cliché‚ hell-like landscape‚ I decided to base my so-called ’nightmare world’ off of a real nightmare‚ in the world we live in – a young boys perspective during a bombing in WWII. Note: I got an A for that exam paper! Nightmare World Every day they come‚ in their great terrifying birds of steel‚ overhead and through the clouds that I once thought held heaven
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A Nightmare World Flames. They were all I could see as I stared at the lit cigarette igniting the beginning of my death. The pain of burning streaked across my foot as I rose into the air and violently stamped my feet to end the brutal agony. The conflagration rose high above the window‚ to give me a glimpse of the azure blue sky outside and the rest of the world that had no idea of my imminent death or the flames that would eventually destroy the whole town. The fire was almost mocking me‚ as
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The Beautiful Nightmare One of William Shakespeare’s most sublime works‚ Macbeth‚ displays the tragic downfall of a once trustworthy and noble man named Macbeth. Shakespeare is able to transform the nightmare portrayed in this play into art that everyone can relate to‚ making the play obtain such high quality and admiration. The idea of a nightmare is dissimilar to the genre of horror in a variety of ways. A nightmare is very realistic and universal‚ whereas horror is not; it is exaggerated‚ very
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Darwin’s Nightmare can be described as an allegory presenting a world of super powers and their greed to steal‚ destroy and kill. It is not only the story of Eastern Congo alone‚ but an eye opener to the imperialistic interest of some “war lords” in the natural resources of some endowed nations that are considered lesser power. Examples of such are nations like Iraq‚ Nigeria‚ Rwanda‚ Burundi‚ Sudan‚ or Sierra- Leone. The endless conflicts are often described as tribal or religious‚ but the underlying
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Gothic Nightmares Fuseli‚ Blake and the Romantic Imagination at Tate Britain 15th February- 1st May 2006 The exhibition is divided amongst eight rooms‚ a number of artists‚ work‚ such as Henry Fuseli‚ James Barry‚ Joseph Wright of Derby‚ Catherine Blake‚ Philippe Jaques de Loutherbourg display their work collectivly. This collective exhibition including many great artists is an interesting way of showing their work‚ acting like a whole installation. The main focus of the
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TANZANIA`S NIGHTMARE A nightmare‚ this refers to a very bad dream that a person seems to experience. Tanzania is one of the most blessed countries when it comes to natural resources but it`s faced by extreme poverty and underdevelopment‚ for so many years this nightmare (poverty & underdevelopment) has been torturing the minds of many Tanzanians. THE BEGINING Tanzania is a fruit of the unification of two young countries which are Tanganyika and Zanzibar under the leadership of J.K.Nyerere and
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