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    My debate as my starting point I found my close friends in Junior High School‚ who introduced me with a thing called “dream”. We made dreams together‚ one of them was that we want to study aboard‚ succeed in life‚ and together we will build an Indonesian restaurant in USA. In my 1st grade of vocational high school‚ I applied for student exchange from AFS‚ but I failed. I applied again from Nacel Open Door organization and this time I was selected as Indonesian delegation for 1 year student exchange

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    MY CULTURE ? I ve been through many situations in my life‚ many have been about my cultural identity. I ve noticed many things about the people surrounding me‚ especially the diversity and influences there is in my daily life‚ thanks to them i am able to learn more and more about the culture i belong to and the ethnicity i attend when I m around those who influence me. My friends have influence in me as well‚ they have all this different interesting ethnicitys‚ I wonder‚ why not me ? ‚ why am

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    whole pack. “Can’t have you smoking in the truck‚” Joe said as he stuck one of Hector’s prized cigarettes between his lips. “Might catch on fire.” Hector had bit the inside of his cheek. He couldn’t afford to make Joe mad. Hector’s five hundred dollars was in Joe’s pocket‚ and Hector didn’t trust him not to kick him off the truck and keep the money. Hector had been loaded up into the back of a cargo truck with thirty men‚ huddled together in the dark‚ hoping that their trust in Joe hadn’t been misplaced

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    understanding the character of Achilles. From the first chapter Achilles dual personality is evident. Also via Achilles in the first chapter Malouf emphasises the notion of fate and destiny. In the opening pages of the first chapter the narrator reveals Achilles dual personality. From the beginning there is a constant conflict between his dual personalities. On one side his immortal mother Thetis (Goddess of the sea) and in contrast his mortal father. Although Achilles is mortal he longs to live an

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    The Childhood of Two Generations: My childhood vs. My parents’ All I know about my parents’ childhood came from the story that my grandparents told me‚ and some old pictures that my parents showed me. Even if they have seen the pictures‚ the memories of their childhood still fade from their minds. I felt that they do not want to reminisce about that period of time. When I look back to my boyhood and compare it with my parents’‚ I realize that my generation enjoys huge benefits from a stable political

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    reflected on my successes and downfalls from the previous term and developed goals. My first goal was to complete the assessment portion of patient care in one appointment by the end of the term. I was able to accomplish this goal right away‚ and with almost every patient I saw‚ which I am proud of. My second goal was to accurately chart restorations‚ using detailed surfaces‚ and other dental appliances. Again‚ I was able to achieve this goal and as a result became much better at dental charting. My final

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    If you’ve heard of the Exodus or the Iliad‚ then you’ve heard of Moses and Achilles‚ the heroes and leaders of their people. They both show courage and greatness at the end of their stories‚ but do they really show it in the beginning? That is the journey that both Moses and Achilles take throughout their career in order to save their people. Their careers are considered glorious because their culture and society deems it so. They are considered examples human excellence and set the standards for

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    during the times of the ancient Greeks and Romans‚ as well as during the medieval period when Germanic tribes ruled Europe. To help them get through their very insecure days‚ people would tell oral stories of great heroes‚ like those of Achilles‚ Aeneas‚ and Roland. Achilles was a Greek war hero who fights in the Trojan War‚ a ten year long war between Greece and Troy (present day Turkey). Aeneas was an epic hero in ancient Roman folklore. He was a soldier who fought in the Trojan War and after surviving

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    dialogue as Achilles boasts to Hector how dogs and birds will maul his dead body. The mortally wounded Hector‚ struggling to speak‚ begs Achilles for some funereal dignity. He implores Achilles to accept the ransom that his father will offer in exchange for his body. Achilles‚ full of rage‚ denies his pleas and tells how the dogs will rend his body and how none can stop this no matter the size of the ransom. Knowing that an attempt to convince Achilles otherwise would be futile‚ Hector accepts his

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    My Hero: My Michigan Hero

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    intended it to go or when they get genuinely frustrated? A person who is always very generous and patient with everyone and everything they do. And someone who is always there for you no matter what. This to me is always going to be my grandpa Donald Stokely. One reason he is my Michigan hero is he is always generous with both his time and money. He gives hundreds of hours each year working on the Ludington high school baseball diamond that is named after him. He wants the field to always look nice for

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