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    babysitter. Throughout my teenage years I always felt that I was missing out on High School events‚ for instance; football games‚ dances‚ parades‚ etc. because I was always babysitting. The more my parents made me babysit‚ the more I realized I loved being around kids‚ they’re just adorable‚ sweet‚ and it’s just a great thing to watch them grow and learn. Watching other children over the years I’ve learned a great quantity on how to take care of them and I would love to continue on learning how to take

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    About two out of a thousand children in the United States are born deaf‚ and I happen to be one of them. Being deaf is not what people think. People treat me different because of their misconceptions of my disability‚ and it is time for them to stop. I constantly have to prove that I am not as physically or mentally limited as people think I am. If I believe in myself enough‚ I can be just like everyone else. I was born deaf. When people find out‚ they assume that I am cursed. For the record

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    The Fear of Being Judged

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    The Fear of Being Judged As I was reading Shelia Bender’s‚ “The Art of the Personal Essay: How to Turn a Nagging Question or a Troubling Experience into Entertaining and Insightful Writing”‚ I could not help but think that some of the fears Bender mentioned applied to instances and experiences that happened in my life as well. One of the many fears mentioned that personal-essay writers face‚ stood out especially to me. This fear was to “affirm that hunger for self-knowledge drives them to write

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    The Perks Of Being a Wallflower By: Stephen Chbosky The characters in this book are the embodiment of what it is to be a high school student. Charlie is a freshman who is looking for himself coming into high school with no friends‚ and a sister who doesn’t acknowledge him when she sees him at school. Luckily within the first couple of weeks he finds two new friends‚ Sam and Patrick. The downside to this is that they are both seniors. Charlie‚ although confused‚ is immensely intelligent‚ opinionated

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    Being Poor By Thievery

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    Being poor is the recipe for a hard life.Being poor as a 5 foot 9‚145 lb‚15 year old kid with giraffe legs and arms thinner than wire hanger is even harder.This was the case for Marvin.Marvin lived with his mom‚dad‚2 brothers and grandpa in a tiny apartment that was more like a dungeon than a living space.The apartment was dusty‚dirty and cramped at all hours.The neighborhood he lived in was notoriously dangerous.Marvin hated his life and what he had to do to survive.He was a thief.He would steal

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    Being a better teacher

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    “Don’t try to fix the students; fix ourselves first. A good teacher can make even the poor student good‚ and make the good student superior. When our students fail‚ we as teachers‚ too‚ have failed." Marva Collins. My choice to become a teacher was not made lightly. This decision was a culmination of a process of reflection about what I wanted to do with my life. I have chosen a career in education because I believe that it is one of the most important functions performed in our culture. I believe

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    people from different countries of the world. We can find the diversity of cultural and languages. The most necessary for everyone to communicate with each other. It is very important to speak two languages. There are two advantage of being bilingual. The first benefits is that you can get a job easily and a second advantage is that you can translate to other people in you r language. The first reason is that you can get a job easily. Some companies prefer the workers

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    that will lead to their survival. Piggy’s actions and the reactions from his fellow survivors foreshadow his eventual death. Lord of the Flies is overflowing with creative symbolism‚ surrounding every event and character; Piggy is no exception. From being the representation of scholars to the comparison with Prometheus‚ Golding ensures Piggy’s short life is well remembered. Piggy’s literal function in this novel is to be the intellectual and logical thinker to counteract the emotional thinking

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    Essay On Being A Hero

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    overcomes it anyway”-Christopher Reeve. Some people think that a hero can be anywhere from an everyday person who holds the door‚ to someone who saves a life . A hero is someone who is confident and courageous‚ even if the challenge at hand is difficult. Being confident about a weakness and overcoming it is courageous. From the non-fiction book‚ Edwin hubble‚ Genius Discoverer of the Galaxies‚ “He devoted his life to studying the night sky”(Datnow). This shows he was confident by knowing he would discover

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    Being Bilingual in America

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    Bilingual in America {text:bookmark-start} {text:bookmark-end} Bilingual in America {text:bookmark-start} {text:bookmark-end} Shonese Warrington {text:bookmark-start} {text:bookmark-end} AED/200 October 18‚ 2009 Kimberly D. Jackson Bilingual in America There are many ongoing debates on whether or not our children should learn more than one language. I feel that it is imperative in today’s society to know more than one language. Knowing more than one language opens up so many

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