Optimism is hard for me to achieve. I’ve been through so many tough times in my seventeen years and it is very difficult to stay positive. I’ve had to suffer through many broken bones and surgeries‚ depression and the things that go along with it‚ and also being bullied in school. I try to stay as optimistic as I can. Being positive and hoping for the best is about all I can do for myself. My life definitely has not been the best but even through all of the terrible things I’ve endured‚ I can still
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Barack Obama once said “When we fail to pursue peace‚ then it stays forever beyond our grasp. That’s where human progress ends.” With that in mind‚ my partner and I negate the resolution. Resolved: Unilateral military force by the United States is justified to prevent nuclear proliferation. Introduction----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Definitions We define unilateral as “done or undertaken by one party without the agreement
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Charles Spurgeon once said‚ “It is not how much we have‚ but how much we enjoy‚ that makes happiness.” Happiness can be determined based on how much a neurotransmitter‚ such as a dopamine‚ in the brain is produced. It can be also defined as when one rewards oneself for their own achievements of their goals. There are many hardships especially throughout high school years - exams‚ GPAs and more. There are also times where I set my goal either really high or really low and many times I can’t reach
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Happiness is an immense feeling of joy‚ content‚ well-being and satisfaction when something positive happens or when there is a good outcome comes about in someone’s life. Some important things consider about happiness is that it does not need to be achieved by external factors such as wealth and status. These are temporary ways to happiness‚ where the happiness will not last. Instead‚ happiness can be found in other ways that can last longer. It can be found when building relationships with others
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Once as a little kid I planted a lollipop stick in my backyard with the aspiration of it to grow into a lollipop tree. I awoke the next morning to a magical delight. Intertwined in the branches of tree sprung a plethora of mouth watering snacks. I collected the lollipops off the tree and placed them delicately into my basket. I grew up in an enchanted bubble of never ending magic consisting of anything from mansion pillow forts to receiving tiny handwritten notes from the fairies. My mom formed
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Pursuit of Happiness What I learned from the pursuit of happiness in American literature is that you are trying to be happy but it doesn’t always work that way. One person happiness is always from another person’s happiness unless they like to do the same thing. Not only is that person’s happiness unique but the pursuit of it can be unique also. Some people will try to reach their happiness their entire lives and then when they achieve it. It’s not what they even want it to be. Your pursuit of happiness
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America would find itself subservient to Great Britain‚ society would begin to perceive this dream in a different facet. With that being said‚ although the American Dream was constantly altering‚ Benjamin Franklin still believed in the idea of the pursuit of happiness. Ensuing America’s rapid emergence into a new time period‚ society’s original perception of the American Dream would begin to falter. Considering this change‚ the initial American Dream
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Life‚ Liberty‚ and the Pursuit of Happiness Many people have different perspectives on what the words‚ “Life‚ Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” mean. These three words actually do have many different meanings depending on who the person is. These words are natural rights that the thirteen colonies fought for in the Revolutionary War. The Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress that stated the thirteen American Colonies were separating from the British.
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Nowadays‚ the American Dream has become a burgeon dream of every young individual that lives in America‚ in addition‚ is a component that every individual strives for. In my perspective‚ I perceive success as getting an education in the United States. In other words‚ graduating from college in America is what success looks like to me. Not just that‚ but there are three goals that I have to achieve in order for my American Dream to become true. One of them‚ which I listed before‚ is getting a degree
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wishes may not be a serpent to sting you‚ as mine has been…(Shelley 12)¨. The pursuit of knowledge has always been a weakness of man throughout history‚ even though it has been encouraged to be ¨knowledgeable¨‚ there has been a fine line of danger that accompanies any amount of knowledge that can be acquired. In the story of Frankenstein‚ by Mary Shelley‚ expresses this idea as the main character Victor Frankenstein is in pursuit of information and knowledge that can change the nature and even the purpose
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