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    Overcoming Obesity

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    Overcoming Obesity Bird flu‚ swing flu‚ H1N1 and Aids are some of the disasters that people have going through in the last two decades. The more cures scientists find‚ the more disasters emerge. However‚ a disaster‚ which has been ignored‚ is getting common all over the world. “Obesity” is accepted to be a person’s being overweight because of some specific reasons such as unhealthy dietary habits‚ overeating and less activity. This may sound quite normal but obesity has become a lethal disease

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    Overcoming Obstacles

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    Overcoming any obstacle in your path forces you to learn. One example of these learning experiences‚ is life lessons. Obstacles force you to learn new lessons by facing your challenges full on. Miley Cyrus is a great example of this. She went through a very bad spot in her life‚ and yet she overcame it and is now better than ever. As well as your obstacles teaching you life lessons‚ obstacles also allow you to learn from your past mistakes. Once you overcome and obstacle in your life‚ you are not

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    Overcoming Fear

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    “Do one thing every day that scares you” Eleanor Roosevelt “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” Franklin D. Roosevelt Everybody on the planet has more than one fear. Some are more severe than others; some are understandable while others are trivial. Fear is mostly mental. Fear is a menacing part of life. Fear is frightening. Fear is an exciting part of life. Without fear there would be less control in the world. Fear brings notable traits such as perseverance and determinism. Fear

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    Adversity builds character. The challenges we face teach us resourcefulness‚ self- reliance‚ courage‚ patience‚ perseverance‚ and self-discipline. Challenges have a way of bringing out talents and creativity in people that otherwise they might have never discovered. Horace once said‚ “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.” Beethoven‚ for example‚ suffered from difficulty with hearing. He also had a problem with

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    Overcoming Obesity

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    Overcoming Childhood Obesity Angie Zeitler English 122 Instructor: Bernadette Anayah April 30th‚ 2012 Children’s obesity is a problem in the United States. Children aren’t exercising the way they should be and are spending most their childhood lives in front of the television or computer. Research shows that children exercise less than 3 hours a day and most of the time it is at school. With this being said researchers also suggest that as children get older the harder it is for them

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    Introductory 1:Adversity is a common thing amongst the human-race. Almost everyone has had a problem once or twice in their life. For example‚ not everyone can agree on everything. Arguments amongst people aren’t rare‚ and almost every person has been a part of one. Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird had this exact adversity in her life. When she first went to school‚ she found different kinds of classmates with different views and opinions. She even butted heads with her teacher when she told Scout

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    obstacles‚ but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats." The meaning behind Theodore Roosevelt’s quote is to not only overcome adversity‚ but win while doing so. One can’t just have the tools to be great‚ they have to use them. Those that use these tools are the ones that truly achieve greatness. The Roman poet Horace explained that “adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.” Most everyone knows the difference between

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    Adversity is an unfavorable fortune or fate; a condition marked by misfortune or stress. Everyone has adversities in their life. For me my adversity is my parents divorce. It was my freshman year of highschool. Everything changed. I knew something was different because my parents no longer talked to each other like they used to. They would get into arguments and no longer slept in the same room. When I realized my mom was sleeping downstairs I felt bad and immediately wanted to make sure she knew

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    Horace's Adversity Quote

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    Horace’s quote‚"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."‚ simply means that people behave differently in the face of adversity. Facing adversity‚ it usually brings out the best in people or it leads for them to discover something that they knew not they could do. This quote helps in building a person’s character and may also lead to self-discovery for the person while facing adversity. I noticed how people react differently while

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    Overcoming Marginalization

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    Jingwei Zhang English for Academic Discourse: 2 George Schroefper Essay1-First Rough Draft The Key of Overcoming Marginalization THIS IS IMPORTANT: LOOK CAREFULLY AT WHAT YOU HAVE. ASK YOURSELF IF THERE IS ANY REPETITION? DO YOU FEEL THAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE SAME IDEA MORE THAN ONCE? HERE IS A SUGGESTION: YOU WRITE ABOUT SOCIAL POWER. IN BAMBARA‚ WHAT MIGHT SYLVIA DO WITH SOCIAL POWER? WHAT COULD SHE CHANGE IF SHE HAD IT—AND WHY? COULD SYLVIA MAYBE BECOME AS POWERFUL AS HAROLD

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