I believe that giving back to the community is important because the town I reside in has turned me into the person I am currently. I also think that I need to give back to my family and friends because they have played essential components in my growing‚ the land because it has provided me with the materials I will need to live and my district for showing me the correct way people should be treated. The first person I would give back to is my mother because throughout my whole life she has been
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not realize all the consequences refugees face since they fled and how their lives have been turned inside out. The novel Inside Out & Back Again written by Thanhha Lai is about a girl named Ha and how her family flees during the Vietnam War. Throughout the novel their lives had been turned inside out and they returned back by end of the novel. Inside Out & Back Again definitely is an appropriate title for the novel for so many different reasons. First of all‚ Ha’s life was turned inside out when
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Never Back Down Review A) Event Synopsis and Theme 1. The film opens in the middle of a high-school football game‚ with Jake Tyler helping his team to win. Frustrated‚ one of the players from the opposing team taunts him about the death of his father from drunk driving. Known for his hot temper‚ Jake immediately begins a brawl with the opposing player. The brawl is captured on the crowd’s mobile phones and personal video cameras‚ and soon is downloaded to the internet. This is in fact the last game
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The World on the Turtle’s Back is an origin story created by the Indians about the formation of Earth and how life came to exist on it. It states that before Earth existed‚ there was just Water‚ and the Skyland. A women falls from the Skyland only holding a handful of seeds after the chief uproots the Great Tree. As the women is falling the birds living below in the water‚ all agree to do something to help the women. They then fly up to her as she is falling and catch her and lower her down to the
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Back To Honduras The family is one of the most important things in the world. Lourdes should have to go back to Honduras with her family and recoup the relationship with her children; the children need a mother not a person who sends them money every time. Even thought the economic in Honduras is terrible and there’s no job‚ the family need to stay together and Lourdes can support her daughter and son with her only presence. Lourdes is sacrificing a big thing‚ her family for a miserable salary
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Going Back to School as an Older Student. Her last child has graduated from college‚ so the mother now has time to go back to college. Having spent much of her time working and supporting her children in their scholastic developments‚ she has decided this is her time for self-gratification. Or it could be‚ going back to college after being away for many years is a valuable opportunity to network with likeminded individuals. Or else‚ it might be an opportunity to live out her dream. Going to college
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he said‚ "for it is a dream of great power and we must do all we can to make it come true" ("The Earth on Turtle’s Back")‚ people began to realize that individualism could not be contained to one individual. Although the idea of individualism is set on the morals of one person‚ in order for their ideal world to come true‚ it needs to be shared with others. In The Earth on Turtle’s Back‚ if not for an individual who had a vision‚ the world would have not existed‚ if Skyland’s wife had not shared those
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the sea. The she falls down the hole‚ and birds carry her onto the back of a turtle and she offers to plant the roots she got from the tree for them to grow foodz but there’s no dirt on the giant flying ball of water we call Earth‚ so all the little animals start swimmin’ down to reach the bottom and find dirt but none of them can do it‚ and then the Muskrat is like "I can do it!" So he swims down down down‚ and doesn’t come back. Then his little drenched body floats to the top and he has dirt in
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The Death of A Poet The classic eighties movie Back to the Future‚ starring main character Marty Mcfly‚ centers around the unintended impact of going back in time as he accidentally interrupted his parents from meeting each other and falling in love. Thus dooming the couple and threatening Mcfly’s existence‚ conflict is created‚ and the story progresses. This is a butterfly effect of his actions and their first-hand consequences. In the play Julius Caesar‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ the tragic
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Morgana’s preface to A Bridge Called My Back is personal to me as just this year I have defined myself as a woman of color. I am a diverse mix of African-American‚ French‚ and Hispanic descent. Most of my ancestry came to American as non-speaking English. My upbringing shared a large‚ colorful mixture of environment and cultural practice that I am blessed to experience. Thus‚ I have an open mind to accept all races and ethnicities. However‚ after reading the preface‚ I was unaware the context and
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