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    Romulus My Father: Values & Belonging Romulus values education and learning‚ but sadly‚ only completed primary school. He is a tragic figure from the very beginning: 3: ...an inefficient postal service‚ however‚ prevented his application [for high school scholarship examinations] from arriving on time. He cried bitterly‚ not because of lost employment prospects‚ but because his love of learning would never be fulfilled. Romulus values European landscape – he does not find serenity‚

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    I was ripped from the home I grew up in. It can be hard for kids to move. I think it was tough for me because I had to leave my friends‚ my safe place‚ and the home I grew up in. At the age of ten‚ I moved to a new house. It was disappointing because I had to leave the friends I grew up with behind. We would play together every day‚ but the day I told them I had to move‚ we all sulked around. My mom was in a very good mood‚ but every time she looked at me I couldn’t help but cry because I was leaving

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    external and internal factors that exist around them. Raimond Gaita’s biographical memoir Romulus‚ My Father and Margaret Atwood’s poem “Further Arrivals” clearly demonstrate similar concepts of how a person’s sense of belonging may differ. Both texts construct related understanding of the harsh experience of migration to Australia‚ the struggle to find their own identity and pursuit to find their home‚ wherever that may be. Belonging to the people around us as well as our surroundings remains closely

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    Track Is A Sport

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    Nobody is quintessential and we all need help with something in life‚ whether it involves a project for school‚ homework‚ a video or board game‚ on the other hand‚ even an activity or sport. For example‚ track is a sport which merely only a handful of people run. So obviously not everyone who joins will know how to do every event or any certain event they want to pursue. Not to mention‚ not everyone can start out of blocks correctly‚ yet not everyone is supposed to. All events have a certain craftsmanship

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    LIVING AT HOME AND LIVING AWAY FROM HOME Nowadays‚ society develops very fast. A human’s life is enhanced and children grow up faster than the past generations. They can do everything; can learn as soon as they want to be dependent from their parents. For them‚ life without parents is freedom‚ paradise. But they don’t know they must face many problems if they live alone and far from their family. So living at home and living away from home have problems that people should understand clearly before

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    NO PLACE LIKE HOME By Mary Higgins Clark Major Characters: Liza Barton/Celia Foster Nolan – main character; acquitted of deliberately killing her mother and trying to kill her stepfather Ted Cartwright – stepfather of Liza Barton Alex Nolan – second husband of Liza Barton Laurence Foster – first husband of Liza Barton Jack – son of Liza Barton and Larry Foster Audrey Barton – mother of Liza Barton Will Barton – father of Liza Barton who died Jeffrey MacKingsley – prosecutor of Morris County

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    Wallace Stegner stated that ‚‘home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.’ Popular culture provides a stable ground for the connection between a generation‚ a metaphorical threshold for the students of todays society. With the proliferation of texts relating to popular culture‚ those undergoing the higher school certificate can associate prescribed material to the world in which they exist. This is why I propose as contemporary‚ supplementary

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    References: American Psychological Association. (2011). Rights and responsibilities of test takers: guidelines and expectations. American Psychological Association (APA). Retrieved June 12‚ 2011‚ from http://www.apa.org/science/programs/testing/rights.aspx Anastasi‚ A. (1967). Psychology‚ psychologists‚ and psychological testing. American Psychologist‚ 22(4)‚ 297-306. doi: 10.1037/h0024521 Boyle‚ G. J. (1995). Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI):

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    My Childhood Home

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    Describe the house you are living in. Why do you love it? The house we are living in is situated in the suburb of HCM city‚ within thirty minutes’ drive off the central city. We have lived there for more than twenty years. This is a fairly large house surrounded with a luxuriant garden. My house consists of four bed-rooms‚ a living-room‚ a bathroom with a shower‚ a dinning-room‚ a kitchen and a toilet. It is air-conditioned and well-furnished. The living-room is decorated beautifully. Paintings

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    Living Away from Home

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    college students is that they develop independence from their family. I recalled when I first lived away from home‚ tried living off campus and in an apartment‚ I had to learn how to cook‚ clean and for the most part take care of myself. For the first time‚ I learned how to balance my checkbook and pay my bills. I had acquired personal maturity by being responsible. I met new people from various cultural and personal backgrounds. I found all of this during my first year while living in a dormitory and thereafter

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