Atinuke Adebiyi 10/2/14 English 101 Professor Muller The Journey Just Beginning The speaker is speaking on how far we‚ as the class of 2014‚ have come. He starts to talk about how people around him thought he would not amount to anything due to him not being really focused in school. From there‚ he goes on about how he graduated college with a Master’s degree and a Bachelor’s degree with five years. Before he was about to take his seat‚ he said one statement that stuck in my head like glue. His
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Since I had started school and writing composition‚ I have had experiences that either was good or bad. But at the end these experience helped me through my next and future years of school and college. One of the incidents that most marked my writing experience was in sophomore year. The prompt was doing a resume for college‚ and I actually did or tried my best‚ but then again the result wasn’t so good. The resume was almost completely marked by red writings‚ of my grammar. All though the professor
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How I Learned to Skate Learning something new can be a scary experience. One of the hardest things I have ever done was learning how to skate. We live in Canada‚ and I could not be the only one who did not know how to skate. I have always been a shy person and afraid of the ice; but I decided that skating was an important sport that I should learn. I thought it would be a nice experience and I had friends that were willing to help me. What I did not know was that learning to skate would also
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After the long vigorous hours of hard practice‚ game day arrives. The coaches and girls have been waiting on tonight for numerous amounts of days. The smell of diesel fuel fills the air as the fierce competitors exit the yellow painted bus‚ after a long‚ time consuming ride. The players enter the gym in a parade like fashion as the loud roars of supporters fill the stands. While the hype increases‚ the players gear up for war. The torn knee pads slide on to protect the player’s boney knees as they
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As Bernard M. Baruch once said‚ “Be who you are and say what you feel‚ because those who mind don’t matter‚ and those who matter don’t mind.” I was unaware that my opinion of myself was more meaningful than my peer’s opinion. I had a rough time figuring out who I was and who I wanted to be in my first few years of high school. The first chance I got to poke the popular bubble was taken‚ giving me one shot to embed myself into an exotic‚ unknown social group. What I didn’t know was that this social
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Respect and integrity‚ what really do those mean? I could look up those words in the Oxford English Dictionary or Websters‚ or Dictionary.com and give a scientific‚ perscise and exact answer to these words. And while that tells you what they mean‚ does that really give their meaning. Well by Dictionary.com’s standards respect is a noun that means to hold in esteem or honor‚ and to show regard or consideration for. And Dictionary.com says that integrity means an adherence to moral and ethical principles;
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Respect‚ there is a common theme of respect within this novel. No matter how many bad decisions or good decisions you make in your life‚ if you do not respect and look up to people you are never going to be the person that you want to be. Respect is something that everyone has to have for someone. When you respect people they become the people you look up to and the people that motivate you in life. Respect is a 7 letter word that everyone is this world should have. Both of the Wes’ respect someone
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organization‚ religion‚ civilization‚ culture or military‚ respect is almost as old‚ if not as old‚ as the human race itself. Respect started with prehistoric bands of people‚ looking for experience and leadership‚ and remains today as we know it within societies and militaries around the world. Indeed‚ nothing with an organizational hierarchy‚ including civilization itself‚ could exist as we know it today without the ongoing application of respect‚ in its many forms. This fact is most obvious‚ and
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Respect. It’s a very broad term when people use it. What is the definition of respect? When I looked it up in the dictionary it said ‘to show regard or admiration of something or someone. I see respect as a universal characteristic. Respect to me is a way of showing someone that you think highly of them and very well respect them. It is an important part of life‚ if a person is respected it makes him feel good and in return that person will respect you. Respect is important to me because if a person
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Respect is a fundamental factor of life that stabilizes and controls the individuals within a society. In the event that respect is not present‚ a community can be hindered from being peaceable and therefore creates instability and‚ of course‚ offensiveness. Respect not only plays a part in the daily conversations among people‚ but also influences the outcome of a person’s actions. When a person is very courteous‚ that person will most likely receive generous amounts of respect back from the surrounding
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