2/1/2011 "Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit‚ a never ending process." ~ Lawrence M. Miller What happens when you think you have reached "excellence"? Most will just stop because they think that they have reached it and there is really no need to go further. Well‚ have you ever wondered what was on the other side of excellence? How will we ever know unless we take a peak and strive for better? As Mr. Miller stated‚ it’s a never ending process. We are always looking for ways to improve our
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While walking in the swamp near the old Spackle settlement‚ Todd finds a hole in the Noise which he has never experienced before. He returns home to ask Ben and Cillian about the hole. Ben and Cillian tell Todd that he is in danger because his Noise has alerted the town of the hole he found in the swamp. They give Todd a satchel they had already packed and tell him to leave Prentisstown without a reason. While leaving‚ Todd encounters the hole in the Noise and discovers that it is a girl. He is surprised
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What did you do to fill those two months? Most kids would just sit around all day waiting for school to start. But if you were out trying new things and meeting different people‚ Thomas Jefferson would be proud. As Jefferson once wrote: "Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." I agree with this statement and believe that staying active will ultimately lead to progress. For instance‚ while Bob sits waiting for the jobs to come to him‚ Sally is actually
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NEVER LET ME GO – KATHY H’S ROAD TO LIFE: HAILSHAM: Kathy reminisces about her time at Hailsham and events involving her two most important friends. Ruth‚ a charismatic but manipulative and dishonest ‘queen bee’ and Tommy‚ a kind boy with a bad temper who is disliked by the other students. She recalls watching Tommy from the sports pavilion where the girls and his friends bullied him. Kathy was concerned that Tommy would get mud on his favourite shirt so she tried to interfere with the tantrum
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“One never learns by success.” Josephine Preston Peabody said this quote. Josephine Peabody was an American Poet and dramatist. Josephine Peabody was one of the many famous poets of her time. Peabody had many famous poems such as: New Poems‚ In the Silence and many more. Although she was a famous poet some did not understand some things she wrote or said. Such as this quote many do not understand it. Most people think that one would learn by their success. One does not think that they will. learn
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Both the text‚ “I never had it made” and the PBS review‚ Jackie Robinson: an inside look‚ have some similarities and differences. Both the excerpt and video mention how important the world series was to him‚ but even though that is one similarity‚ the excerpt talks about of people of such importance to him for example‚ Rachel‚ his wife‚ and Branch Rickey. PBS’ video talks more about Robinson’s private life or his life before baseball. Before he broke the color barrier‚ Jackie Robinson fought in the
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The Impasse- Edna’s suicide- failure or success? T the end of Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening" the protagonist Edna commits suicide. The remaining question for the reader is: Does Edna’s suicide show that she succeeded or failed in her struggle for independence? Edna’s new life in independency seems to be going well especially after Robert had returned from Mexico. The lover‚ who she met during her vacation at Grand Isle‚ told her that he loves her and he wants to marry her. But her mood
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citizens. So eventually they started the French Revolution and decapitated Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Although in the end‚ the French Revolution turned out to be quite a failure. Three failures of the French Revolution were that France was still under the rule of one man‚ the liberty that was promised to the people of France was never given to them‚ and there was widespread dissatisfaction throughout
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The Knife of Never Letting Go Patrick Ness "But a knife ain’t just a thing‚ is it? It’s a choice‚ it’s something you do. A knife says yes or no‚ cut or not‚ die or don’t. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again." “The Knife of Never Letting Go” by Patrick Ness‚ is truly‚ an extraordinary piece of literature. The story is about a boy named Todd‚ who is about to be a man‚ in one month’s time. Todd lives in the New Word‚ a world where
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Dimond 1 Never Let Me Go Psychoanalytic Critique Although facts about the life of an author cannot often be found in a work of fiction‚ authors have a tendency to write stories based on their life unconsciously. Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of many award-winning science fiction books‚ very obviously not based on anything in his life. This psychoanalysis will attempt to show Ishiguro’s unconscious writings. Psychoanalysis was first invented and used by Sigmund Freud‚ a famous Austrian neurologist
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