When I first said it to my mom‚ I could remember exactly how she sounded. She didn’t speak at first‚ nor did she attempt to really look at me. When she finally did say something‚ her voice sounded pitchy and tight as if she were choking back tears. She told me she was happy for me‚ that she accepted whatever I was‚ and whoever I could be. Later‚ however‚ she did cry directly in front of me‚ explaining how she didn’t want me to feel discrimination for other’s ignorance. That’s what it was like to
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ocean currents work hard to try and even out the imbalance of heat energy by redistributing the air from the equator to the Polar Regions but also from the Earth’s surface back into space.(1) 2. The heat imbalance can be transferred across the earth’s surface in two ways: ocean currents and winds. Both wind and Ocean currents transfer heat from the tropics towards higher altitudes‚ if it blows from the poles
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Kacie Snider Ms. Bagnaschi Language Arts 12 29 September 2012 Fear Doesn’t Stop a Hero Bill Cosby once said that “In order to succeed‚ your desire for success should be greater that your fear of failure.” In the narrative poem‚ Gilgamesh retold by Herbert Mason the main character Gilgamesh decides to go on this quest to defeat the mighty Humbaba. He wants the glory and fame that will come after slaying the guardian of the forest. However brave he thinks he is‚ Gilgamesh gets stricken by fear
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grew up in a small country town and never experienced living in an inner city. A friend that I met in college grew up not in such as great area. She and her family struggled financially to help put food on the table and money for education. She came from a family where nobody went to college. She will be the first have a higher education. I felt happy for her. I tried putting her story into my shoes. I can understand partly‚ but not completely. I understand her daily hardships‚ but I cannot truly feel/experience
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A: In order to be successful in the business field or game in the case of poker‚ you need to understand the rules and know the instructions of how to fairly or ethically play the game. There must be an understanding that at some point you would not have the strongest hand or strategy‚ however‚ you have to sometimes risk in other to win. It’s important to evaluate those that surround you and know how your decisions will affect or benefit them. It comes to the importance of planning to fairly win and
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The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires‚ but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. Ponyboy from the Outsiders written by S.E Hinton struggles against poverty within his side of the town. A poem written by Ella Wheeler Wilcox matches the theme of the novel Outsiders by S.E Hinton. One theme that is present is that money doesn’t buy happiness. In the poem‚ the rich man had pride of a millionaire‚ but depression of a homeless man. Life was hollow
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mother more than her father‚ for he spent all his time at work. Connie’s mother would ask her to do simple tasks‚ such as carrying herself in a specific way‚ keeping her room clean‚ and going particular places with the family. For example‚ here’s a line from the text when her mother asks her to obey her wishes: "Why don’t you keep your room clean like your sister? How’ve you got your hair fixed—what the hell stinks? Hairspray ? You don’t see your sister using that junk" (Paragraph‚ 2). However‚ Connie
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reality. Seventeenth century French philosopher René Descartes slightly augmented the definition that Anselm proposed. Descartes published several variations of his argument‚ each of which centred on the idea that God’s existence is immediately inferable from a "clear and distinct" idea of a supremely perfect being. In the early eighteenth century‚ Gottfried Leibniz further changed Descartes’ ideas in an attempt to prove that a "supremely perfect" being is a coherent concept. It was in fact Leibniz who
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Question ------------------------------------------------- Is the ending of the “Far from the Madding Crowd” look consistent? Reason your answer. Answer Thomas Hardy’s “Far from the Madding Crowd” is somewhat gruesome and somber in tone with the novelist’s vision of human destiny and his concept of invincible Fate that intervenes and shapes joys and sorrows in the world of humans. It is one of the finest novels in the world of literature with the setting of pastoral landscape surrounded
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Oghenetejiri Arigbe EN 250C: Literature Matters May 5th‚ 2017 Taking a shot at critiquing critique. The article Ana Castillo’s So Far from God: Intimations of the Absurd by B.J. Manríquez appeared in the magazine College Literature published by West Chester University which analyzes and reviews the novel So Far from God by Ana Castillo. In the article‚ Manríquez argues that Castillo’s different methods of writing points to the absurdness in the novel. Castillo uses language‚ the characters
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