acting irrationally. My friends would always do things with spontaneity while I would get left behind sitting alone shrouded by my fear. As life gradually moved on‚ I grew to overcome my fears and not overanalyze situations with the help of a few moments in my life. One event I remember with startling clarity was when I was seven. Like many children‚ my brother and cousins loved to ride roller coasters and enjoyed the thrill that accompanied it. However‚ I never relished the execrable feeling of
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A Small Moment in Time An influential person in my life that made me rethink everything I was doing was my 4th grade teacher. In lower grades I was always advanced‚ and I knew more about everything than everyone else. In kindergarten I was put in a class to test my advancement for a year. Then after that year of testing I was offered to skip 1st through 3rd grade as long as I did summer math advancement help. My mom declined the advancement wanting me to be put with children my age‚ but this is
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Life Changing Moment Ever since I can remember I spent almost ever y day at my Grandparents house. They live right down the road from my family and me‚ and that is how they got the title “Grandma and Grandpa down the road”. They lived in a small house three bedrooms‚ one bathroom‚ and a small living room with a fire place that can worm the coldest heart. And in their back yard stood a shed filled with old farm equipment and stray cats with their kittens that I would try to catch every day. They
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My proudest moment was when I was 9 years old. It was the first day I had been back to horseback riding lessons since I was 6 years old. I had stopped riding when I was six because my horse had thrown me off‚ the winter was pretty harsh on my asthma‚ and my riding instructor told me I needed to take a break. So when my grandmother offered to pay for new lessons for me I was thrilled and I took up the chance right away. When I started horseback riding I was only 5 years old‚ and I went to the lessons
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Laura Vanderkam writes the essay‚ “Hookups Starve the Soul”. The essay explains the reality of most college students‚ the hookup. The main focus of the essay is to demonstrate that hookups may satisfy our physical needs‚ but they do not satisfy our emotional needs. Vanderkam mentions that the causes behind this could include sexual revolution or co-ed dorms and alcohol abuse‚ but she insists that there is a bigger picture behind all of this. Vanderkam defines the hookup and uses various definitions
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The Souls of Black Folk Review Stephen Fortson Tiffin University W.E.B. Du Bois is one of not only the greatest American philosophers but African American philosophers brought up during the Civil Rights era. Du Bois born in Barrington‚ Massachusetts to a mother and father that were a part of the free black population. During this particular time of the 1800s‚ blacks had no rights for the most part until the end of the Civil war‚ and even then segregation limited the amount of equality
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Like many before me one of my most defining moments came from my high school days when I was still attempting to find a balance between getting good grades and maintaining a social life. During that time‚ I was just entering a period where I had dealt with bullying without standing up for myself in school. As a result‚ I entered high school somewhat embittered but also made it intentionally difficult for others to get close to me since many of the people I had once held close to me had turned on
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of details about inner body studies such as the soul‚ madness and lovers. Within the text‚ Plato refers to the platonic soul‚ this concept that Plato discusses had a lasting impression throughout my reading‚ this is because if one is trying to move souls‚ one must understand the souls first‚ meaning a person needs to be aware of their audience. The platonic soul is an analogy to two horses pulling a chariot‚ "First the charioteer of the human soul drives a pair‚ and secondly one of the horses
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Tripartite Soul Book IV 435c-441c The soul and justice within the soul are issues that Plato endears much time and effort into explaining. The existence of ones soul and its influence upon society is a definite argument by Plato‚ yet viewed very differently by various scholars of the time and centuries to come. Through this essay I intend to address Plato’s interest in the just soul in relation to his tripartite vision of its existence. As Plato lays out in his work The Republic‚ the soul is a
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dialogues between Socrates‚ a major philosopher‚ as well as some others including Cebes‚ Simmias‚ and Echerates. The overall idea of the book is Socrates trying to convince his colleagues of his theories‚ which explains the fundamental argument that the soul is immortal. Since Socrates is introducing such unheard of ideas‚ and seeming to be challenging beliefs‚ he is sentenced to death. While awaiting his fate‚ Socrates asks only one thing of his colleagues‚ which is to share his theories. Some of his
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