Curley’s wife wasn’t always mean. She was a sweet innocent girl named Emma‚ but one day her childhood was scarred. Emma was born somewhere in Salinas into a poor family‚ struggling to survive twenty years before the great depression. Her mother was fair and beautiful. She was well educated and in her late twenties when she gave birth to Emma. Her father was an alcoholic who always came home intoxicated after his 9-5 job. To go along with his heavy drinking‚ her father was also abusive and occasionally
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First‚ I would like to express what service and leadership means to me. Service is work done for somebody else as a favor or a duty‚ often with regard to whether it pleases them or not. It goes beyond tutoring ADHD children in these less fortunate neighborhoods; it goes on for a lifetime. Service is something everyone should experience once in a lifetime. It’s a blessing to be able to help someone at a vulnerable time in their life or because they aren’t able to make it happen for themselves‚ it’s
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British government‚ Americans have continued to fight for freedom at home and across the world. Many have given their lives to insure the chance to be free. Freedom means different things to different people. For some it means physical freedom‚ like not being a slave. Others see it as the chance to make choices for themselves. To me it means all of these things. I have the freedom to attend school‚ participate in extracurricular activities of my choice‚ and express my thoughts without the fear of being
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Revelation. Studying the Bible‚ it provides God Ten Commandments for each child of God‚ which we all must abide by them daily. The Bible‚ Says‚ “Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you‚ and be sure of this: I am with you always‚ even to the end of the age‚” (Matthew 28:20‚ page 620‚ NLT). The Bible gives us answers to life‚ people‚ friends and about God. Studying God word will provide answers to who we are‚ and what our purpose is. Studying the Bible helps you get through everyday
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impact them. In the book “13 reasons”by Jay Asher talks about the suicide of the new girl in town. She talks through a tape recorder talking to the ones that made her do it. People might not realize they can impact a person so much. The way we impact each other is important to know. Even a small insult might make the person feel terrible because all the negativity the person already built up will make the person even more depressed (13 reasons). In the book‚ Hannah said that “when you mess with one
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You ask me "What freedom means to me? " I don’t really think about these things. Now that I am I think that I have something to say about it. Freedom is something that shouldn’t be taken for granted. Freedom for me is something we abuse. For example freedom of speech we use that like its nothing people in other places don’t have that freedom. Most people don’t think about freedom as we do stuff during are day. We don’t usually think "How did we get our freedom? " well that’s a good question. People
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E. Felder poem “Garden of Gold” she explains that a single rose is so special to her. The poem is about her walking into the garden and was smelling the roses. When she was walking she spotted this single rose in the middle‚ and says that the rose means so much to her. The rose represents the love that grandma gave to her. She will always remember that garden is a “Garden of Gold”. In “Garden of Gold” Lois E. Felder uses word choice throughout the whole poem. In the poem it states‚ “That grandma
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My tattoo embodies my life… Everything on this page means something that’s genuinely important to me. In the centre is an outline of Mufasa from The Lion King. The reason why I chose the quote "Remember who you are" is because I feel like I occasionally forget what my purpose in life is‚ especially at the moment I go through things that I just dislike that I wish I could never go through. Close to the quote is also a cross to show that I believe in Christianity and there are flowers on the cross
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live average and below par lives. We keep putting away the things we truly wish and dream to do and eventually find ourselves old and unable to fulfil our desires. Entire lifetimes have been wasted in this similar pattern but no one seems to realise what it is that they are repeatedly doing wrong. If you find yourself stuck in this very situation‚ it’s time to break out. Today you are going to learn how to break the chains binding you to this exasperating rut and avoid settling for mediocrity. You
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get a divorce‚ I felt like my whole life had been turned upside down. I started to doubt everything I was doing in life. How can two people who seem so perfect for each other just decide to call it quits? I couldn’t understand why‚ how can something like this happen to me? I felt so isolated‚ I believed nobody could possibly understand what I was going through. I believed that because of my parents’ divorce‚ nothing good was ever going to happen to me. I lost faith and hope in life. I started to act
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