Running can make me a better person. When I run it helps me push myself. At some point in every race I feel a struggle‚ a wall of pain‚ but I push myself to run through that wall every time. The wall represents all the struggles in life as well as the struggles I’m facing through the race. Pursuing our endeavours is never an easy task. How many times when faced a hardship do you want to quit? Everyone has always been in a situation where they have wanted to quit but running has help me eliminate those
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As I sit here now writing this journal‚ I can’t help but feel how brilliantly ironic it is to write a whole journal on the topic of how I write. Besides that though‚ I guess I should begin. Writing‚ for me‚ has always been somewhat of a friend and a home. It’s been a companion through dark times‚ and a place I could go no matter how I was feeling. I have a deep love of the written word‚ and a great respect for anyone who puts pen to paper. (Or‚ in the new age of “handy-dandy” Chromebooks‚ anyone
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article 4 nola.com Gulf of Mexico oil spill’s environmental impact expected to be profound‚ long-lasting Published: Friday‚ May 07‚ 2010‚ 8:26 PM As the "Miss Brandy" shrimp boat skimmed rust-colored clumps of oxidized oil from Chandeleur Sound‚ seagulls from a flock circling nearby dived beneath a light oily sheen on the water’s surface to feed on a school of minnows Friday afternoon. "The fish are probably coming to the surface because they’re dying from the oil‚" said Larry
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What Is Happiness? Happiness is a word that is used a lot of different ways. Many people have a different view on what happiness means. It’s sad to say that money is usually everyone’s now days. They believe money can buy them happiness‚ but it really can’t. Money is just a piece of paper with a number on it. There are a lot of things that have a price. For instance‚ getting from place to place costs money. The only way not to pay is walking. Happiness has a different meaning for everyone. Money
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A respectful relationship means having someone to lean on‚ when you’re broken and down. It means being with someone who will go out of their way to lift you up and still hold you in high regard‚ no matter how far you have fallen‚ and the kind of person to make you laugh and smile no matter how badly you hurt. I have come across many bumps in the road of my life and didn’t have a clue what to do. It’s not all bad times either:It can mean having someone to play basketball‚ softball‚ football and
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What is Happiness? Since the creation of men the question of‚ “what is happiness?” has been asked. Unfortunately‚ the only agreed answer that humanity has come up with is that all creatures seek happiness but no one has the concrete directions for achieving it. Libraries are overwhelmed with books about happiness‚ but no dictionary definition explains which path men must take to be happy. Freud describes happiness understood by us as pleasure‚ as everyone’s main goal in life. According to Freud
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Most of all I do not like patriotism very much because I have some negative associations with it. It reminds me of flags‚ war and football. I have to think about people being proud and admiring their country – sometimes in a quite naive way. I do not think that pride is completely bad. Pride is good for one’s self-esteem and so is patriotism. Pride is alright if it improves the own self-perception. But I don’t like it as soon as pride makes people look down on others. This is arrogance. Sadly
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book characters are not immortal. The comic book never deal with question of the hero dying what happen next. Normally superhero do not do drugs‚ drink and respect authority. John did shrooms‚ smokes cigarettes all the time‚ and sometime most of his stories end with him binge drinking so he can forget all of the mistake and decisions he made‚ but the ghost do not let him to that. The comic raise the question what would someone do when they are give an expiration date on their life? Will someone do nothing
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and right. I believe that our freedom is what makes us very unique. I find it extraordinary that in America; everyone is treated fairly and equally. Our flag is a representation of‚ not just our individual religious freedom‚ but of our standing together and ruling as one. The flag is one of the best possessions that this country has ever had. I think that the flag is more than just a piece of fabric floating around on a pole; I think that the flag is what keeps our nation bonded together as a whole
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Reading Response Two In the short essay of “What Happiness Is” by Eduardo Porter‚ he gives explicit details pertaining to the complex word‚ happiness. In its own term‚ happiness is defined as‚ the state of being happy. According to Porter’s findings on happiness‚ he says that psychologists and economists believe this: “Most psychologists and economists who study happiness agree that what they prefer to call “subjective well-beings” comprises three parts: satisfaction meant to capture how people
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