How to Want What You Have “It’s not having what you want. It’s wanting what you’ve got.” - Sheryl Crow The 45-minute drive home last Wednesday night from Leavenworth to Overland Park‚ Kansas gave me some time to think. I just dropped off my younger son‚ Andrew‚ for a five-day personal development seminar‚ and I welcomed the chance to remember a similar night six years ago. Andrew‚ I concluded‚ was fortunate. Attending as a 17-year-old would give him valuable resources he could use for his
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Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech was made in the March On Washington. MLK Jr. emphasizes the importance of the passing of the bill and equal rights to all people by using nonviolent protests as he mentions it in his speech. To help his audience understand his goal‚ Martin Luther King Jr. had used a variety of literary devices. This includes metaphors‚ similes‚ anaphores‚ and allusions. This great significance in his speech makes his speech the best out of John Lewis’s “Patience is
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How do I Learn English ? My full name is Bagas Wiku Gunadi‚ I live in Indonesia and Indonesia is my native language‚ I am a student‚ I learned English very well ‚ Why must I learn English?‚ I should find more reasons to force myself to learn english. 1. English is an Importance Languange 2. Get Access to Knowledge 3. Communicate with People 4. Looking for more Oppurtunities 5. English is Easy to Learn English is not my primary language‚ Definitely I must learn English to
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When I hear the question‚ “Do you have any siblings?”‚ I am forced to reply yes. “An older and younger brother”‚ I explain. Though‚ often times‚ I feel as though I do not have an older brother. As children‚ our differences blurred. Both him and I could run across sandy beaches and green hills with the same laughter coursing throughout our bodies. We could battle against each other in Pokemon and watch Saturday morning cartoons together. Yet‚ with time it became clear to my parents that something
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"You have been my friends. That in itself is a tremendous thing." - E.B. White - "I always knew that when I looked back on the times I cried I would smile. But I never knew that when I looked back on the times I smiled I would cry." "My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my desperation." - Helen Keller - "One day at a time‚ this is enough. Don’t
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Edna Vale was a well known name‚ yet she lived close to my old way of life. The power lines crossed in front of the top rows of windows on the hilly streets and skinny kids with dirty hair played on flaking blue stone sidewalks that tilted at odd angles from years of neglect. Candy wrappers and butts were evident in the sparse patches of grass in front. At the right house‚ I found my way up worn stairs to where Edna kept an address. There were the dried smells of steaks from indeterminate
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How do the poets compare the theme of Love? In the poems “Sonnet 116” and “Sonnet 130” written by William Shakespeare‚ “La Belle Dams sans Merci: A Ballad” by John Keats‚ “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning‚ “A Mother in a Refugee Camp” written by Chinua Achebe and “Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy‚ all have one main feature in common‚ they are about love. Albeit these poems are about love‚ they were written in different time periods‚ ranging from 1609 to 1993. I have decided to analyse these poem
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In the short story How I Met My Husband by author Alice Munro‚ the setting takes place in a small country town around the end of WWII. It is easy to tell that Edie feels a little out of place in the Peebles’ house since they are new to the country and are more wealthy than Edie’s family. When Edie was describing her job she says‚ “Mrs. Peebles had an automatic washer and dryer‚ the first I ever saw‚” (Munro 220). This quote shows how not many people were able to afford luxuries like modern day conveniences
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Love is one of the greatest gifts that were given to mankind. Love is a word whose definition is as broad yet it’s understood. As simple as the word Love may seem; to define it may be one of the most difficult things to do. People express Love differently as we seen in the four speeches from Phaedrus‚ Pausanius‚ Eryximachus and Aristphanes. Phaedrus who is considered to probably be least inexperienced than the others because he is the youngest of the speakers expressed a few valid points in his
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What Have I Learned About Life When a person is born there is a really no end to the learning that occurs from that point forward. There are the learning basics that occur from birth to about eleven years old but after that it’s mostly just learning on your own. Parents do what they can to lead us in the right direction but ultimately it is our own decisions that determine the path of our lives. In my lifetime I personally have made a lot of mistakes and have learned a lot of lessons over the years
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