after my addiction to prescription pain killers I have experienced many things‚ good and bad. I’ve experienced my personal rock bottom and also some of the best moments of my life. My experiences before and after quitting prescription pain killers have shaped my life‚ and myself into what it is and what I am today. I would like to compare and contrast my experiences before and after getting sober. Before getting clean and sober my addiction took away my ability to take care of myself and my loved
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My character It has huge piercing eyes like your being stared right into‚ the smallest nose but the loudest breath. Its ears are as big as its eyes‚ there pointed like an elf .It has the hearing of a bat and the lips of a fish. Its back was twisted scrunched up like paper. Its arms were abnormally long like an octopus. Its legs were very short and stubby but scrawny like it would fall over any second because they were shacking so much. Its feet were huge like clowns feet but it only wore
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My Garden of Eden Presented in Partial Fulfillment of Course Requirements Rhetoric and style‚ EN 151-1 Mrs. Susan Schwendener Geneva A.C Harris Summer Semester 2013 7/17/13 When I first laid eyes on the on the Harold Washington library I fell in I’ve with the gargantuan building. It had so many imperfections on the outside made it beautiful. Most people would call the building beautiful right off the back‚ I like noticing the smaller imperfections because it helps me appreciate the
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The book that I chose for my book report was “Lies My Teacher Told Me”‚ by James W. Loewen. At first‚ I thought this book would be the worse out of the 5 to read. I thought that I do not need some Book to tell me I am uneducated in American history. But after I read it‚ I realized that the book is much more than that. It is a critique on so many factors in our society. Only one is the student’s education. But it does not critique the American history student like I thought. If a student
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I have to confess that talking about race is not my favorite thing. At least‚ talking about what I think when the subject race comes up. I don’t know how to define my own race‚ honestly. I am not white‚ and I am not black. But wait‚ is race only about white and black people as we hear every day on the news? I believe that many people get the subject “race” mistaken like I do. Maybe because what they have always known as race‚ or maybe because they don’t think the race issues affect them. To talk
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miniskirts‚ sexual freedom and drugs. At that time‚ Joyce Carol Oates created her works‚ in which she talked about ordinary everyday affairs‚ giving them a specific dark climate fueled by the second bottom. A short story "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been" was written in such climate. Oates addressed the problem of growing up in the 1960s. For many people this period seemed to be bliss‚ but for others it was a period full of doubts and dilemmas. The main character of this story‚
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Oliver Davies To what extent do you agree that schools have a uniform? From the ages of 5 to 16 by law every child in the UK must attend school; whether the school is state funded or privately funded they almost all have some form of school uniform. School uniforms are a requirement at almost all schools but in some state schools the regulations on school uniforms are a little looser than others‚ Meaning that some pupil wear pretty much whatever they want to school taking no notice of the school
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The “My Black Skin Makes My White Coat Vanish” reading by Newsweek Staff touched upon the idea of sexist racism. The narrator described her predicament of not being viewed as a doctor because of her sex‚ but most importantly because of her race. She also pointed out that even individuals from her own race participates in undermining her status as a physician‚ which is the result of the system of racism. This can be directly linked to Allan Johnson’s reading on how everyone participates in the system
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to keep it going‚ but behind the scenes the real mess is hidden by a tattered velvet curtain. The phone rings‚ text ding‚ Facebook likes sore‚ and retweets beg for my attention all expecting a witty upbeat remark that I respond with through the filter of my digital self. Everyday I receive perfectly worded digital questions and take my time crafting and arranging every word I put into a reply‚ in fact I go as far to put in a LOL [laugh out loud] even if I hardly smirk while reading the message. To
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Gift To My Generation America Give us a lot of gifts like entertainment‚career choice‚freedom‚safety‚ and improve your life. Improve your life means to make your life better than your parents and grandparents. I’m trying to improve because some of my family been in jail and i’m trying not to go to jail I want to live my life my grandpa went to jail half his life and lost out on his kids birthday and adversely and so much more I don’t want to go to jail I want to be free and live my life. My brother’s
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