When I was asked to give a talk‚ I was very excited. I was very excited‚ until I remembered that I had five minutes to talk about two subjects that were very important to the standards of the church. That is: how I am preparing myself for a mission and getting married in the temple. Then while writing the talk‚ I realized that in preparing for a mission‚ I am in essence‚ also preparing to marry in the temple. In this recent general conference talk‚ Elder Quentin L. Cook took the time to share a
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things even more is struggling to find an identity outside of your family. Not finding just any identity‚ mind you‚ but your own. I say this because unless you plan to live at home with your parents until the day you die‚ you will have to establish individuality and a purpose of your own. Such is the case of one Esmeralda Santiago‚ the author and subject of the book‚ ‘When I Was Puerto Rican’. This book is about her eventful path to adulthood‚ both as a woman and as a member of a minority. From her nomadic
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this poem was the title‚ and how it was written to be read as the first line of the poem. The title also drew me in because I have a connection to the material‚ my father died when I was ten. Not many lines about the speaker’s father draw direct parallels to my father‚ but never the less I was drawn to the work and felt a since of deep melancholy as I read. This since of melancholy‚ even though the speakers father differs from my own‚ is largely due to the non-standard metaphors. What I mean by this
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This morning is a typical Tuesday morning as I make my daily commute to work. The blue sky is bright with sun‚ but it is a brisk New England winter morning. As I drive down the highway drinking my coffee‚ I scan through the radio stations looking for my favorite songs desperately trying to get motivated for the day ahead. Instead of finding my favorite tunes‚ I find weather bulletins galore warning of an impending storm due to hit land by Friday. From station to station the forecast varies from modest
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catch my eye like you used to do when we would go for weeks without eating anything but each other when light itself would follow you around aroused by your scent as eager to join with you as i now i am thinking of the night you beat me at scrabble with the word cancer and how it was nothing that became something that killed you and how it seems the little rose is reaching out to me the green leaching out of its leaf tips and how the life is leaching out of me as i go weeks now without eating anything
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It was late at night and I couldn’t sleep. I had had an awful day and some rather dark thoughts were running through my mind‚ but I knew what to do. I grabbed my headphones off the headboard and plugged them into my phone‚ then turned on the album Vessel by Twenty One Pilots. I slowly began to feel better and eventually dozed off. Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun’s music has always helped me through hard times. The subjects they write about‚ the significance of their songs‚ their absolute devotion to their
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Esmeralda Santiago’s work When I Was Puerto Rican is a recent work that has a deep historical interest to Puerto Ricans or anyone that has a dual identity. Esmeralda learns to live in the countryside of the island after a few years living in the metropolitan area and then part for the United States with his mother and siblings. Esmeralda faced many challenges in life‚ but she learned how to overcome the struggles. The work belongs to the genre of autobiographical novel in which the author recounts
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So there’s this chick that I’ve practically liked since the 7th grade. It’s fucking weird‚ I know. (Currently: I’m 15 and in the 9th grade.) But for some reason I just like‚ mentally CAN NOT get over her. We’ll call her‚ Jenny for the purposes of hiding the identity of the actual person here‚ for the privacy of them and to keep the small ammount of respect that she has left for me. So anyways‚ she’s legitimate perfection to me‚ beautiful blonde hair‚ amazingly colored eyes that occasionally change
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I can easily say that Twenty One Pilots is my favorite band. It consists of two guys‚ who just by looking at them makes your day 100 times better. Their music helps people‚ including me‚ overcome hard times in our life. The band you’re used to seeing perform together now didn’t look like that in the beginning. The two best friend duo you see now used to be a trio. After Tyler had idea of starting a band‚ the original Twenty One Pilots were formed in 2009 in Columbus‚ Ohio. The three-manned-band
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The song‚ "Ride‚" by Twenty One Pilots‚ has a deeper‚ internal conflict- based meaning. The lyrics describe how we would rather "remain in the sun‚" or be constantly happy and confident‚ rather than facing hardships and road blocks in life. The title of the song is a metaphor for describing life‚ and life is like a ride‚ or a journey. Since the lyrics explain how life is like a ride‚ "remaining in the sun" would represent the positive moments in life‚ and not wanting to leave means that we all want
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