While I was standing inside the kitchen of my home‚ preparing the food for my daughter’s twelfth birthday party‚ I heard the terrible screams of my daughter crying out for help. Without any hesitation at all‚ I dropped everything in my hands and ran to the back yard where all the guests of the party were at. I found my daughter sitting on the concrete floor next to our hot tub‚ holding her foot and sobbing in horrible pain. As soon as I sat next to her‚ she ripped a three prong gardening rake out
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This is not an easy book‚ but it is a classic (first pub. 1923- 1925) and an insightful book for any serious student of sociology or anthropology. Mauss provides a view of human evolution‚ based on empirical research comparing exchange worldwide. Implicit in this analysis is a theory of change (Mary Douglas’ foreword‚ p. xiii): “changes in the organization of production radically transform the system of categories and beliefs.” Understanding archaic societies helps us understand our own.
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spending time in class talking over the list of spiritual gifts and learning more about each I feel like I can better decide what my gifts are. As we went over them I felt that my gifts are encouragement‚ wisdom‚ service. I feel like these gifts are the ones God has given to me. Encouragement is the gift of seeing the glass as “half full”. It is being able to find the positive spiritual and emotional outcome of a situation. The gift of Wisdom is the gift of being able to work through situations. Service
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the best day ever‚ MY BIRTHDAY! I was turning ten. That morning at about 6:30am I jumped out of my bed with much excitement. It was a school day. I picked out my cleanest uniform I had in my closet and the cleanest shoes I had in my shoe box. I jumped in the shower and sang the whole time‚ until it was time to get out. It was time to get dressed and do my hair. As I was slipping on my white fluorescent polo shirt my mom quickly walked in and said “good-morning” and quickly walked out of my room
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The Best Change in My Life Blair Woods November 10‚ 2012 ENC 1101-284 In this essay you will read about an event that happened in the year 2007. This was the event that had changed my life forever and for the better. I found out I was pregnant when I was in my second year in college. This event completely changed the outlook on how I look at life and I believed my life was over‚ I thought it was a very unacceptable thing for me. However little did I know that the life I was living had me
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Thomas: My Best Friend Since I was a little girl I’ve had several friends. I’ve had friends that I’ll hang out with and do fun things with but none of them can compare to Thomas. He and I have been friends for almost three years and during that time we’ve spoken almost every day. Thomas is about twelve years older than me but our age difference is never a problem‚ matter-of-fact that’s one of the things that makes our friendship unique. Unbeknownst to him‚ he inspires me each and every day. You
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Topic Proposal Kurt Vonnegut "Happy Birthday‚ 1951" Kurt Vonnegut wrote many short stories on war and peace‚ a series of which was compiled into "Armageddon In Retrospect‚" by his son Mark Vonnegut. The short "Happy Birthday‚ 1951" portrays the aftermath of cultural devastation and its effects on the generation raised amidst such upheaval. A young boy and an old man struggle for survival surrounded by a city in rubble. (Let’s suppose the city is Dresden‚ Kurt Vonnegut loved to write about the
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had left my bowling bag outside‚ but I didn’t want to run back out and melt. So I grabbed an umbrella and ran out to get my bag. My two bowling balls were a Gator ball and a red lightning ball‚ both of which are fourteen pounds. When I returned with my bowling ball‚ Coach Tom Phillips‚ one of the best professional bowlers I had ever seen‚ gave me some “bowling tips” on trying to hit more strikes and spares. He told me after I rolled the bowling ball‚ I needed to bring my hand beside my right ear
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Writing is a universal skill and it is my skill. It takes effort and passion to become a writer. Then‚ using writing as a catalyst for expressing yourself and creating art. Proceeding my skill‚ I believe I was a different person. I had no way of expressing myself which is very important to me. I could not paint‚ draw‚ or sing so the creativity and feelings in my mind had nowhere to go. This frustration made me irrational and hypersensitive to others and myself. I would act immature and exaggerate
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The best journey in my life. Two years ago I went on a trip with my friend Paulina and her older brother‚ Max. I had to save a lot of money because I wanted very much to go on this journey with my friends. We planned our trip to take us around Europe. We were going to stop in various parts of Europe with family members and friends. The first place where we arrived was London. After a two hour flight we landed at Gatwick airport‚ of course we booked our tickets early which saved us quite a lot of
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