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Silence overwhelms the arena, yet the pounding heart inside my chest sings a song of eagerness, preparing for the music to begin. In three minutes, I must prove my athletic talents to a judging panel, knowing that even the slightest under-rotation or wrong edge sets me between a gold medal, and a participant ribbon. As the end of my program nears, my body screams to give up and I’m torn between taking the easy way and ranking low, or pushing myself to the limit and achieving a personal best. By the
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the killer. All their time is taken away by the investigation. This puts a hold on their personal time, work became life for them, and the serial killer didn't make it easier for anyone. *Work took over Douglass's life as well. He was never given a chance to have a personal life. It was taken away from him when he was born into slavery. He grew up on several plantations and worked in ship yards. He knew his mother was a slave and his father was a salve owner. Throughout this story about his life he
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opportunity he missed. He states: “I kept the first for another day!” and we can hear regret in his tone. Now he realizes that his choice was final and looking at the road he did not choose, he “doubted if I should ever come back”. By the end of his journey the traveler realizes that each decision we take influences all our further life and this decision cannot be changed. Decisions we take cannot be cancelled and each moment of our life we make choices, which determine our life. By the end of the poem
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Victor a chance to fix his mistakes by making another creation that is female so he doesn’t have to be alone. He agrees to make the female and gets close to completing it. When he chooses to destroy it. This infuriates his creation, who then becomes fully committed on making Victor’s life miserable by killing Henry and Elizabeth. After these events Victor goes looking for his creation to satisfy his wanting for revenge. He was so engulfed and blinded by his need for revenge that his journey will eventually
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Mark’s chances of survival would not have been better off if someone had remained behind to keep him company. Thanks to the combination of 6 astronauts worth of food and a Martian potato farm (using his botany skills), Mark was able to barely extend his food supply
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descriptions. These stories and poem deal with one thing which is the main character’s journey towards the unknown and how the main character made decisions that will change the course their lives forever and their loved ones. The stories are presented in different ways. For Robert Frost, he presented his poem’s main character through a first person narration and showed a plot of a man going on a journey. The story of the woman on the “Worn Path” on the other hand was being narrated on a third
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Vanessa Zsorey Dr. McCort College Comp 11 December 2015 Sonic Highways A band lasting as long as twenty years in the music industry with their original sound not suffering is a rarity. The Foo Fighters, led by the legendary Dave Grohl, are magnificent rockers who throughout two decades, continue to stay relevant in many ways. Throughout these twenty years they have released nine albums, each of which contained some of the biggest alternative rock hits of all time. Though they may not be
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College Dean, Dr. Rosario Golla; our Program Facilitator, Ms. Analiza Tadena; the members of the faculty; our beloved parents; friends; guests; fellow graduates. Ladies and gentlemen, I greet you all good evening. It was not long ago when our journey began as college students, where we came to dream of a bright future ahead of us. We took entrance and scholarship exams; college interviews. We thought of what would be the best course to take, where to enroll, who are the people we will meet, what
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Kite Runner: Redemption Amir’s Atonement When you do wrong, you are plagued with guilt. Guilt can be sinful; it stains your conscience and ruins your morals. Although these actions are wrongful, they can be atoned to through sacrifice or purification. People find piece of mind in doing something that makes up for the cause of guilt and this is especially eminent in Khaled Hosseini’s novel The
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