one who I would never give up for the world. When I reflect upon my life without him I realize there are some things this experience had taught me. In this essay you will read about the experience I had in losing my dad and what I have learnt and come to accept. When my father passed away, 10years ago, my whole life changed, my grades started slipping, I started skipping classes, and I dropped all extra-curricular activities (netball, homework club). I started to become depressed. I felt like
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environment. It keeps wasteful products out of landfills. If something can be reused or recycled, it should be. There is really no good reason for anyone not to recycle. Everyone should recycle, including Christians. People need to think about tomorrow and recycle today. Pollution is a threat to our society and our future. Christians are called to take care of mother earth or they will be punished. Today, recycling is easy. People can set their recyclables out with trash for pickup, or take
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Doing less is more. A common phrase we've all heard before, the idea that not doing something is better than doing. Whether this be in terms of making up with someone in a fight or building a country. Thomas Jefferson once said, "Determine to be idle...it is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing something." This then brings up the question is it more productive to always be doing something, or does doing nothing have a purpose? The idea of doing nothing to accomplish something is
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coffeehouses, a place to experience frozen yogurt in an inviting atmosphere and linger a while. The frozen yogurt of the 1980s tapped into the fitness craze, a low fat yet still sweet substitute for ice cream. Pinkberry Korean-style yogurt comes in two flavors: plain and green tea. It is rather like Greek yogurt with a hint of lemon. The fresh, tangy, strangely satisfying flavor grows on you. With only two products, minimum staff training, a playfully modern store design and regular customers
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1 Valedictory Address Time strides with leaps and bounds that our six-year stay in this school has finally come to an end. For us graduates parting from our Alma Mater is a nostalgic climax we can never forget. It is here in this school that we are molded. It is here where we met our friends as well as our enemies, shared with joys and laughters, experienced love and sorrows, success and failures and many other changes that occur in our lives. Graduation doesn't mean triumph, it implies
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producing in a way that no other media can. Film itself is a product of human advancement in technology; furthermore, a monster in itself. With this advancement we as society are instilled with visual aids and special effects depicting the horrors that come from taking technology or medicine too far. Film makers show viewers that delving too deeply into technology in order to satisfy our immediate desires without considering the future
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page is something called a Medi-Talker. It is perfect for me so I print out the page for it and bring it home. Once I got to Mrs. V’s house I point to my backpack and she opens it and looks over the papers and shows them to mom. Once mom gets home she looks at the papers and once she decides that it is perfect for me she orders it online. It finally arrives on the Wednesday before Christmas. Once I opened it Mrs. V helped me program lots of words and sayings into it. The next day I showed up at school
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importance of King's dream and signifies the want for a better tomorrow, as it is a dream. However the words "Let freedom ring..." followed by settings on American soil convey that the ideals of freedom will be achievable by every American without the restriction of race and or location. By using anaphoras King is able to emphasize his message. Metaphors are extensively used throughout this speech. A memorable example is "...we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check..." the check being the
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GRADUATION by F. Sionil I always knew that someday after I finished high school, I’d go to Manila and to college. I had looked ahead to the grand adventure with eagerness but when it finally came; my leaving Rosales filled me with a nameless dread and a great, swelling unhappiness that clogged my chest. I couldn’t be sure now. Maybe it was friendship, huge and granite-like, or just plain sympathy. I couldn’t be sure anymore; maybe I really fell in love when I was sixteen. Her name was Teresita
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strengthen us or break us emotionally. But we should all have faith and build enough courage to take us where we want to be, after all, the things we want won’t come to us. There is not a single person who achieved success by being stagnant; every successful person had to exhaust all their time and energy trying to make their dreams come true. I believe success starts with your emotional wellbeing. There is no greater feeling than that of doing what you love and want and or following your dreams
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