In high school, my student government teacher said he saw something in me, something different from the many students he taught. During my senior year of high school, he continuously stressed the idea of happiness and purpose to me, telling me, “Do something your passionate about and be happy.” These words initially stuck with me as I pursued different passions; however, over the course of time, I forgot about these words. Immediately after high school, I went to work for my family’s construction
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Apple and a stick, make me sick. Make my heart go 2, 4 ,6. Not because I’m happy, not because I’m clean. Not because I kissed a boy behind a magazine. Here comes Suzy riding on a pony. Close your eyes and go to bed. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,910. You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy, when skies are gray. You’ll never now dear. How much I love you. Please don’t take my sunshine away. My mother your mother blueberry street. Once they had a fight and this is what they told me. Boys are active
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have provided me with more insight into the different types of roles and responsibilities that I could perform, as a Civil Engineer. Reflecting back to my first day at , it was one of the most memorable days of my time at work. After being introduced to everyone, I was handed a tender to work on, in which they had asked me for recommendations to improve certain aspects of the project wherever I see fit, as well as my opinions on the project as an entirety. They were very open and happy for me to contribute as much as I wanted to
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message of the poem is that even though sadness can make you question your own existence you have to push through and keep trying. Hughes uses symbolism to show that his life is "fine": "Life is fine, Fine as wine, Life is fine!" We all go through problems in life but some people don't like to show it, so they do simple things to cover the fact that they're sad like smiling and laughing, which often makes other people think that the other person is happy. It seems like Hughes' life is going well but
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with or even who I was stupid enough to have sex with and they dumped me after. Well she had given me this guy’s number and told me to give him a call. Well I figured what could it hurt to give him a call. Well he and I talked for three hours trying to get to know each other and we figured that we should meet. Well we were going to meet up on his day off but I couldn’t wait to see him and meet him so I asked my friend to take me to his work when he was working cause I was so excited to meet him. So
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write these very words I am eating lunch alone in the courtyard at school, and I'm happy with that. To the average high school student, eating alone is one of the biggest phobias, yet every day I choose to sit alone. In the 16 years I've been alive I've never had that natural instinct to fit in which has caused my life to she. My lack of wanting to stick the status quo seems to be more problematic for my parents than me. Growing up I was constantly nagged to, “Try to fit in” and, “Not act weird”, but
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Romeo reveals at the end of ACT 5 how he is depressed about life now that Juliet is dead. “Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back: / The world is not thy friend, nor the world’s law; / The world affords no law to make thee rich; / Then be not poor, but break it and take this”(Rom.5.3.61-74). Romeo reveals how he is super depressed that Juliet is dead. Romeo needs to realize that the world is not over because the girl he loves is dead. But that is who Romeo is, he
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My family knows that I don't like to make a big deal about my birthday. Usually for my birthday they’ll come passed my house and bring their gifts and we’ll chitchat for a bit, but this one particular year my kids were persistent that I go out to dinner with them for my birthday. The day of my birthday, I'm dressed and waiting, as usual my sons are late picking me up, they don’t show up until an hour later. We get to the restaurant and my son goes inside, he then comes back out and says “The wait
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Characteristics of Openness – A&B1 Openness is believing in my goodness and the goodness of my spouse, and trusting that my spouse loves and accepts me as I am. It is important to me to know that Tommy accepts me for who I am. He believes in me, which in turn makes me believe in myself. When I know that he truly accepts me for me, it makes it easier for me to reveal my true feelings to him. Openness is based on trust, which comes from ongoing sharing with one another. I share more than my surface feelings
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have picked on me incessantly since you got back from CT and I understand that you are sick but it’s nasty. Yesterday wasn’t nice for either of us but we managed to pull through and communicate well enough to show our care for each other isgreater than the drama that attacked us. I was not flirting with anyone today. I feel sick that you suggested that and that you made a scene at the table and made us leave early. I’m terribly disappointed in how the day ended and how you left me. We are living
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