serious just the same”. Most of the time, I read just to recollect my thoughts after a long day and also as a way to relax. I don’t mind reading most of the books we’re assigned for class but the books I read in my leisure time are not any less intellectual than the ones we are forced to read for class. I think most professors need to understand that. A book I recently finished up is The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer and by far, it is my favorite book. The story is about a 15 year old girl named Jules
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supports dreams, but when they are destroyed, the loss of hope prevents a dream from being achieved. As George and Lennie settle in a forest, in search of their job, George and Lennie start to speak about their dream. Lennie justifies the purpose of their dream, stating, “But not us! An’ why? Because...because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you”(Steinbeck 14). As George and Lennie talk about their dreams, they do know that the only drive or motive behind the dream is each
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2012 Rough Draft Legal is the New Illegal What do you think of when you read ‘Immigration’? My thought of the definition of immigration is that people of other countries wanting a better life for themselves and/or their family and they think they can find that certain life in the United States. All they have to do is fill out paper work and pay fees that they can later pay off because they will have jobs because they became a US citizen. Some immigrants do not quite understand that concept and that
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Death of a salesman The American Dream can be described as a belief in freedom that allows all citizens of the United States of America to achieve their goals in life through hard work. Today, in America it generally refers to the idea that one's prosperity depends upon one's own abilities and hard work. In the American mindset your societal role is not definitive but can change according to one’s effort. Those are values, which European settlers have kept and passed on to generations since the
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with dreams and hopes of a future to be free of what they had left behind. in the poem “The New Colossus” when the author says “give me your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”she saw the statue of liberty she saw freedom and opportunity to start living the life she wants. An example of of this would Goerge from Of Mice and Men. The author quotes that george's dream is to “Have a little house and a couple of acres and a cow and some pigs.” He believes in his dream
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Is Important To Me Growing up I did not see a college education in my future due to its price tag. As my parents brought home just enough money every week to get by, I decided during the 11th grade in high school that I would rather work and make money than stay in school. I left school, received my G.E.D. a year later, all while working a full time job at the neighborhood pizzeria. A few years had passed, I landed a better job in an office setting as a typist. After working there for a little over
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rounds with my father, in the local hospital. My father was a Physician and since it was rural hospital, nobody seemed to mind my hanging around with my father. Every afternoon on weekdays he would see patients from 4pm to 8pm. It was an informal affair; there was no system of appointment, no insurance plan, and no payment plan either. It was strictly first come first serve, pay what people could and if money was short-lot of times they would bring along farm animals or vegetables. My job as a teenager
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Running head: CREATING YOUR DREAM JOB Creating Your Dream Job Abstract There is nothing more frustrating than to not be able to enjoy life through our sight. Thanks to the medical industry which has created a way to improve a person’s sight, Optometry was created. Doctors of Optometry (ODs) are the primary health care professionals for the eye. Optometrists examine, diagnose, treat, and manage diseases, injuries, and disorders of the visual system, the eye, and associated structures as
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My Garden This is the story of how I was murdered. As a girl, a lot of people came and went from my life. I was born to a farmer in Mississippi. My father was very ill and passed away only a couple of weeks after I was born. Momma moved in with my grandmother who also passed away before I was old enough to remember her. We lived in a total of seven houses by the time I was nine. I did not have any friends. Plants were my friends, the way they grew and curled, faced the sun with their bright green
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into this novel, in which the hero, Changez, pursue his American dream as a Pakistani man. He works as hard as the Americans and is employed by one of the prestigious countries in America. While with the outbreak of 9/11 event, people in Islamic world are labelled as terrorists. There is no exception to Changez. He is deeply depressed by such kind of treatment, as well as disappointment from his girlfriend, Erica. His American dream breaks after his returning back to Pakistan. Through the viewpoint
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