Anastasia Mozols Prof. Kate Simonian English 1010 30 September 2013 Personal Essay. It was a sunny day. My older brother and I were playing in the kid’s room, when our parents came. “We want to talk with you about something very exciting! We are going to move pretty soon! It is will be a long way to our new home! But, finally, our family will live closer to grandparents. Do you like that?" they asked. Of course, we did! Denis and I were very inspired about
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The American Dream Give an outline of how the American Dream is interpreted in texts 2, 3 and 4. Text 2: The text is about how foreigners look at the American Dream and their expectations to it. The whole text is built on how Arnold Schwarzenegger experienced the move from Austria to USA and fulfilling the American Dream. How like many other foreigners he came from nothing and moved to the states and then fighting to get his American Dream fulfilled. In the text Schwarzenegger puts the emphasis
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Pursuing the American Dream The Great Gatsby, written by Scott F. Fitzgerald in 1925, follows the life of the various characters that lived in West Egg, a fictional town on Long Island. It is narrated by Nicholas “Nick” Caraway, a Yale graduate and one of the main characters. By the way the book is written, one can deduce that Nick lived through all the events, or wrote what others told him about the events he was not present in, and wrote the book by end of it all. Its main theme is the pursuit
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Imagine this: Four kids, one bedroom apartment, three jobs. Struggling just to provide a single meal everyday, clothes to put on the children's back and a warm place to stay. After barely being able to pay for rent, food, and the bus it’s a battle to be able to pay for the kids’ school supplies, new clothes, and food for the dog. Now look at the flip side, being a high class, multi-millionaire. No worries on paying the bills, no worries about what will be on the dinner table, and no worries about
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Impact of Legal and Illegal Immigration in The United States | Sandra Jakobsen | The United States is a combination of people from the whole world. Every year millions of immigrants enter the borders in hope of a better life living the ‘’American Dream’’. The opportunities and freedom the nation can provide motivates these people to leave everything they have and do all it takes to start a new life. The majority of ethnicities that are highest of the country’s immigration status are Europeans, Asians
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October 23, 2012 My Career Goals I feel it’s very important to set goals towards the future you want. If there’s something you want you should always map out a way to pursue to it by setting individual goals. Each individual goal ultimately leading up to the desired goal of success. Presently I am attending Clinton Junior College in Rock Hill, S.C. My course of study is Liberal Arts, it’s a two year degree. Liberal Arts are becoming a very popular degree. This makes the jobs in that field very
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shares his autobiography with us, and explains how he came to America as an illegal immigrant. He tells us how his mother sent him to live with his grandparents. He uses an abrupt tone in the beginning, saying,”One August morning nearly two decades ago, my mother woke me and put me in a cab”. Most likely, he does this to convey to the reader how his childish and naive brain processed such a sudden move at the time. Once Antonio moved to America, he immediately fell in love with the english language
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college, personally ever since I was young I had always seen myself going to college. I always had that determination to receive a higher education then just high school and attain a job that would exceed what my family members had. Growing up my father and everyone I saw around me would work in the fields which is a honest job, but I never wanted to go there to wake up to cold mornings at 5am, to work in the middle of the hot sun at 12pm, and go home at 5pm and receive a check that would still put you
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me are so that I can prove to myself that I am capable of completing something as challenging as college and to show my children that no matter how long it takes, you can complete your goals and dreams. At the age of sixteen I dropped out of high school. I was not being challenged, the work was boring and the drama of high school was more than I wanted to be a part of. I had dreams of becoming a model and someday having a family. I began working immediately and was very happy. At the age of 18, I
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Running head: Dreams and Meditation Dreams and Meditation Student Name Allied American University Author Note This paper was prepared for Introduction to Psychology, Module 3 taught by [INSERT INSTRUCTOR’S NAME]. Part 1. In the dream, I am asleep in my room, when all of a sudden a nuclear bomb explodes. The ground starts to shake and debris begins to crash through the windows. Just as I am about to be obliterated, a vortex opens up and a group of
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