tell him that he's a coward and is afraid to try new things because he's afraid of failing. He's afraid of what other people will think if they see him fail. I told him that I'm never going to think anything more of him than that in which he thought of himself (hope I structured that correctly). Thennnnnn I told him lets take a step back from his dark world of hopelessness and pessimism and take a look at things from my perspective. I told him that I see a ton of great things in him and listed off
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Being Strong For My Family Parenting never played well in my childhood as it seems my parents were never for it. Though it made me a stronger person than my parents ever was. It was always just me and my two younger brothers on our own most of the time. My parents didn’t get married until I was three years old, since my dad was tired of the government taking money out of his paychecks for child support he just decided to marry my mom that way he’s not obligated to do so. Then came along my brother
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from the community that would go in all the time to shop. When I started working at the store I was told to NEVER accept any gifts from the customers because it was against store policy. When you are hired you are told the policies, rules, and regulations of the company. You are to follow these to make sure that you are doing what the company is asking of you. Like all other company’s you are asked to please follow these rules and do your job. As I started to go in and do my job, I noticed
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A Place I Would Like to Visit By JoelLeeRongSheng Aug 21, 2013 635 Words 356 Views When people ask me about the place i always wanted to go, i will simply say 'Paris'. Then they will ask me again, why 'Paris' ? Why 'Paris' ? That is the question and i don't know why and how to answer it . Maybe they will never understand it but someday i will tell them 'why'. For now, let me keep this as my own special request to God, so that one day it will come true . Paris, France is the place where fashion
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eleventh grade, I thought I could go and come as I pleased without any consequences. I felt telling my mom a small lie wouldn’t harm anything, but I was dead wrong. Something so small turned into something so horrible. I was in eleventh grade, and I was studying for final exams coming up the next day. However, I really wanted to get a break and go see my friend Marquesha from school. So I asked my mom could I go to my dad’s house because I knew she wouldn’t let me go to my friend’s house. She knew
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Is mother holding up fine without me? I wanted to write to you as mother still doesn’t know that I am here. I hope that these questions could be answered immediately but as this letter may not get to you for another month. I shall tell you about what has happened with in the recent weeks. We arrived on the 13th, at 3 o’clock in the morning, under the cover of darkness we were shelled and shot at. Many of my comrades did not make it to the shore. The man next to me, I did not learn his name, was blown
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theory is very simple and straight forward, once people have the ‘right’ or ‘proper’ virtues, with practice it will never change. In this paper I am going to argue against Aristotelian ethics because people do not always keep their virtues in certain situations. Aristotle claims that once a virtue is learned, ‘come to light’, practice and lived by, the person practicing it will never change it. Aristotelian ethics is the practice of virtues, a median between the two vices that is “right”, also known
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bloodless eyes of shame? Where is the grace of your manner, the beauty of your figure, the quickness of your movement, the clarity of your mind, the brilliance of your tongue? Who stole your goods? Is the thief's identity known to you, as it is to me? Once you placed your head in a pillow of grass in your father's field and looked up at a cathedral of clouds and knew that all the gold of Babylon would be yours in time. Once you read from many books and wrote on many tablets, convinced beyond
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to apply to be in the National Junior Honor Society program. I have a big heart for helping others and I hope I can be in this program to help even more in my next year as an eighth grader. I am going to share with you a few traits of mine that makes me special. One of the reasons why I would be a good member in this group, is because I’m a very happy and positive person. In every situation I try to look at the positives versus the negatives. This is an important trait in myself because in the world
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The Ill-fated Lottery Derrick hated his job. He worked seven days a week in his tiny little cubicle, punching away at numbers. He never wanted to be an accountant, but this was the only thing he seemed to be good at. To cope with his miserable lifestyle, Derrick always found time to smoke some weed after work with his buddies from high school. Of all his friends, Kevin was his best friend and let’s just say he was quite different from Derrick. Kevin’s parents died in a car accident when
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