I'm a dog person, I don't think I could hide that if I tried. I love all dogs though, big, small, and every where in between. Currently, I own a big dog. To be specific, I own a 105 pound ball of absolute love. I've got to say that having a big dog, is much different than having a small dog, as you'd imagine. I've had the luck and experience to have owned both big and small dogs, and loved both equally. There are some things about owning a big dog that you don't quite get with a small one, or at
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Growing Up “Nothing is as good as it seems beforehand.” – George Eliot This quote sums up how I feel about almost anything in life that I look forward to with anticipation. Before it happens, I envision that the event is going to be the most amazing occurrence in my life. When it comes to pass, I end up in a state of almost disappointment because the great happening that was supposed to take place wasn’t that great. I wonder why we all look forward to things with so much anticipation and then end
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that I felt for my daughter, once you have experienced that depth of love, your life will never be the same. The birth of my daughter was one of the most positively impactful events of my life. The day she was born will be etched into my memory forever. After a scheduled doctor visit we were sent straight to the hospital to begin the journey. I remember the excitement that was almost tangible as we drove to the hospital. After checking in they put us in a small examination room on the labor and
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named Kipaba-kilusang pang bayan, an association of prominent coconut buyers in Tiaong Quezon. On a regular sunny day, as Lolo Panong came along as a merchant from San Jose, he was able to witness the beauty of a young woman who would change his life forever. This young woman, Lorenza Amat, or better known as Isang, was an intern at the St. Agnes Academy in Lipa City Lorenza and Cipriano were loving parents to 15 children
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Divorced, beheaded, survived. To die is the only thing we can be sure of, that everybody will. Everybody will die, and you cannot do anything to live forever. You can live long, and some can live longer than others, but we will all die, sooner or later. This short story is about a woman called Sarah. She looks back at her childhood. When Sarah was a child she lost her big brother, Terry. Now, later in Sarah’s life, she needs to go through another loss, but this time it is her son, who losses his
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generally they are quite fair. In fact, I think our government should take note and some of the ideas should be made into laws now. In fact, some of them already are. Hammurabi’s laws are fair, and they resulted in a breakthrough that changed the world forever. “If a man put out the eye of another man, his eye shall be put out. If he breaks another man’s bone, his bone shall be broken.” These two sentences are excerpts from Hammurabi’s Code, numbers 196 & 197. They are the inspiration for
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Soliz, a student, responded, “It made me feel scared and it made me fear interacting with new people. I did go to someone for help I went to my teacher but she didn’t really help.” This student opened up to her teacher and nothing was done about it. If someone speaks up and nothing is done what is there to do next? It is just a helpless feeling teens deal with all on their own because of situations like
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to his small, Louisiana county that all people are equal--no matter the color or degree they have--and deserve the same treatment in life. With Grant’s transformation, Ernest Gaines reminds readers that all decisions have the power to impact you forever, a true lesson to learn before
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and desired for the future. Mrs. Cordero motivates Esperanza to stay in school and to ignore her discomposure of poverty so she will be able to accomplish her aspirations (Cisneros 91). Furthermore, she learns from her friend Alicia that she will forever be apart of Mango Street and instead of waiting for someone to change her life, she should be the one to make a difference (Cisneros 107). A girl who did not belong on Mango Street went against society to break away from her poverty and learned to
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continue to talk about their feelings. I’m the type of person who gets furious quick and does not like to talk about my feelings, but when I hold it in it just builds up and gets worse. I tried almost everything I could think of to not let it out but nothing worked. I couldn’t sleep, eat, and I wasn’t myself. Everyone began to notice that I have been acting very strange so they begin to torture me which made it no better. So finally my best friend gave me some advice which was to just write things
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