When you go off to college, you leave behind some important people in your life. I moved four hours away from my hometown and left my family and my friends behind. Sure, there were some tears shed, and I always said I’d come home to visit and make time for everyone, but turns out, not everyone wanted to make time for me. She and I became friends when we were sixteen. We hit it off immediately when she started working at the same grocery store as me. She had a car, so we’d always go out to dinner
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Amy and I was someone we all went to school with. I was close with her, but she would hang out with us when we found ourselves at the same party. “I came in today.” “How long are you stay…we should get together for a drink?” “I will only be in town until tomorrow.” “Well if you’re free I get off in 20 minutes.” “Sorry Amy, next time. I have some business I have to take care of.” “Next time, then! What can I do for you today?” “I need to make a withdrawal.” “Can I get your account number?” I handed
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ask some few questions from their mother because the future looks scary. Knock come in queen Isabel replied, she saw their faces was not smiling she curious ask them, my daughter, what is the matter and they two bursted in tears. Queen Isabel ran to pet them and gave them a reason to smile. She told them, I will take you to where your father loves to take you to during his days for relaxation. Thank you mom, but with a covered pain in their heart. The echoes of ebb” Johnson’s uses its power of influence
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Machiavelli’s The Prince and God’s Word both give advice on how to rule. Two main similarities between the two manuscripts are that a leader must be kind and that he should not abuse his power. In Machiavelli’s time, Italy was not a united country but was divided into multiple city-states. Attempting to help Italian rulers, he wrote his magnum opus The Prince. Machiavelli wrote that a leader needed to have a balance between clemency, or kindness, and cruelty. He knew that a ruler needed to
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thinking as it pertains to governing a state. An Italian author, Niccolò Machiavelli introduced his way of thinking by writing The Prince, which is often interpreted as a way to rule, or not to rule. He uses humanism to back up his views on how governing should be handled. Of course, the book was rejected by the Catholic Church, which believed in divine authority. In The Prince, Machiavelli expresses that people are actually responsible for their own actions rather than supernatural forces. This form of
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Passage 2 “We left Madras on June 21st, 1977, on the Panamanian-registered Japanese cargo ship Tsimtsum. Her officers were Japanese, her crew was Taiwanese, and she was large and impressive. On our last day in Pondicherry I said goodbye to Mamaji, to Mr. and Mr. Kumar, to all my friends and even to many strangers. Mother was apparelled in her finest sari. Her long tress, artfully folded back and attached to the back of her head, was adorned with a garland of fresh jasmine flowers. She looked beautiful
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One friday night I was waiting for my good friend Tiana to come over for a sleepover. When she was finally there we decided we were going to play basketball with the mini ball and hoop we had attached to the door by the stairs. We had lots of fun making baskets and blocking each others shots.Tiana let me have a couple of shots by myself while she stood upstairs, leaning on the railing. Once I had made a really hard shot and Tiana got excited and jumped up, while leaning on the railing and we heard
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“Thoughts from the Tao-te Ching”. It is a philosophical work about good government as well as about moral behavior: the way of life. Another author is Niccolo Machiavelli, an Italian political philosopher who was an author of “the Qualities of the Prince”—a well-known work written in Italy in 1513. Machiavelli provided advice about the qualities of a ruler in his writing. In my opinion, although both authors care about leadership and government, their idea towards the government and leadership are
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Although Machiavelli’s writing, The Prince, may be directly aimed at describing the things a prince needs to do, it is also in a way describing the way that all humans should conduct themselves. The book may be influencing the princes, or it may be shaping the morals of those looking to gain power. If the normal men who are looking to gain power follow some of the guidelines that are laid out inside The Prince, they will have a better chance than those who continue to live life just as they have
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Every time my family leaves the country, something happens, it’s always terrorists, good or bad. Like when my mom and dad were in Italy, 9/11 happened, or when we went on vacation to the Atlantis, they caught Osama Bin Laden. I’ll never forget this day. It was April 15, 2013. My mom, dad, brother Paul and I were boarding our flight out of the Beautiful Bahamas, to head back home to Boston. That day began as we expected. We woke up at our usual 8:30, went downstairs for the hotels breakfast, took
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