and said quietly, “Can I see the letter.” She took it out from behind her back and handed it to me. I fumbled in opening it and took out the letter shakily my heart sinking as I read it. I was accepted into Harvard. Tears stung my face and my mother misinterpreted them for tears of joy and she reached over and patted my
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through my day to day life and struggles. I recently witnessed the passing of my Great Grandparents in November 2015 3 days apart. They were the most amazing people in my life besides my actual parents. They were the defintion of love, joy, happiness, and what a family was supposed to be . They taught me everything I know. We would go out of town on these longs trips to their second
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decision for killing caesar by doubting their loyalty to rome: “As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him: but, as he was ambitious, I slew him. There is tears for his love; joy for his fortune; honour for his valour; and death for his ambition. Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him
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The Benefits of Exercise It is a fact that our height and weight should match our age appropriately meaning the word “equal” showed appear for our body mass index to be called “normal”. But how do we say so? How can we achieve this kind of “equality”? more importantly why should we give full attention to think kind of matter? Poverty is one of the major causes of malnutrition. People don’t get to eat healthy food because if lack of income. Making them a part of the classification “underweight”
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and dreamt of “enjoying” life the way they did. Working hard to write the perfect essay for their admission form and working harder than ever to get into LUMS, I was still very much surprised when I got my acceptance letter. Jumping with joy and shedding tears of happiness and hugging the letter like it was a child, something dawned upon me: I have to go for Hajj this September. My exciting mood got ruined because I couldn’t possibly miss Hajj for LUMS or can I? LUMS was a dream that I couldn’t
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Percy Bysshe Shelley`s Poetry Analysis Shelley’s poetry covers a variety of themes from extreme joy and ecstasy to brooding despair. Themes such as restlessness, protestings against the power, an interesting relation with nature, ideal love, and a spirit seeking for freedom. I chose death as the theme to analyse because I like to read poems about death, it is interesting how death is interpreted and what the poet thinks about after-death and other death-related philosophical questions. Many
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“Family will always have problems, but may you never add to them! Instead, be living example of love, forgiveness, and care.” Family will always be my greatest strength, and my weakest point. I could still remember the day before I write this paper work. I was at the classroom with my teacher and with one of my classmates then, who is a contestant for extemporaneous speaking contest. My teacher taught my classmate on how to give a good flow of answer in extemporaneous speaking
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Compass and Torch Children are always the victims, when it comes to divorce between parents. There is in this short story, ‘’Compass and Torch’’ written by Elizabeth Baines, no difference. The boy stands between a choice of his overprotecting mother who doesn’t trust the father of her son, and his masculine and macho father, who clearly has trouble on how to be together with his son. Throughout the father and sons trip, we follow the main characters thoughts. Jim, the mother’s new boyfriend
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“April Kudson!” shouted the police officer, loudly and carelessly ticking off the roll call. The sounds of juvenile prisoners screaming in anger, kicking on the concrete walls in frustration and the banging on the hard, cold metal bars started echoing in the gloomy hallways. April couldn’t catch her breath, “How could my life come to this? Seventeen years of trying to survive in misery and i ended up in this hell-hole.” Her head was spinning, blood rapidly rushing to her head all at once. She felt
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friend. Unfortunately Bear was an older dog and passed away over night which still shocked my whole family because he played like a puppy the night before I went to sleep. I was so devastated and could not stop crying, I told my mom through streaming tears that I never want another dog again. I was so distraught that I actually thought I would never again be able to love another dog. After a few months of grieving the loss of my wonderful dog Bear, I asked my mom if we could get another. I was shocked
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