What Environment Were You Raised In? Geographically my environment spanned from as far south as Texas and as farther north as Ohio. But has always been marked by love between family‚ and values of honor‚ respect‚ and commitment. With little to no exemptions in a stray of these values. I was born in Ohio with the majority of my immediate family nearby. With the predominance of my mom’s family in Ohio‚ and my dad’s family in Missouri or Michigan. I was always taught the importance of family‚ and
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for one who has not lived that long yet. Today teens like me are expected to know what they want do later in life. Maybe if it were not the twenty first century I could be imaginative but that would be childish (In case you didn’t know this is a CHILDRENS essay competition). However after a decade and a half I would like to be in a profession that is considered neither here nor there in terms of childishness. I would like to become a fiction writer. A fiction writer is a person who invents stories
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August 2012 You Also Have the Right to Tell a Bigot What You Think By Leonard Pitts S Who is the speaker? Who is the voice that tells the story? The speaker is a syndicated columnist‚ a writer versed in and paid for expressing his opinion in an interesting‚ thought-provoking way. He is educated yet down to earth and not a bombastic or over-inflated or even lover of elevated lexicon or writing style. He is representative of the majority of educated US citizens. O What is the occasion
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two ways. One way is by making a person do something because he is afraid of what the consequences will be if he does not do the task. For example‚ in Animal Farm by George Orwell‚ Napoleon uses dogs to threaten the other animals into doing what he wants them to do (63). The second way to make someone behave is by being kind and showing love to them. On page 41 of Animal Farm‚ it shows that Snowball fought
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Journey in “What you Pawn I will Redeem.” The reason I choose to write this passage because I feel this to be inspiring in some way. I will refer to both literal homelessness‚ cultural homelessness as a Spokane Indian‚ and what the title means to me. Jackson living on the cold wet streets of Seattle notices many things in his journey to desired items. Jackson manages to receive money from people out of pity and they decide to try to help him. In this passage he receives these offering very often
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Freedom. What is freedom? Freedom has many different meanings to everyone‚ but this is how the dictionary defines freedom; the power or right to act‚ speak‚ or think as one without hindrance or restraint. Now‚ as I said‚ there are other meanings to the word freedom. In the webster dictionary there are over 6 different meanings just for the word freedom. Some pertain to racism or Civil Rights. Others associate it with topics such as abortion or gay marriage. Freedom is such a broad overused term.
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The story What You Pawn I Will Redeem is about a homeless Native American Man named Jackson who goes on a metaphorical quest to get back his grandmother’s regalia which he has stumbled upon in a pawn shop. The pawn shop owner says he can sell Jackson the $1000 regalia at a discounted price of $999. This is representative of how America treats Native American. This regalia was your grandmothers and was stolen. Well I bought is for $1000. Here’s what I can do for you. I’ll give you a discount of one
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represented in many cultures as multiple significant meanings and some that I identify with. The structure of an elephant is obvious to the human eye it’s a huge ass animal with big ears and little tiny eyes‚ but if you take time to research the background and the reason for their structure you would hopefully become as obsessed with an elephant as I am. Their memories are unbelievable never forgetting the path they went through proving to be wrong and dangerous to them. Although they never fear because they
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Modesty vs. Immodesty Clothing for Girls By: Nina H. Have you ever wondered about what other people think about the way you dress and your personality? Do you know that a guy’s first impression of a girl comes from the way she dresses? In today’s generation‚ dressing immodestly is being seen by many people as ‘normal’. But‚ how should teenage girls dress these days? This research paper attempts to find out the appropriate ways girls should dress and the reasons behind the way they dress
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Do you know what it means to be an American.Freedom‚ honor‚ and patriotism is what it means to be an american. First of all the whole idea of being an American revolves around freedom. The greatest freedom we have is freedom of speech‚ it allows you to express yourself in ways never even imagined. We as Americans can be what we want and do the job we want. Nevertheless as an American you can do as you wish if you want to build a 50 foot statue build one. In my opinion‚ freedom is a very wonderful
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