Name: Professor Name: English 101 September 24th‚ 2012 The memories of my hometown Have you ever asked yourself if you could ever choose‚ which place in this world do you want to be at most? I have. The warmest memories‚ and the peacefully joys I experience when I am there will always have a special place in my heart. From time to time the richness of culture‚ the variety of food‚ and the most beautiful traditions have been specified signatures itself‚ and yet have never fallen
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“A lot of people think of soul surfers as people who just surf to compete. But I think it’s someone who just loves surfing for what it is‚ never gives up and always sticks with the ocean.” (Turner 1) Bethany Hamilton was a born soul surfer on February 8‚ 1990‚ and born on the island of Lihue‚ Hawaii. Bethany has two older brothers‚ Noah and Timmy Hamilton. Her parents are both surfers‚ which is how they met in Hawaii.(“Bethany Hamilton” Gale Database 1) Ever since Bethany was a little kid she’s
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Experience is Life’s Ultimate Sculptor The morning was young and the barn was alive. Horses were neighing‚ dogs were barking‚ the goat was bleating‚ and cats appeared out of every nook and cranny that you could see. All were awaiting their morning meals. I grew up on a small farm in Pennsylvania. During the fourteen years of living in Pennsylvania‚ my experiences have taught me many important life skills and morals that will forever guide my life. When people think of farms‚ people normally
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The Greatest Invention of the Twentieth Century: Pros and Cons Can anyone imagine his life without internet? Nowadays‚ internet is the most important and effective way of communication. It is available for everyone at any time and place. It was invented for military purposes in1969. However‚ at this time it constitutes a vital necessity without which many of our activities seem impossible. This precious invention has been changing the face of the world in different domains: communication between
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Day Gone Wrong Waking up during winter break on a rather chilly morning‚ twenty degrees and it was precisely 9:00 a.m. and I was more than ready to drive to Quincy‚ Illinois‚ hop on an airplane‚ and head to my hometown Klamath Falls‚ Oregon. When I got to the airport I thought to myself what a phenomenal day this will be. I thought wrong. I was faced with the challenges of bad weather‚ delays‚ and the reality that my brother was becoming detached from the family; this day became a day where everything
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Since I had started school and writing composition‚ I have had experiences that either was good or bad. But at the end these experience helped me through my next and future years of school and college. One of the incidents that most marked my writing experience was in sophomore year. The prompt was doing a resume for college‚ and I actually did or tried my best‚ but then again the result wasn’t so good. The resume was almost completely marked by red writings‚ of my grammar. All though the professor
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As Bernard M. Baruch once said‚ “Be who you are and say what you feel‚ because those who mind don’t matter‚ and those who matter don’t mind.” I was unaware that my opinion of myself was more meaningful than my peer’s opinion. I had a rough time figuring out who I was and who I wanted to be in my first few years of high school. The first chance I got to poke the popular bubble was taken‚ giving me one shot to embed myself into an exotic‚ unknown social group. What I didn’t know was that this social
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Eternal Love We were sitting in the doctor’s office when he told us‚ “your wife has breast cancer.” All of a sudden the room vanished and I found myself in a darker room‚ unable to feel anything. I wanted to cry but couldn’t. She was shocked‚ just like me. was staring into my eyes. “Don’t worry sweetheart‚” she said after a few minutes. “I am going to be OK.” She was smiling at me as if nothing had happened. I don’t know how she could be so fearless. We had been married for 23 years; we had shared
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The Year I spent Easter Sunday in the Hospital To me Easter Sunday has always been a very important holiday. My whole family always gets together to celebrate it. We always go to the Ranch‚ and have lots of activities‚ and many kinds of delicious food. In the spring of 2010 I was expecting my first baby. It was a great feeling‚ but it turned out that his due date was on Holy Friday ‚ just two days before Easter Sunday. I had been feeling great during my hole pregnancy‚ so when I had my 39th
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The Civil War: “Mexico’s Revenge”? The Mexican – American War was the first major conflict embedded in the idea of “Manifest Destiny”‚ the belief that Americans had a God given right to extent the United States borders from ‘sea to shining sea’. This belief would lead to a great deal of suffering for many Mexicans. As a result of winning the Mexican War‚ the United States acquired the northern half of Mexico; which became California‚ Nevada‚ Arizona‚ New Mexico‚ and Utah (Meed 13). As the states
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