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    Why I live at the P.O. is a short story written by Eudora Welty in 1983. This short story is about Sister and the Rondo family. Sister is our main character and the narrator of the story. This essay will be about the character traits of sister and weather her perspective of the situation is a trustworthy one since the entire story is coming from her point of view. The first character that we meet other than sister is Stella Rondo and Shirley T. Stella is sister’s sister and Shirley T is Stella’s

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    What I learned in D.A.R.E What I learned in dare is that when you do tobacco‚ alcohol‚ & drugs it can really mess up your life. Then when it ruins your life you probably will make you realize that you have nobody supporting you. Yet if you don’t do any of it you might actually get better grades if you had bad grades. Then another thing I learned was that you can be under pressure on yourself if you are doing something you’re not supposed to be doing. Another type of pressure is

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    I am rarely in the company of my nieces. In their presence‚ I bombard them with advice. Whether they need or want the guidance‚ I am not sure. I have never bothered to ask. Although the nieces that I speak of did not grow up with their fathers in the household‚ I believe they grew up loved and actually feeling loved‚ with no shortage of advice. Honestly‚ I do not think this flood of information is for them‚ it is for me. For that 12‚ 16‚ 20 and 25-year-old part of me that I did not leave behind.

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    i dunno

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    can’t talk to people who live a long distance from our house‚ even in the same town. If we don’t have a TV or radio‚ we can’t get exact information about the world. If we don’t have a car‚ we can’t go too far. It’s so inconvenient‚ especially in the USA. However‚ the most important thing for me is the airplane. If we didn’t have airplanes‚ I couldn’t come to this ELC and I couldn’t write this composition. These are just example I imagine. I can present more examples if I want. Therefore‚ we have

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    You and I

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    You and I In life‚ everyone has their own set of moral values and ethics by which they abide. These values are different and original to everyone but just because we have different morals and values‚ does that make us wrong? In terms of Oedipus‚ his morals and ethics are very different from many people and in many ways would be frowned upon. In Oedipus the King‚ Oedipus has to make many hard and difficult decisions throughout the book but there are 3 that stand out to me. They are when Oedipus

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    I Was And I Am Dust Essay

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    time to be studying religion because it is so complex. Religion I believe is very important in today’s world. Being able to know many things about religion is good just because you have to understand why people are doing what they are doing. It is also important because religion is everywhere we look today and being able to understand it will help. Throughout my whole life I personally didn’t have a really good understanding of what I really believed. Everyone has many different beliefs and different

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    Patti Wren Public Speaking Persuasive Speech Nov. 1‚ 2003 BULLYING |I want to share with you a story about a 12 year old boy. His name is Skyler. Skyler was an unusual boy that had significant problems in | |school with both peers and teachers. I don’t mean minor problems‚ I mean severe problems. Everyday of his school life was filled with the | |tortures of bullying‚ by several students as well as by a teacher. From the moment he got to school until the moment the bus doors

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    As I began this course it was the one I was dreading the most. For as long as I remember I have been told my writing is terrible. As I began this course I realized it was not that I was bad at writing‚ it was the fact that I did not know correct mechanics or grammar and did not take it serious enough. I have learned so many new techniques and have improved as a writer. Although I will not say I love writing‚ I do not hate it. Within this class my best effort was for the personal narrative. I say

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    I am who I am

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    I have a confession‚ I am my brothers. I am who I am today because of them. Being the only girl‚ and their baby sister‚ made our sibling relationship different. My brothers gave me a male outlook on everything‚ even when they didn’t mean to‚ so now‚ I am different. Influencing what I wear seems a little odd for brothers to do‚ but they have. I have my own style of clothing‚ but simple comments from them show me what I look good in‚ and what I might not‚ because whether I like it or not‚ my brothers

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    Count 1278 To Think for Yourself Henry David Thoreau ’s‚ Walden‚ is a novel focused completely around the idea of self-reliance. In the novel‚ Thoreau goes even more in depth into this idea‚ focusing a passage on the specific idea of experiencing your life solely for yourself‚ not through the ideas or beliefs of anyone else. He states‚ "No way of thinking or doing‚ however ancient‚ can be trusted without proof"(1616). He fully believes that a person cannot live their life based on hear say. He believes

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