I turned to the last page of my most recent read. I could feel the soft paper as I traced the words that would end the novel. I breathed in deeply smelling the musty‚ sharp scent of the ink and paper of the book. Sighing the last words on the paper‚ I finished and closed the book. Setting aside the book‚ I closed my eyes and simply sat there letting the ending to the story sink in. I didn’t always love reading. As a child I found reading to be very boring. I felt as if there were more important
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Many people love to converse on the subject of religion and how their religion became what it is today. Buddha‚ Confucious‚ and Plato were all three very well aspired men who believed in similar but at the same time‚ different practices. All three lived around the same time period‚ with a few years separating Buddha and Confucious from Plato. Buddha encouraged spirituality and to enjoy the world as it is. Confucious pushed for humanism and that whatever a person does to another‚ may it be good or
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since I can remember‚ I have desired to further my education at the University of Kansas. I love the campus‚ town‚ and the close proximity to where I live now. Taking trips of my own to the campus and city in addition to a college visit only confirms my desire. Over the past year‚ I have decided that I would like to pursue a degree in English‚ later adding a degree in secondary education to that. English has always been my strongest subject in school. In elementary school‚ I was praised by my teachers
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dilapidated farmhouse he finds an emaciated boy his own age called Filipo‚ chained in a hole hidden under a sheet of corrugated iron and a mattress. Michele keeps his discovery as a secret‚ he tries to figure out who this boy is‚ who put him there‚ and why. But this secret he knows which seems to involve all the village’s adults. After the first discovery of the body in the hole‚ Michele suffers a nightmare. Throughout the story‚ Michele desperately searches for answers to help him unravel the mystery
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"I Love and I Hate. Who Can Tell me Why?" The 2001 movie The Believer is a true-to-life portrayal of a young neo-Nazi whose anti-Semitic views are continually challenged by his Jewish background. The film opens with the quote‚ "I love and I hate. Who can tell me why?" which sets the stage for the movie ’s depiction of Danny Balint‚ a boy torn between love and hate in almost every aspect of his life. Throughout the film Danny tries to calm this internal (and at times external) quarrel‚ which
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My First Love My first love began six years ago‚ when I was only fourteen‚ I was very young with no experience with boys. I thought that there was no heart break in this world‚ until I met him. His brown caramel eyes‚ shady dark brown hair‚ pink color skin it was breathtaking. That first moment when at tutoring class we saw each other he was making his way to the seat in back of mine and while approaching he was smiling at me‚ made my heart skipped a beat. It took me months to talk to him; we
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bird told them. A little learning is a dangerous thing A small amount of knowledge can cause people to think they are more expert than they really are.eg. he said he’d done a course on home electrics‚ but when he tried to mend my table lamp‚ he fused all the lights! I think a little learning is a dangerous thing A long row to hoe Something that is a long row to hoe is a difficult task that takes a long time. A lost ball in the high weeds A lost ball in the high weeds is someone who does not
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My answer is simple: it’s the fact that engineering is a creative enterprise‚ one that requires intense imagination and sometimes lots of sweat‚ blood and tears. The greatest inventors of the past were creative‚ intelligent thinkers who imagined solutions. This to me embodies engineering today. As a software engineer‚ I’m called upon to answer difficult technical problems that involve creating solutionsthat require innovation and invention. Engineers are modern-day inventors. Engineers simply think
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Those who can‚ do. Those who understand‚ teach. Positive mind‚ Positive thinking ‚ Will make us healthier‚ Love everyone and everyone will love you. Everyone hears what you said‚ Friends listen to what you said‚ Best friends listen to what you don’t said. Love all‚ trust a few‚ do wrong to none. First they ignore you‚ then they ridicule you‚ then they fight you‚ and then you win. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to
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Why I love Soccer: When i was a little kid the game of soccer fasicnated me so much.So as i grew up i came to know the game of soccer.My father and mother had me and my twin sister played with my older sister on her team “The Eagles”We may had won many games.Then the season came to an end.But that meant a new season of soccer was coming.My dad practided with me and my twin sister.We would do the basics such as dribbling and passing.Soccer season than started me and my sister were put on a team
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