I believe that people should take pride in what they do‚ even if it is scorned or misunderstood by the public at large. I have been a professional skateboarder for 24 years. For much of that time‚ the activity that paid my rent and gave me my greatest joy was tagged with many labels‚ most of which were ugly. It was a kids’ fad‚ a waste of time‚ a dangerous pursuit‚ a crime. When I was about 17‚ three years after I turned pro‚ my high school "careers" teacher scolded me in front of the entire
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"Destiny is not a matter of chance‚ it is a matter of choice‚" proclaimed William Jennings Bryan. Many people believe in destiny and fate and a set-in-stone‚ unbreakable path for their lives. Caesar’s ego warps and distorts his interpretation of various superstitions in Shakespeare’s play‚ Julius Caesar. Although he believes in superstition and the supernatural‚ he selectively chooses his interpretation. Be it a dream‚ fortune-telling‚ or a common superstition‚ it always benefits Caesar‚ or it just
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I Believe….. In life you may experience many problems and bad situation. Nevertheless‚ you should always look at the brighter side of things. Some people choose to reflect on the negative instead of the positive‚ which causes things to look worse than they may seem. Your happiness is based on how you look at situations. I believe that good out ways the bad. I believe that staying positive is one of the main keys to success and happiness. A person who has a positive attitude doesn’t let everything
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How people with different characteristics are ostracized and their strategies: In the essay written by Mary Seymour “Call Me Crazy‚ But I Have to Be Myself”‚ is about her difficulties in dealing with the people who are not alike her. She discusses about her situations and how she faces the people by changing her behavior and changing herself into a different person. Whereas‚ in the essay written by Brent Staples “Night Walker”‚ is also about his life in which he is isolated from the people in the
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This I Believe I believe in an idea that I once learned from my grandfather‚ an idea that emphasizes you to do what you love in life and to be with the people you love. He taught me to live each day to the fullest. Although I can vaguely remember my father’s father‚ I will never forget his love of life‚ his appreciation of all the things he had‚ or the way he would come home and have dinner with his family every night. These are the things my father tends to remember my grandfather by‚ but
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“Do you believe in love at first sight ? Or .. um .. should I walk by again ? “ Blush .. Blush .. Well ‚ Ladies and gentlemen ! Honestly ‚ even If I keep walking past you in ‘circles’ ‚ you won’t fall in “love” with me . Yes ‚ you might have a crush on me ‚ my presence may cause a powerful infatuation ‚ but it would not ‚ my friends ‚ be love … To all those who immediately got those contradicting thoughts in their minds ‚ Ladies and Gentlemen ! I speak … of experience . . . 22nd October
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“He who devotes sixteen hours a day to study hard may become as wise at sixty as he thought himself at twenty” – Mary Wilson Little. Effective study habits are essentials in achieving excellent marks in school. For a student like me‚ it plays an important role in our learning process. But to give sixteen hours a day is little hard because earth rotates 24 hours a day only. It is not like that we will sit in a chair and study for the entire day. That is why I posted my daily time schedule on
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We all in a since‚ “Need‚ in other words‚ something to believe in that is larger than their own appetites and urges and‚ yes‚ bigger than their ‘psychological drives’. They (children) need a larger view of the world‚ a moral context‚ as it were---a faith addresses itself to the meaning of this life we all live and‚ soon enough‚ let go of.”(Coles‚ 563) This quote from Robert Coles‚ in his essay “I Listen to My Parents and Wonder What They Believe”‚ explains how children need to acquire morals that they
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Some authors believe that urbanisation is a "Modern Disease". In not less than 250 words if you agree or disagree with it. In developing countries‚ people who come from rural often tend to migrate to big cities where the living conditions are probably better than their hometowns. This phenomenon called urbanisation perhaps has caused a number of serious troubles. Its two drawbacks many people could easily recognize are that not only may the traffic system be declined but the standard of living would
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"This I believe in transferring despair into hope." Like an imprint on a page‚ the devastation of losing a loved one changes everything you believe. The sudden loss of my mother changed my world completely. For several months‚ my life was without hope and hard to cope with‚ the helpless feeling that there was nothing I could have done that would have prevented her death. In addition‚ after the acceptance stages of grief‚ I remain standing with an empty shell of myself such a lost soul. The despair
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