COMMON APP ESSAY TOPIC OF CHOICE: "EXPERIENCE IS THE BEST TEACHER" Daniel Guerrero My whole life I’ve been told practice makes perfect. Whether it’s in the tennis court or in math class‚ the more you practice something‚ the better you become at it. In the last few years I’ve found out that practicing and doing is not the same thing. Harry Callahan once said‚ _"experience is the best teacher"_ and without a doubt it is. You can sit five hours taking a business class or 10 hours in a tennis practice
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Being betrayed by your best friend is one of the most difficult things you might have to deal with. I suppose that I wouldn’t really know anything about that due to never considering myself as my best friend. I guess the worst betrayal one can go through is betraying yourself. I have gone through that many times‚ it’s awful and it hurts when it does happen. You never think that you can actually hurt yourself so terribly that it would affect your life until it happens. I’ve learned over the past years
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My Best Friend Everyone has someone they would consider their best friend. Whether that someone is or isn’t related to them. Someone they can relate to‚ and/or someone they just plain get along with and/or do dumb stuff with. My best friend happens to be non-related to me‚ even though I consider her family. She is someone I can relate to and we have quite a few things in common. To describe her I would definitely need more than three words‚ but since I can only pick three I would describe her
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"The Birthday Party" by Katharine Brush is a story in which shows how there is more to everything than what it looks like‚ Brush uses literary devices such as imagery to express how some people in a relationship can be really happy but aren’t‚ atmosphere to assert how the characters evening went from being delightful and intimate to catastrophic and bitter‚ and metaphor to indicate how Katharine Brush uses imagery to create a vivid picture of how happy it all starts to be. It says‚ "... in the
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time we acquire a lot of friends. Do you know that our friends can be classified into three different types? Well‚ there are three different types of friends. They are the friends that we only see at school‚ the friends that we no longer see and our best friends. First of all there are the friends that we only see at school. These are our friends that we rarely talk to them when we see them in other places rather than school. Usually we only talk with them about school stuff and never share intimate
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FORGIVENESS IS THE BEST REVENGE "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" is the strategy that shoots across our minds when the fire of revenge burns within us. Honourable judges‚ respected teachers and my dear friends. Today as I stand here‚ I would like to deviate from this often treaded path and say that forgiveness is the best revenge that we can inflict on our worst enemy. Forgiveness is that quality in a human being that separates him from the animals. It is often born out of the depths
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Money Is Not The Best Motivator The old Horatio Alger stories capture the American dream pretty well. Those who work hard‚ apply themselves and play fair‚ they tell us‚ will be amply rewarded. Those who avoid responsibility‚ exploit others and cheat will get their comeuppance. This notion is at the heart of American entrepreneurialism and professionalism‚ and of American artistic and sports endeavor as well. So why do people like Jeffrey Skilling and Bernard Madoff get away with so much for so
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Giglio 1 Megan Giglio Eng 111 Sect 8857 Langston 10-13-12 My Best Friend: A best friend is always someone who will be there for you when you need them the most. Who is my best friend you ask? Well her name is Megan Elizabeth Jerlin. We first met back in the fourth grade at Petrides. There we found it a coincidence that we are both named Megan and she is only eight days older than me. We got along instantly with one another. From there on out we were placed in the same class.
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brother is incapable of understanding the pain that Sonny is going through without music. Music’s power over language becomes a key contributor to the brother’s relationship. Toni Morrison speaks to the power of music at Chinua Achebe’s Seventieth Birthday Celebration‚ “The power of the music would overwhelm the language. Language must stand alone” (Morrison). The power of blues was much more powerful than anything Sonny would be able to say. In order to depict the pain and sorrow that Sonny is feeling
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Sarah Egas September 25‚ 2013 English 9 6° “I promise to go out of my way to see you as much as possible”‚ a promise we swore not to break after going our separate ways to high school. My best friend Marisa and I have been inseparable since the first day of kindergarten. Going to a very small Catholic school we all knew just about everyone there. Preschool through eighth grade there were a total of 140 kids with only one teacher per grade. My graduating class had only 24 students in the
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