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    My Dream

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    become a professional player. I was determined to make my dream come true. It is very difficult to become a professional player. Although football has been considered difficult because it requires a lot of cooperation and teamwork. Football also taught me a happiness of victory by the hard work that had paid off in the game against our opponent. However‚ football is not always a fun. No matter how many times I listened to the strategies my coach had told me‚ sometimes the concept is still boring

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    Father’s Last Request The short story “A Conversation With My Father”‚ by Grace Paley‚ is written asa story within a story. The story is told by a reliable first person narrator. The Protagonist in the story is the narrator. While the gender of the narrator is never stated‚ the tone of the story leads me to believe it is a female. The other major character in the story is the narrator’s sick aging father‚ who seems to be on his death bed. Throughout the story‚ Paley plays on the story’s theme

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    Autobiography Of My Father

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    doesn’t matter if my brothers saw me scared‚ I wanted to run… and I did it.” My story start with me saying about …me‚ because this is an autobiography and I will do it like I want‚ first of all‚ I need to tell you about my family‚ my paternal grandparents were Maria de Jesús Torres and Thomas Jaramillo‚ I didn’t meet my grandmother‚ she died along time before I was born on May‚ 11th 1999‚ and my grandparent… I don’t remember a lot of him‚ when I think of him I remember a white house‚ my grandparent is

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    My Dreams

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    As a young girl‚ my dreams have always been to be happy‚ successful‚ and to make the best out of life at the same time. I will attend college and medical school to become a pharmacist‚ get married‚ and start a family. To be well prepared for college‚ I have to excel in middle and high school. In everything I do‚ whether it’s a career or motherhood‚ I will strive to be the best I can. In high school‚ I will take advanced classes‚ take part in extra-curricular activities‚ and do volunteer work.

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    Dance with My Father

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    Dance with My Father Dear Lord‚ “I know that I’m asking for too much‚ but could you send back the only man that I trust?” These are the words that I pray every night before I go to bed. When I was a child‚ my daddy would come home from work and I would run up to him and jump into his arms. He would spin me around until I got dizzy to the point where I couldn’t even walk straight. Every time my mother and I would disagree‚ I would go to my daddy to get my way. I always got my way with him

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    My Dream

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    I have a dream. I dream that one day I could bring light back to the visually impaired people. My mother advised me to pursue a medical profession. By heeding to her advice‚ I would have revisited the safe and conventional path of becoming an ophthalmologist. Instead I was filled with wonder why there had been surgeons who could replace hundreds of lenses in one day but nearly half of the patients develop complications a few weeks after the operation. It had been acknowledged that the incompatibility

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    Race and My Community

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    Final Project December 13‚ 2013 Race and My Community I have wondered what it would be like if everyone in my community was the exactly the same as the next person. When I think about this I wonder how it would be different if we were all exactly the same racefrom the same cultural background and the same ethnicity. Throughout my local community‚ Henderson‚ Nevada‚ many differences can be seen and I am thankful for that. The cultural differences and many races and ethnicities make this community

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    with My Father‚ by Grace Paley This is a story about storytelling. The narrator‚ a writer and her aged‚ ill father are discussing the narrator ’s style of story writing. The Protagonist in the story is the narrator. After reading the story‚ no gender is given of the narrator‚ only assuming by the tone of the story to be a female. The other major character in the story is the narrator sick aging antagonist father‚ who seems to be on his death bed. Throughout the story‚ Paley plays on the story theme

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    Letter To My Father

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    Letter to my Father is a letter that is set in Cork‚ during the winter months of 1995‚ which was five years after Eamon Patrick Keane died (the father). This account was written as a way of remembering his father and how life was like with him before he died. The tone in which it is written conveys a sense of resentment and disapproval of the fathers lifestyle and this is clearly shown through various aspects which are touched upon throughout the passage. The passage uses several literary techniques

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    In My Fathers Den

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    In my Fathers Den‚ a brilliant example of subjective filmmaking and credit should be given to the director Brad McGann for successfully developing a character who takes a journey through regression. McGann uses a series of flashbacks for Paul to revisit the traumatic past and then back to the obscure present to deal with the outcome of his memories. Brad McGann develops the character Paul‚ as a man who is lonely and isolated yet mystifying and secretive. He blocks out his emotions completely which

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