February 2012 issue of L.A. Youth. Essay contest: Who do you admire? My brother was courageous for coming out 1st Place $50 Author’s name withheld Illustration by Andrea Perez‚ 17‚ Bravo Medical Magnet HS Growing up I never had a hero. I always thought it was a bogus idea to look up to someone when they haven’t done anything to actually gain your respect. I always thought that there was no one who I would admire in my life. The reasons being because everywhere you look people are shallow
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I lost my mother to pancreatic cancer in March‚ 2006. My father and I only had three months to prepare for life without her. This time period affected me deeply as I was only six years old. My mother lived at the hospital in the weeks after her diagnosis. My dad was touring overseas with his band. I was told what was happening‚ but I don’t think it truly sunk in for me at that age. Since my dad was away‚ and my mother was sick‚ I lived with my friend’s family for a month. Living without both parents
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his suit. They married as soon as she graduated despite the unified opposition of her friends and family. Minako had a complicated family background. Her mother was a fairly famous model who‚ instead of a husband‚ had a steady stream of boyfriends. Minako did not know her father. She was raised by her mother’s mother. She was one-eighth white‚ enough to endow her with nearly transparent white skin and naturally curly chestnut hair. These attracted the interest and envy of her teachers
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Will I be known as a friendly boss or employee? A well-behaved student? An exceptional friend? Near the end of my life‚ I wish to be a successful man. In addition‚ I would love to obtain an even more honorable legacy. To start off‚ if I were to leave an extraordinary legacy‚ I would have definitely shown kindness and respect to himself‚ as well as all the people in my life. My family and teachers would be proud of how far I have come. To add on‚ my friends will have touched my life‚ as I would
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Me‚ Myself‚ and Irene This is one of my favorite movies of all time‚ and it stars my favorite actor‚ Jim Carrey. Here is a brief plot summary of the film. It starts with a very subtle mild mannered patrol officer called Charlie Baileygates ( Jim Carrey) getting married and having his wife leave him for the black limo driver‚ dropping three black kids in his lap. Charlie was such a pushover that he said that the kids were black because of his great grandmother‚ this is just an example of his
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It’s Tuesday morning‚ a typical day for my mom at work‚ she’s a unit clerk. But not for me‚ today I am spending the whole day with her at her workplace‚ hospital‚ to do my paperwork for Medical Terminology class. She started by going through the charts one by one and I did the same thing. Due to hospital policy‚ patient’s names are not to be revealed on this report. 5U-Room 1: Patient was admitted with constant pain on the right side of the abdomen under the rib cage‚ diarrhea‚ nausea‚ vomiting
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Cody Whitehead Mr. Duncan IU English 24 August 2013 Married With Anger In “My Problem with Her Anger”‚ Eric Bartels monologues about his wife’s anger that is constantly being directed at him for seemingly no reason at all. Bartels refers to his own problems in many comparisons with her own problems in an attempt to show that she is not the only one suffering. Bartels thinks that she should not be angry with him about her own suffering. Bartels does want to help alleviate her suffering and to
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The author’s whole (main) point of in the essay is to make the reader feel sympathy for her mother‚ because of the hardships she went through working on a farm while raising eight children‚ which leads us to believe she is deserving of the Social Security benefit check. Another point is general; even though‚ women does do so much work towards their home‚ they don’t get any credit from our society. I suppose that… (When doing this type of writing do not use words like: whole‚ all‚ everyone‚ everybody
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Forgive me mother Its strange how memories of the past can be so terrifying. The thoughts and the occurring dreams are always similar. I would remember longing for a summer where the summers light would beam on my body with the warmth of the sun. Winter was worse because I was terrified by the cold thick air that I would inhale inside my thin body until it feels I was shivering to death. The feeling of being alone ‚ I couldn’t even sleep at night without being terrified; not because of being
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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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