Duha Salamah Professor Aquino English 1A 1 March 2015 In Susan Griffin’s essay “Our Secret”‚ she examines her life and the lives of others and their correlation to the Holocaust. The essay’s structure is interesting as there are italicized sentences placed seemingly randomly between several paragraphs. Further reading into the essay will reveal that these italicized sentences are used to describe the growth of a missile and a cell. Griffin uses both of these objects to describe different fates that
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Topic 2 " Our society is overly materialistic. We center our lives on acquiring material things at the expense of such traditional values as family and education." I agree with the issue that our society is becoming too materialistic. People are involved into a commercial world and forget their responsibilities to this society. The traditional value is taken place by materialistic culture. This is because that there is too much temptation to resist in this world‚ such as luxurious cars‚ vacations
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in America to make the error of evaluating situations in the rest of the world as though they were happening in this country and propose solutions that make excellent sense -- in the context of our society. Even we immigrants‚ who should know better‚ have wiped from our minds the memory of what it is to live under the kind of desperate conditions that force a parent to sell his or her child. Looking down from the heights of Maslow’s
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recited Surahs‚ parts of Salah‚ and everyday prayers (du’aas). We recite them almost daily and Insha-Allah will keep reciting them as long as we live. It is sad that many of us don’t spare even a few moments to understand their meanings. (Please note that from surah 101 onwards‚ towards the end of this book‚ meanings of almost all the words of each surah are given for ease of memorization). There are numerous benefits of working on these basics. Some of them (insha-Allah) are: • During the daily prayers
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definition is the state of being identified‚ which means the characteristics and feature that set you aside from everyone else. Question is: What makes an identity? Is it the heritage of our parents? The people we interact with? Or how about the decisions we make on a daily basis? Each of these are components to our identities in different manners though they each have different levels of impact upon us. Depending on the person‚ everyone has different opinions as to how important their identity
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“The world that we live in”: an appeal Not long ago the law of the jungle prevailed “kill or be killed”. Barbarism was at its heinous best. Darwin’s theory of “survival of the fittest” was apt for those times. The smaller animals were at the mercy of the bigger ones and the latter were at the mercy of the biggest and so on. Evolution continued and finally we are today at a position of being called the ultramodern man who has lots and lots of knowledge and education‚ robots and gadgets to assist
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juries and MC who have given me opportunity to deliver an English speech in front of you all. Ladies and Gentlemen‚ The title of my speech is “Save Our Earth; Save Our Forest”. As we know‚ people from all over the world always commemorate Earth Day every 22nd April. The idea of earth day is based on the awareness to save this world from the environmental destruction. It aims at making global movements to participate actively in saving our earth – the only planet in which we live. Our country‚ Indonesia
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THREE L’s: LIVE. LAUGH. LOVE. James Paul R. Aquino "LIVE LOVE LAUGH" was what it said. It made me smile and think how simple those words are‚ yet how serious they are. I wondered how and if I could have or do all three‚ simultaneously. What I discovered was it was something that came from within. Neither can you be taught to laugh and love. LIVE We really need to LIVE our lives to their fullest. Be good to yourself‚ your family and others. Be big in behavior‚ not small. Think mature‚ not immature
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food leading to obesity. In fact‚ these was a documentary called "Supersize Me"‚ in which a man only consumed McDonald’s food for a month. At the end of the month his weight increased‚ and the doctors explained that he had greatly damaged his health. Our ancestors may have had to work hard to hunt and gather food‚ rather than have it made quickly at a nearby fast food restaurant‚ but at least they got exercise‚ and the food was natural and not stripped of its nutrients. Technology and change have
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meaning and purpose in our personal lives.” To what extent do you agree with this statement? While looking at how knowledge connects with purpose and meaning in our personal lives‚ we will see that what we define as meaning and purpose in our lives is not necessarily the entire point; however‚ we will see that knowledge can be applied in different aspects of our personal lives. Furthermore “how do we know whether we need to gain knowledge to give meaning and purpose to our lives?” Knowledge can be defined
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