How I Fell in Love with Reading When I was younger I was very active and had no desire to read or learn and was more focused on playing basketball at recesses then on the topics being taught. My passion for basketball originated in my childhood when I would play the game at local parks and at home with friends and family. As I entered high school I tried out for and made the basketball team at Bell Gardens High. Because I wanted to gain a competitive edge‚ my passion for the game provoked me to
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Jesse Saunders Prof. Keith Bishop English 101 12/10/2013 “How I Learned To Love Football” “Move Over Boys‚ Make Room In The Crease” Sara Maratta and Felisa Rogers essay is the opposite of one another. Sara Maratta at the age of 14 developed a liking to sports‚ hockey was Marattas number one sport. Maratta knew hockey inside and out. Her favorite aspect of the sport was the fighting part. It drew her deeper into the sport. Maratta had a passion for the Blue Jackets team‚ and being her
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For Love‚ or Money? The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ is a novel about Jay Gatsby ’s constant quest to win over his love of the past‚ Daisy Buchanan. To Gatsby ’s misfortune‚ he finds that Daisy is married to the wealthy but cocky Tom Buchanan. Daisy is a modern day "gold-digger" she fails to realize her own arrogance‚ and the success of her relationship with Tom is measured upon the size of his pocketbook. Tom ’s secret lover‚ Myrtle Wilson becomes the victim of a hit-and-run. Tom shows
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Groucho Marx once said "While money can’t buy happiness‚ it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.” The American Dream of money is the belief that having a lot of money will satisfy the cravings people have for wealth. People strive to accomplish a life filled with money and success because money promises a life of happiness and greatness. The idea of having a large quantity of money is one that has consumed people and altered the dream of hard work and success. Although this dream brings
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There are four basic functions of money: The first is as a medium of exchange. The second is as a unit of account. The third is as a store of value. The fourth is as liquidity. The most obvious function of money is as a medium of exchange. When you hand the waiter a five-dollar bill in exchange for your hamburger‚ you are using money as a medium of exchange. You might have a hard time paying for your hamburger with five dollars worth of apples‚ but if you did‚ the apples would serve as a
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A library and a book are very different things. I love books. However‚ I hate libraries. This may seem contradictory. How can someone love a book so much but hate its natural habitat? The answer lies within a bittersweet story of seeing my future‚ not so long ago‚ that tells the story of my education. It was January of my freshman year‚ and my classmates and I were brought to a library to be introduced to the pieces of paper that would follow us forever: our academic transcripts. My classmates joked
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Most of the people think that Money will do everything and start doing everything for the Money. This approach or human tendency leads to chaos everywhere in the world and sometimes result in invasions and wars. The results of the same are fruitless and dangerous for the mankind. At the same time if all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn’t be enough to go around and world will be much happier place to live then. Money was never a big motivation for me
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Good and Bad Experiences One of the many memorable scenes in Lac Su’s memoir‚ I Love Yous Are for White People‚ takes place in Chapter Four. It is the scene where Lac’s father takes his family out to buy their first restaurant meal. I find it a very interesting and hilarious scene. Pa receives some extra food stamps from Uncle Sam‚ so he decides to take his family out to the restaurant around the corner of their house. Obviously‚ this is the first time of them eating in the American
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To my love Emmett Today was the day I was going to tell my best friend since 1st grade how I felt about him as more than a friend. Maybe it was time that I expressed my feelings towards him‚ and stop being a so called whimp. I moved from Mississippi when I was 10 year old and leaving Emmett was even harder. We were both raised in Chicago and we had always been together‚ even our families were close. This summer Emmett will be visiting soon for his two week vacation with his relatives‚ and had called
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their behaviors. I believe that the community was right at some point in focusing more harshly on the activities of the roughnecks because they could see how the way these teenagers behaved in school and after school. On the other hand the Saints seemed to be the opposite‚ the community was able to see only the good side of these boys because they were smart enough not to do bad stuff around their community‚ so no one was able to see the how they really behaved outside school. I cannot blame the
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