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    "I will open rivers in high places‚ and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water‚ and the dry land springs of water". Isaiah 41:18 Many times in our lives we wonder why we have to pass through valleys. We wonder why our mountaintop experiences don’t last forever. The reality is‚ geographically there cannot be a mountain without a valley! Valleys are at the base of every mountain‚ however‚ when we find ourselves at the valleys of our spiritual

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    A Lesson Learnt The Hard Way "Yayy!" "Quantas First and Business Class‚ that’s the way we go!" "C’mon Quick Ems." "Coming Dan...What kind of brother are you? Might as well help me with the bags!" "Alright‚ alright. Hand them over." "There you go. The blue one’s lighter‚ so its okay I’ll carry it; but the black one’s a little heavy and slowing me down." "Anyways‚ now that this is sorted‚ let’s go." "Dibb’s on the window seat! The view is going to be absolutely great!" Daniel badly wanted

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    Both the text‚ “I never had it made” and the PBS review‚ Jackie Robinson: an inside look‚ have some similarities and differences. Both the excerpt and video mention how important the world series was to him‚ but even though that is one similarity‚ the excerpt talks about of people of such importance to him for example‚ Rachel‚ his wife‚ and Branch Rickey. PBS’ video talks more about Robinson’s private life or his life before baseball. Before he broke the color barrier‚ Jackie Robinson fought in the

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    the swim team. I remember being tired of swimming for so many years. That was the way I felt for the last years before quitting‚ after I had lost my enjoyment of swimming. I had been swimming for almost ten years. It was the feeling I got when I competed at swim meets that kept me going. That feeling of accomplishment‚ determination‚ competitiveness‚ and sometimes‚ failure. I loved that mixture of feelings. But‚ later on‚ during the summer between my junior and senior year of high school‚ I made

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    The best job have I ever had ? Throughout my career life I have had a lot of jobs ‚ sometimes good or most the time bad but‚ I am pretty sure if you have a chance to work for yourself that would be your best opportunity. When I got this chance to work in my own little store it was the most amazing job I could ever wish to get. Imagine working without any boss‚ less stress or no problems with a manager in my job. Wouldn’t that be great? One of the reasons that made this job interesting for me

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    I had heard talk of a mother’s love for her child before the day I had my own. I’d heard stories of a mother that gives her life to save her child’s. I’d seen that kind love expressed by my own mother everyday. I guess‚ I never thought it to be much different then the love a person feels for any other immediate family member. Boy‚ was I wrong. It’s not that I don’t love my other family unconditionally and entirely‚ but a mother’s love is undoubtably incomparable to any other. October‚ 20‚

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    Erika Eissler February 18‚ 2010 How to Swim the Freestyle Stroke The freestyle is also known as the front crawl or the sidestroke. It is used in competitions but there are no real regulations on how it has to be swum. Most swimmers choose to swim front crawl during freestyle competition because it is the fastest technique. For individual freestyle competitions‚ however‚ a swimmer can use any stroke they want‚ but during medley competitions they cannot use the breaststroke‚ butterfly stroke

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    feels disconnected to her social class and desires to belong to a more wealthy class. The metaphor of the window shows how social barriers often prevent this transition. Somehow‚ the persona overcomes these barriers and experiences the ‘curious wine’‚ only to find that instead of providing the belonging the persona sought‚ the new social class makes her feel isolated.  o The ‘ample bread’ is positively harmful because the persona realises that she no longer feels the connection to nature and to the

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    confessional poems “I had been hungry all these years” and “I gave myself to him” by Emily Dickenson have a unique economy of style which actively challenges these dichotomies in the notion of “belonging”. Moreover Dickenson is contrasted with Annie Proulx’s shocking short story “55 miles to the gas pump” which promotes the view that geographic and social isolation‚ taken to extremes‚ can result in destructive and macabre outcomes.

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    ”HOW TO LEARN HOW TO SWIM WITHOUT GETTING WET” This is an old phrase used to be said in my country too for something you are trying to do without really trying to achieve it by your self to experience it and see how it works but just by relying on somebody else experience advises. In my opinion you can’t really achieve something if you don’t experience it yourself and in this case through the phrase ‚that it is impossible to learn how to learn how to swim without getting wet because somebody

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