What’s one thing you are most proud of? “You can get what you want or you just get old” I don’t know where I get this quote but it’s haunting me You know what you really want and please notice passion won’t stay forever My dream is only traveling‚ to anywhere new to see my beautiful country with my limited years You will think I’m a dreamer‚ and yes I’m a dreamer When I was a kid‚ my family has a big picture of Uncle Ho. I’m so proud of this I told myself one day I will come to Hanoi capital to visit
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When I was young‚ I had a dream. Where’s that dream now? It never happened. People dream. In grade one we all wanted to be superheroes‚ grade two and three we wanted to be models or spies. In grade five we began to realize that there are more options and we wanted to be teachers‚ astronauts and firefighters. Then we realized that those jobs don’t pay so well‚ so we went for other options. Surveys show that less than 1% of kids chose the career they picked in grade 2. Why is that? Because
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Leslie Lim Jia Seng Sn13K How true is that most pleasurable things in life are bad for you? Pleasurable things is things that give you happiness and relaxation. It can be a thing or an activity. Different people have their own pleasurable things. Most of them benefit us. Many things in our daily life are pleasurable things. It is just we do not realize it but as we did not do it‚ we will have a strange feeling . It is simple things that we did which make us feel good. Common examples of it are
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Importance of Margins In the short essay "In Praise of Margins" Ian Frazier defines marginal people‚ places‚ or activities as "... the ones that don’t quite work out" (58 Frazier) since they are insufficient to meet the standards of the economic world. However‚ Frazier shows he values marginal activities and places because they allow people to be themselves without the worry and judgment. For Frazier and his friends‚ they viewed "The woods" (56 Frazier) as their place of margin Often times society
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One for One American Transcendentalist writer‚ Ralph Waldo Emerson once said‚ “to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” In today’s society many entrepreneurs and businessmen do not see this as the definition of success. However‚ thirty-five year old entrepreneur and adventurist‚ Blake Mycoskie‚ agrees with Emerson’s definition of success. In 2006‚ Mycoskie started the for profit company‚ TOMS. The company sells shoes here in the United States
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Voltaire’s Candide: One Man’s Search For True Happiness and Acceptance of Life’s Disappointments Voltaire’s Candide is a philosophical tale of one man’s search for true happiness and his ultimate acceptance of life’s disappointments. Candide grows up in the Castle of Westfalia and is taught by the learned philosopher Dr. Pangloss. Candide is abruptly exiled from the castle when found kissing the Baron’s daughter‚ Cunegonde. Devastated by the separation from Cunegonde‚ his true love‚ Candide sets
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Anderson 30 November‚ 2010 I Love You. True love. Many of us have our own interpretation on love‚ let alone true love. For some people love comes easy‚ but for others it can be the most complicated thing in the world. Seeing cute couples walking down the street and holding hands might make matters worse in fact you might even tend to get a little bit jealous‚ or discouraged‚ but remember its a normal feeling. In the poem‚ “True Love‚” by Wislawa Szymborska‚ love is depicted as a
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True Self: The Door to True Happiness Not everyone in this world is like what they seem to be. Today‚ we live in a world where only a few live their true self and not disguise themselves with the traits they never had. One can never be truly happy until they start living their true self and take off the illusionary disguise. There are two characters in the novel‚ Chronicles of Narnia‚ that disguise their true identity. The reader can get glimpses of their real character throughout the book. One
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Alex True Love This is something that divides us as humans‚ with quite a lot of gray area in the middle. You will find people that swear to the truth of this and others that try to finally prove it false. Right now I see myself in the grey area‚ questioning. Does true love exist? Is it possible for everyone? I am not sure even what this is seeing as I have yet to be in love. I have often asked myself if there was a one true love for me and if someone somewhere was pulling the strings just right
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making the page numbers irrelevant. Please modify page numbers to coincide with your text. Tim O’Brien’s "The Things They Carried" presents the central idea that amongst society‚ it is normal to react to atypical situations in an atypical way. Jimmy Cross‚ O’Brien’s protagonist‚ was developed to exemplify this atypical reaction. Cross allows the reader to believe and appreciate "the things they carried" as well as creating an extended metaphor. O’Brien begins his work describing the care that Lieutenant
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