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    competence or what could be called personal mastery in the field you want to succeed in. Nothing is ever impossible to accomplish in life. You have to be determined that you can do the impossible. If you have determination you can overcome the adversities in life. Therefore‚ Even the well-known people goes through different obstacles and hardships in their life. Bill Gates went through some struggles in his life too. He dropped out of Harvard University and tried to run a successful business from

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    Bring Back Flogging by Jeff Jacoby advocates the restoring of the ancient Puritan penalty for crimes to some extent. Via the sentence “Now we practice a more enlightened‚ more humane way of disciplining wrongdoers: We lock them up in cages”‚ the author pointed out the unwise in the application of the all-purposed penalty-imprisonment in an ironic tone. By wording with statistic and citations‚ the author revealed the plight faced by the present imprisonment penalty: imprisonment is an all-purposed

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    Friends - one word with a very beautiful meaning behind it. To most of us‚ friends are known as our pals‚ buddies or acquaintances. The more the merrier they always say. The more friends you have‚ the wider you horizon. With the ample presence of social networking sites these days such as Facebook and Twitter‚ it is much easier to be connected to people from the other end of the world than it used to be. With just a few clicks of the mouse‚ you will become friends or be connected virtually to other

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    must first receive. However‚ in the novel “Until They Bring the Streetcars Back‚” by Stanley Gordon West‚ Cal Gant demonstrates this principle of giving time and time again. If love is not something you say‚ but something you do‚ then how many acts of loving go unnoticed throughout a day? It seems that the simplest actions‚ such as waving hello to an elderly couple on the street‚ can be the most sentimental. This theme plays out in Until They Bring the Streetcars Back‚ through Cal’s kindness and blind

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    How to Bounce Back from Adversity Renee’ Baker PSS301: Work Life & Career 1. Give an example of how you turned a negative experience into a positive one. In order to turn a negative experience into a positive one is to counter adversity with resilience; that is taking charge of how we think about adversity. The first step is to have a plan of action‚ then respond to that plan otherwise called response oriented thinking. I was employed with my previous company for

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    What does friend true meaning? A friend is a person who is attached to another with feelings of affection. In the essay called “Friends‚ Good Friends - and Such Good Friends” by Judith Viorst talks about many different types of friendship that women have. The women have various kinds of friendship bonds than what the men do. Viorst tells us a point she would have said a friend is a friend all the way. However‚ the truth is that friendship with a person can be different with another person. But‚

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    Overcoming Adversity The film “Places in the Heart“ is set in the 1930‘s at a time when sexism and racism were very much present in the American society. The film tells the story of a widow who is trying to keep her farm with the help of Moze‚ an African-American man and Mr. Will‚ a blind man‚ during the Great Depression. Throughout the film‚ the director stresses the importance of solidarity in facing down disaster. Each character has to overcome their own adversities to help

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    Adversity to me is what challenges and obstacles stand in our way. The fear and voices in our mind that we must overcome. Overcoming and having power over adversity is very important. We need to realize we can not hide the truth. We need to take a step and realize what is important. What you have to do. The book “Miracle in the Andes” is a great example of overcoming adversity. In the book‚ a plane filled with mostly rugby players crashed in the middle of the Andes. There was no help for them. Many

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    there’s a big difference between cyber friends and real life friends. Many people think that these two both have the same level of friendship. Unlike those people‚ I think that having real friends that you personally see and talk with is priceless and irreplaceable. There’s is nothing more beautiful than great relationships with your friends whom you personally share stories with. Well‚ I’m not saying that having cyber friends is bad or unacceptable. I’m just

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    Stop the Strays The amount of strays in America is unbelievable. In my own community‚ Hood County‚ the numbers are through the roof. According to the Stray Pet Advocacy 45% of the stray animals in Hood county are dogs‚ and the other 55% are cats. The first step to a better‚ less stray-infested‚ future is to get the shelters going harder at their jobs. More animal control vehicles should be patrolling through the town during the day. More funds are needed to give the animal control vans the equipment

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