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Why is this essay worth reading? It ’s worth reading because it will give you something to do rather than telling your mom you are bored and getting housework from your mom. This is my solution, finger puppets. What are finger puppets and what can you use them for? Well, you could use them to mock someone. You could mock an annoying sibling or a friend. It’s useful for you to not reach 100% boredom. To begin with, you want to gather all your materials. Those materials are going to be a sticky note

Life is something that requires a considerable amount of physical and labor effort. There will always be some kind of struggle along the way that caused people to stumble and fall, but through perseverance, many got back up and achieve their goal. In “ A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty, it depicts the story of a brave, strong elderly woman who makes an annual trip to town for medicine for her grandson. Just like how Phoenix Jackson struggling on her way to town, I struggling my way to school so that one

Lyddie needs to sign that petition! Why? I’ll tell you why. It could save her from a life filled with exhaustion and dry coughs. Signing the petition could be like rebirth for the factory girls who breath poison air. The’d have newly found energy, more energy to do things after work, better working conditions, all at the risk of signing one petition? Seems pretty worth it to me. This book is Lyddie, Lyddie is about a girl in Lowell that was sent to work to pay off her family's debts, this book is

When Doodle was first born he was very weak. Nobody would ever believe that he would ever amount to anything. Some even though he would die. Someone like his brother. The narrator always wanted a brother or someone to do something with. But he was not expecting his brother to turn out like he did. He gave his brother the name Doddle after the Doodlebug. His Brother had to carry him everywhere. He became sick of this and also embarrassed to have a brother that was 5 and could not even walk. So he

Armando Castro Tigres UANL 2002-2003 Home Jersey It was Christmas of 2002 in my home, and my family sat around opening gifts from under the Christmas tree. Any other year, this would have been an exciting time for me, but this year felt a little different. I was a teenager, and I began to feel a little too old for the all Christmas festivities. I wanted something other than a toy that I would discard within a week. The only gift that could relieve this feeling of discontent was the opportunity

Do you ever make excuses for why you didn’t do something you wanted to do? In the book No Excuses by Kyle Maynard, it talks about how he has decided to live with no excuses as to why he can't do some of the things other people can. He had decided that he could do anything he wanted to do as long as he believed he could. He believed there was no excuse for him to not make new friends when he and his family moved to Georgia. He also thought that just because he had physical limitations it wasn’t an

The Incapability of Handling Loss Everyday, some form of loss occurs, such as losing car keys, losing a dollar, or losing a loved one: loss is inevitable. However, regardless of what is lost, it is something that needs to be accepted in order to move on with daily life. Thus, loss is what humans have to learn to accept and cope with everyday; however, learning to accept the losses encountered on a daily basis is harder than one thinks. Every loss that occurs impacts the individual in some way. Whether

In Craig Morgan’s song, “Being Alive and Livin,” he sings “I ain’t a guy to just kick back, and watch bikes race around the track, I’m white knuckled to the handle bars with both my hands. No, I ain’t one to just stand around, while a parachute falls to the ground, I gotta be hanging underneath when it lands. I’m not a wonder what it feels like kind of man.” He continues in the second verse, “... I ain’t gonna get to my rockin’ chair, scratchin’ a head full of silver hair and look back on a bunch

Have you ever considered giving up? Of course, no not at all. What am I talking about? Giving up is not an option, we have learned that from teachings and lessons, but I dare you to differ from that. Giving up is an art, but immature giving up is awful, but a mature giving up is not as bad as you think. Sometimes giving is necessary for our life because it is the only one that helps us to retrieve a failure situation. For intense, you love to run a wooden store, but somehow you failed to achieve

For anyone, especially children it is easy to become attached to a place and to call it home. As they grow up and make memories that are associated with a particular place it can be hard for them to leave that place especially if it is involuntarily. How would you feel, if you had to had to leave your home, leave all your memories? Julia Alvarez found out her answer to this question after her family was forced to flee Dominican Republic and settle permanently in the United States. The involvement