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    destination, it’s also about the journey. The journey is more important than the destination because it can be beneficial, life changing, and more memorable. The journey can be beneficial for many reasons. It can teach you many new skills in many different areas. These include life and social skills. The different things you learn from the journey can help you throughout your whole life. It can also teach you that people aren’t just given everything. More often then not, people have to work hard for their

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    Turning points are big experiences that change your life and they are either good or bad. No matter what you are never the same, and you never forget them. The characters from Island of The Blue Dolphins by Scott O'dell, Guts by Gary Paulsen, and Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. They all have turning points in their life. This changed their life a lot in good or bad ways. Karana is a Native American that lives with her brother and sister and family and her whole tribe. But one day everyone left except

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    What is the purpose of our life? Why do we exist? How do we treat our existence? Every individual has different reasons or explanation why they exist. Some says that they do live because God created them. Some will say that they are living for the purpose of completing the promise of procreation. There are many reasons why we are living in this world. The individual’s awareness of purpose of their life is a paramount mystery for every individual. Existentialists connotes that man exists first and

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    An unforgettable experience I’m grateful for participating in was volunteering at Hospice. What most people aren’t aware of is that Hospice isn’t just a place surrounded by death and despair, it’s more than that, you’re providing comfort to patients to reduce their suffering and enhancing their quality of life. Throughout the course my life I’ve always been interested in working in the medical field, all throughout high school I made sure I took as many medical-related classes my school allowed

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    Peter Pan Belonging

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    choose to ignore it. In “Peter Pan” by J.M. Barrie, the protagonist, Wendy Darling is forced to change her identity after being separated from her family, interacting with Peter Pan and the Lost Boys, and going through an adventurous experience that would change her life forever In the beginning Wendy loved Neverland and the adventurous independence it came with. Wendy and the lost boys had to fend for themselves without any adults, even when it was hard “They had to make beleive that they had had their

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    Life Changing Events Have you ever experienced a life changing event, where your plane crashed out of nowhere, because your pilot had a heart attack? Or dealt with your father moving away, and moving to a new country? Maybe you have experienced growing up, and it was challenging. Brian, Moonshadow, and Rachel all faced life changing events that had a direct impact on their lives. Brian faced loneliness and hunger when he was stranded on a deserted island, because his

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    Throughout life I have experienced numerous events that have shaped me into becoming the person I am to this day. Out of all these events, my adoption has been the most significant and life changing event of my life. Two weeks before my first birthday in, I was adopted from Nanchang, China. As I grew up, my parents never once tried to conceal my adoption. Without them, I believe I would have grown to be a totally different person. Although I was adopted and brought in by my adoptive parents, I see

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    Jim Hawkins Development

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    novel Treasure Every person is constantly changing from the events happening in his/her life. Whether the changes are positive or negative, they impact the way he/she acts and thinks. In the novel Treasure Island, the main character Jim Hawkins changes from weak to mature and adventurous proving that he has come of age. Beginning at a young age working with his parents, was the start of his transformation. In the fact that things are constantly changing in life, people transform to adjust to the new

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    development in many fields, life of people is changing completely. Day by day people faced with more needs and duties which had a limited time to be complete. All those feeling and emotions that people experience during different life stages are ways in which our body expresses and responds to a particular event. It is very interesting and unbelievable how a phenomenon that was lately introduced no more than 50 years ago became one of the most significant ingredient of the life of people. Stress was first

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    steamboat captain Mark Twain had experienced changes on the Mississippi River throughout his life. In the book Life on the Mississippi River, twain undergoes a change in perspective on the outlook of the river. He went from seeing it was a beauty to just a river because of his time on the river. “In Life on the Mississippi” Mark Twain explains his experiences of the Mississippi and relates this to his changing viewpoint. In paragraph 1 Twain states “That there was never so wonderful a book

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