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    Monsters University In the 2013, Monsters Inc. Prequel Monsters University, wonderful director Dan Scanlon demonstrates many valuable life lessons while being very funny, engaging and staying true to the original. Right in the start of the film a wonderful message is put out. Dream big. A young Mike Wazowski and his class are on a fieldtrip to see the scarers in their workplace. When Mike is there, he realizes that this is what he needs to do. “How do I become a scarer?” (Scanlon, x:xx) Mike is

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    History provides a terrain of valuable moral lessons, while also helps us understand other people and different societies. The Holocaust is an event where these lessons are very clear. The Holocaust is a traumatic event in time where prejudice was in its rawest form. The Holocaust wasn’t a mere accident in history, it occurred because governments encouraged it and individuals allowed it. They permitted not only discrimination, but prejudice, hatred and the mass murder of people to occur. In addition

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    Snyder.Session1.Journal Life’s Lessons Kids. Just a simple four-letter word one would think. My kids are the reason for every decision in my life. The reason I wake up in the morning and push myself every day. In June this year I found out that I was expecting my third child. I had always thought before that I would be just so happy because well kids are great! No, not the case I was scared, heck I had never been scared before not even with my first so why now? The answer is I had grown up. I’m almost

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    As we all know life is full of experiences. Some of those experiences do not affect our lives, where as others are very significant. On my way into eighth grade I made the decision with my family to be home schooled. I learned many useful things, and it’s still fresh in my mind. The lessons I learned from my experience has strengthened my character immensely. My middle school years were the hardest of my life. I experienced more sadness and stress in those three years than an average adult experiences

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    Passive Education: Life is a Lesson Surrounded by vast expanses of shelves sits a young boy, encircled by a tall stack of paperback books that have delicate creases along the binding, the pages worn over time and through use. The boy's head is hunched, his eyes starting to strain as they rapidly dart over the words on the page. This describes Richard Rodriguez’s “scholarship boy” from the passage from his book called “The Achievement of Desire." Rodriguez, a young Mexican-American boy, struggles

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    Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, illustrates various morals and life lessons that reflect the attitudes of individuals towards notions of self growth, prejudice and innocence. The novel encompasses Atticus Finch’s courage and determination as he goes against the social conventions of Maycomb, Alabama and fights for justice whilst also teaching his children extremely valuable lessons. Harper Lee’s extensive exploration of these ideas are expressed through her literary techniques and characterisation

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    Life Lessons in The Odyssey Some books can be boring, and seem to posses no relevance in the life that exists on this earth. The words spoken never seem to apply to real life. The Odyssey however differs from that well beaten path. The Odyssey demonstrates the need for stability in life through a series of events that happened to a man named Odysseus. Odysseus struggled through the Trojan War and the perilous journey of finding his home once again. Stories always include lessons in disguise

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    There are many life lessons in Monsters University. One of the most noticeable ones is staying focused. It is shown many times throughout the movie.My first example is when Randy is going to the cool kids party. Randy is not focused and is trying to get Mike to go with him to the party. Mike will not go with Randy and shows that by saying,“We flunk that that scaring final, we are done. I'm not taking any chances.” He is zoning out on all of the distractions to stay focused on the task at hand. My

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    Boo Radleys Life Lessons

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    can learn things that can be harmful, or valuable, but it all depends on how the morals are taught. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a young girl name Jean Louise “Scout” Finch and her older brother, Jeremy “Jem” are taught many life lessons throughout the novel. In the small town of Maycomb, Alabama during the midst of the Great Depression,

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    My First Life Lesson

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    The first life lesson I had learnt from the speech of Dr Shah Rukh Khan is we should be bold in life. Life may not as easy as we think, there may be many difficulties. In order to overcome our diffculties and fears, we have to be brave when we deal with it. If we live in fear, everything will go wrong and we will not succeed. So, we should not let our fears become the obstacles that hinder our success, instead we should convert our fears and make it as our courage to step up for ourselves in order

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