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    needs friends. You have friends to have fun, to go on adventures, and to laugh together. They are there for you when you need a shoulder to cry on. They encourage you, listen to you, and accept you for who you are. Considering the most important people in my life right now are my friends. I want to invest my time with my church youth group to make us all connected even more than we already are. They matter to me the most and I would not be who I am today without them. Therefore, friends are probably

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    Mel has to choose between two life changing decisions. On one hand it’s his friends, but on the other it’s his music career. He could join the Jazz band and leave the Garage band and his friends, but if he does this he could lose some of his friends, and if not he could lose new opportunities. He has to choose one or the other, but look at it this way, his friends have helped him become who he is. They helped each other. They played together since they were young. They can continue

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    become better educated and get higher grades. By playing sports, students will be able to make more friends and enjoy school more. Lastly, if students were to be able to get a sports scholarship for college, their parents will only have to pay little to no money. High school sports are good for students because they can get a better education, make more friends, and have a better chance at getting into a good college. High school sports are good for students because they can get a better education

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    people in my life right now are my friends. I want to invest my time with my church youth group to make us all connected even more than we already are. They matter to me the most and I would not be who I am today without them. Everyone needs friends. You have friends to have fun, to go on adventures, and to laugh...together. They are there for you when you need a shoulder to cry on. They encourage you, listen to you, and accept you for who you are. Friends are probably the biggest influence

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    are creatures of habit. We seek to be well liked and to have lots of friends. When we are not invested in what someone we are interested in is, we often pretend to like it. Even going so far as to participate in certain things we would normally not. High school is often difficult for many young adults. We are trying to find where we fit in and who we really are. When one graduates high school, they often do not have the same friends that they started high school with. When I started high school I was

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    Do you ever feel like you deserve better, well so did I. Over the freshman year of highschool I became friends with a few people who I called my friends until the middle of the summer before sophmore year. These were the people I considered to be the best I could get and all I would have in my highschool years. Over the course of freshman year I got to know these people for who they truly were, unsupportive, snarky, and apathetic. These friends led me to bad grades, low motivation, and no confidence

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    into detail of how friends are really not what we think them to be. We often don’t actually have friends but rather just acquaintances or companions. He goes on to explain who are real friends are and why they are our friends and that no one else really is. Thoreau states, “What is commonly called friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues” (p. 144). This brings attention to that a friendship is slightly more than someone who is dishonest to you. Your friend will only tell the truth

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    “Scouts Honor” by Avi is a realistic fiction about the narrator and his friends trying to be tougher than each other. In the beginning the narrator tells his friends he is going on a camping trip to earn his badge and the friends said they will go to. Soon one of the friends gets taken to the next subway station without his friends. so he's there alone very scared. In the end, the friends admit that they hate being outdoors and roughing it and they all just want to go home. This

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    Many people desire to get something, and they fight each other to win their desire. They consider each other their enemies and do whatever it takes to be better than one another. When the enemies need help for same problem, they unite themselves to solve the problem. The short story “The Interlopers” by Saki is about unification and reveals how enemies become allies in harsh situations. Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym were enemies because Ulrich was the owner of the forest land, and Georg

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    How do the influences from friends affect the choices we make in life? Both good and bad, these influences are the main reasons we make every choice we do in life. Our friends can cause us to make some excruciatingly good choices. On the downside unfortunately, our friends can cause us to make some tremendously bad choices. In the end though, these choices tend to add together and make us the people we are today. As said before, our friends can cause us to make some excruciatingly good choices.

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