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    teenager who returns to Pakistan for a holiday to see her hometown. One of her childhood friends named Jasper, faces a struggling journey after his father’s death. His father’s death has impacted Jasper throughout the novel which has altered his attitude and changed him emotionally as well as affecting his faith with God. However, he soon finds complete inner peace by the return of his father. At the beginning of the novel, we see Jaime remembering Jasper as an outgoing and a jolly teenager who had a

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    great affect in your life. After reading three amazing articles one by Richard Rodriguez the second by Barbara Ehrenreich and the last one by Bell Hook, I have learned that there is so much more than to be classified into a class (working class, middle class, and poverty). Richard Rodriguez comes from a working class family

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    different conditions of life. Value is what we hold dear and what we center our lives around. An example of a value would be religion. A person may assign great importance to, albeit consciously or unconsciously, to religion. Their actions and beliefs about many issue, perhaps marriage rituals or death rituals are impacted by their religion. Another example, is a person who values money above all else. They may choose a career which makes them the most money and center life activities, like where

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    she loves it but because life gave her changes and she had to go through these wether she wanted it or not. She created a piece focused on the divorce of her parents and how this led to other major adjustments like houses, schools, stepfathers and soon a step daughter who basically took over her home. All her thoughts and goals are based on her motto in life which is “Be Drunk”, this is taken out of a poem by Charles Baudelaire that exposes how you have to be drunk in life, not on alcohol but in the

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    dedicated to the nature of love, but there were different forms that impacted each character differently because that’s what the whole play was about. The choral ode’s primary argument about the nature of love was that it cannot be overcome: “In battle the victory goes to Love; Prizes and properties fall to Love”(35), it can drive a man insane: “O Love, no one can hide from you: You take gods who live forever, You take humans who die in a day, And they take you and go mad”(35), and the desires involved

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    paper, that does not mean it is the ending of the emotions and lessons you learned from the experience. Not all assignments may stand out to you, but I believe that everyone has one experience that impacts them in a large way. My experience that impacted me in a large way was a when I wrote about my adoption that had rocked my world from the day I was born, having people understand something important to me, and it was not based on the grade but the experience of it. Throughout my entire highschool

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    Scholarship A scholar is defined as, “A person who is highly educated has an aptitude for study.” This definition perfectly describes the reasoning for scholarship as well as the potential future from being a scholar. The impact of being a scholar has allowed me to advance in school and prepare for scholarship outside of high school. Scholarship has allowed me to maintain good grades and with that retain the knowledge gained from my classes. Being a scholar has created the desire to learn and gain

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    all ages because the internet can use for many horrible reasons.When people use the internet wrong for many reasons they can be damaged or just really mean so they can ruin the life someonelseś.The internet will be used right but they use it for bad reasons.When people use it wrong it can leave consequences for the person who gets caught doing something bad.In junior high, it has a really big influence on the school because then they can focus for a long time.The internet is a very dangerous place

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    Billy Cox once said, “Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams then you are to your comfort zone”. The repetitive theme in the movie Finding Forrester is change; whether this be a change in a person’s personality, or a change that affects others, change is consistently present throughout the movie. The two main characters in Finding Forrester are Jamal Crawford and William Forrester. Jamal is a 16 year old boy known mainly for his basketball skills. After state testing

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    Past president, Barack Obama once stated “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek”. This quote means that if we keep pursuing this concept that somebody else is going to do our needed work in the future, then we as a country, society, and even world, will never world, will never be able to take the right steps to be successful. We are the generation that the previous one spoke of, we need to step

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