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    Montag lives in a selfish society where everyone thinks solely about themselves. When Montag says this is the age of the disposable tissue, he is not really referencing the handkerchief someone would blow their nose with. He is enlightening the reader on how people in his society only utilize other people for the goods and services they contribute. Someone in his society would be friends with another person merely because they could benefit them in some way. An example from the book that would prove

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    I don’t know why I’m doing this, but this senseless woman or as she says ‘psychiatrist’ said the only way I’m going to get over these past couple of days is to recap. So here goes I guess I was at a friend’s barbeque invited only at pity of course, they all feel sorry for me, yet they don’t want to associate with me. Once I entered I was met with a blanket of stillness across the whole room, until I was met with an apparent ‘Hey Hirdy, how’s it going?’ which I replied with a subtle ‘Yeah good thanks’

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    our project goal, another would explain and handout our products. In a period of about twenty minutes we left empty handed. Everybody we had talked to thankfully accepted what we had to offer. Not only did we make a positive impact, we had fun while doing

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    you may not even see it, they will abuse you and you will not stand up for yourself. Each time it happens you just let it slip, then when I gets to be enough, you need space and time to walk away, rethink things through and to make sure what you are doing is right. In this short story by Budge Wilson “The Leaving” the reader sees the main character Elizabeth as one in a million, while her husband Lester only appeared to be pigheaded and demanding, while Elizabeth would do almost anything for her family

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    Passion is when you put more energy into something than is required to do it. It is more than just enthusiasm or excitement, passion is an ambition that is materialized into action to put as much heart, mind body and soul into something as is possible. It is an intense emotion, a compelling enthusiasm or desire for something. Passion is the beginning of success. It is motivation in action. When I speak of passion, I do not mean it in the romantic way. What I mean by passion, is the powerful feeling

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    Being lazy tends to have a negative connotation, but Morley takes a different stance and challenges his readers to uphold laziness as one of the true means to become happy. Morley is similar to a salesman, as he promotes his product, laziness, in hopes of gaining the attention and support of others. Like many salesmen, Morley has a catch. By concealing his satirical viewpoint, he is able to distract his audience and continue to promote laziness undetected. Masking this satire, Morley diverts the

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    For my Success Interview, I questioned Nicole Pha. An escrow assistant at First American Title and a first-generation refugee who escaped from the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia to settle in America at the young age of 4 with her family. They had fled in the middle of the night with no belongs from their village for fear of death and slavery. Her family was originally given asylum in Baltimore and after getting settled, they moved to California to restart their lives. Mrs. Pha is now working as an escrow

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    completely different fields from each other and therapeutic recreation. Working at a bar taught me that you need to be patient and accommodating to peoples needs and wants. I also learned how big of an impact you could make on someone’s day just by doing the simplest tasks. This is especially important in TR because our goal fully revolves around improving health and

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    "All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust." The first play I saw was about a boy who never wanted to grow up, he lived in Neverland with lost boys, Pirates, and Mermaids. It was in the fourth grade my teacher started to pass out permission slips to the class for a field trip we were supposed to go on the following week. It was to a play called "Peter Pan" I looked at the paper and I thought to myself, "I don’t care where it's to as long as I get a day out of this place." The day

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    president at Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau High School. As president, I tried to make sure everything was done on time, but by the end of the year I was a little worn out. Irritated with having to do everything myself I tried to delegate but still ended up doing mostly everything. My officer team had clocked out for the year and I was upset. Sitting in an officer meeting one day before school, I asked my advisor if there was any chance we could talk to some of the officers about participating more, which was

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