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    The Glass Castle: Human Resilience Resilience is a skill that you develop over time through your experiences. People with this quality are able to gather their strength and keep going even when it seems futile to do so. Human resilience can be defined as the ability to come from your lowest point, back to your highest. It is the ability to get back up even when everything and everyone is pushing you down. Resilience can be expressed in several different ways and different people will have different

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    I didn’t do it. I swear! It was those little kids. You may be wondering what I did. Why I was in a freezing cold dungeon, or possibly feeling bad for me. Well, I’ll tell you the whole thing.     I was making my stew, the kind that I let the chicken bones sit in. I had no idea that two tiny demons were hiking up the hill by my house. “Just add some salt.” I mumbled to myself. CRUNCH! I peeked my head around the corner of my graham cracker wall and saw two kids (I assume they're eight or nine). Both

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    Inside said bunker Joshua has the DNA of every living thing on Earth and a copy of every piece of culture (books, movies, songs etc.). Josh has a massive database with all known information and a record of all known languages. He also has a museum of everything of cultural & societal significance from around the world. Josh preserved the best of human genes in the form of 100 children. These particular children have two specialty’s each (language & music or engineering

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    appearance of an action hero. He looked powerful and built with a sword on his side. He introduced himself as Joshua a man born into slavery. Joshua explained, He wandered in the desert for forty years to avoid God’s disobedient people. He went on to explain his faith in God and how he was ready for any challenges that God gave him. Joshua said, “My life was a series of challenges,” Joshua continues. “I started my life in chains, but God did not leave me there. He broke every chain that tried to hold

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    Perception And Thinking

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    Family, it states, “that when we align our families with Christ, making His priorities ours, we reap two priceless rewards. First, we develop healthier, more meaningful family relationships. Second, we pass the baton of faith in Jesus Christ to our children.” Our communities are filled with single parents, bad kids, and people that do not know how to make a difference. It is our responsibility to change this precedent, as well as our gift to society. This is noteworthy, as Earley and Wheeler points

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    years of preparation, the grand day of revelation finally arrived. Jonathan and Joshua Parker were overwhelmed and speechless upon discovering their true descents. When they received their checks, their parents advised, “Remember everything we have taught you and do not let this wealth change your moral way of living.” Their father affectingly explained why he denied the inheritance and why he saved it for his children. This warmed the Parker brothers’ hearts, and they promised that they would continue

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    Smoke-Free Laws. National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science. Retrieved October 10, 1927, from www.sciencecases.org/secondhand_smoke/secondhand_smoke.pdf Coffee and Cigarettes: Second-Hand Smoke and Smoke Free Law Summary and Questions Joshua Davenport owned a coffee bar/bistro in the small town of Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania situated on the Delaware River. He wanted to bring the old world elegance to his rural community, a place where neighbors could meet and converse over espresso drinks

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    memories of a fabled national innocence”. (Joshua Zeitz). This quote explains a little on how much money was getting in the way of them thinking straight. The roaring twenties also made women realize that they do not need to have as many children as their ancestors would and that these children brought on more economic problems than help. (Joshua Zeitz) “We think of the twenties as an era of prosperity, and in many respects, Americans had never lived so well” (Joshua Zeitz). The twenties are known for their

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    If the world were silenced for one minute for every victim in the Holocaust, then the world would be silent for eleven and a half years. Over six million people died because of the Holocaust. All of these lives were people who were parents, siblings, significant others, and had other types of relationships to millions of more people. Not only were these victims affected, it had a domino effect through history by impacting their families. Even today, decadence from Jewish background feel some form

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    language. For being in one of the most desolate places on earth, the Walls’ family thrived in the dessert. The Walls children were taught everything from how to drink and

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