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    My cousin, Scott, moved in with us a couple of years ago. I was very close to him, and I trusted him completely. He was always there to talk to whenever I was dealing with something, or just bored out of my mind. He listened to me rant about all the drama going on in my life, and would give me advice on how to deal with it. He was loving, kind, thoughtful, and he always put others first – he was truly genuine. He got a job not long after he moved in and had gotten on his feet pretty quickly. Everything

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    FAT MATH. FATASS. SCIENCE. BEACHED WHALE. LUNCH. SIT ALONE IN THE LIBRARY. ENGLISH. TWINKIE. HISTORY. DRINK BLEACH. GET HOME. GO ON COMPUTER. SLEEP. WAKE UP. WALK TO SCHOOL. MATH. DAY IN. DAY OUT. ANXIETY. STOP BREATHING SO QUICKLY. LONG BREATHS. YOU’LL HYPERVENTILATE. BREATHE. REPEAT. REPEAT. REPEAT. REPEAT. REPEAT. First, I quit eating breakfast. It would be a waste of 15 minutes in the morning that could be spent sleeping, giving me 5 and a half hours of sleep, instead of my normal 5.25.

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    which is why they continually operate at lower frequencies. Are you willing to die for what you want and what you believe in? XX. “Don’t Stop, Won’t Stop” “Don't stop, won't stop” is a popular catchphrase created by the Bad Boy record label CEO Sean “Puffy” Combs aka Puff Daddy and

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    Right now I am hundreds of feet over the ocean while holding one hundred balloons, but first let me tell you how I got here. It all started like this; I was going to the balloon store. It was my cousins 16 birthday and there was going to be a big party. I was assigned to get the balloons. So, I did. I walked into the store, to be greeted by an old man. The man wore old fashion clothes and had hair as white as paper. I told the man I need some balloons, and he asked, “How many would you like?” “100

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    The Blind Side was written and directed by John Lee Hancock, based on the book, The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game. The movie is about a middle to upper class family that takes in Michael Oher, a teenage african-american, who at the time is homeless, and help him turn his life around to success, specifically leading to his very successful football career. Throughout the movie, the family helps Michael more and more as he starts becoming more and more a part of their family. The director’s apparent

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    The world is far from a uniform system. Each and every individual is placed in a different situation depending on everything from location, race, beliefs, and economic status. Psychology looks at how individuals come out of these specific environments and how they transform into an adult through the trials and tribulations of their growth. In The Blind Side, director John Lee Hancock focuses on an athletically skilled African-American teen, Michael Oher, who is transformed from a homeless orphan

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    “The Blind Side” is a true story about a young black teen named Michael Oher, who went through things that most teens don’t go through in most movies. His home life was a very rough home life and most of the time he had no mother, she had abandoned him. As the movie goes on it shows how he was accepted into not only a family but a very wealthy family that did numerus things for him. Michael was an extremely good athlete in the movie, he loved sports and football as much as anyone. During high school

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    The Blind Side Essay

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    The Blind Side - Fact vs. Fiction “Life's a maze, you twist and you turn through it,The driest of droughts, maneuvered and I earned through it” (Clipse). During the Blind Side, Michael Oher comes up from living on the `street to becoming an NFL football players. Throughout the film he is adopted by a new family who puts him down the right path in life. Although the movie "The Blind Side" is similar to Michael Oher's life, there are also many things that the movie changed about Michael's journey

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    both of his parents, he grew up without having a healthy relationship with both his parents. A woman named Leigh Tuohy, and her husband Sean Tuohy take Michael into their own home. Leigh, after spending time with Michael starts to feel like a mother to him, and Michael feels the same way about her. After they both create a bond with Michael, both Leigh and Sean become legal guardians of Michael. With Michael growing up in poverty, and not having a positive relationship with his parents, he gets introduced

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    Blind Side Symbolism

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    The blind side, produced by John Lee Handcock, is based on the story and events of the Tuohy family as they take in a young homeless boy by the name of Michael Oher. A fatherless Micheal Oher is left in the care of his drug addicted mother in the gang filled projects of Memphis. But soon things are about to change for him. Through a series of events he is accepted into Wingate Christian School, which is an exclusive private school, even though his education level did not meet their standards. During

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