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    childhood of wilderness. Every person should pursuit for happiness and fight for the changes in our life. All the struggle, fight for independence and love, will structure our life in a way we want to have it. These elements are shown in this amazing stories Flight and A Raisin in the Sun. The dreams we wanted to achieve in our life aren’t easy to found. We have to struggle and have to fight for it, or sometimes we need to work hard to the fullest of our abilities to pursuit our happiness

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    similarities between me and them. It would be quite a while when I accidently watched a cartoon and came to realise what she meant . It was ‘goofy’ and not ‘goldfish’. Coming from a small town in Nepal with my limited set of vocabularies it would be a struggle to adjust in my new environment but what intrigued me the most was the fact I was goofy. For me being goofy was the perfect remedy for the marvels in technology that had happened in the capital where I was later scheduled to study. I would wear

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    Hope, struggle, and determination are the three words I use to describe my high school career. My parents have always held me to high expectations that most people in my situation would never think about, but their highest goal for me was that I attend college. We grew up poor due to my parent's divorce when I was only eight-years-old, and I struggled with severe depression and anxiety my entire life; conversely, my goal is to continue to still strive to make my parents proud and attend college.

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    overcome to get a chance at a better life. Through the eyes of Obinze, Ifemelu and Auntie Uju, the main characters in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, readers get a taste of the motivations and challenges immigrants face. For Ifemelu her struggles seemed to come in waves, but she was able to overcome them. When she was still in Nigeria, the school she attended continued to have teacher strikes

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    members of many nations ranging from Mexico to Russia. Surrounded by foreign influences and numerous other cultures, they struggle to determine which traditions from their heritages they should hold onto and which foreign customs they should embrace. A Chinese-American, Maxine Hong Kingston is familiar with this dilemma. In her piece “No Name Woman”, Kingston explores this struggle by sharing the tragic story of her aunt’s pregnancy. Within her piece, she journalistically reports her aunt’s story in

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    In 1979, when Jim Stigler was still a graduate student at the University of Michigan, he went to Japan to research teaching methods and found himself sitting in the back row of a crowded fourth-grade math class. "The teacher was trying to teach the class how to draw three-dimensional cubes on paper," Stigler explains, "and one kid was just totally having trouble with it. His cube looked all cockeyed, so the teacher said to him, 'Why don't you go put yours on the board?' So right there I thought

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    Struggles in the Clay Isabel Allende is the author of the story “And of Clay Are We Created.” Allende wrote a story, based on a real event, about three main characters. These characters are each in different positions in the story. In their respective position each carry something with them. They each carry a struggle and each struggle builds off the last. Allende reveals three different struggles, each revealed in correlation with the struggle before it, starting with Azucena’s given struggle,

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    The lesson objectives from the learning segment for each daily assessment record are as follows - Lesson 1: when given 8 GCF and LCM problems, the student will identify the key math term that tells them what to find and will circle it and name the operation with at least 75% accuracy. Lesson 2: when given 8 two number GCF problems, the student will be able to solve the problems using the “Rainbow” method with 75% accuracy. Lesson 3: when given 8 two number LCM problems, the student will be able

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    prepared us for the second assignment. To begin this task, I developed an idea about the true meaning and the purpose behind the story. In class, an important lesson taught me how to use active verbs throughout entire passages. This proved to be a struggle in my development of writing skills. I often found myself mixing passive verbs with active verbs, sometimes in the same sentence. Another useful lesson I learned included how to look at my story by Cisneros from an argumentative view instead of a

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    passed on, and many of these have also had movies published telling their story. Movies such as October Skies and Queen of Katwe tell stories of two separate beings, who have had a great impact in modern days. Although Homer Hickam and Phiona Mutesi struggle to find their paths to success due to their circumstances and background, Phiona Mutesi story possesses a more accessible storyline because of its emphasis on international figures rather than national. The movies October Skies and Queen of Katwe

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