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    More to the point would be why not? If exercise is the key to staying physically fit, learning is the key to staying mentally fit and the lock you will open will be in the Self-Improvement door of your life. No one would say there 's anything wrong with improvement in our products, how could anything be anything but right when it comes to improving ourselves. It only makes us better and what makes us better makes us happier. Some people seem to be happier than others. Some seem to embrace the enthusiasm

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    H.G. Bissinger tells the story of the obsessive town of Odessa, Texas in his book, Friday Night Lights. This town has a toxic obsession with high school football and wastes away the week, only seeking the excitement of Friday nights that are filled with Panther football. The expectations held for the athletes of Odessa are suicidal and the preparation for life outside of high school is almost non existent. The town of Mount Vernon, Iowa also lives for Friday nights, however it has a healthy balance

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    is similar to the dreaming argument from the perspective that everything we know to believe could be false. There is no evidence for simple mathematic equations like 2+3=5 to be true just as there is no evidence to prove we are not living within a dream. The argument puts into question whether the evil demon deceives us into believing things in which are simply made into a virtual reality when in fact there could be “no earth, no sky, no extended thing, no shape, no size, no place”. Just as the dreaming

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    asleep are comparable to the scenarios we experience whilst we are awake. Often, we struggle to tell from our own perspective where our experiences are derived from; it is difficult to differentiate whether our experiences stem from reality or our dreams. The issue with this is that our unconscious

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    Although Perry’s retelling is embellished with relatable stories pointing to peer pressure, insecurity, and other classic human struggles as being the reasoning behind the murder. These ideas are displayed through diction and imagery; therefore solidifying the theme that evil is often not sinister, but an extreme, yet human, response to struggle and despair. Truman Capote incorporates unusual diction in his writing to reveal a haunting and mysterious tone. "The expert execution of the crimes was

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    I remember when I was younger, looking in the mirror and daydreaming. My reflection showed a young girl with a big ambition, one so big that it would wow the world. She was wearing the colours of her favourite football team with her thick, worn through socks pulled up high thinking that nothing could stop her. I would put on my dad’s frayed and oversized football guernsey reminiscing about the special and inspirational moments it had been worn through, thinking of ways I could recreate them for myself

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    best things in life take time and patience, if you dream up the possibility for something great in your life to happen you gotta believe that it can happen, then go out and make it happen!  Achieve your goals by going out there into that big, wide, beautiful world and take the chances you get to make it worthwhile.   Moving to Florida was a big change for my family and I.  My parents had been talking about moving for years but never achieved their dream until last year.  We

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    Dreams are only fulfilled in fantasies. In Lasse Hallstrom’s Chocolat and Damien Chazelle’s La La Land, both authors explore the importance of sacrifice, drive and perseverance in achieving one’s dream in spite of all the obstacles. Through the use of imagery of colour, characterisation and setting, Hallstrom and Chazelle share insight on what it is like to have a dream in today’s society, that there are many obstacles for disheartening, but that all the hardships are worth it. Judgement and criticism

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    The poems “Hall of Fame” and “As I Grew Older” are about achieving dreams. These pieces of literature share a similar theme, but the works themselves are different in several ways. “Hall of Fame” is a song that uses repetition and hyperboles to inspire the reader. “As I Grew Older” is a poem written by Langston Hughes that uses similes and metaphors to describe the pain and hardship of having a dream. In this essay, I will compare and contrast “Hall of Fame” and “As I Grew Older.” These works differ

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    Dreams can make that empty feeling in someone’s to be filled with satisfaction, even when not real. But, these gifts of ultimate pleasure and fulfilling needs can take a very dark turn, bringing all of someone’s deepest fears and secrets out like a bottle that has tipped over. You can see the thing you’re most afraid of chase you through the shadows or something you’ve been hiding all your life popping out in the middle of a perfect dream, destroying it completely and filling you with so much guilt

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