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In the story, “The Scarlet Ibis”, I believe Brother is responsible for Doodle’s death. Some may disagree, that’s okay, it’s their opinion. With the given evidence, I hope you agree. All in all I think Doodle’s death is Brother’s fault. I think overall, Doodle saw his brother as a threat. “‘Don’t hurt me brother.’ He warned.” This shows that Doodle was aware that his brother was capable of hurting him. He doesn’t want Brother to hurt him. Just showing that Doodle was scared that his brother…

Freedom. When I hear this word many thoughts pour into my head. I smile in pride knowing that my country has freedom. But then I begin to think of the cost of freedom. All of the lives lost to give people this freedom. The people who have died for our country who I don't even know the names of. Freedom is the power, or act to speak or think freely without restraint. Some of us don't know what it’s like to not have freedom. Others recall not having freedom and never want to go down that road…

To begin with, life is full of obstacles and to overcome them you just got to tell yourself your not afraid. Humans have distinct thinking and there is at least one thing that makes us scared. Eminem’s hit rap song “Not Afraid” points his struggles and battles with decisions and choices he made to make him bigger and better. Eminem says, it is hard not to be afraid of anything, but you have to be strong and wise. This song has lots of meaning and motivation to strive for the best and don’t fall…

Something Gladwell did not manage to point out was the distance the information given could reach. Yes, social activism has a bigger and more direct impact on the people, but what about the numbers of people that can be reached by it. Gladwell solely focused on quality, but never mentioned quantity. What if the person expected to influence lives half away across the world. You couldn’t just travel there and back way back in the past, but today you can. Thanks to social media and applications…

My funniest moment comes with some background information so that anyone that reads this doesn’t take it the wrong way. Since I was about sixteen years old I have said that the day I turn thirty years old, that I want to die in a shark attack. I don’t say it in a way meaning I don’t want to pursue my life, and it’s not meant in a way that I’m not happy with my life either. When I say it, I don’t really mean it, but it is my way of dealing with the things that life has dealt for me and my future…

Generally, it is hard to accept the change. We all know that, change makes a huge difference in our life. Sometime it occurs when we do not expect it. It takes some time to get used to it. When we cannot accept the change, we try to adjust with it and that is what Shin and many other North Korean defectors do. When they escape from the labor camp or from the North Korea, they have no idea about what is outside of labor camp or the North Korea. They are not aware of outsider world and they do not…

I Define Who I am, Not my Culture Ever since I was a child, I feel like I struggled with my identity. To me, I was seen as no one in the eyes of many. I knew I had so much potential but I did not think people thought the same of me which was bad. I have always felt like I was walking between two different cultures all my life. As I grew up, I always had two sides of me: this is my African side and my American side. Overtime, I had to accept the fact that I was always going to be different…

The belief that freedom is worth having regardless of it including the freedom to make mistakes, is a misunderstanding in the lives of numerous people. The entire point of having freedom is to explore, discover, and learn something new by going beyond one’s own limitations. Additionally, whenever one attempts something he/she has never done before, he/she will usually make a mistake. However, he/she learns from that mistake and can utilize this new information to aid him/her in the future.…

Nothing Stranger The week before anything had happened; it was just a normal day in Chicago. The weather was perfect, birds were singing, everyone was alive and well. A group of kids went to one of their friends houses on that Saturday to hangout and catch up on the new hit show that everyone at school has been talking about, Stranger Things. Michelle, Maple, Vince, and Joey all headed to Joey’s house to enjoy the day binge watching some Netflix. They enjoyed all eight episodes of the first…

Changing people is a difficult task which often end in a disaster with the one being changed harboring ill feeling towards the changer. The reason so many attempts to change someone fails is due to the systems and implementation which are common practice are ill suited for true success. Throughout reading Dale Carnegies book “How to Win Friends and Influence People” I discovered that there are delicate steps to changing people without them getting offended or having them arouse resentment…