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    different places, on fire, and if I got shot I’d have a rainbow as a trail. So yeah, I’m super gay. But, figuring out I was gay was probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. I mean I didn’t even know the proper name for it when I was younger. I’m from a super selectively religious household, and being gay just happened to be one of those things they selected to hate. Now you have a little background information, so let me dive in. I don’t really know when it started, but I have some…

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    young, it never crosses your mind that you’re going to lose a lot of things in life: friends, pets, family members, or even parents. Although this seems like, and is, a sad and serious topic, I’ve learned to make the most of the loss in life. My parents were a lot older than most parents having a child when they had me. My mom always told me I was a “surprise” and I always got offended because it sounded like she meant it as a bad thing. They weren’t really prepared at all to have another kid,…

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    Aristotle, a convincing Greek academic, who was known for his carious identity. Being realist and expert, Aristotle had various supporters. He Thought in a school, while tending to and analyzing ideas.The word satisfaction in the Ethics is a clarification of the Greek expression eudaimonia, which passes on characters of achievement and satisfaction. For Aristotle, this satisfaction is our most noteworthy objective. By the by, Aristotle does not express that we ought to go for happiness, yet…

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    the handle of the door and part of the seat. My heart was racing and my head started to hurt from the spinning. It happened in mere seconds but it felt so much longer. The car skid across the pavement and then stopped as we hit the fence, the one thing that kept us from flying off the edge. Emotions were flaring and my dad was trying to calm my mom. My brother was crying and my cousin was scared to death, but.....I was fine. I didn 't know why, but.....I was just fine. The only fear that I felt…

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    louder that speaks about your bank account. Most people buy things as just something to do here in America. We are a particularly wasteful society. There is an uneven distribution of wealth and the poor can live right in the same neighborhood as the ultra rich. Most of the people here plan their lives around what will make them successful. They use the word success as a way of saying “well off enough to buy everything I want”. When the thing that will make you happy is what you should be doing…

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    know why because I never actually read them. Instead, I would always look at the pictures in the books and tell my parents what the book was about based on what the pictures it showed. I’d tell them I know what it’s about because I read it, but, the thing is, I never read any of it. I only lied because that was the only way for them to get me more books. When I was young, whenever I looked at a book, I only saw lines with random letters. Every book I had would translate into saying, “BLAH BLAH…

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    Bangladesh legal age to work is 14 years, he also saw the 14 year boys working hard, and they also don’t get paid that much” (Timmerman, 2008). The thing is to think about how bad conditions probably when those 14 year boys instead of going to sch, getting educated, playing with their friends, they are supporting their whole family (Timmerman,2008). Other thing is to think about that is mentioned in this book how are there mothers feel about their 14-year-old son is working hard and providing a…

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    August tenth of 2013, is the last day I remember. For the next hundred or so days after the aforementioned one, I don’t have a clue as to how they happened. The hardest part was, perhaps, my crumbling again, anxiety like I’d never had before. But not on August tenth. The first day of a new team and the last day of supposed sanity, I distinctly remember being afraid to be left alone with the then strangers. That had become the norm for me. Eighth grade. At this time I was moving forward, slowly…

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    The thing that the crash taught us here is to check the credentials of any person that could be advising you in any way. See what qualifies them to be able to giving you the best advice you can possibly receive. It is important to be careful who to trust. Do not just put your money somewhere or give it to someone without doing any research of your own. There are many things that we have learned from the crash of the real estate market. It is important to look over these things and do things…

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    My dad, Leo Giesen, grew up in Union Hill, Minnesota. He was in January of 1965, When he was growing up he remembered that he was always outside, he grew up as the second youngest out of eleven kids, however when he was growing up, three of them were already out of the house, and they were never allowed to play in the house, so they were outside all of the time. One of the earliest memory my dad has was the time when one of his older brothers came home from Vietnam, and how he really wanted to…

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