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high school or got pregnant at an early age. I made a vow to myself that my story will not be played out like that, and I made sure it didn’t. at the beginning of college, I was facing financial challenge. Being that I recently moved to the united states, I was not getting full financial aid, so my mom had to work two or more jobs and sometimes barrowed money to pay for my tuition. My mother was very supportive and did whatever needed to be done to make sure I completed college, so to her I…

My father is dying. There is no way around that fact. He is not slipping away piece by piece, but is being taken from me in large chunks. His cheeks have begun to hollow and his eyes have begun to sink. He complains of the loss of feelings in his fingers, and the tightness in his throat. A gastrostomy tube was surgically inserted into his abdomen when he became unable to swallow. He stopped going to the grocery store with me. He stopped wanting to take walks around the 100-acre land he worked…

From what I have read and what I have seen in my life time is amazing, but the one thing that stands out is that the restaurant industry has grown stale. It has the same thing and does the same thing not one person has step outside of the box. I’m here to do just that. I’m here to blow the lid off the restaurant industry and keep it moving and a direction that it has been afraid to go. Like Robert Frost once said I’m going to take the road less traveled. The questions I ask are you willing to…

What do you consider to be the most significant thing you learned in this module (include appropriate or applicable Scripture references)? The most things I learned in this module are that faith without works is dead. “What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, and one of you says to them, go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill, and yet you did not supply their bodily…

The headline state, “I have thunder thighs”. The poster has a picture of a women from waste down. She has nothing close to thunder thighs she is extremely thin. When one first looks at this they might feel bad. Many girls hate that part of their body but this advertisement…

The dictionary defines the word “blind” as the lack of perception, awareness, or discernment. Symbolism, irony, and foreshadowing is used in many ways by the author in her short story called “The Lottery”. Shirley Jackson uses these literary devices to emphasize the idea that people will follow traditions blindly if that was how they were raised. “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a short story about a strange tradition. Once a year, the town gathers together and one member from each…

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed April 4th 1968, while in Memphis, Tennessee. The night of King’s death, Robert F. Kennedy addressed a rally between 17th and Broadway in Indianapolis, Indiana, informing them of King’s untimely passing. Kennedy, who had been in Indianapolis for the Democratic Presidential Nominations, went to the rally, which was set in the heart of Indianapolis’ African-American ghetto. Kennedy makes the claim to this captive audience, “we have to make an effort to…

In a small run-down motel room, with the sound of rain hitting the window, sits a tired man. “I’ve seen the promise land," he says. Despite including powerful words of a strong leader, the play The Mountaintop is disappointing. The play, The Mountaintop written by American playwright Katori Hall, performed at the Cleveland Playhouse, is based off what could have happened between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s Mountaintop speech and his assassination. All taking place in his Lorraine Motel room. No…

We’ve all seen friends and families who have been in a controlling relationship and we all have tried to say something to them about or at least tried to help them leave the relationship or try to help them seek out advice to fix the relationship? “Breathing Underwater” tells a story of boy who controls his girlfriend in many different ways and even hits her. Controlling relationships deal damage on both people involved with it and sometimes the friends and families caught in the crossfire of it…

Many people question whether people who are addicted to drugs if they can really choose to stop as easily since they made the choice to take the drug in the first place. Coming into this world you are introduced to making choices good or bad. Everyone has the will to make their own decision. Why would anyone decide to start taking any type of drugs with some knowing the possibly it could lead to addiction and even worse death. In the video, Dopesick: Fentanyls Deadly Grip, there are two…