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    My giving tree in my life is my mom.She is my giving tree because, she gives me and my sister all she can to see use happy . Also, she works so hard to be able to give use what we need .She has to wake up at around 12:30 Am so she could go to work .She gets back home at around 10:00 Am ,And then she goes home to cook and picks use up and until around 6:00 is when she is able to go to sleep. she works very very hard to give use what we need. So i just want to show her how thankful I am and that i…

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    Word Shadow Origin

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    In our world, there are opposites of every subject; smooth and coarse, nice and naughty, good and evil, light and shadow. They are elements of our world that require the opposite to exist. Without knowing one, a person cannot know the other. To reach the true light of meaning, one must examine the word shadow from several perspectives; including: literal, “evil” or dark, one’s legacy, and in war or in society. First, exploring the roots of origin in the word “shadow”, the word can be traced…

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    Amaimon Alternate Ending

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    He burst out into the light, the stone under his feet turned to soft grass. The light was so bright and beautiful. Yet Amaimon found he was not fully outside, but in a garden. He had thought the palace only had garden. It was walled in, he could not escape from here. Tears filled his eyes as that hope flew from his mind. He brushed the tears away. Oh well, he told himself, trying to cheer up, at least you can still come here while father is out. At least he got to be outside for a little while.…

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    As the World Burns. Quote: “We did it! We saved the Planet!” (Jensen and McMillan 692) Summary: This world simply put is in a downward spiral like a bowling ball falling down a well. Working together, making the smallest changes in our lives, we could toss some feathers down there to try and stop the ball however the effort is ultimately pointless. What we really need to do is to go to the people who dropped the ball and get them to stop cheering it on. The ignorant public need to be trying to…

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    Athletic Career Path

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    create opportunities for yourself. Put yourself into a position to be successful, there is no reason for anyone, especially living in a first world country to not be successful to a degree. We are given a free high school education and more benefits than we know what to do with. Fight Fighting. Fighting is absolutely necessary. If you want something in this world or you have something that someone wants, odds are at some point you will fight for it. Although in traditional fighting, the…

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    Messiness Research Paper

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    Our society seeks order in every sense of the word; from the government to the mere desk of a student, it demands organization and despises disorganization. Messiness has always been shown in a negative light, often being associated with laziness, and many suffer from embarrassment when unexpected guests witness a room with objects strewn across the floor. But why? Why must messiness be bad? Why must untidy people get yelled at for preferring an environment that is comfortable for them? There is…

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    The world has had exceptionally good people throughout its history- people such as Gandhi and Mother Teresa,. People like these are those who sacrifice themselves for the needs of others. An individual that is especially inspiring is a woman named Razia Jan. Her latest effort has created a school for girls that provides free education to more than 430 children in Afghanistan. She made this school despite hearing horror stories of acid being thrown in girl’s faces, and schools for educating girls…

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    Holocaust Hero: A One of a Kind Man What is a hero? A hero is classified as a number of things. A hero might be a person who in the opinion of others has heroic qualities or has performed a heroic act and is considered as an exemplary model or ideal. Ervin Staub, a holocaust survivor from Hungary and as scholar on altruistic behavior, has written, "Goodness like evil often begins in small steps. Heroes evolve; they aren't born. Very often the rescuers make only a small commitment at the start,…

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    John Henry Newman once said “A hero does not… give up walk away from a challenge does not just worry about himself a hero does not say No.” In other words a hero can never not help someone that is having trouble or struggling. Heroes go out of there way to help ordinary people each and every day. A hero can be a person that compliments someone because maybe they were going to commit suicide but now they are not for the compliment. Heroes are not always huge people with superpowers, heroes can be…

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    Music is used throughout the world to tell stories of tragic incidents of which case require a hero. In some cases the lyrics of the song describe the obligated attributes for what the damsel in distress essentially needs. Five songs that are conforming to this are Holding out for a Hero by Bonnie Tyler, Superman (it’s not easy) by Five for Fighting, Superheroes by The Script, and My Hero by The Foo Fighters. In Bonnie Tyler’s, “Holding out for a Hero”, she describes someone who is in an…

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