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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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    Nash shows his personality by the theory of psychoanalysis because of his id. His id takes control and tells him what to do. The id is the bad, it tells him to do the wrong thing and not to care about what everyone else is doing or says. The id is telling you to do the thing that makes you happy even when it’s not the right thing to do. In this situation the id dominates because when John is in the bar he goes up to the girl and talks to her and tells her what he wants to do to make him happy…

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    $2.43 per hour plus tips. This shows us that some employees might make less because of what the companies are doing. Additionally, being a waitress is not that easy because customers ae seasonal and dealing with other people mood is not the easiest thing. When she started she came in the restaurant with Billy acting wild and Gail trying to teach her how the job works. Here she realizes that it is not easy to be incompetent in a job. She has to learn how to sweep, scrub and the touch screen…

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    and will continue to affect all generations. His thoughts often and incessantly differ from what he says, but why? I will attempt to explain that in this paper. To begin with Paul Baumer is a very interesting and dynamic character. You see the thing is, we don’t know that much about Baumer. We know he was 19 when he enlisted, we know his internal dialogue and external conversation, we know he liked reading plays and prose. But we don’t really know much about who he is, which makes him such…

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    in the top five for my final grade, but she asked me a question before I got a chance to boast, “Do you want to go to America?” America is both strange and familiar for me. My dad went to America when I was three years old, I heard many interesting things about America from him, but I had never been to America before. However, I was so confused why mom asked me this question. My mom knew that…

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    Temptation is not an easy thing to avoid, especially when a character is held to a high standard or when someone they trusts pushes them towards the wrong thing. While both sides gave into the temptation, how they handled the consequences was different. Overall these stories are both closely related with themes and writing…

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    Football Field Reflection

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    To me, places are not very important therefore I generally do not have fond memories associated with places that I have been to. If there was a place I would be fond of; it would probably be a football field. This is because now that I understand the sport a bit better I feel at home playing on the field. I started a little late on football, being as my first year was my eighth grade year, and I had no idea what I was even doing; and it did not help that the coaches did not make a playbook which…

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    In the first act, Algernon shows this behavior when he read the inside of Jack’s cigarette case. Jack says to Algernon, “It is a very ungentlemanly thing to read a private cigarette case.” Later on in the first at, Algernon shows this behavior again after Lady Bracknell, Gwendolen, and Jack are done speaking to each other. When Jack says “Good morning! [Algernon, from the other room, strikes up the…

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