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    John F. Kennedy once said, “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” Our society is driven on the concept of proving who we are based on our material possessions, but ironically we just want the same thing as everyone else. We buy materialistic possessions because we want to prove that we are better than the next guy, but then we proceed to buy the same things as everyone else because we think that in order to beat them, we have to be them. “The Semplica-Girl Diaries”…

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    Popular blogger Marc Chernell 0nce said: Strenght Does 'nt come from what you can do. It comes from over coming the things you once thought you could 'nt. This strenght that Marc Chernell speaks about is what made me the woman I am today, it speaks to me. Because of my extremely painful past, I learned to be strong I grew up in N.N Va. me my brother and our half sister she only came around on occasions , when ever her mother allowed which was not much , problems between woman ,My grand mother…

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    How I Know I Matter To My Friends Over the years I have become really good friends with a lot of people. However, I have two friends that absolutely mean the world to me and they will tell you the same thing. These two guys are named Jacob Bullock, and Will McCoy. They both went to a rival school “West Jones” while I went to Laurel High. Will and I met each other as soon as we started kindergarten. We both went to Saint Johns for elementary school. After 6th grade we were separated but stayed…

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    Nor did she share the sames beliefs about transgender rules at Target. Initially, I felt like I needed to accept the fact that I wasn 't confortable with the transgender policies. I felt like I was disobeying God, and clinging on to the wordly things. Looking back on the situation, I wholeheartly believe that it was conformation for me. I had prayed and prayed to God to show me…

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    reflects on how they treats things. It is pointed out that he or she worries more about a book and not his or her own son. This dictionary means more to that person than their own son. A child needs looking after as well as plants and pets. A book is something to sit on a shelf, not something to focus a life around. Maybe somethings are looked after more because they require less demands than other things, but does that mean to not give enough attention to the things that require more? People…

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    There are many ways to do this. I chose to look at things with an incontrovertible sense of humor. Humor is what allowed me to adapt to all the change that has been thrown at me in my lifetime. There is one time in particular that would have been tough for me if I hadn’t found the humor…

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    liked each other, Ernestina was against them being together for some irrational reason. Charles told her she was being irrational and she agreed.…

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    about a year and a half before the university asked me to withdraw before going under review, in which case I probably would have been kicked out. They told me to reevaluate what I was doing. so I did. And when I got out of there, I thought that only thing I actually remember doing that I really enjoyed...And I wanted to do something with my life that I really enjoyed, 'cause my father did something for a living that he really didn 't enjoy...he was miserable. So I didn 't want to go down that…

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    In life, its hard to come by someone who cares so deeply, and wishes the best of luck in all future endeavors for someone she barely knew. Aubree Marden is one of the most well rounded, vibrant, strong hearted human beings one would ever meet. Aubree entered my life during my sophomore year of high school and was one of the best things to have ever happened to me. The first impression I had of Aubree definitely wasn’t the correct one. I had always known of Aubree, but the night I finally had…

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    revolutionary thing. The apps become important things and people cannot live without them anymore. Also people depend on the apps to talk, to express fallings, and to be with their partner in everything and loose the face-to-face connection. Time is valuable these days and spending it on communication apps is something useless, but expressing anything you want to say face-to-face is really much helpful. Many people assumed that Sundays are days for comfort and laziness. As the author said she…

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