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    Basketball is my life. Okay maybe it’s not my life, but it’s more than a game to me. It’s a big part of my life and it has been ever since I could pick a ball up. Everyday as a child, coming home from a boring day at school, the only thing I would look forward to was lacing up my sneakers, racing over to the community court, and shooting some hoops. Even in the winter, when there was snow on the ground piled up to almost as tall as I was, I would beg and plead my dad to snow plow the driveway so…

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    Synopsis: Creative Visualization – Shakti Gawain What do you want? A job promotion, different job, better boss or even to become a successful entrepreneur, a new romantic relationship, heightened self-confidence, motivation and so on? What do you want? Get it! That the Source wants you to have all the goodness you want and deserve is the premise of Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain. This isn’t a book to just read and stick on the shelf to gather dust. Creative Visualization is a book to…

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    case of the Matrix, Neo dies and then comes back to life. This is like a transformation for the character and shows that they have overcome what seemed to be impossible at the beginning of the story. Return with the elixir is the final part in Campbell’s hero’s journey. This is where the hero comes back to where he started but now brings with him the rewards of his adventures such as treasure or some kind of power the didn’t have before. Often this is the thing that made him go on the…

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    spark on their own communities. The Yakima Hop Strikes led to some great things. There were three court cases and one of them was before the state supreme court. The outcomes because of these things were the right for union organizers to enter private property to reach workers, and no use of intimidation which included the use of firearms to threaten the workers, right to organize, and wage increase. This was a major thing because it gave these workers rights that they deserved and they were…

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    History? Is it a Theory? Is it an Ideal” She answers these questions through the stories of these three men as they come across and label foreign people, lands, or plants. Kincaid implies that the act of identifying and labeling unfamiliar with familiar terms are taken from these men 's subjective lives. This familiarity equips these “discoverers” with the illusion of knowing the thing that they have labeled. Kincaid digs into the motivations behind such labeling and…

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    special to him. He then says “It was a very descriptive subject. It really was. He was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it was the poems he wrote on the glove. You'd have liked him. He was such a great, terrifically intelligent kid” (21). Holden is clearly not capable of letting go of the past. He lives constantly trying to tell himself how wonderful things were, but in reality things were not great. Holden’s inability to face his future with confidence creates conflict wherever…

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    Tuesdays with Morrie On July, 31, 2015 my life changed, I was sitting there with some family and this women who I considered a grandma to me was on her deathbed. The next thing my family and I ,hear is her rasped breathing, and what sounded like choking. She was having difficulty breathing. I walk over to her and then I saw, it the life leave her body. The way her eyes looked empty and the heaviness that was in the room afterwards was saddening. Death is a hard subject to think about…

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    My Name 'Aidde Chavarria'

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    I also like it because, it's kind of easy to remember. some negative things about my first name is that people don't know how to pronounce, so they always say it wrong. Some people say, “Id, Haiddie, or even Haida.” Sometimes it gets annoying when they don't say it right. I understand it's kinda hard, but there is no h in my name it’s a first not h. The good things about my last name are that the way you right it is the way you write it. I also like it because, some…

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    Flah Blah Balah Book

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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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    explain why God’s eternal essence at the same time of his existence, to be precise, that itself which starts God’s spirit at the same time institutes his presence. God is neither an existing thing nor an essence but a perfect combination of the two, acting upon either as it sees necessary/voluntarily. All the things which follow from the absolute nature of any of God’s attributes have always had to exist and be infinite, or are, through the same attribute, eternal and infinite (P21). That which…

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