I found Mark Twain's "Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again" and "A True Story" quite profound and gut wrenching. ... Ah Song Hi, the main character of "Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again,"exemplifies what America was, and still is, to so many people around the world - "The land of the Free and Home of the Brave." He eloquently states in the letter's to his friend why so many are willing to risk their lives to get here. ... Aunt Rachel, the main character of "A True Story," was for me, incredibly painful to read. ...

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I once had a friend who refused to believe that dinosaurs ever existed solely based on the fact that dinosaurs were never mentioned in the bible. To me this seemed absurd that my friend could hold this belief to be true in the face of such strong evidence. ... Even the advanced minds of any given time can be inadequate to absorb a concept later confirmed as perfectly rational and true. ...

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The editor creates a strong sense of logos behind this paragraph by stating the obvious and telling what is true. ... One of her incidents had to do with her friend being searched because she brushed up against the metal detector. Also stating that she had just walked through before her friend with nail clippers and nothing happened....

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To make my computer dream come true, the first step was to get a computer degree in America. ... One day, a friend of my brother gave me information and that information made my dream possibly come true. ... Every time when I look back at my career path, I feel so lucky that my brother's friend told me to get the MCSE certificate. ... I really need to thank this friend because his idea of being certified with MCSE changed my career and life path in America. ...

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Through out my life I have seen and been through many things that show what true courage is and what it can lead to. ... I believe that this is true courage because despite her fear of something like what had happened to her happening again she went on a pressed forward and eventually her hard work had paid off for her and it helped her learn something about herself as well. ... A very close friend of mine lost two relatives in a span of about a year. ... I believe that it people like my friend who make others want to better people because of the courage and the over all positive attitude t...

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It sometimes confuses me and I keep asking myself who I am," my Japanese-American friend said to me once before. ... I wanted to see and learn the different races and cultures in the world and to know if it's true that we can overcome the differences in our backgrounds, like I experienced in Boston. ... My friend Susie, whose parents are originally from Italy, wears a beautiful bracelet on her left arm. ... I had been thinking about what my friend had said and now I know what I want to say to him, "I think it's really important what you have in your life. ... My friend gave me a good...

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You know these people voted into their elected positions are such assholes....would you pay 10% of your paycheck to your friend so he can rent a limousine and take other friends out to dinner? ... Now this might not sound true, but think about it. ... Now look at all the insurance frauds....lawyers...frivolous law suits by overweight math teachers who trip on a pot hole in a fast food parking lot, get a sprained ankle and sue the fast food company and WIN several thousand dollars (if by some chance that is a true story it is merely coincidental, or something). It's ridiculous, a friend of...

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This includes helping the common Americans, even if one does not like to, giving huge sums to charity even though one does not want to, or reluctantly helping a non-Muslim friend on his homework just for the sake of glorifying Islam. ... In my opinion, are true "hello" is more effective than a sermon on morality. ... True actions speak louder than any words....

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Many argue that welfare is not destroying our culture and creating dependent people who have learned to abuse certain privileges that come with living in America, but history has proven that this is not true. ... A friend of mine has been on welfare since her first child was born five years ago. ... This is only partially true. ...

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While these people would play a part in the future prosperity of our country, the true future of America rests in the hands of the children and youth who will become the leaders, businessmen and women, and teachers of tomorrow. ... If one of these individuals meets another wearing the same attire, he will take him for a friend, with no notice of the pigment in his skin or beliefs in his heart. ...

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For example, my same best friend smokes a pack a day. ... There was not a designated area for nonsmoking, and my friend proceeded to light up. ... For the ones who are sitting out there thinking you don't mind cigarette smoke, maybe that is true. ... Most people cup their smokes away from injury, but unfortunately this does not hold true to all. ...

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Similarly with the story The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, the boy Junior wants to improve his life by gaining enough education so that he could move on and have a better future. He argues with his best friend: "I have to go. ... I also showed it to my friend who just came to America and doesn't know what to start within first time. ...

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This is important because when Ali al-Khawaher, a 24 old, convicted of stabbing his friend in the back during an argument wasn't able to pay $266,000, the court ordered him to be paralyzed. ... Experts agree that "due to lack of focused reporting and recording of Honour Killings internationally very little is known about the true extent". ...

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"Your arms were always open when I needed a hug. Your heart understood when I needed a friend. Your gentle eyes were stern when I needed a lesson. Your strength and love has guided me and gave me wings to fly."-- Sarah Malin. It took twenty years, twenty-six days, and seventeen hours for me to rea...

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Many people claim that the only people using and selling marijuana are teenagers and young adults, well that statement is not true. ... Many of my friend's parents as well as mine smoked marijuana growing up, and some of them still do because it relaxes them and takes their minds off of everyday pressures; such as work, responsibilities, and family problems. ...

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Whoosh..whoosh...whoosh..The wind starts blowing stronger and produces a scary sound in the middle night. It stopped my concentration on anatomy reading. I looked around my room. It was such a weird feeling in me as usual. Lonely. All memories seems flashing in me. It has been four years since I cam...

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A year ago I met a girl from Romania through a friend that was dating her. ... Anca thought it was to good too be true and didn't believe that it would really happen. ... She was very shocked when she moved over here and almost all of her friend's parents had gone through a divorce. ... Anca had a friend that was almost run over by a police officer. ... She said she overcame this by finding a patient friend that she could write letters to in English. ...

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The poems we studied in class reflect the ways in which society's expectations and social stigmas complicate a person's quest towards identity and true personhood. ... Unfortunately, curveballs are thrown at individuals everyday to complicate their journey towards identity, and when society holds certain expectations for say, the eldest child of a family, it complicates that child's growth as an adult and holds him back from his true personhood. ... This line suggests that she longs for the simple, carefree life of her feline friend, and it poses a juxtaposition in the next l...

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The theme of coming to age "Kids in the mall" It's stated that most teenager in America spend more time in the mall besides school and home. Now why is that? Is it because of single parents who are living paycheck to paycheck; or is it playing babysitter? Whatever the reasons may be the mall ha...

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During this period in time for American's they needed a leader to believe in, not a friend to tell them what they wanted to here. ... This proves true to America at the time, with the industrial worker showing that if they united, they to could put care into their line of work. ...

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It is true that with age comes responsibility, but it makes no sense to trust a sixteen year old with a car and not trust an eighteen year old with a beer, when a car is far more dangerous. ... Today, watching the big game with your friend Budweiser is a pleasurable experience. ...

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"(Millennial 9) While Howe and Strauss believe that to be true they fail to see that not every child in America is shown the love and affection our generation has supposedly been subjected to. ... My best friend Gustavo and I have known each other since the 6th grade. ...

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After a period of war and poverty conforming to a suburban way of life was a dream come true for Americans. ... He Of course not all families were as perfect as the Cunningham's and not everyone had a friend like Arthur Fonzerelli, but the fifties were a time where family was the most important thing and changes took place. ...

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This seems to be just about the only true rational and morally correct reason why a person should commit suicide. ... Assisted suicide is where a patient that is terminally ill comes to a physician or even a friend or family member at times and asks them to help end their life. There are several different ways to assist someone in suicide, you can inject them with a lethal amount of drugs, you can turn off their machines that is helping keep them alive, there have even been cases where the friend has put a bullet in the person's body. ...

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She knew that she would be someone who would be her new friend in this unknown land. ... To posit "the phallic body" as the "true, enduring sex object of Western culture" in place of "any female version of beauty" is to radically alter the paradigms inherited from the eighteenth century. ...

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