This is an academic summary of an essay by Richard Rodriguez, "Achievement of Desire". We are to summarize Rodriguez's essay and then expand on it using a recent personal experience. I am looking for help with proofreading and any ideas you may have on how to expand this essay further. ... The scholarship boy comes from a working class family background and when he starts school is thrust into a totally new environment. ... Parents have years more experience at life then their children, and can help children avoid the same mistakes they did. ...

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Grendel starts out as an intelligent and sensitive monster that lives with his mother in a cave. ... In the following essay, the explanation of this phrase, the way Grendel learns about nihilism, and how Grendel develops the concept of nihilism, as it is known, will be discussed. ... The Dragon, not caring at all about Grendel as a person, helps Grendel develop his nihilist ideas. ... The dragon replies sarcastically by telling him to feed the hungry and help the poor. ... In conclusion, this essay has described the development of the idea of nihilism throughout the book. ...

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Anthem Essay Final Draft The book, Anthem, shows how collectivism is a horrible basis of life as well as government. ... These first two lines of the book help open how Equality lives his life. ... The quote, "Whatever road I take, the guiding start within me... ... Equality cannot help everyone out of their enslavement. ... To do this they must walk out of collectivism and start thinking for themselves. ...

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This movement started when Spain lost the last of its colonies and ended with the beginning of the Spanish civil war. ... The movement extended to the fields of literature, science, medicine, history and the essay. ... "(3) Miguel de Unamuno rose and retorted with increasing severity in his voice saying Astray is a "disabled person like too many people in Spain And soon if God does not help us It hurts me to think that General Millan Astray can dictate norms of psychology tot he masses...

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And we finally got an answer: = the enigma of Rosebud= Let's start by explaining how this word (Rosebud) appears for the first time in the movie! ... Its surface is very easy to comprehend, but its depths can't be understood without the help of the film critics. The one thing that the common viewer can interpret without reading any scholars' essays is the connection between the burning sled and the word, simply because the director shot the famous closeup with the sled's engraved name. ...

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Below we will explore some ways to involve charity in your child's life to help the child experience the benefits charity can provide. ... Starting off small when the child is young is very important. ... Encouraging the child to donate some toys they have outgrown will help them to see they can make a difference in another person's life. ... Increases self-confidence, and helps a person stay physically healthy. ... Children will naturally find ways to make a contribution and help others. ...

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This level thinking would be satisfied with knowing that they were put on this plane of being for a reason, perhaps to better their spirits or just to help others. ... In Tolstoy's essay, a self-analysis of himself at a certain point in his life, he presents the conflict he faces when he realizes that his life, being as distinguished and honorable as it was, had no value. He started to look around for a meaning of life at the personal level and made the distinction between instrumental, contributes to some further end, and intrinsic, having value in itself, value. He believes that his li...

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I write you to agree with your philosophy in "Nothing Matters."" That philosophy, I interpret to be that life itself is meaningless. The actions we choose to take, and those we don't choose or really pointless. The choices people make, for example to go to work, to go to school, does it really have...

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