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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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• Grade Level: High School

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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Those who understand the true meaning of diversity are the ones who are open minded and, are willing to respect the differences in today's society and the judgment people receive from each other daily. ... Diversity in Elementary schools has not been an issue since children don't understand the true meaning of diversity. ... Children have always had their own set of mind, since all they think about is having a friend to play with and diversity doesn't mature in their brain until they are old enough to understand. ... As life goes on after college few students now considered adul...

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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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• Grade Level: High School

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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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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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Racism People see racism everyday across America. A group of whites burn down a black church, someone gets hurt or murdered from a racial slur, or fights break out at school or in public. These are the extremes of racism. Racism is definitely not a good thing. What will the future br...

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Teen pregnancy can be attributed to low income families, single parent families, and welfare recipients. The main factor in doing this is to review the socio-economic consequences and factors that contribute to teen pregnancy. Research has emphasized the importance of considering racial, ethnic, c...

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With no rules or obligations to any true form of art at this time, art work of splashes and brushstrokes were the inspiration of artists far and near. ... A friend of mine who had gone with me to the museum started running off about how he saw a deck in some ones back yard over looking a marina. ...

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Over time maintaining a trading relationship with only one of the belligerents made it virtually impossible to maintain true neutrality. ... On April 2, 1917 when Wilson went before Congress and asked for a declaration of war against Germany, he stated: One of the things that has served to convince us that the Prussian autocracy was not and could never be our friend is that from the very outset of the present war it has filled our unsuspecting communities and even our offices of government with spies and set criminal intrigues everywhere afoot against our national unity of counsel, our peace...

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The Catholic Church was vocal in their want to be left alone, Bishop John Hughes stated, "I am no friend of slavery, but I am still less friendly to any attempt of foreign origin to abolish". ... Many characters which were presented in the book had some sort of confusion as to where their true loyalty lay. ...

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Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog, had written in reference to immigrants in America, "Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen." Immigrants from the 1700s to mode...

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• Grade Level: High School