...The novel This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff depicts the hardships faced by a boy in the 1950s. The main character, Toby Wolff or Jack, travels around the country with his mother, Rosemary, in an attempt to escape her abusive boyfriend. Jack is constantly adapting to his continuously changing surroundings and faces new problems everywhere he goes. Throughout the novel, the author uses secrecy among the characters to portray both plot and character development. Secrecy plays a major role in showing the character development of the main character Jack. When Jack decides to apply to private schools, he realizes he needs outstanding letters of recommendation to make sure he gets in. Jack decides to write the letters himself and he describes himself...
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...How to Write an "Accomplishment Essay" What are your three most substantial accomplishments, and why do you view them as such? — Harvard http://www.free-essay-writing-topics.com/index.php?page=mba-application-accomplishment-questions What is the most significant change or improvement you have made to an organization with which you have recently been affiliated? Describe the process you went through to identify the need for change and manage the process of implementing change. What were the results? — Kelley Describe your greatest professional achievement and how you were able to add value to your organization. — Johnson The goal in answering this kind of question is to analyze, rather than summarize, an achievement. This advice is particularly true if you're discussing an accomplishment that is listed elsewhere on the application. Your readers want to gain insight into your character, not read a factual summary of what occurred. Here are some guiding principles to use in constructing your answer: (1) Choose something that's meaningful to you. Some applicants feel obligated to choose the most objectively impressive accomplishments. You should write about something that has personal significance, even if you weren't formally recognized for it. What matters is that you write passionately and insightfully about your subject. Unless otherwise specified, you should feel free to draw on academic, personal, or professional successes. (2) Focus on details about the process. Show...
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...Stolpestad In his short story, “Stolpestad” from 2008, William Lychack writes about the life of a police man, and how easy you can get stuck in life. Through a second person narrator technique, he highlights uncomfortable situations, loss of identity and the feeling of being stuck in life, showing that one most do what one likes, otherwise, you’ll lose in life In the short story, “Stolpestad”, is it clear that Stolpestad is stuck in his life. “The coffee shops, the liqoue stores, laundromats, police, fire, gas stations to pass – this is your life, Stolpestad”. Furthermore, Stolpestad seems to be genuine depressed as he says to himself “this is your life, Stolpestad” which shows that Stolpestad’s not where he wants to be in life as he has to end the sentence white “Stolpestad” as if he was not listening to himself. “As if you have seen or imagined or been through all of this before, or will be through it all again” The fact that Stolpestad feels like he has experienced things that he haven’t even tried yet, shows how much he has given up on life. Stolpestad’s sad view on life probably is a mix of his life going in circles, and the fact that he is constantly experiencing unpleasant things that just repeats and repeats itself throughout his life: “Your whole life spent along the same sad streets (..) as you pull around the house, as if you’ve seen or imagined or been through all of this before, or will be through it all again, over and over”. Moreover, instead of going home to...
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...months in school or studying at home, hopefully preparing to be on their own in the future. I would like to ask the young people reading this: Do you ever wonder what you will do to earn a living, what your career will consist of? Do you ever wonder how successful you are going to be, or what things you will be able to accomplish? Do you ever wonder if you will be able to enjoy the “good life” and afford the nicer than average things? Do you wonder if you will wind up having a job that you enjoy, or one that you must do out of necessity? Will you be able to support yourself and a family and own a nice home and automobile—all of those things we think of as the “American Dream”? Probably most young people have these thoughts and questions from time to time. You may not worry about such things at this time in your life, but you do think about them. We are all aware of the economic downturn in the United States, as our nation faces many problems at this time. Unemployment problems are continually in the news with many major corporations laying off employees as part of necessary cutbacks. Some of these may already be affecting your family. Many of you harbor legitimate concerns and are uncertain about your future. Even with conditions that now occur in our economy, a way exists for you to be successful and to land a good job in this country. This key concept or way for you to be successful starts right now no matter your age or grade in school. It can be described in a word: diligence...
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...fourteen-year-old boy’s head from Japan was decapitated on Thunder Mountain Railroad, and was scared for life. Later on, they eventually grew apart, as they both went to the same high school. This was when Ezra realized he had never really had a tragedy of his own. In high school, Ezra moved on to be one of the more popular jocks at the school and captain of the tennis team. Toby continued to stay one of the more nerdy boys that got bullied. One night, towards the end of junior year, Ezra’s own tragedy took place, and that was the night of a house party that he was suppose attend with his girlfriend at the time, Charlotte Hyde. He found...
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...I had the topic for this speech chosen since the second or third week of class. Public radio is such a big part of my life and the life of my family that I knew it would be something that I could write passionately about. When I started to prepare this speech, I initially had a hard time finding sources. I was focusing on Chicago Public Media as a whole and that was only bringing up one or two hits other than Chicago Public Media’s website. After struggling through that for a few days, I realized that what I really wanted to emphasize was Chicago Public Radio so I searched for that instead. Thankfully I came up with several sources and I built my paper upon those. I knew that Chicago Public Radio had a fantastic program line-up and that I could use that as the basis for my argument. People love to be entertained. And most people think that Chicago Public Radio is just old people news – all stale and boring. I knew that I had a prime opportunity to expose everyone in class to the diversity that is Chicago Public Radio. I initially struggled with how to organize my speech without it just becoming one big “send your money to WBEZ” talk. I wanted clear reasons so I chose to focus on three main ideas: News, Entertainment and Community. They are the three big focuses of Chicago Public Radio and WBEZ so I knew that I would find tons of information to back those up. When I started looking at all of the different news programs that are aired, I was amazed at how...
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...coming from the “Confirmation Heuristic.” Bazerman and Moore define the “ease of recall” bias as one where “individuals judge events that are more easily recalled from memory, based on vividness or recency, to be more numerous than events of equal frequency whose instances are less easily recalled.” The housing market and real estate had been doing quite well since the “Dot-com” boom and bust had rattled markets in the late 1990’s. Housing prices were continually increasing, and “lots of people in the mortgage industry had this faith that housing prices in the US simply never go down.” (Glass, 2008) This sort of reliance on historical performance of the housing market created a false sense of security for banks, where in the worst case scenario, the “bank would then own a house, which is now worth even more than what they gave out in the loan.” (Glass, 2008) In fact, this price trajectory accelerated shortly after the “Dot-com” bubble, so with regards to this...
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...I had a life changing experience when I started going to church, and taking discipleship class. I developed a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, I learned to build Christlike character, and achieve spiritual victory. In my family going to church was something we did faithfully. I can remember as a little girl every Saturday and, Sunday we would have Morning Prayer at Grandmother’s house. I like going to church, but I didn’t like going every Sunday. When I was a teenager, I would tell myself, when I get older, and move away, I’m never going to church again. When I was eighteen I moved to Atlanta, and I did that exactly, I stopped going to church. At first it was good, I enjoyed my Sundays, working, relaxing, or just doing nothing. Some Saturday nights, I stayed out late, partied knowing that there would be no prayer or church first thing Sunday morning. I did this for many years went by, I didn’t attend church while living in Atlanta. Then one day I started feeling like something was missing from my life, I started missing going to church. First I had to find a church, one that I would enjoy praise, worship and the sermon. I sent out to find that church, and I did that. I went for a little while as a visitor and I joined church at Voices Of Faith. One Sunday, an announcement was made for discipleship class, I didn’t know what the class was about, but I was curious after church I spoke to a representative, and I signed up. Little did I know that the classes were every...
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...This Road We Call Life Name School Class Teacher-word count Due date This Road We call Life Boy Meets World had so many great things going for it. It taught children life lessons without them having to learn the hard way and there being a possibility of ruining their lives forever. The show talked about real issues going on in the world, unlike many other television shows geared toward the same audience. The show even became emotional at times. Some people in the show were better off than others, but that did not matter to the characters. They all treated each other the same. This is an idea that should be instilled in all children across America. At the same time, the show could be funny and exciting. The success of the show, however, depended on the audience. It resonated so deeply with the generation that grew up with it because the characters grew and changed along with the audience. This Road We Call Life Colcord (1997) wrote, “When this Boy Meets World Boy Meets World Wandering down this road that we call life Is what we’re doin’ It’s good to know I have friends that will always Stand by me When this Boy Meets World” (ll. 1-7). This quote from the theme song of Boy Meets World demonstrates a good perspective to have on life. The themes of the show resonated with its audience because the characters face so many real-life situations and issues throughout the course of the show. Shawn, in particular, goes through many hard times and has to learn how to deal...
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...This Is My Life There is not much about me that I would like to share because I’m just a person that keeps my feelings to myself than to express them. I’ve always felt like this since I was in elementary school. At a very young age, I was repeatedly told that "whatever goes on in this house, stays in this house" with that being said, I just didn’t open up or talk to anyone like everybody else does. My family think that I need counseling or some sort of therapy especially anger management but I always ignore them because I don’t see anything wrong with me. One thing that I can recount on a significant event that changed my perspective was when my mother got severely injured by a man she spent 10 years of her life with and in my eyes, who I saw as a father figure. I know I'm not the...
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...MEMOIR This journey We Call Love and life Given the life that I’ve had over the past 25 yrs, I have done a lot, seen a lot & lived enough for any person my age. I haven’t always had the best love life, but I’ve had the most fun trying to have one. I went from that puppy love you have as teenager to a full on love affair with someone that I just can’t shake to save my life. If I would have known the things I know now back then, I would be somewhere else with someone else. This thing called love is very tricky. I started out as a teen with the man everyone on both sides of the family thought I would marry. We fooled everyone with our break up, even us. We were better off friends. Micah has a good heart, a good head on his shoulders & an excellent job, but that’s not what I was looking for or what I wanted. I truly couldn’t say what I wanted back then but I do know that good church boy was not it. So that ended & we both moved on with our lives. A few years later I met who I thought was the man for me. Donta was younger than me & he lived in another city. We went back & forth for a few years but that didn’t last. One very misleading night we decided to break away from the group & well one thing lead to another & I ended up with a very special gift. We ended up with a baby, we are both teenagers & we both didn’t know what to do with a baby. I found out fast just how hard it was to be a single mother. Donta wasn’t ready for this relationship...
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...This Boy’s Life is a memoir written about the author, Tobias Wolff, childhood memories and his growing pains during the 1950s. Throughout the memoir, Wolff goes through a process of discovering his own self-identity. (A process that many adolescent faces.) As described before the passage, being realistic about his identity makes him feel bitter. Jack doesn’t approve of himself and rather identify himself as another person. On page 213 and 214, Jack is writing his own recommendation letters from his “teachers” to get accepted by prep schools. After the passage, he describes how he and his friend would fight each other. Here, Wolff explores the theme of self-identity through hyperbole, humor, tone, connotation, and more. In the first paragraph,...
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... Niger, Chand and Sudan. Life there due to the conditions is a constant battle to survive. Sustainability is the development of the quality of life that do not do any lasting damage to the environment. I would agree in saying that they Sahel is a constant battle to survive. The increase in population, which is currently at about 260 million and is going to double every 20 years, would mean that there will be a greater demand in food production. This would put pressure on the land to be more productive and this would lead to over-cultivation and over-irrigation. The climate has also made conditions worse and a constant battle to survive. There has been a decrease in rainfall of about 29-49% which would mean that they land is badly managed due to the lack of water. The average temperature of the region has increased meaning that desertification has increased by the increase of evapotranspiration which reduces ground and surface water supplies. Factors such as political instability would also mean that the government would probably spend more money going to war and buying arms rather than looking after its people. On the other hand I do not feel that the “use of this region can never be sustainable. There are strategies in which they help the people come together as a community to help with the management of the soil. The Eden project in Niger has been very sustainable and been at a great advantage in helping the people in the Sahel. This project provides tree seeds...
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...April 1742 in Dublin and received its London premiere nearly a year later. Handel's Messiah is divided into three different parts: part one focuses on the Isaiah prophecies about Jesus and the Messiah. Part two is based around Jesus death and therefore part three focuses on his resurrection. The 'Hallelujah' chorus is the most popular part of the composition and has been adapted into modern versions sung by various artists around the world. Furthermore the actual oratorio libretto was written by Charles Jenners, the song has several biblical scriptures which are from Old Testament and the New Testament. The song is split into 3 parts, the first part of the song is the prophecy of the coming Messiah, the second part of the song shows the life of Jesus, his suffering and how died. The last part is about Jesus' resurrection and judgement. The piece of music conveys insight of God and Handel himself...
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...NEW RESTRICTIONS In life, people pass through different phases. They are born into a family, and then they grow up and reach puberty. After puberty, they are considered adults. At this time, the sociological burden becomes heavier and new responsibilities are added to a person’s burden. Graduating from a good university, finding a job, getting married and having children are some of these expectations. Most people consider these expectations especially having children reasonable and a source of happiness. However, it is my opinion that children are far away from being the ultimate bliss in our lives; on the contrary, they bring about more responsibilities and restrictions. Some people claim that children bring happiness and meaning to one’s life. But people also have aims, pleasures and hobbies that contribute to their happiness. Therefore, we do not need children to achieve happiness. Also, in my opinion, children are a burden for the family. Once you give birth to babies, you must do everything to raise them. You must pay for new clothes, nannies, expensive schools, etc. Since you spend all your money on your children, you do not have enough financial resources to do something for yourself. Children restrict the parents. Since you are always busy with your kids and their problems, you do not have enough time to be with your friends or to do things that give pleasure to you. For instance, you cannot always go out with your spouse or you cannot...
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