the turkey. You know what time of the year is the worst? Well here's a hint it starts by killing me and my family. Oh you think your funny “not knowing”, but I know you know what time it is. Thats right, it's Thanksgiving. I’m a domesticated turkey so I can’t fly away from people when they try to kill me, but somehow I always get away. My best turkey friend is Fluffy, I think she's gonna go get a special treatment, by special treatment I mean a head removement, because the mean humans took her away…
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The word “Baseball”, what does it mean? Not what does the word mean but instead what does it mean to someone or something. Baseball is a powerful game. They have brought this little game that started in backyard to something so great, something so nice, something that people everyday wake up for and live there life after. Baseball had made it to the greats, made it to the perfection of life, making life so great that someone people in this world can not live without. I myself love baseball. I love…
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gather up the family for Sunday dinner because she was “throwing down in the kitchen”. She enjoyed getting the family together for a big feast; I think she just liked to hear everyone tell her how good her cooking was. Her favorite meal to cook was Thanksgiving dinner. But this holiday season was different. The phone calls became far and few in between and the Sunday dinners were slim to none. “Hey mom, have you heard from Grandma?” I asked in a worried tone, “Yeah what’s up with the Sunday dinners…
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Have you ever wondered what your Cultural Identity is? Your Cultural Identity can be anything that has a big impact on your life. If you think that you don’t have a culture, you actually do have one. Everyone has to have a culture. I didn’t know what mine was at first but then I started learning and learning as I grew up. And it actually happened, I learned my culture. I was just an average American boy who didn’t pay attention to anything in life, but then I started to pay attention because I wanted…
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Frederick Douglass’s words are really strong in this text. He talks about what The 4th of July means to him and to his fellow brethren, who, for the most part, were slaves. Douglass goes on to talk about why he does not celebrate The 4th of July and the injustices done to the slaves. His feelings are so pronounced and the subjective perspective of his is really effective. Douglass starts off by saying how there is a “distance” between them and the ordinary American. The author says this: “The…
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this illness. This day still plays a vivid picture in my head all the time, on September 17th 2001 two days after my birthday my best friend Lindsay tried to explain to me her mother Dana was diagnosed with stage three bone cancer and had two months to live. At this time in my life I had no concept of what it meant to die or what cancer even was. My mom tried explaining it as how her bones are no longer good and cant support her any more, so she has to sleep forever. My level of education when I…
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Cultural Identity Who am I? What is the meaning of culture? Do I have a culture? Many people question themselves about their own culture identity because they don?t understand the meaning behind it. Culture identity is the feeling of belonging to a group. My cultural identity consist of religion, holidays, and family. Religion is a big part of my family. It defines me as a person because it?s what makes me the person that my parents raised me to be. Being a catholic has a huge impact as well. From…
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In poetic form, Paul describes what it means to be content in every situation. Paul writes, “I know what it is to have little and I know what it is to have plenty” (The New Oxford Annotated Bible, Philippians 4.12) Because Paul is thanking the Philippians for their gift, it is best to interpret this in terms of economic deprivation rather…
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freedom from fear and want. I wonder to this day if his paintings are still relevant to today’s society and if those freedoms are exercised freely as they were back then. The freedom of speech is the right to express an opinion without any censorship whats so ever. In february 1943 rockwell expressed this freedom by painting a man at the jim edgerton town meeting, standing up and speaking freely. While he must of believed that freedom of speech was important because everyone should have a say in how…
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the ocean does not become dirty.” This is one of my favorite quotes; to me it means that no matter what bad things come into this world it does not make this world an awful place. It reminds me to stay focused on the good of humanity, as it outweighs all the awful, terrible and disturbing things humans have or can do. I think this quote compares the whole ocean to the entirety of humanity. As a few drops of dirty water have no measurable impact on the cleanliness of the ocean, neither does a few bad…
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