will be about us moving up and changing. I will discuss the topics of moving up and changing since we are all moving up and being promoted as well as constantly changing like the Arkansas weather. My dear fellow students, I chose the title of my speech “Everything Counts” because everything really does count in high school. In high school, there are more and bigger consequences for making bad decisions. Middle School was fun. We made mistakes, and some bad decisions. We got away with them, but we…
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industrial and cultural hub, became a desirable option that offered multiple advantages. Money, adventure, stability, and independence were all coupled with working in Bangkok. Young men and women had two obligations, one to their family’s needs, but also to themselves, and their desire to “participate in the thansamay excitement and adventure of urban modernity” was an added bonus to their migration. Moving to the city to work was not the smoothest and simplest transition. Although work in the city…
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life journey, that of a renter. This is a exciting time, but can be just as overwhelming as getting into college in the first place. Thankfully, it doesn’t have to be if you do it right. Follow the checklist for moving off campus listed below to ensure a great start to your new life adventure: Budget: Before looking at apartments or homes for rent you to need to know how much you can afford. Answer the following questions to figure this out: Are you going to work to pay for rent? If you are going…
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going to be away from each other. It will be a time in their lives that they do the most changing from who they were to who they will become. This novel is about friendship and growing up. Four girls from Bethesda, Maryland have grown up together through the years. They have shared good times and bad times together and have always been there for one another. Bridget is an excellent soccer player and she likes to take charge. Her mother suffered from depression and passed away. Lena is beautiful…
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natural born athlete who was not an individual player, but a team player and has a charming and witty mouth that can get away with any rules anywhere. But one day everything changed when Finny fell out of the tree as if something or someone pushed him just, gently, ever so lightly and laid there Finny on the ground looking vulnerable for once in his life. Youth is about taking adventures that is way beyond the realm of imagination but the more thrill one seeks the more the danger the results will…
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and Rebirth’, and ‘Return with Elixir’. Bilbo was a quiet, peaceful hobbit when a wizard named Gandalf whisked him away to an adventure. Before Bilbo was forced ushered out of his house, he refused many times. This represents the stage ‘Refusal of the Call’.…
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In this fantasy/comedy-drama movie called “Up”, we see snippets of Carl Fredrickson’s life as a senior, growing up and his adventures with his deceased wife, Ellie, his new accompany, Russell, Charles F. Muntz (Carl and Ellie’s idol), Doug (the talking alpha dog) and Kevin (a snipe, a rare breed of animals). Carl Fredrickson has lived his life alone in his house, pressured to go to Shady Oaks, the retirement home and leave his belongings and the house behind. He wishes to stay in the house until…
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My adventures with the Trask and Hamilton families were getting cut unreasonably short each day. With 25 chapters unflipped, I stood hanging onto the cold railing of our trolley at the San Francisco airport the weekend before school. Early Sunday morning, jet-lagged and drained of energy but full of motivation to finish, I sat on my desk, as the racing silver secondhand spun in dizzy spirals. Tiredness pierced my pupils, as the long summer evening greedily ran away with my time. Midnight…
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Life in a new country can be a real adventure. Eating food that you have never tasted before, getting to see places you have only ever seen on telly up until then, and soaking in sights, sounds and smells you have never experienced before, culture and customs that are completely different from your own. The list is infinite! Learning a new language and experiencing a new culture will make you appreciate the history, values and customs of that country. Meeting and befriending different kinds of…
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includes the main character’s journey in the book. The Odyssey is about Odysseus who went on hero’s journey and he has still not returned. While he was away he was put through tests but everyone at home didn,t know he was alive. The hero's journey has many steps and the first one was the call to adventure which is when the character get called away. The Odyssey it starts ten years after the Trojan War when everyone has came back home except Odysseus and his crew. But we are going to travel back in…
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