My Surroundings Essays and Term Papers

Personal Writing: My Room

There is an old proverb which states "When you are a child, your room is the world to you." I believe this is a very true statement and applies to most children. In a room of his own a boy can become whatever he likes and make his surroundings fit that idea or "theme" if you will. I have grown ...

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Five Components Of My Humanness

My five components of humanness are physical, intellectual, social, emotional, and spiritual. My physical self is quite healthy because I fulfill the requirements of the FITT principle. The letters of FITT represent frequency, intensity, time and type. My intellectual self is interesting because ...

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My Car Accident

On April 22,1998 I was at a complete stop in my car on the 60 Freeway. Approaching the 215 Freeway on my way to Santa Ana, that’s when it happened. Adjusting my rear view mirror I caught a flash of white coming from behind. I heard the tires squeal and then the jolt from behind. I was rear ...

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The Ride of My Life

It happened the day my family got home from our relaxing trip to South Dakota. My parents were there, along with seven other strangers. I was 17 at the time and was driving on a learners permit. I guess you could say I was a late bloomer. That August day was long and I can’t remember much, but I ...

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Ethan Frome: Poor Surroundings, Poor Life

“You’ve a poor man’s wife Zeena...” (pg.114) In the novel called “Ethan Frome” there are three characters who’s lives can be explained through naturalism. This can be used to explain why each ones life is so doomed and how their surroundings are directly related to their lives. The first ...

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The Power Of Place

by Winifred Gallagher When people think of their environment people think of their immediate surroundings; however, one's environment goes beyond and further into the psychological connection to one's personal environment. To further explain, Gallagher discusses three different aspects of : ...

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What Is Zen

Zen is simply a way for us to awaken from our slumber. It is just a way for us to focus on our present experience, living in the moment. It is simply paying attention to our actual experiences as they are: a breeze brushing through your hair, pristine water wetting your lips, a stomach ache, the ...

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Taoism 3

In an effort to decide how I wanted to approach this paper, I decided to search the Internet to see what today's world held for me on the matters of Chinese Philosophy. One quote describing Chuang Tzu, the topic of my research paper, stuck out. In describing what this person thought was the ...

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Madame Bovary: Emma's Desire To Control Her Surroundings

Often, people fantasize a world in which all their goals and aspirations come true. In Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Emma is a woman with dull expectations of life, which gives her a desire to control her surroundings. She creates many illusions due to her tedious life, which are dashed to ...

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Invisible Man

According to Goethe, "We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." Despite the hyperbolic nature of Goethe’s statement, it holds some truth. Because of this element of truth, society looks to psychoanalysis as an important tool ...

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Baseball And American Popular

Culture Baseball is an integral part of American pop culture. Many Americans grow up with baseball, playing it before they can even count all the bases. It is glorified, taught, and fed to us. When we play baseball, we find a respect for the game. The respect we gain from playing it has turned ...

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Baseball And American Popular

Baseball is an integral part of American pop culture. Many Americans grow up with baseball, playing it before they can even count all the bases. It is glorified, taught, and fed to us. When we play baseball, we find a respect for the game. The respect we gain from playing it has turned the game ...

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A Camera's Eye

Here I sit, in some coffeehouse somewhere, staring into the face of the person in front of me as she rambles on about the happenings of her day. I don't mean to ignore her and I certainly don't discredit what it is she's talking about, but I can't help noticing the shadows seeping across the left ...

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My Job At HomeBase Of North Hollywood

The day was as sunny, light and warm as my mood was on August the third of ninety six. I was going to a job interview! Not only I was going to this significant meeting, but also this particular job was going to be my first job in United States of America. It was the second best ...

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Exploring The Mind

I am interested in what drives the human mind to make decisions, good or bad. Of all the problems in society everyone of them come back to what actions we decide to make in our life as individuals and as a society. To understand what motivates the decision making process is the first essential ...

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Going To College

College means many things to many people, for some it is a place to have fun and to earn a degree on the side. To others it is just an all out four year party. To me college is a place to extend my educational career. And a place that can help me to be prepared for the real world and to place me ...

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Skiing - Creative Essay

I was the first person to ski off of the chairlift that day, arriving at the summit of Bosquets Mountain, nestled in the heart of the Berkshires. It was the type of day when the clouds seemed to blanket the sky, leaving no clue that the sun, with its powerful light, even existed anymore. It was ...

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I Was With ______ When ......

Chapter I I was with george in a small town that afternoon. We were playing horseshoes and we were betting on them horseshoes. As George leaned over the bench shot a glanceat me and said "Watch 'ya plannin' on doin' afterwards..." i told him i was going to hike over to the bunk house and have a ...

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Friends

Contemplating life and its meaning was never a question for me. I was happy in the world I lived in. All I needed was the presence of my family and the huge circle of I maintained. From school to the tuition center, from the mosque to the social gatherings, always surrounded me. There was a time ...

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Visual Deficit

The impairment I received to do my disability awareness activity was a . To simulate this disability, so that I could get a deeper understanding of the handicaps that follow, I wore a pair of safety glasses that were covered in vaseline for two days. During these two days I tried to go on with ...

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