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    overshadowed the realities of Scout’s world. As her life continued, experiences and encounters provided her the opportunity to step out of the picture frame and see the entire picture. Scout’s perspective is continually altered and progressed through challenging situations with Miss Caroline, experiences of goodness and solidarity in the black community with Calpurnia, and situations when her once fictional neighbor, Boo Radley, became a reality. Experiences with Miss Caroline, Scout’s teacher, provided

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    An experience is a personal involvement or observation of an occurrence by a person. Every day, various people experience different events of their lives and learn from these many undertakings. People, however, cannot experience everything, but rather only experience what they undergo. Nevertheless, for others to distinguish different accomplishments that they cannot be a part of, many learn from the experiences of others. In the book, A Thousand Splendid Suns, written by Khaled Hosseini, characters

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    It doesn't take much effort to notice that some people are more empowered than others. But while it may appear that empowered people have something empowered people don't, inherently we all have the same power. The defining factor is that some people are in touch with and connected to this power and some people are not. Reasons And there are many reasons as to why someone is or is not in touch with their personal power. This can relate to: the kind of childhood one has experienced; how one responded

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    situations. Similarly, I do not try and influence decisions made by other people. When other people make decisions in a group, I am content to follow and let them lead. Moreover, I do not feel a desire to be in control of everything that happens in my life, as there are events that will occur which I ultimately can not change. Additionally, because of how turtles often hide inside of their shells, people associate it with shyness. Similar to this, I tend to be reserved around people who I am not comfortable

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    “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him”- Aldous Huxley. Experiences can have a great effect on the future of people, and can affect how that person becomes whom they are. The characters in the three stories, all go through experiences and make choices throughout their lives that change the way they act in the future and alter their lives in a good or bad way. In the short story “The Painted Door” by Sinclair Ross, Anne the main character is very

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    the grind of the assembly line in the blue-collar world? In reading Braaksma's "Some Lessons From The Assembly Line", the main idea is how important college education is, which is conveyed in a number of different ways. The author looks at the experience they had at assembling line job on their summer break and how awful it was. Comparing it to the easy-going lifestyle as a college student. The article’s main claim of education being an important avenue to take is an important lesson to be taken

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    I have had a plethora of unique life experiences, many of which have happened in the last couple years of my life. In the past three years I have traveled to Guatemala, all over Germany, and Hawaii. During the summer of my freshman year of High School, I went on a missions trip to Guatemala. My church took 10 boys, and 10 girls; we spent a total of a week in a small impoverished town called . I believe that this trip allowed me, for the first time, to see, and be enveloped in a new culture. During

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    Here,” Ahmad reflects on his experience of being treated differently from those around him based off his cultural background. He analyzes the emotional barrier that forms between the journey of immigration and the continuous feeling of inferiority based solely on the desire to belong. The article is written to provide a different point of view; one focused on introducing to the world the challenges and emotions immigrants face after starting the journey towards a new life. Since Amin Ahmad immigrated

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    taking the experiences that are being shared with him to learn from them. The value would be a lot closer and stronger with this audience compared to the audience of everyone else because of the emotional bond shared between the two. As for the broader audience, the closeness would vary depending on their stance on manhood and their life experiences. Some households are brought up differently and the ideology of being a man is much stronger, while others don’t hold it as high. In addition, life experience

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    Beginning of a Long Poem on Why I Burned the City” by Lawrence Benford and “Jimmy the Terrorist” by Omar Ahmed reveal the effects of racism in society and how one may handle the situation. In comparing, Benford and Ahmed reveal the effects of one’s experiences of injustice which can later follow into adulthood and the two ways it is handled. In the poem, “The Beginning of a Long Poem on Why I Burned the City”, the speaker “[grows] up in hate [that] [bubbles] in the back streets” (2-3). Already at a

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