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become a member is that I believe that this experience will keep me on the right path to continue my excellence and achieve success in the future. I have always been good at keeping up my grades. I have started out my high school career on a good slate by earning straight A’s for three consecutive quarters and ending my freshman year with a grade point average of a 3.8. To start off my sophomore I have managed to earn a 4.0 grade point average in the first quarter. I’m also apart of other extra…

Growing up in a family that nobody has attended college put a lot of pressure on myself. My parents have high hopes and dreams for my education. I have always wanted to show them how much I can do and getting into the honors college program was one of my goals. Even though people have told me how challenging that classes were. That did not stop me and I decided to pursue my goal and be part of the honors program. I decided to enroll in the program and got accepted. Some difficulties I had to…

This meditation begins with the narrator reflecting on his past and realizing that he has a built up and accepted many falsehoods and he decides to sweep the slate clean and look at everything with new opinions and build on his knowledge from new foundations. From the narrator’s perspective, our senses are known to deceive us and that we must never completely trust something that has deceived us. At the end of his first meditation, Descartes believes that he has successfully shown that every…

The Briars Corporation is one of the world’s leading companies, not to mention the number one in the whole world. They focus on relaxation and food chain businesses, but they also dabble on construction, trades, and other businesses. A lot of people say that the Briar Corporation controls the market and trends. There are also rumors, that they also control the black market. But those are only rumors. But one can be sure, that a lot of businesses, big or small, wants to be affiliated with the…

the world. They all start as small infants, then grow up. But not everyone turns out the same as the next. Some turn out to be truly evil beings. The truth is, many humans have done acts of evil, but no one is born evil. They are born like a blank slate, bound to be shaped by society. People believe others are either born to be corrupted or born to be kind. In this essay, to prove that people are born as a blank state and not either one of those we will show some examples from the story…

historical ground over time. He looks at what parts of these myths have some truth to them and what parts of them seem purely fabricated. The goal that appears for Restall here is that while going through these myths, he needs to start with a blank slate. He needs to push aside what he and countless other historians have thought to be true for hundreds or years, and take a new, deeper look at some of the myths. Throughout the seven chapters of Restall’s book, he attempts to look beyond what he…

Psychology has had major impacts in today’s society. Not only does this type of science help to diagnose and treat patients, it can also change lives. Therapy, terminology, and medical assessment have all aided in the successful lives of so many people. Psychologists all began from a state of cluelessness and have advanced what our world uses today incredibly. One of the most influential psychologists who impacted the psychology world is John Locke. John Locke is well known for his work in…

In this day and age, fixing crooked teeth is easy with braces, Invisalign treatment or lumineers. At James Julien DDS in Kenai, AK, they’ve chosen to provide their patients with attractive, reliable and easy-to-install lumineers. Essentially a thinner form of a veneer, they offer clients with the straight, perfect smile that they’ve always wanted. Before making your choice between these three forms of treatment for straightening teeth, take a second to look over the major differences between…

The Cross The cross is a universal symbol of Christianity. You will find this symbol in many Christian rituals as well as all over the interior of Christian churches. Making a sign of the cross over a child during the baptism invokes God's protection and asks for entrance into the body of the Christian church. The cross is a symbol coming from Jesus' crucifixion on the cross. Jesus' death was his sacrifice to wipe clean all the sins of humans. The cross is one of the most familiar of all…

is Gene and it was during the summer session when the boys decided to make up a game based on one of the German’s strategic maneuvers: “Let’s make it have something to do with the war… Like a blitzkrieg or something” (37). All the boys had a blank slate and the war was the perfect color to paint it with; thus, they came up with martial games such as blitzball. The war was thought of more as a fun game in the young, childish eyes of Gene and his friends. The war just ultimately did not seem…