Student Essay Quotes

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I felt like a baby who is about to go out of her mother’s body. I even felt like the umbilical cord had just been cut for good as my airplane took off, flying farther and farther from my family, my friends and my different social and religious groups.

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Provisionally, I lost my way, as the captain of the boat in the storm.

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In the transforming of life, people will always find out a new direction for the future. I’m in the process of pursuit and I have a dream that the life will be fabulous someday.

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When you are on an American railroad today, do you ever think about who built it?

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The incarceration of my grandfather brought darkness over my family, and the deleterious effect, was unforgettable.

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I did not remember then it was exactly started, but I heard my parents’ deep breaths. I could recognize there was a something wrong at those times, even though I was a just little kid who desired to have a Barbie Doll.

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We heard of suicide every few days in the news. I started worrying about my parents, so I told my parents that we could solve it together. After I said that, they hold me in the arm and told me that they wouldn’t give-up.

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As the Iranian poet Sohrab Sepehry once said" Where ever I go, sky is mine." This is what I always have in mind when I'm away from my country.

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After a long resistance by my family in the country, they had to make a hard decision to leave the country, in other words, they were forced to immigrate to Argentina and Paraguay looking for to have a better life and survive the rigid situation in our country. It meant to leave behind everything such us family, friends, a beautiful culture and seek in a strange country a place to build a new hope. It was according to my family the worst thing that they passed through.

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How many people know their parent’s bleeding tears of history?

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I am one of the people who are called “the Lost Generation” in Japan. Although it is easy to blame the life on the times, I think it is far useful to accept surroundings, adapt it, and do my best. I may be a one of lost generation, but I believe I have not lost anything.

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The first case of SARS was detected in my province, in which my family and I were living in November, 2002. For me, SARS came to be a war which caused me to feel much fear and anxiety and disturbed my family’s daily life.

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As you can see, the war has already changed my uncle’s whole life and his future. Every country all has their own histories and events, and these events may be good or may be bad. They brought to us love and hatred. If you give me a chance to chose which one I prefer it, to be sure I hope it could be love.