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Patience and Caring  On the following essay, you're going to be reviewing whether the two values of patience and caring are present in the story by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance". In this story Ralph Waldo talks about trusting yourself, accept who you are, what you have and what god gives you day through day. First of all, caring is  the   process   of   protecting   someone or something and   providing  what that   person   or thing   needs,  serious attention or consideration applied to doing something correctly or to avoid damage or risk, it is also feel concerned or interested. I think the value of caring is present in the story cause, this text it's mostly about caring about yourself , not focus about what people say about you, and don't let it and their opinions hurt your own thoughts and feelings. In life you'll always find people like this who would like to take you down, they will always disparage your duty. He says that is better and more e

Fairness and Justice In this essay you're going to be reading about whether this two values are present in the stories of psalm of life and the tide rises, the tide falls. First of all i'm gonna make you a little introduction, of what this two values mean. Fairness is the quality of treating people equally or in a way that is right or reasonable. Considering everything that has an effect on a situation, so that a fair judgement can be made. M aking judgments that are free from discrimination.     Justice is the moral principle determining just conduct, rightfullness or lawfulness, as of a claim or title .   Fairness in the way people are dealt with. (This two values have very similar definitions or meanings but can be applied in different context depending on your perspective) This two values are not explicitly present in the poem cause it depends on the way you get the message of it, they're indirectly in the poem. Beginning with the first poem "A Psalm Of L

Trustworthiness and Thankfulness  In this essay you're going to be reading about how this two values: trustworthiness and thankfulness, if they're either present in the story of "The Devil and Tom Walker" or not. Trustworthiness is the value in which someone is worth of your trust, someone in which you can rely on, who's always by your side and it's faithful or loyal. Thankfulness is when you express of gratitude or that you appreciate something , being grateful of what life provides us, what we own, our family and the people around us. First of all, at the beginning of the story we can appreciate Tom and his wife in a uncomfortable situation in which both Tom nor his wife trusted each other. They were on a constant competition with one another, hiding stuff, seeing who was the one who gets first the things.They were never thankful of what they owned, both of them were constantly complaining that they lived a miserable life, but they didn't even app

There is a big neighborhood in which lived this girl, her name was Emily. Emily wasn't the typical girl that you imagine in every story, blonde, arrogant, with the ego in the sky. She was brunette, tall, really humble, didn't like to brag but she was truly popular at her school and town, almost everybody knew her. Emily did all sorts of things, she played at the basketball team, she was the student body president, had good grades etc. Emily only hang out with her really good friends: Tina, Katherine and Oswald. They have known each other since they were little kids from kindergarten. This group of kids always had each other's back no matter what happened, the sticked together. Emily's parents were always traveling outside of the country for working purposes, so she was most of the time home alone, but Emily was a really responsible girl and her parents truly trusted her. One day, when Emily was going back home from basketball practice, she returned really late beca

Colombia Colombia is a country located on the north part of south america. Is a very rich country in different ways. It has a diversity cultures and languages, with white, mestizo and afro american population and three indian ethnic groups. Colombia's official language is Spanish even tho, they take the indian languages as official too, but Spanish is the main one. Colombia has coast with the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. It has a variety of climates depending on the altitude of the place you are on.This country is surrounded by a mountain range called "Los Andes" which is dividen in : the Western, the Central and the Oriental.Colombia has borders with the countries of: Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and Panama. Colombia also has maritime borders with Nicaragua, Panamá, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Haití and Dominican Republic. Colombia is divided into thirty-two departments and six natural regions. There is the Andean region which covers the mountain

My name is, Valerie Negrette Escobar. I was born on October 3rd/2002 in Barranquilla, Colombia. I study at Lyndon B Johnson School, I'm in 11th grade . I've been studying for almost 9 years in this school, I entered in 3rd grade when i was only 7 years old and now i'm 15 years old, time passes quite fast. In these school I met my lifelong friends, which I trust and love with my whole heart. My family is composed by my dad,mom, my three siblings and my dog. My dad's name is Manuel Negrette, he's a really sweet guy who loves to read books and write poems. My dad is a really hard working person, he is a doctor who specializes in orthopedics and traumatology. My mom's name is Sandra Escobar, she is truly a multitask person, I can't even think about something this woman doesn't know how to do it , she does from cooking gourmet meals to fixing the pipe, and i'm not even kidding. I've lived my whole life in Barranquilla, even tho it's not a b