... student, but I knew that I was one of the toughest because of the grit that underscored my personal motivation. In times where I struggled the most and faced the most daunting of task, I knew that the grit that fed my personal motivation to succeed would never fail me. It was my candle that lit my way through the darkened path. In the beginning of my freshman year, I started noticing that ... the subjects that I excelled in previously in primary school seemed to be ... getting difficult. I had to put in quite a bit more effort and that was not pleasing to me at all. I also noticed that...

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... . My mother best friends' mother had lung cancer. Out of the kindness of my mothers' heart, she went to the hospital almost every single day to visit her friend's mother. My mother use to light a candle and pray for her. My mother would also go to the hospital with plenty of gifts for her best friend's mother. My ... mother did that for about seven months. Of course her best friends' mother did pass away, but the thought of my mother doing that was something that ... life around and move on from anything. After that night of her bailing me out of jail, that really showed me that my moth...

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... She had fled from the house seeking somewhere calm; somewhere she could think. The dusk air was still warm from the baking of the sun. The heat acted like a giant hand and enclosed her within its fingers from the moment she stepped outside. Then, as the sun loosened its grasp on the land, so did the fingers of heat. As the sky darkened, Ella pulled out the candle she had managed to ... salvage from the mess inside. Along with it ... , she had borrowed a lighter from her unwitting sister. Watching the ravenous little flame engulf the tall white wick, she felt an ... ...

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... time of need. Last summer my family and Stan's family had gone on vacation together to Michigan. Everything was fine with my parents, so when I broke the news to Stan, he was almost in as much shock as I was. No one was this coming, not even me. Stan had no experience with this ... experience this. I would fell selfish saying this, because if my parents didn't want to be together, they shouldn't have to suffer through it because of me. On the other hand, I shouldn't have to suffer through it because of them. He would be there feeding what advice he could and helping me through my proble...

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... for his family (his wife and his son) in Nazi concentration camp. With Jewish father character, there is no wonder Roberto Benigni won the Best Actor and Director Academy Awards for his talent. The first main stage of the movie is the romantic love of an Italian waiter ( Roberto Bengini)-Guido with a beautiful and lovely woman teacher-Dora ... he still know that he need to protect his son's soul by saying that they"re playing a game which prize will be a full-sized tank. During the time in camp, Guido always tries to keep his son out of many dangers by his clever and intelligent. He also ...

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... . He had many family and friends at his house to celebrate this time in which a new year was approaching his life. When the cake was presented to him, he noticed that instead of having one candle that read 50, it was four candles that read 25 and 25. He had requested that this be done so that he could ... look at it as he was turning 25 twice instead of view it as turning half-century-old. When the guests were gone, he began to look at ... they had to travel a great distance to find work. This meant that there was very little room to sleep and there was very little food. He became very s...

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... the film, Frankie is one out of five children. Quickly, the audience sees that due to the father's drinking problem, the harsh living conditions, and the father's inability to maintain a job, three of the children die of starvation. Throughout the film, the audience continues to witness how bad the situation that Frankie and his other siblings are in is. As sad as it may seem, Frankie is the "candle burning in the ... wind", during the entire film. As much ... ...

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