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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any

We have been choosing thr goal and trying to reach it for all our life. Someone does it more quickly, but others can spend a few years for it. And all time there are reasons to come back or to give up. But maybe it is better to remember that we can cope with all troubles. And that all will be as you want. Because you must pass hard way at the first, in order to can have what you want. It’s like ‘to the stars through difficulties’.
But all are not so easy in our life. And majority people give up. I think, that it is worst, that can be. And reasons for it can be different: someone waiting for the fast results, someone is afraid future, someone pays a lot of attention to their mistakes, someone stops to believe in yourself and begins consider yourself poor. The last is the most spread problem among humanity. But why man/woman stops to believe in yourself and why one begins hate yourself? The views others about you – kills you inside and your dream. That, what no one doesn’t want to believe in your dream – stops your belief in yourself. It’s so hard do something, when you don’t have associates. But why you must have associates, if it’s your dream and your goal? You can tell about it your best friend and your family, and they will support you and will become your best inspiration! Don’t listen to the people, who consider you mad and your dream impossible! Because they just don’t have own dream and try to find limitations in others!
Sometimes I notice some posts in social networks like ‘Never give up’ or ‘Just do it’. In my opinion, when people see these pictures or entries, they think, that these all are just folly and that all aren’t easy in our life, that we can’t do that, what we want. And that all phrases are just stupid words on the monitor. Of course, it’s easier to give up, call yourself ‘lack of talent’, then try something new, open yourself like in the first time. The laws of our life are very simple, but only for people, who want to fight with a problem and want to go against all odds. ‘That, what we give, come back to us. That, what we think about life and about yourself, become reality of our life’. That’s so simple.
Once upon a time the great khan said: ‘Don’t act in fear. Don’t fear in act. Have no regrets for the past deeds’. And, I think, that it has a big sense for everyone! Just refresh one’s moment: ‘How often do you begin to do something and stop to do that often first mistakes? How often do you think, that you fear to act, because you fear the problem?’ You lose the unique chance to develop your talent! How I said earlier, that can be in the bad views others about you! The fear showing yourself funny or crazy fetters you! And it can become the start to develop many complexes. Don’t be afraid, be brave. Remember, that no one doesn’t think about you longer, than about themselves. Don’t fear to do mistakes, because the mistakes will become the great science for you in future. You must go forward, not looking back. Do what you want. Never give up!
Don’t think, that you don’t have anything, that you can’t do anything! Believe in yourself! Because the belief in yourself can make such miracles as the belief in God! You can do more, than you think!



 by Anna Levkovska
the pupil of the 11th grade
of Horodok School
Radomyshl Region
Zhytomyr Oblast
                                      
Integrity has no need of rules


   There are a lot of problems in the world. And every person tries to decide the problem acting in their own way. Everyone thinks, that he/she is more clever than other, and that he/she can “save the world”. But it’s false. If only we work together, we will really save the world from the disasters.
  I think, the general problem of integrity is unwillingness of a person to work with someone else. “ I don’t work with him, because  he doesn’t  help me, and the tome will be wasted!” But why do you make this decision, when you don’t work with this man even for 5 minutes? Every wants to get the fame for yourself and doesn’t want to share it with others. Because every man is selfish and if you don’t consider  yourself selfish, it’s not time for it yet. Maybe the problem of humanity is selfishness. And this must be stopped! You must not be arrogant, that you will never need the help from others!
Sometimes everyone of us doesn’t decide anything, so others come to us to help. And it should be not only between humans, but between companies, cities, and even countries. Our world shouldn’t  be built on the competition, but on the integrity.
“When the humanity will be able to unite in the common problem, it will be too late. That is the nature of people”. In my opinion, it’s our most general mistake. If  we do something together, we can achieve more, than everyone of us do it alone. So why  do we wait for the moment, when it will be late, if we can begin  acting now?  Maybe we will see the common problem and we will begin to move to the way of the decision of it! And that, what we are different and think in the different way, can unite us! We can do more  for the better future together. When 15 trillion cells unite, the man can live healthy and happily. And if all people of the world unite once, our life will become better forever!
  We can achieve a peace of the world, we can treat a lot of  death illnesses, we can help a lot of  homeless people, if we only do it together. Because, I think, that integrity must not have  the rules!

 by Anna Levkovska
the pupil of the 11th grade
of Horodok School
Radomyshl Region
Zhytomyr Oblast

Language is the most powerful tool we have for reaching out to others. We can use it to express our feelings, to spread our ideas, and even to establish peace.
 Learning English is like learning to swim or play ball. We learn to swim by swimming, to play ball by plaing ball, and to speak English by speaking English.
 Acquiring the ability to use a language automatically, that is to think without stopping to think, is a process of habit formation. Forming a habit, any kind of habit, requires much practice.
 Learning English efficiently requires that you put your mind on what you are doing and have the intention and will to learn. The time you have is so short that you cannot afford to waste it by giving less than your full cooperation in class and in home studies. In other words, you have to build up language habits in English just as you build up language habits in your mother tongue.
Good luck to you then in your learning English! It's up to you. Nobody can learn to swim for you. Nobody can learn English for you. ??You have to learn for yourself, and you will learn if you really want to any are willing to practise. Language is not to be taught, language is to be learnt.
(by Oksana Karpiuk)

English is Really Crazy 

Let's face it -- English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.

We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese... One blouse, 2 blice?

Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb through annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? If you wrote a letter, perhaps you bote your tongue?

Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?

How can a "slim chance" and a "fat chance" be the same, while a "wise man" and "wise guy" are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while "quite a lot" and "quite a few" are alike? How can the weather be "hot as hell" one day and "cold as hell" another?

Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who are spring chickens or who would actually hurt a fly?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm clock goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it?


Positive Inspirational Personal Growth Stories:


Footprints in the Sand

One night I dreamed a dream.
As I was walking along the beach with my Lord.
Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand,
One belonging to me and one to my Lord.
After the last scene of my life flashed before me,
I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
I noticed that at many times along the path of my life,
especially at the very lowest and saddest times,
there was only one set of footprints.
This really troubled me, so I asked the Lord about it.
"Lord, you said once I decided to follow you,
You'd walk with me all the way.
But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life,
there was only one set of footprints.
I don't understand why, when I needed You the most, You would leave me."
He whispered, "My precious child, I love you and will never leave you
Never, ever, during your trials and testings.
When you saw only one set of footprints,
It was then that I carried you."





A Picture of Peace


There once was a King who offered a prize to the artist who would paint the best picture of peace. Many artists tried. The King looked at all the pictures, but there were only two he really liked and he had to choose between them.

One picture was of a calm lake. The lake was a perfect mirror, for peaceful towering mountains were all around it. Overhead was a blue sky with fluffy white clouds. All who saw this picture thought that it was a perfect picture of peace.
The other picture had mountains, too. But these were rugged and bare. Above was an angry sky from which rain fell and in which lightening played. Down the side of the mountain tumbled a foaming waterfall. This did not look peaceful at all. But when the King looked, he saw behind the waterfall a tiny bush growing in a crack in the rock. In the bush a mother bird had built her nest. There, in the midst of the rush of angry water, sat the mother bird on her nest in perfect peace.
Which picture do you think won the prize? The King chose the second picture. Do you know why?
'Because' explained the King, 'peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart. That is the real meaning of peace.'



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