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    Princess Bride” is quite educational and full of life lessons? The book “The Princess Bride” by William Goldman is somewhat realistic fiction where characters make irrational decisions. It’s a wild storyline with kings, princesses, pirates, along with giants, wizards, and resurrection. Nifty Lance is an online blogger who came up with a few life lessons “The Princess Bride” may have taught its readers. “The Princess Bride” teaches its readers certain lessons like; just because something seems impossible

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    painful to breathe, unable to walk or stand, and eventually, unable to swallow food. With little money and time left to live he still seems like the happiest man around as he had his family and friends near him at the end with some of life's greatest lessons to teach. Well what if that man was real, and that man’s name was Morrie Schwartz? Morrie Schwartz was a college professor who had retired and then was diagnosed with ALS. An old student of his, Mitch Albom, saw him on TV and decided to visit his

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    In The Outsiders a boy named Ponyboy is a greaser who lives with his brothers. Through the book he learns many lessons, such as the one that the rich kids can be nice. He saw that when he met Cherry Valance. She treated him as an equal just like we have all been taught to do. This is one of the many life lessons I found in The Outsiders. Another life lesson that I found is that you can’t run away from your problems, because eventually the will catch up to you. I saw this when Ponyboy and Johnny

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    Within the fiction novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, many lessons were taught that had paramount effects on the characters. The quote, “Life is a matter of what you learn and how you learn it” means what we experience in life teaches us things. Furthermore, it describes that life is about the things one learns from different people or scenarios and there are many ways this relates to the book To Kill a Mockingbird. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, discrimination was a highlighted subject

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    Aphorism, adage, dictum, moral, life lesson: in other terms, the topics of which will be proclaimed. Why use any other story besides a forthright and courageous for embodying a topic? Many stories have elaborate life lessons, and Homer’s epic tale The Odyssey is no exception. The life lessons felt most indelible are amalgamated. The first very important life lesson found happens in the land of the lotus eaters; it being if following abstention from poor choices the likelihood of prospering intensifies

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    Three life Lessons Ponyboy Learned PonyBoy was the main character in the Novel “ The Outsiders” by SE Hinton. Ponyboy was influenced by many people throughout the story making him change and become “ Gold”. Pony learned many life lessons throughout the story and his life. One of the most important life lessons he learned was that both greasers and Socs were people and not just gang rivals. When he was talking to cherry he knew that she was a Soc and that could mean trouble but later on Ponyboy

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    golf teaches people life lessons. Golf has life lessons on every tee box, fairway, bunker, green, and hole. Every hole is different golfers must keep their cool in order to perform well consistently. Golfers will have good shots and they have bad shots but like my mom says to me, “Do not let one bad shot affect your entire hole.” Similar to life, golf has ups and downs. In life and golf if the golfer put away what just happened he or she will be back on track to be happy in life or get a good score

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    “There are two gifts we should give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.” Often times, the life lessons we are taught as children can be the wings needed to succeed in life. Scout Finch, the main protagonist in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, learns many valuable lessons through the course of the novel, which can be applied to our everyday life. Scout also learns many lessons from the culture of Maycomb. She gets exposed to such prejudice and judgement, just by living in the town

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    Your Essay “Most of us walk around as if were sleepwalking we really don't experience the world” (Albom 32 ) Said the wise man Morrie that had many life lessons to teach. In the memoir Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie teaches people to live life through showing emotion,forgiving others before its too late and giving love to those around us. One life lesson Morrie teaches is to show emotions. Diving into every emotion is an important experience because if the emotion has already been experienced it’s easy

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    In the story The Outsiders, there is many life lessons that could help many people. Ranging from the people you hang out with, to people who need your help. You should always treat people how you want to be treated,even if that means giving something up. The main character, Ponyboy, experiences certain events in the story that makes you realize that these kind of conflicts are a reality. Ponyboy lives with his two brothers, Darry and Soda. Their parents died in a car crash. Ponyboy never realized

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