Film Review Gran Torino

Quote Essay#1: New Year’s resolutions
By: Joeshua Diaz
English-12th
Teacher: V. Cordova
“The world is a book and those do not travel read only a page”- Saint Austin
“Life is like asewer what you put in , is what you get of it” Tom Lehrer
The past is the past the present is now; the future waits for you and only you can make it possible”- Vilma Cordova
The 2012 is done; is thepast, the present is the 2013. In this New Year I want to become a better person, for my own benefits and the other around me. This is why I will challenge myself, in a new year’s resolution. For mea New Year resolution challenge our humanity taking it to another level making us a better person, the ways depends on the person. Also, is a commitment that a person makes to one or morepersonal goals, projects, or the reforming of a habit. The previous three quotes full of wisdom, teach me a lesson and this lessons I will apply them in this New Year. This year is a half my senior year and ahalf as a college student, so in this year I will grow a lot, mentally. Also in this year is the biggest changing that I will experience from the high school to the college. In college is where I willtaste more liberty, and also a lot more responsibility. My actions and decisions in this year will trace the path of all my life. If I take wrong or bad decisions the future will be a mess. In the otherhand if I take decisions based in my principles and in my Ignacian background, my future will be better. This year will be a hard one, but in this year I will be the best person I can in every way.The lessons that each quote teach me will be explained in the next paragraphs.
First quote from Saint Agustin “The world is a book and those do not travel read only a page”. This quote for mepersonally is very especial, because physically I have not been out of Puerto Rico never in my life . Luckily, I earn a scholarship in 2007, to study in San Ignacio, in San Ignacio we read around 10 or...