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Gianina Jaramillo
Professor Conley
Comp. 2: First Draft Essay
15 December 2005
" To Influence or Not To Influence"

Xavier was a young men of fourteen years old when he started working, of course he didn't stop attending school in the night shift. He started helping at a construction, he had to do so because he belonged to the low economical class. The whole situation with his family wasn't too normal , his father had become partially blind leaving eleven kids without an economical support. Nowadays after 38 years, he is a set example to me as my father. He managed this whole situation with working and studying, sacrificing and eventually thrived by not giving up on life. He is a direct influence in me, mostly because he raised me and shared his life wisdom with me. I got to be aware of this by himself, by his words. In The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde we could find out that the main character Dorian is mainly influenced by the words of a mysterious book, " The......

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