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Xilma Tirado Fernando Magallanes English 12- 2 14 October 2003 Essay on nothing We start, then, with nothing, zip, pure, zero, nada. But this is not the nothing of negation. For not means other than, and other is merely a synonym of the ordinal numeral second. As such it implies a first; while the present pure zero is prior to every first. The nothing of negation is the nothing of death, which comes second to, or after, everything. But this pure zero is the nothing of not having been born. There is no individual thing, no compulsion, outward nor inward, no law. It is the germinal nothing, in which the whole universe is involved or foreshadowed. As such, it is absolutely undefined and unlimited possibility -- boundless possibility. There is no compulsion and no law. It is boundless freedom. Nothing means: No thing; not anything: The box contained nothing. I've heard nothing about it, No part; no portion: Nothing remains of the old house but the cellar hole, One of no consequence, significance, or interest: The new nonsmoking policy is nothing to me. ...read more.

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Some idioms for nothing could be the next ones: Free of charge. To no avail: all that trouble for nothing. For no reason: fired him for nothing. In nothing flat: in very little time, very quickly. Ask a teenager what he or she did during the day and they'll typically respond, "Nothing." That innocent "nothing" could mean anything from accidentally blowing up the chemistry lab, getting a perfect score on the SATs, or knocking over the neighborhood 7-Eleven. And "nothing" means different things to different sexes. When the woman in your life seems angry or depressed and you ask what's bothering her and she responds, "Nothing," you can safely assume that she really means that it's everything...about you. And when she tells you that she wants "nothing" for her birthday or your anniversary, you can be sure that the "nothing" she wants had better be made out of gold and be encrusted with diamonds. Men, on the other hand, are much easier to read. Do we look troubled? Don't worry about it. ...read more.

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For me nothing, it's like this wave you see way out in the ocean, and you just watch it come in, You see that it's moving, that it's inevitable, but it hasn't hit the shore yet. What else you want me to writes if there is nothing to write, I can also say that whenever I turn to the sky I don't see anything, so that there is nothing, but I can say that nothing is nothing. Like when you eat a hamburger and you finish it you remainded with nothing. There is nothing more boring then doing nothing. Nothing its like the number of zero if I wouldn't be writing this essay this papper would contein. The more and more I think in what to write nothing comes to mind so basically everything I like in this paper will probably amount to nothing, everything I'm written from this point and on is basically nothing because I am out of words and don't have nothing more to say. Well I can say that if I didn't have any clothes, house, or any other personal belongings the I wouldn't have nothing. What else can I say I don't know nothing else. ...read more.

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