It had been a clear boiling summer day out on the practice fields of Saint John’s high school. Tryouts for the soccer team had just ended‚ and everyone‚ including me were anxiously awaiting the cuts. Though I was nervous‚ I reassured myself with this one fact‚ “I was on the freshman team‚ I am definitely not getting cut.” As I gazed up‚ I saw the coaches huddling and quietly discussing‚ my heart was in my throat. The coach slowly began to amble his way over to us grasping the dreaded clipboard. At
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It was a stormy day on April 18th‚ 1775 in the town of Concord. The rain was like hail and the thunder like mini-earthquakes. I had just gotten off my first job when I started to walk outside in a torrential downpour. All I hoped was that I didn’t have to fight in this weather. The trees were about to topple over onto the murky dirt road. A man suddenly came barging through the old oak door with a thundering smash and demanded‚ “Get out here now we’ve got a war to win‚ and standing around isn’t
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I am from the projects. From a place the looks like a car wreck. I am from a neighborhood that was up to no good. From a place some people can relate to the hood. I am from a stepmom who treats me as her own. From being put back in my place because I was thought I was grown. I am from a lil boy who didn’t want nothing but to have someone to play with. I am from the south with mosquitoes and you will get bit. I am from two split parents that who were never together. From a dad and mom that do nothing
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Word Count: 617 Teanna Armstrong Enc 1102 Essay #3 March 11‚ 2013 Sonnet‚ Theme‚ and Structure of “Shall I Compare thee to a Summer’s Day?” A sonnet’s structure has symbolism and it presents the theme in many poems of Literature. In the poem “Shall I Compare thee to a Summer’s Day?” by William Shakespeare happens to be a sonnet. To begin with‚ the sonnet mentioned above is called a Shakespearean sonnet. It is composed of three four-line quatrains and a concluding two-line couplet.
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recently that I started to truly understand what my father told me. My entire life I have been terrible at decision making‚ and I relied on others to assist in what they believed was for my best interest. Whether it be what
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changed when I graduated from St. John the Evangelist Parish School. The two high schools that accepted me were Gonzaga College High School and Dematha Catholic High School. The people I knew my whole life we’re going to schools such as Dematha. It all came down to me to either go to the schools in which most of the people I knew were going or experience something new which I have never done before. The decision that I made shaped the person who I am today. During my shadow day at Dematha‚ I saw multiple
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Jenson January 9‚ 2013 Never give up You’re standing ’ in the middle of the thunder and lightning ’ I know you ’re feeling like you just can win but your trying it’s hard to keep on keeping ’ on when you’re being pushed around don’t even know which way is up you just keep spinning down round down~ Gary Allan. That song says a lot also I believe that he was trying to say was not to give up anything you but your heart to. That isn’t what I want to talk about though I want to talk about one of
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I remember the day like it was yesterday‚ December 21‚ 2009‚ The day we left the Philippines and migrated to Canada. My Parents were separated when I was 6th grade. At the young age‚ I saw the reality through my eyes and how arduous it is to live without a perfect family. Wherewith people criticized and scrutinized at me like informing me that I don’t have any future‚ but to get pregnant similarly as my mom when she was 17. I become independent and took the obligation of taking good care of my younger
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Race day‚ those words may not mean much to an ordinary bystander‚ but those words now light something inside of me that I once never knew existed. Waking up with butterflies in my stomach‚ I had my first cross country meet. After months of intense training‚ it was time to display our fitness to the competition. The meet was at our home course‚ it had rained the night before and I swear I still remember the exact smell of the morning air. A combination of grass & mud‚ almost as if they were blended
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I awoke to the slamming of the front door‚ remembering that it was Sunday‚ my dad’s favorite day of the year‚ the first day of hunting season. I jump out of bed and stumble down the stairs waking everybody else in the house up. Looking out the window I see my dad pull away in his big red pickup truck with the sleeve of his orange hunting jacket hanging out the window. Hoping he brings home dinner‚ I start to make myself breakfast‚ I make my dad’s favorite; eggs with crispy bacon. As I’m cooking breakfast
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