Peach 4 A Memorable Holiday 19 September 2013 A Memorable Holiday Christmas has always been my favorite holiday since I was a little kid. It wasn’t just the gifts that I got it was all the good time my family had during the holiday season. We would always make a ginger bread house and we would always have homemade cookies in the house during this time. We would also decorate a tree that we picked from the local fire department. One year when I was eight years old I had a memorable Christmas
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A Memorable Moment The day started off as any other normal day but I would soon find out that this day was different. Like any other teenager I loved going out with my friends and so like any other Friday evening I was going out with my friends. I was going to go to my friend’s house to pick him up and we were then going to get something to eat. I got to his house picked him up and we left to go get something to eat. We were halfway there when I got a phone call from one of my other
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Early life Riva Minska was born in Łódź‚ Poland to Avromele and Nacha Minska. Riva was born on the date of May 3‚ 1926. She was the fourth of seven children: Chanele‚ Yankele‚ and Mala precede her; brothers Motele‚ Moshiele ‚ and Laibele follow her. Avromele Minska died shortly after Moshiele’s birth. Avromele was Riva’s father. World War II Following the invasion of Poland‚ Riva’s older siblings fled to Russia to escape forced labor. Riva‚ her mother and younger siblings are forced to live in
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People everywhere go through various experiences in their lives. Every experience affects a person in some way. The resulting effects can be good‚ bad‚ or a combination of both. Many aspects of my life have influenced my personality and the way that I live. Breaking my leg influenced my life dramatically. It began simply by playing the game I love most. Resulting in sitting on the sidelines‚ watching the season drift away. This experience affected my life intensely‚ yet still managed to make me a
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A Memorable Place A memorable place that sticks in my would have to be when i was on a beach in Kauai‚ Hi. The smell of the fresh air‚ i could almost still feel the humidity on my skin. The sound of the water swishing back and forth‚ what a relaxing feel. How i miss my long vacation in Hawaii. When i was about 10 was the first time i visited Hawaii and ever since the images of the beach and the scenery have always stuck in my head. As i was laying on the beach‚ i felt a drop on my face i look
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Maria Drake Life changing Experience Have you ever been bullied at some point in your life? I have; Bullying is such a huge deal and it continues to affect many people to this day in our society. Based on my personal experience in the past‚ some of the effects that come from bullying can include: emotional distress‚ anxiety‚ lack of trust in other people‚ and low self-esteem. In some cases‚ bullying can lead to taking one’s life‚ as well as hurting others. Being bullied as a child has been such
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There has been one experience that I can remember where my survival was literally at stake. It was in August of 2005. That was the time Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana‚ demolishing the city of New Orleans and surrounding areas. I’m from a small town‚ which is approximately twenty minutes outside of New Orleans. The hurricane affected my family both mentally and physically. My family didn’t evacuate for Hurricane Katrina. We decided to stay and “Ride it out.” They had the mindset like
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The earliest memory I have about writing would be from my third grade year. My teacher‚ Mrs. Cibulous‚ wanted to make things fun and have a writing contest. The writing could be no more than a page long and could be either a short story or poem. I really liked to read and one of my favorites‚ (outside of the newspaper) was a pretty good sized book of nursery rhymes that I had at home. I had never written anything that rhymed‚ especially anything that I would have labeled as a poem‚ but I decided
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What has been a significant experience in your life and what have you taken from it?Surrounded by thousands of stars‚ complete silence‚ and spectacular mountains‚ I stood atop a village in Thailand fifteen miles south of the Burmese border awestruck by nature’s beauty and power. Immediately‚ I realized that there was more to life than knowledge and understanding. The world isn’t to be taken granted‚ and I don’t plan to sit on the sidelines as the world passes me by. Ministry to Burmese refugees
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Is one’s life really that unique? Or are we all expected to follow the roles of society and think we have our own personal experiences? Is life itself a ‘sovereign experience’‚ as Walker Percy puts it‚ or just another unvalued thing‚ like a ‘squalus acanthias’? Walker Percy makes many abstract points in his essay. For example‚ when he states‚ “Why is it almost impossible to gaze directly at the Grand Canyon … and see it for what it is as one picks up a strange object from one’s back yard and gazes
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