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    Friday. Basketball has always been a huge part of my life and family. It has impacted me and who I am today. The sport brought my family closer together and has shaped us in ways we couldn’t have imagined. It has taught me many valuable lessons and improved a number of my characteristics. I truly believe that I wouldn’t be the person I am today if basketball wasn’t such a huge component to my life and to my family. My father introduced me to the sport when I was very young and it has stuck with me ever

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    people you come across throughout life. Identifying the source of your literacy is easier said than done‚ but the simplest way is to identify your "sponsors". Sponsors is a term coined by Deborah Brandt‚ in "sponsors of literacy"‚ to mean people or situations in your life that affected and developed your literacy‚ “Sponsors seemed a fitting term for the figures who turned up most typically in people’s memories of literacy learning” (Brandt‚ 1998). Personally‚ most of my "sponsors" were situations that

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    In Theo Padnos’ memoir‚ My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun: Adolescents at the Apocalypse: A Teacher’s Notes‚ he recounts his journey in discovering his career choice and his adventures of being a part-time teacher in a county prison. Discussing the variety of prisoners that came in and out of the Woodstock jail‚ Padnos reveals his relations with the prisoners. Padnos starts off describing the tediousness of the work in graduate school and how the‚ once fun‚ aspects of analyzing text no longer appealed

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    In my life I have traveled and experienced many opportunities that most people my age haven’t. I have had many diverse experiences that some people may not have had. Being born in Portland Oregon has really played a part in my diverse life. Oregon has changed from when I was born in 1996‚ but for the most part for the better. It has shaped my life into the person I am today and how I view the world and the people in it. In this paper I will go through some experiences that I have had from birth

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    The person who I admire

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    The person who I admire The person who I admire is one of the best Croatian and Europian basketball player Dražen Petrović. He was born in Šibenik and he started to play basketball with his brother Aleksandar. I don’t know a lot about him but the most important thing I know is that story about his persistence. Once when I was said and disappointed in myself my father told me story about him. Well We all know how the great player Dražen was but however great he was he always after his trainings

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    The Person Who Inspired Me

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    philosopher‚ but stated by the person who has inspired me throughout‚ my father‚ Abhay Manikeri. Being the Director of Sales and Marketing of a Hotel‚ the personality and the skills he possessed as an efficient leader‚ led a huge impact in my life. “I want to be like my father” is what I thought. There were great personalities around me in Media‚ Sports and Business but the only person who became a role model was the person who had a combination of smart work and hard work‚ who started working as a butler

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    A person who I admire A person who I admire is an interesting topic. I believe you can admire more than one person. A typical admiration I have seen is when people boy‚ are admiring a very famous singer‚ actor etc. although it is typical‚ it is still a good admiration because you can use that person as your role model or idol. Fx. If your role model is a sportsman‚ then you can admire his performing skills‚ and maybe learn something from him or her. But trough my life I have admired many persons

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    My influence

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    I look to my past and comprehend that I have a lot of individuals that have and are influential in some way. Everyone has that one person that stands out more than the rest. That person who gives you advice to improve those mistakes and that person influence you in some special way. The individual that stands out to me in my life is my mother because she has always been there in the good or in the bad of any situation that comes my way. My mommy has told me that if the world turns the situation

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    My Favorite Person

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    My favourite person “Michael Jordan” " I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times‚ I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." Those encouraging words were spoken by Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan was born in Brooklyn‚ New York‚ on February 17‚ 1963. He moved to Wilmington‚ North Carolina. I am going to tell you why Jordan is in fact so famous. He had to go

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    Trinity Rein Music Appreciation "Music in My Life" Music‚ more so now than ever before‚ is a huge part of my life. As a child I always enjoyed listening to music and singing along to it‚ and growing up it was always very important to me. Music moved me in a way that I really couldn’t explain and it still does today. I consider myself a very deep and philosophical person. I’m always trying to look beyond the surface of that which I see‚ hear‚ and experience‚ and extract the true‚ hidden meaning

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