The Day that changed my life The key moment that set all of this in motion was the day I decided to participate in the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme. The scheme consisted of a number of sections with service being one of these. I discussed it with my mother and what was expected of me. My mother told me about her friend who had a child with Angelman syndrome (AS)‚ also known as the smiling disease. AS is a neuro-genetic disorder characterized by intellectual and developmental delay‚ sleep disturbance
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Life factors and predictable and unpredictable life events I will be talking about the life factors that can influence a person’s holistic development‚ and the unpredictable and predictable events that can happen through a person’s life. Genetic: Genetic is the branch of biology that deals with inheritance‚ especially the mechanisms of inherited transmission and the variation of inherited characteristics among similar or related organisms. Cystic Fibrosis Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is one of the
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noticeably faded. My mother floats through my mind. “Anastasia!” my cousin stops her rambling and finally notices that I have not been paying attention to a single word. I am suddenly attentive‚ my eyes refocused on Lana. “Have you even spoken to your parents‚ lately?”‚ Lana asks. It has been a while since I had spoken to them. My parents are still in Moldova‚ running the family fish business. A year and a half ago they had sent me to America to study‚ while they stayed behind and tended to business
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Sometimes the scariest things in life can be your surroundings because you never know when something can go wrong. I learned to value everything I have these days because you never know when you might lose something or somebody‚ that’s irreplaceable. It was mid June of 1996 and I was living in an eight story building in Harlem in New York City. It was one of the sunniest days of the summertime. It was from this day at age nine when I realized that life is not a dream it is reality. Beautiful and
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When asked of my most memorable moment in my life‚ it would be my trip to Penang. This is especially memorable because this is the first Penang trip with my family. This would be a perfect getaway for my hectic life in school. Furthermore‚ I have always wondered if the Penang food is as scrumptious as its fame for it. We took off early in the morning and I was feeling excited already. On the way‚ we would kill off time by playing the word game in the car. It is a usual routine for a long car ride
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In high school I have taken a lot of classes. Some I had to take as a graduate requirement such as English‚ math and social studies. Others I didn’t have to take‚ but did because I either wanted to work out or learn more on some subject I liked. These classes would fall along the lines of art‚ power lifting and ceramics. That’s just what I thought this class was going to end up being. Just a class I took for the fun of it because the subject looked cool to me. I had no idea that it would forever
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gracefulness‚ beauty‚ and a little sexiness. You’re basically using your eyes and facial expression to capture your audience’s attention. So this is my girly side. My tom-boyish side on the other hand is Chinese martial arts. I started to take martial arts around same time I started to do hula. Martial arts‚ I consider to be tom boyish because it involves a lot of strength in body & mind‚ physical contact‚ sweating‚ and pushing yourself to your limits. With body & mind our instructors pushes us to our
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people but the person I admire the most is my sister Rufaro .She has come to be the most important person in my life. There is no reason for me to live without her by my side. Rufaro is a nurse. She loves to help other because she says it was always her dream ever since she was a child. She works hard and she likes to learn something new every day. She leads a wonderful family life; she is always cheerful and happy. My sister has now been married for about 5 years and is a great mother to
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Terrance Estelle 500 word significance paper Dr.jo Something in my life that I find to be significant is receiving over a million dollars in scholarships from various schools‚ being accepted to every school I applied to‚ as well as graduating from high school to be able to go to college and further my education. See in my family it is not too often that a male graduates from high school and goes to college especially with the accomplishments that I have done. Not only was I the first male in
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in all the rock pools. Another experience I can remember is the staircase to the moon‚ everyone would pile on the shores of Roebuck Bay and watch the full moon reflecting off the tidal flats of the bay. To a Grade 2 student‚ life could not get any better. That was until one life-changing day. My Mom and Dad sat me and my older sister down at the kitchen table and told us that my Dad had been offered a job in Queensland. We would be moving to Atherton as soon as we could sell our house. I was shocked;
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