the age of 12‚ my sister was diagnosed with Type 1‚ Juvenile Diabetes. I was only 7 years old‚ so I didn’t really understand what happened. All I can remember is crying because my sister was in pain and I hated to see her laying in that hospital bed. Every month we had to take a trip to Duke Children’s Hospital for her to see the diabetes specialist. For the most part‚ she keeps it under control and wears an insulin pump to take her medicine. After that experience‚ I considered my sister a warrior
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At First I was apprehensive about moving for the gazillionth time. Through my life I was very unsettled moving from place to place. Now I had to move again‚ Which I felt very fed up with moving repeatedly. My father wanted to move closer to his family‚ and try to start a better life for us. We were living in Effingham‚ IL‚ with a friend of ours. It was a yellow house‚ yet not like a bright yellow‚ more of a pale yellow. It was a 2 story house; the central floor and the basement. There four bedrooms
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The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass In the book‚ The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas‚ we see the hard lives the slaves went through. The physically‚ mentally and emotional abuse from the “masters.” I the book Douglass talks about personal feelings in his history and that helps us understand the intense abhorrence and repugnance the American slave had for his possessor. The typical American slave standard of living was worse than most of the poverty stricken countries of today. Most
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answer‚ “No”. I had this insane idea that the world revolved around me. Although I still had the concept in my head‚ that it was all about me when I was informed I would be an older sister‚ I knew that nothing would be the same. Before I was a sister‚ I never took anyone else into consideration‚ and I was never told to do otherwise. I was around four years old‚ when this news has changed my life forever. When I first received the news that I would have a younger brother‚ I was filled with joy and excitement
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lost someone very dear to me‚ my mom‚ and my grandma‚ although she was very loved by many. I can say that it seems like it is harder for my mom and grandma. They both loved her so much and you can tell it broke my mom some. She was sad today while looking through my great grandma’s things but it was worth everything to see all the stuff that she owns and read more about her life. Today we received the package of my great grandma’s things and journal’s about her life basically. So as I am sitting
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change my perspective on life forever. Originally‚ I decided to join the Costa Rica 2015 team as a good self-improvement experience and to see another part of the world; my reasons were very selfish. I knew that we would be helping people there and I was eager to do that‚ but it wasn’t my primary reason for going. The minute I met the pastors of the church with which we were collaborating‚ my whole mindset changed. I suddenly had this intense desire to make a lasting difference in someone’s life. Over
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My mother‚ “Regina Hopkins‚” has been a positive influence in my life. She has raised 6 kids all by herself as well as earned a Bachelor’s degree in nursing from a City College in Gainesville‚ Florida. My mother has been through pretty much everything a person can go through outside of war and was still able to be there and provide for all 6 of her kids. In high school‚ my mother wanted to play football and couldn’t because she was a girl and back-in-the-day women were not allowed to play football
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been very tired. Nutrition is a vital need in a rapidly growing child’s life. “From birth to 1 year of age‚ human infants nearly
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My Uncle Ross is a person I admire greatly. His life has been a continuous struggle. He is a person who has faced much adversity and yet remains positive. When I hear about what he faces on a daily basis‚ I can’t quite imagine how he handles it. When I hear about his struggles‚ mine seem so insignificant. He is someone that I can look up to and find inspiration from as I face struggles of my own. Uncle Ross is my mother’s brother and the youngest of four children. He grew up in a quiet neighborhood
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During the first half of my high school career‚ I was blindsided by a handful of life-altering events. As a freshman‚ I began struggling with severe anxiety‚ which has persisted ever since its conception; however‚ I have been working arduously to overcome this issue and have become significantly better at handling my anxiety and panic attacks. The summer before my sophomore year my mother remarried and moved me and my family from Atlanta to a small town in Northwest Georgia. This move was incredibly
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