My Life Changing Trip Imagine standing on a road in a warm humid place in the middle of nowhere. A place where the grass is dry‚ the fields are endless‚ and the smell of dirt stings the inside of your nose as the wind sweeps by. The roads are narrow and lonely. The only visitors that pass are the few people on bikes and the occasional rusty truck that hums as loud as a lawn mower as it carries sugar cane from a nearby farming village. As you look out into the fields‚ water buffalo can be seen in
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end up being one. My life before the military was very different in many ways. I was very close to my family members and I liked being the average person attending a community college. My view on the military was nothing special‚ I would hear things about the military yet I wouldn’t pay any mind. I should have cared more about the men and women who serve and protect‚ but I was clueless as to what they actually did. To begin‚ the day I sent my then boyfriend off to basic I knew my world would change
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seventh grade‚ but the height of it all really hit me in high school. I think some of it might have been due to the fact that I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. If I’m going to be honest‚ I was so depressed I didn’t think I would even make it to my graduation‚ so wondering about my future was just wishful thinking to me. My friend Morgan was the only person who knew what I was going through. One day she told me that she thinks I should start seeing someone to help me‚ but I just looked
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My middle school life was very slow but at the same time it went by very fast. There are several factors that contributed to this. For one‚ middle school was not the best and it wasn’t my favorite‚ although my experiences were very beneficial. I lived in the same house I do today‚ about 7 miles out of town and away from everyone. Which meant I didn’t really get out much and I didn’t talk to very any people. It also didn’t help that I was very shy and awkward; it really sucked. Most of the beginning
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I had some challenges in the first semester. I realized that it gets harder every year. I felt like ninth grade was a bit easier than this year. The final for English was easy. There were only two questions. We took a final for the novel‚ To Kill A Mockingbird. My goal is to have good grades‚ but also pass every class so that I don’t have to retake any. I want to be able to graduate on time. It always gets hard when almost end of the semester. That is the time when teachers start to give out more
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into me like a needle; It hurt. It stung . I couldn’t hold the tears back anymore. Those two cobras changed my life. It was recess time‚ and I was playing on the playground like any other kid would do. Then came the cobras‚ slithering towards me like I was the prey; the tiny little mouse that had no strength. "You’re a maid‚" they exclaimed. "You don’t belong here!" The two pushed me down‚ my body landing
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would be no prospect of a better life in Scotland and contracted myself as an indentured servant for passage to the New World colonies. Along with many others I boarded a New World merchant ship that specialized in the trade of textiles and clothing. In exchange for travel‚ food‚ and decent health‚ I was sold for profit to proprietors in the New World. The voyage to New
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and was actually having fun in every one of my classes. I had felt like nothing could stop me from having a fantastic year. But there was this girl I really liked and was so confident in myself I set a date where I would talk to her and try to hang out. When the day came I had chills for every period before my class with her. I just thought to myself “The worst she could say is say no” which doesn’t seem so bad. But still in my head I was riding off of my confidence that I had built up so far. I finally
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I have a couple of challenges with this particular group. Many of the men may be very defensive and guarded because of the way society treats gay men with HIV. Therefore‚ it is going to be vital that I model unconditional positive regard‚ so that each member learns to respect and value other members. I believe the men will bound quickly because of the “life boat syndrome” or a tragedy in common effect. However‚ it would be important for me to help the men recognize the ways that they react automatically
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younger‚ I had failed to properly learn how to ride my bike at around the same age as the other kids. I had difficulty understanding the phrase “It is as easy as riding a bike”. Particularly‚ I had a difficult time balancing and moving forward on the bike. I was so fixated on what I was doing wrong‚ I did not realize what I was doing right and what I could do to improve on what I had done right. Learning how to ride a bike was one of the most painful‚ life-changing‚ experiences I had ever gone through
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