Addiction hit my family hard before I was even born. In November of 1998 my grandfather went missing. Police and search teams searched for my grandfather for months and found no leads. It has been 18 years and my grandfather still has not been found. I really wish I was able to meet my grandfather and at least figure out what happened to him. Addiction is a ruthless ruler in this world‚ and it does not care what it takes from families. My grandmother told me that my grandfather was involved with
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“What’s amazing is‚ if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting‚ they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.”- Bill Gates. There are many great and not so great things about schools. Gunstream is very important to me because it is such a friendly and positive aura. It is safe to say that anyone that goes to this school can think of many great things‚ people‚ and memories
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With life‚ there are many obstacles to overcome such as growing up‚ finding a job‚ and gaining your education. Behind each of those obstacles is a goal that can change your life‚ my goal started as I was growing up. Obstacles are known as a barrier‚ and my plan was to get past that. I had a certain interest and that happened to be science. Science would always make me feel wiser and more intelligent compared to my classmates. As I grew older‚ my interest in science grew stronger as well. When I was
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cancer and what it does to a person. My grandmother had died from lung cancer before I was born‚ so I never was exposed to the gruesomeness of the disease. Bo was twelve years old when he was diagnosed with a rare form Leukemia. Prior to being diagnosed with Leukemia‚ Bo was an normal active boy‚ who was friends with everyone. I was three years older than Bo‚ but we lived in a small community where everyone knew each other. Bo Johnson was friends with a lot of my friends siblings and we all would hang
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world I come from is filled with trouble. Growing up has been awfully challenging for me. On one side of my family‚ there are well educated people who know their responsibilities and understand right from wrong‚ and on the other side there are troublemakers who seek to enjoy themselves as much as possible (with the exception of a few) with little to no responsibilities. During a major part of my childhood‚ I had been best friends with one of those cousins for a long time‚ to the point where I myself
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MY FATHER- THE PERSON WHO HAS INFLUENCED ME IN MY LIFE Right from the word go ‚ he has been my inspiration . A man with immense wisdom and advise ‚ my father has made me what I am to day . He is the linchpin of my success in my life .My father is a very hard-working person and one who values education in one ’s life . Being a teacher by profession ‚ I was really touched with the way he used to concentrate all his efforts in making his students pass .This also made me to follow his footsteps by
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alongside my father as a butcher. I was born in Merida‚ Mexico to a single mother. As the man of the house I began working at the age of seven cleaning windshields at stoplights and polishing shoes for any available change that people could spare. I came to America at age of twelve. My father had been anxiously waiting to meet me the day I arrived in Houston. My first challenge tested my capabilities at adapting to a foreign country without any family members to support me‚ other than my father who
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The love I had for the game myself was unreal. My grandpa and my uncle took note of that and made sure that everywhere I went I carried a football. I already knew football was something I enjoyed watching but it wasn’t until second grade I actually got to pad up and play. I was a natural‚ I played offense
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Throughout PFC I have learned and gained many new important factors in life whether they are new skills to lifelong friends. Being in PFC has exposed me to new ways of learning and becoming a better leader in the future. From the beginning‚ I have inherited new skills through the trainings conducted and last minute conflicts on the freshman days of service I have been a part of. The trainings were not just a way of torture‚ waking up on Saturday mornings dragging myself to work so I can sit there
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Living at 528 N. Bayard Ave; the only way you could live is if you had thick skin. Our definition of thick skin was being able to takes joke and being bullied without crying or running and telling Aunt Sabrina what happened. My cousin Darnell and I would play as much jokes on my sister Desiree and cousin Ruby. Every since I was younger I could remember everyone I know had jokes. Everyone was made fun of‚ and the only you made it through it is you had to get back at them by a joke or a prank believe
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