watched my mom run herself ragged to try and support us. She was finishing her college degree‚ while working two jobs and raising me. My parents had just gotten divorced and I was scared and sad and didn’t understand what was happening. My mom and I were incredibly tight on money‚ and things were terrifying. I was a ten year old worrying about my next meal. As girls wore hoodies that read “Hollister” and “Aeropostale‚” I was wearing mix-matched outfits we had found at goodwill. While my friends
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In seventh grade I wanted to tryout for volleyball. I was very nervous because I had never played it before. I was super happy when I found out all my friends and I made the team. We had a lot of practices in December to get ready for games in January. I was really nervous for our first game. Our first game was supposed to be right after christmas break ended‚ but we had a snow day so it was cancelled. I wished it hadn’t been so I could just get it over with‚ but i was gonna have to wait. We were
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My whole life‚ I was never introduced to change. I was always in the same school‚ same soccer team‚ and same house. But then‚ a gargantuan amount of change occurred in my life. I went to a school with the label of “new kid”. And I joined a whole new level of soccer. When I made the team‚ the weekend of‚ we had a game. We were driving towards the soccer field‚ and I kept on thinking about how excited I was to be playing with these girls I would be playing with for a while now. The day before
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which means I was a kid without a home or family. Growing up in foster care is not so easy‚ but I always knew someone‚ somewhere else had it worse than me. I always had to change my personality for foster parents to like me. When you walk into a foster home most people think of Annie which is nothing like it is in real life. There isn’t millionaire that comes and wants to take you in for a week then adopt you. Usually the homes you go in are really messy and the foster parents don’t care what you do
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In the August before my sophomore year of high school‚ a challenge emerged. My dad had passed away. Of course you would read that and automatically think about how that would affect me in many ways. However no one‚ not even myself‚ was aware of the many challenges that went with this. Death was something new to me. I had never had to deal with someone close to me passing. I had experienced my friends losing a grandparent or a distant relative‚ but it had not affected me terribly much. I always considered
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I am going to make a huge impact and a difference in this world. My name Henry King will never be washed from the surface of the earth. The kind of legacy I want to leave on earth will surpass greats such as Albert Einstein‚ Williams Shakespeare‚ Isaac Newton‚ Aristotle‚ and Charles Darwin. My dream is massive‚ and I am sure I will achieve it before I die. I want to be remembered as someone who contributed significantly to the science of mankind. I want to be a stepping stone for modern science.
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People are always talking about moments. Those split seconds of your life where you feel like nothing can touch you‚ like nothing can go wrong. But no one ever talks about what happens after those moments. When you come hurdling full speed back down to earth‚ and find yourself one again in reality‚ looking dazedly around and trying to figure how for that one moment everything could have been perfect‚ and how it could change so suddenly. I’ve had plenty of moments. And they were everything a moment
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As a graduate student in economics‚ it is much easier to have a conversation with you‚ rather than tell you my life story. Kirkuk‚ a city of 1 million people‚ is where I saw the world for my first time. It is a city rich in oil in Kurdistan-Iraq‚ also called the “black gold city.” Those are all nice facts but it still is not the best place to spend your entire life‚ there is plenty of corruption‚ political and security issues‚ etc. Because of this‚ I dreamed of coming to the United States
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Growing up we were each other’s best friends. I remember you taking me to fish at the nearby park‚ cheering me on at every single one of my soccer games‚ and taking me to Chik-Fil-A to grab our favorite milkshakes every time I scored a goal in a soccer game. I remember us going on family vacation sand runs in order to prepare for my soccer tournaments‚ I remember you taking me to camp every year‚ and I remember how proud you use to always be of me. Most of all though‚ I remember those good tasting
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Brandon. I worked on projects led by fellow scouts in my troop and picked up trash in the local park in Rosendale more times than I can count. I’ve learned many skills in scouting besides the stereotypical knots and campfires that usually come to mind. I learned leadership skills‚ public speaking skills. Heck‚ I learned how to organize people to achieve a common goal when I had to lead my service project in the community. Scouts strengthened my religion‚ reinforced
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