Forrest Gump once said on a park bench‚ “ My mama always said there’s an awful lot you can tell a lot about a person by their shoes‚ where they’re going‚ where they’ve been.” As I get older‚ the more I realize everyone has a story to be heard. However‚ mine cannot be told by the shoes I wear on my feet. It can be told by the way I carry myself through everyday life. At a young age I quickly became accustomed to chaos. My father’s second home was a prison cell‚ and my mother’s first love was drugs. This
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onto a court and you know that you feel good and on top of the world‚ you only get it a couple times in your life but when you feel that way‚ there is nothing or no one that can make you feel better. There’s only one person that can make you feel this way and that same person is the judge to how often you feel that way too. Everyday‚ I get on that court and I have to‚ I need to‚ try my hardest
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that my family grew up wealthy. I grew up privileged because my family valued books and knowledge. My childhood was spent the majority of the time at the library and I was constantly surrounded by books at home. My whole family’s lives were in books and they were found to be an oddity because they treasured books over material items. Growing up in this environment‚ I mimicked their philosophy. When my mom came home with a wagon filled with books‚ I was walking next to her with a stack in my arms
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down. As doctors‚ our motivation and influences of others helped so much. The bright smiles on our patient’s faces made our day. But somehow it all changed. Days after the event happened‚ caused us to be‚ let’s just say‚ we weren’t who we were again. Rameck wasn’t focused on being a doctor. He changed his life into rapping again. And that changed also how our perspective of Rameck was. He’s a respectable guy‚ but this time it has gone too far. Rameck’s friend was enormous in the music industry
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Mexico‚ lived my aunt Josefa Ortegon. She is the oldest of her twelve brothers and sisters. She was very little when she saw the struggles that her family went through. Her mom couldn’t work due to taking care of her children. So the only one who worked was her father‚ an alcoholic who would use his money for his addictions and going out with his friends. She felt the urge to take action and help her family in any kind of way that she could. At the age of 9 years old‚ she made the decision to take responsibilities
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you hear and half of what you see‚” Dad reiterated as I became a young woman. But growing up‚ I relied on what I could see‚ what I could touch‚ and what others shared with me. I held my peers and teachers words as peremptory and gained a sense of false dependence. As I entered my third year of high school this changed. “I need you to translate what this man is saying‚” Dad explained as he drove through our neighborhood. An older Hispanic man with a hat‚ long sleeves and jeans‚ an unusual outfit for
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When I was young‚ I was one of those kids who changed their minds on what they wanted to be when they grew up approximately every five minutes. However‚ this changed when I discovered acting. Acting has made me more outgoing‚ less afraid to interact with other people‚ and more empathetic- with the added bonus of being a lot of fun. I discovered the wonders of acting by a small part in a high school production of Willy Wonka. Even though I was just an Oompa Loompa‚ I quickly fell in love with the
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common knowledge that life is filled with difficult decisions; decisions that will be tough to get through. Even characters of books have hard decisions they must make‚ and even though they may not be real‚ the characters in the novels and stories have to make choices for what they believe is best for their current situation. In the end‚ one must make a decision even if it destroys him. The process of destruction within ones mind begins with one decision. Tim O’Brien’s decision is that to make the
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A time long ago at the age of fifteen‚ My sister Mia and I were browsing throughout our family home looking for something to do. Mia who had just turned nine the day before had been wanting to play a board game. Although‚ it had just been her birthday‚ our family was poor and could not afford games‚ toys and the etc. Most of our time as children was spent outside‚ no matter the season. It could’ve been Winter‚ Summer‚ Fall or Spring‚ and us kids would still be outside playing those typical games
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soccer‚ I set my expectations high for myself. That’s why I was so disappointed with my soccer abilities when I was benched several games. So‚ I made myself work over the winter and summer to have some playing time on varsity. Every Sunday‚ my parents would go wash clothes at the laundromat and I would cross the street to my local YMCA and practice outside by myself. No matter what the weather was I’d be out there. I would set up tires in front of the goal and shoot through them to work on my accuracy
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