Unforgettable Moment One day‚ I was gazing out the window as the rain poured. My parents came into my room and told me very exciting news; we were leaving for America. Even though my parents thought leaving the country was a good thing‚ I was conflicted feeling happy and sad because I was leaving my beloved country‚ Yemen. I thought of everything that I was going to leave behind‚ everything that had been familiar to me for thirteen years: Family‚ Friends‚ teachers‚ and mostly my community. I thought
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Live in the Moment: A personal response to "Snapshots" Life never goes the way you think it might. This year has been pretty bad for me and it seemsthat everything that can go wrong has gone wrong. Getting out of a rut is never easy and the worst part of it is that knowingly people that you thought you could depend on to be there walking away when things gets tough. It really feels like life doesn’t have any meaning anymore at a point and all you can feel is an emptiness
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here for one more week”. The struggle was not just the pain in my leg or the vacuums in my skin the struggle was being alone. When I was thirsty for hours‚ not finding anyone to bring me water. The distress was seeing my mom crying on the phone screen‚ because she can’t come all the way from Spain and help me. The shame was hearing the nurses asking me “Don’t you have anyone in your family to come and visit?”.The tension was when my English wasn’t good enough to understand those hard medical terms
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My most embarrassing moment I consider myself to be one who doesn’t easily get embarrassed‚ but one of my most embarrassing moments happened this past summer. It all started when a few friends of mine decided that since it was incredibly hot out that summer day‚ that we should all go down to Tubbs hill for a swim. I’m not sure if you realize how busy downtown is during mid-summer season‚ but understand it’s almost always completely jammed full of people trying to fight off the blistering sun
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Moments Of A Lifetime A year ago‚ I was waiting for that particular letter everyday. That letter that I knew would either help me live my American dream or the other way round. I was already half way across the world‚ leaving behind all those stuff that matters to me at that moment before I even fully prepared myself for it. I landed myself at a place where nine months ago‚ I had no idea that it existed in the map of America‚ it was “The Show-Me State”‚ Missouri. I walked as slow as I can to
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“A Pivotal Moment” Narrative Composition I had never been so anxious in my life. Standing in the hallway‚ I watched as the expressions on people’s faces changed as they stared at the tiny paper. I was only in the sixth grade‚ but this seemed like the most important moment of my life. This day could end up shaping my future and help me to accomplish my dream‚ or‚ do the complete opposite. Today‚ the grade six‚ basketball A team had been announced. I pushed past the anxiety and went over to look
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By: Nell Literary devices can be a writers ’ best friend‚ and likewise‚ worst enemy. In the essay “What A Certain Visionary Once Said”‚ by Thompson Highway‚ Highway employs imagery‚ simple vocabulary and omits repetition. Al Gore‚ in the essay‚ A Moment Of Truth‚ also uses imagery‚ but uses much more formal vocabulary and repetition. Although‚ the literary devices found in Gore ’s essay are often effective‚ Highway invites agreement more effectively because he is able to get his point across
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Moment of Inertia 1. Abstract The goal of this study is to understand the transfer of potential energy to kinetic energy of rotation and kinetic energy of translation. The moment of inertia of the cross arm my group measured with the conservation of energy equation is: 0.01044 kg/m2 (with the mass of 15g)‚ 0.01055 kg/m2 (with the mass of 30g)‚ which is kind of similar to the standard magnitude of the moment of inertia of the cross arm: 0.0095 kg/m2 (Gotten by measuring the radius and the mass
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Ana Montes ENGL 0190 WP #1 Mrs. Ziegel Last year around fall time‚ when the air was getting cooler‚ and leaves were different colors was when a significant moment occurred for me. My best friend Brittna and I were at a park near a river‚ shooting her senior pictures. I was the photographer and she was the client. The itinerary was to complete the photoshoot and eat! It was the perfect time to take photos‚ because the temperature was at a stage where people could wear a thin sweater if they wanted
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Moment of Truth Story “Tide” Evie...the love of my life‚ can’t go a day without her and I don’t know how I lived without her before‚ but today I had to go on without her because today is the day I died. Me and Evie were on vacation for our one year anniversary‚ we were at Koh Lipe in the Andaman Sea‚ it was beautiful there. We were on one of the many white sand beaches on this island‚ but there was something different about this one‚ something I couldn’t explain it was secluded and the furthest
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