Strauwald English 50 Essay #1‚ Revised 11 February 2013 Life Changing Event Throughout my life I can definitely say that I have one life-changing event that rises above the rest. In my junior year of high school‚ 2008‚ a very close friend of mine‚ Renay‚ passed away unexpectedly. At only 16‚ she fell victim to a drunk driving accident. Renay was a dear friend to me. We had a special friendship and connection we shared through dance and sports. I miss the days when life was simple; we would
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At the beginning of my sophomore year in high school‚ I became unhappy with my appearance. Food was my best friend. I used it to cope with my emotions‚ usually ice cream or a chocolate bar did the trick. Whenever I went into the doctor for a regular check-up‚ she told me I was overweight which caused me to have high blood pressure. I never thought or did anything about it because I figured it was the muscle from athletics and weightlifting. The motivation to lose my weight came from several moments
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2012 my life changed more than I ever expected. First let me introduce myself‚ my name Caleb Stilinski I was born in Texas‚ but was raised in the hot humid Los Angeles‚California. growing up I was a military brat‚my father Capt.Stilinski was never around that much to experience the main growing up parts in my life because he was an active Navy Seal for about 10 years before I was born and still enlisted when my mother gave birth to me on September 3‚1991 my mother never liked the idea of my father
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Many of my peer’s excursions will start when they head to college or withdraw from their parent’s house; My journey started when I went through Stem-Cell Transplant for Sickle cell disease. Never would I have thought that I would be writing my college essay in a hospital bed‚ Sitting in the same room that ruined me just to relieve me of the crippling demon that followed me since birth. Overwhelming emotions held my heart hostage for seven months‚ but today they finally get released. Despite having
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it is my life. From the countless hours I spend training‚ running‚ and conditioning‚ to the numerous games I’ve played‚ to the hours upon hours I’ve spent with my teammates…Soccer is my life. When I turned 5‚ I was finally old enough to play recreational soccer and my parents registered me for a team. When we started practicing I started to really get a feel for what soccer really meant. It was even better that most of my teammates were my best friends and my uncle was our coach. In my first
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I was 8 years old when my grandpa died. Me and my grandpa were best buds we did everything together. He help out my family with everything. He would help out my mom with money or food for the house. He would help me with school and give a bike when my other one breaks from racing with other people so much. My grandpa ended up getting cancer from smoking cigars. My mom got a call one day and she started to cry‚ so I waited for her to get off the phone so I can ask what is wrong. After she got off
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My life has Changed in The U.S. In December 2014‚ I came to the US to study english‚ There are a lot of reason‚ The first reason is I want to challenge myself‚ don’t want to stay in comfort zone.The second reason is in 2014. That time the hong kong government really made me felt disappointed‚ because at that time‚ Hong Kong people had a demonstrations that called umbrella movement. That was a very peaceful and Non-Violences activity‚ But the government used the barbarous way to solve it. That really
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Maga: How It Changed My Life Being the victim of armed robbery on two separate occasions led me to want to learn Self Defense. I began to research the different schools of thought on the subject and settled on Krav Maga. It provided the most real world applicable defenses of all those that I researched. As a student of Krav Maga‚ I have seen changes physically‚ mentally and personally in myself. Slowly as time passed‚ and I took the classes‚ I began to notice changes in my body and stamina
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is the only one that positively affected me. All of this started when I listened to one band’s song. One band changed my life. It began on a Monday in mid-December during my freshman year. (I had a dreadful cold from the week before‚ and I was still getting over it.4) It was a frigid and snowy typical winter day. (I was exhausted because I had spent a few hours in the hospital checking on my Uncle‚ although looking back it was a bad idea since I was still sick but he was in the hospital for a severe
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Six years ago‚ I experienced the biggest event that has affected my life. I was living in murtaugh with my two parents and four other siblings. One of my older brothers named Fabian was never steered in the right direction. He was strongly influenced by my father’s believes that he was not meant to further his education and to just work to support the family. Once of age‚ Fabian dropped out of school‚ not reaching freshmen year. He began to get into the wrong crowd and began getting into drugs and
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