For a long time in my life‚ I thought I was just adequate. I was smart‚ but not the smartest. I was good at softball‚ but not the greatest. I was decent at volleyball and basketball‚ but my height made it hard to be a formidable force. I was fast‚ but never the fastest. It truly seemed that I was just never meant to be outstanding in any way‚ shape‚ or form. In fact‚ being the shortest of my grade was the only “wow” factor about me. One event‚ or shall I say sport‚ changed that all‚ though
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Writing Task II – Essay I’ll See You on the Dark Side of the Tech Can you imagine your life without technology? Nearly everybody thinks that technology can be the greatest thing in the world‚ seeing that it can transform a person’s life‚ turning them easier to do daily tasks. It’s not that uncommon to see in a family dinner table‚ the very little children with cutting-edge tablets or smartphones playing games or doing anything else than paying attention what is going on their real life. Does has
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ESSAY THE IMPORTANCE OF EDUCATION Education is important because it trains the human mind‚ opens people to the rest of the world‚ and helps people find solutions too many of the world’s problems Education trains the human mind to make the right decisions. From learning about past decisions and mistakes‚ we can figure out what the best path to take is in certain situations. Education helps people make the right decisions because it encourages them to be thinkers. An educated person can think
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12/03/2014 My Biggest Childhood Memory. "No matter how much suffering you went through‚ you never want to let go of those memories" Haruki Murakami. As Murakami said‚ there is a memory in my mind that even though it causes pain in my heart to remember‚ it is something I don’t want to let go. This event in my life occured when I was 5 years old and lasted until I was a teenager. In June 1995‚ a month before my 5th birthday ‚ I woke up in my bed and found a letter under my pillow; to my surprise‚ it
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My Injury Name: Pleun Fijneman Class: 2H Teacher: Nugteren Name: Pleun Fijneman Class: 2H Teacher: Nugteren What happened? I’m going to tell you about the fracture me brother got. It happened one day before we went on wintersports. He was playing soccer with his friends‚ and one of them thought it was funny to make him stumble‚ so he went leg hooking at my brother. My brother felt and he had a lot of pain in his leg. He couldn’t walk on it anymore
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many controversies about self-control when we are talking about boosting our willpower. Is it true: the more self-control you have‚ the stronger willpower I have to achieve my goal? Actually‚ for me‚ I did believe that statement before reading the book “The Willpower Instinct”‚ by Kelly McGonigal. I thought‚ in order to balance better between my personal lives and learning‚ I just need to push myself harder and harder to reinforce my self-control. Is that working? Unfortunately‚ my willpower failed
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Jotham Kim Crusader Essay 9-3 Word Count:1‚452 In ancient Europe‚ around the 11th century‚ there were three major kingdoms/empires. The three major kingdoms/empires were the Catholic kingdom‚ the Byzantine Empire‚ and the Islamic Caliphates. The Catholic kingdom was located in Western Europe. In the Catholic kingdom‚ religion was very important and organized. First‚ their religion was the Catholic Christianity‚ and in the church hierarchy‚ there were different classes. The highest class
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I believe I will be a wrestling state champion. I have been wrestling since I was eight years old and I haven’t stopped yet. Since I started wrestling my goal was to be a State champion. Just this past year I came up short and got state runner-up. I lost to a kid from Glendale he was a junior and I was a sophomore. We wrestled two other times before the finals match and he’s always beaten me by 5 or more points. We have become really good friends off the mat but when we are on the mat we are enemies
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to me to have my big sister taking care of me. She was always there for me‚ was and is still a huge role model. Although there were times I was totally against her‚ today I am super happy to have her in my life and I wouldn’t want to miss her now. In the following few paragraphs I will explain how she made my life better and how I rebelled against her. In my childhood she was always there protecting me which I didn’t really appreciate back then. I was always embarressed that my big sister had
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think of death as a motivation factor. A reason to keep pushing and moving on‚ a reason to stay healthy‚ a reason to correct yourself. It may sound weird‚ but when you hear of people dying from new things‚ doesn’t it give you a sense of awareness about the world that you live in. if someone dies from a staying on the phone for long periods of time‚ wouldn’t you measure the amount of time that you spend conversing with friends? Death is powerful‚ death may be the only thing on earth that can change
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