pantry type work‚ I chose to volunteer with Habitat for Humanity for a new experience. This was a true Service Learning Experience that has given me new insight into Volunteering and Public Service Work as well as into myself. A six hour shift‚ I worked various jobs around the store. Before I began the work‚ I underwent a 30 minute training session with the supervisor and several other volunteers. The session included learning about the Store’s mission‚ safety regulations‚ and duties‚ as well as Customer
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country before‚ I was intrigued by the culture‚ the people and the country itself. Moving to America when I was eleven‚ the cultural lifestyle and experience I faced along the way‚ how I adapt to the journey are what shaped me into the person that I am today. Coming to America really opens my eyes to the world around me. It is such a phenomenal experience to be able to live and adapt between two cultures. Even though I deeply emerge myself into the American’s culture. Vietnam will always be close to
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The banana is a fruit surrounded by an enormous amount of history about its origin. The banana derives from Southeast Asia‚ specifically from the jungles of Malaysia‚ the Philippines and Indonesia‚ places where bananas are still produced today. The general belief is that in the middle ages Arabs brought the fruit to Africa’s oriental region via Madagascar. The fruit was later transported to the west coast by Portuguese missioners‚ where the fruit had great success due to the tropical humid environmental
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first introduction to Dr. Okoror was as a student in both Global Health and Immigrant and Refugee Health courses. During my time as her student‚ Dr. Okoror’s course quickly became my most thought-provoking and enlightening classes of my university experience. From her lesson plans‚ teaching of materials and leading of class discussion‚ her classes were informative‚ compelling and most importantly life changing. Life-changing may seem like an exaggeration‚ however‚ Dr. Okoror constructs course using
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In “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” by Ann Brashares she develops each character through their tone in their letters and their thoughts. The book is about four different girls who are all best best friends and have to spend the summer apart. As they each write short letters to each other the reader learns more about each character and their new environment by the tone of the letter. Carmen’s tone is the most negative‚ especially in the middle “‘Fine‚’ Carmen said benevolently.” The connotation
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around the world are born then erodes into the ground. Death is unavoidable in life and can be sometimes be troublesome and may come to a surprise for some. In both “Traveling Through the Dark” and “The Groundhog” showcase death is something that needs to be accepted and move on through tone‚ literary figures and theme. In “Traveling Through the Dark”‚ the setting sets the tone for rest of the story. It gives off a really dark mood that is hard to ignore. In the very first two lines‚ it states it
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The single most impactful experience in my life is attending Ventura Community College. Nothing has hurt me more. In high school I had taken AP and IB classes and had finished within the top ten percent of my class but I had no idea what I wanted to do. I applied to some schools that I considered to be mediocre so that I could continue swimming‚ but as the application deadlines ended and most of my friends were being accepted to places such as UCLA‚ UCSB‚ and even Harvard‚ I had realized that I
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outdoor environment once again. From the previous year‚ I had already made up my mind to sign up again this year‚ and the remainder of my high school years. My first year serving as a mentor‚ as a freshman‚ was an exceptional experience where I emerged more fond of the experience and fulfillment that I felt‚ rather than the over 100 hours of community service that I received. I was excited to return for another year‚ however‚ there was a massive roadblock that strongly made me reconsider. As the week
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September 12‚ 2013 THE EXPERIENCE THAT SHAPED WHO I AM TODAY People wonder and try to guess what made me the way I am today. I’ve been confronted by elderly strangers‚ being asked the same question almost every time. Questions like: “Why are you so nice?”‚ “Why are you so different from others?”‚ and “Why is the way you dress unique?” I give them all the same answers‚ I tell them I am who I am today because of my past experience. I never go into details about telling people what
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It’s not entirely about applying my knowledge from what I learned in the classroom to the field; the experiences I continue to have as a nurse are basically lessons about life itself and I feel blessed to be in a profession that because of all these things‚ I can continuously acquire new knowledge and grow as a human being. Being a private duty nurse‚ some things are already set in stone when it comes to what needs to be accomplished but‚ it’s not necessarily only about putting what I was
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