Sample of personal essay: My name is Taylor Lyytikainen and I am determined to go to college and graduate with a degree that fits my interest and skill level with the support of the Simon Youth Foundation Community Scholarship. I am currently a senior at Omaha North High School in Omaha‚ NE‚ and as a first-generation student I want to be the first in my family to take that extra step toward a higher education. My parents have always encouraged me to further my education so that I won’t have
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Third Place Third places‚ the world is full of them‚ but how do we know what place is a third place and what place is simply just a place? When you walk into wherever it might be that you go to relax or just get away from work‚ home or school‚ what things in that place make you want to be there? Why have you chosen this place over anywhere else? Everyone has a third place but what exactly is a third place‚ where it is located‚ and what it is made up of to make it an actual third place? I recently
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pointless. The worst feature was no door! Sometimes it seemed more like a prison then the‚ “girl’s room” as my mother called it. But as a child from a Christian family I understood that this was all my parents could afford at the time. So the only place I had to escape to was in my mind. I only had to close my eyes and there it was my dream room. Some Images from a fairytale movie perhaps. A room so amazing it had to be in a castle! My very own room contained white walls with pink curtains coving
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has that place that they can call special sometime in their life. I have many special places in my life‚ but there is one in particular that I am going to talk about. The Van Duyn jungle park is my most special place. I spent a lot of my childhood there with family and friends. It holds most of my childhood memories. The jungle park was the place where all the neighborhood kids went to play. It was right in next to the candy store and the elementary school so it was the easiest place to get to
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My Special Place I have a place that I go to more than once a day. It is like a safe haven‚ a place of peace. I have always had this place and I am the only one who knows where it is. Whenever I visit‚ it is night‚ for that is the time when I feel the safest. The moon is visible‚ guarding the sky and earth‚ like a warrior of silver. In this safe haven of mine‚ it is always spring or fall. It is never to hot‚ like it is in summer‚ and it’s never cold‚ like in winter. The air is forever clean and
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September 3rd‚ 2010 Significant Place: Brooklyn‚ New York Many people have a place that is very significant to them. In my opinion‚ having a significant place is a very good thing because that means that significant place has a meaning. Brooklyn‚ New York‚ is the original hometown of the majority of my family and they have a very significant background history there. Brooklyn‚ New York is a very capacious city. My favorite thing to do there is shop. When I go shopping‚ I often enjoy seeing the
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March 2014 Place of Importance. There’s always a place of importance that everyone has in their lives. A place where it holds strong feelings or good memories‚ like of a place where I had grew up. My place of importance would be the Philippines because that’s where I was born and was brought up. I was born in Bangui‚ Ilocos Norte Philippines‚ and I came to the United States when I was six years old. Later‚ I went back for a couple of months when I was about twenty-years old. My place of importance
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Introduction In this essay I will be looking at the definition of place value and what does it mean‚ I will then explore the importance of the base-ten system in relation to place value and why knowing the base-ten system is important for understanding place value. I will then discuss the reason for why learners struggle with understanding the concept of place value‚ also I will discuss the importance of using concrete material. Finally I will look at the progression of levels from grade 2 into
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Book Review: The Hiding Place The book The Hiding Place was about Corrie ten Boom’s life that took place in 1937 within the shadow of World War II and the rise of Nazism‚ which also happen to be the 100th anniversary of the founding of ten Boom watch shop. The ten Boom family was a highly respected one known for their deep religious faith and good will towards anyone who might need their help. However‚ the Dutch people believed that just as in World War I‚ their neutrality would be honored. Unfortunately
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a service dog is the only animal that can go in public places? I think that any service animal should be able to go to a public place as long as they’re helping someone. Monkeys are actually very smart and can help someone more than a dog can. Also other animals may keep someone calm‚may help them carry something‚and may even give someone exercise. But since this law is here no one is allowed to take any other animal but a dog to public places. Dogs are really good service animals but what
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