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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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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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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English 113 28 Sept. 2010 The Season that Changed My Life I was a senior in high school. My final softball season had just begun. Our varsity team was the reigning state 6A state champions from the year before and we had very high hopes to win again. However‚ we were definitely an underdog according to all the preseason reports. The pressure was on for the Broken Arrow Lady Tigers. This would be the season that I changed the way I played softball and would make me work hard
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After thinking about it‚ I thought Wicca hasn’t really changed my life that much‚ at least not in concrete ways. I’ve always loved the Earth and thought of it as being beautiful and precious. I’ve always been fascinated at the beauty and mystery of the Moon and the starry sky. I’ve always found Nature to be healing in an all inclusive way that encompasses the physical‚ mental and spiritual realms. I’ve always believed that our minds have the power to accomplish amazing things. I’ve always thought
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the Great Depression finally hit my family. My family had been doing good compared to the other families that I knew‚ but in 1934‚ my life changed for the worse. The clothing company that my father and mother had been working for was struggling and every month more and more workers were getting fired. The company didn’t need as many workers‚ because they didn’t sell as many clothes as they did before. Then one day my mother and father came home weeping‚ when me and my siblings asked what happened we
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safety. From one place to another‚ a person does not forget where they came from. An example of this occurs in both the essay “Letter to a Young Refugee to Another” and the short story “The Teacher who Changed my Life”. What would it be like to move to a place that only has a promise of an improved life? Throughout history‚ people have migrated from one place to another in search of something‚ although frequently they forced from their home to a place unknown. In the essay “Letter to a Young Refugee
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Nothing will ever be the same was the constant refrain after the twin towers attacks. But in daily life it doesn’t seem like much has changed. In 2001‚ I was in first grade‚ and nothing in my daily routine changed. Some of my classmates who were Arab or Indian had a tough time coming back to school since the terrorists were supposedly Islamic extremists from parts of the Middle East. This made my friends and I look at them differently. I was never really friends with any of them‚ but I felt sympathy
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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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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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