I was hospitalized for three weeks at Seattle Children’s after enduring emergency surgery to remove a rare tumor in my large intestine. What I figured was random stomach pain was life threatening. Since I have endured so much in my life‚ it is not easy for me to be emotional. When I found out that I needed surgery in a mere few hours I did not know how to process my emotions. Being in the hospital taught me that I need to take what may seem meaningless as something that could be serious. I learned
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Throughout my life I have made goals for my future which includes college and my career. I can remember being asked the same questions over and over again “What do you want to be when you’re older?” I have changed my answer many times from being an astronaut‚ to a nurse‚ to a chief. The older I became the more I realized I need to choose a career that I would look forward to doing each and every day. So I thought about it‚ I list the things I love starting from investigations to impregnated women
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Sports and School (My experience) School starts at a young age for most kids. They go to learn Arithmetic‚ English‚ History‚ and get a general education for life. They also learn to deal with others outside of their family and close friends. Such was the case for myself. I lived on a farm where my neighbor was my best friend till he moved away. I then had one year till school would start for me‚ which I would spend with my family‚ and one or two friends who I would see occasionally. When school
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The following is an explanation of my previous writing experience mostly focused on writing performed in school. In the past I’ve mostly written a wide variety of narrative and expository driven material and most of it was part of any given english or writing class. In particular my last English class focused heavily on rhetorical writing and had us write a number or persuasive papers designed to teach us some basic rhetorical analysis skills. Outside of school I haven’t done as much creative writing
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European as they come. My fraternal grandparents came over from Denmark and if we go a little further back‚ my maternal extended family‚ came over on the Mayflower (John Alden to be exact) from England and Ireland. At some point they all landed in the Midwest either in Wisconsin or Minnesota. We have always enjoyed a combined heritage experience when it comes to special holidays such as Christmas and Easter‚ but we have also been fortunate to share in Ramadan‚ Seders and other experiences due to the progressiveness
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and experiment with my gender expression‚ I have experience a wide variety of reactions. Some could be simply be chalked up as not understanding or a result of close mindedness. But many reactions have a specific reason behind them. Transphobia. Transphobia is when someone treats a transgender person negatively because of their gender identity and/or expression. It can range from everything from asking inappropriate questions to assault. Nearly every transgender person has experienced transphobia
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Courtney Craig October 25th 2009 SLS Reid M/T/W 8:00 My Community College Experience So far my community college experience has been the best I’ve ever had. I have enjoyed the freedom‚ my coursework‚ and all the new friends I’ve made. When I first started college‚ I wasn’t excited at all. I just knew that the work wasn’t going to be as difficult as a university and I basically saw the whole idea as a joke. After just a couple of short months at Florida State College of Jacksonville‚ I
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Overall‚ I had a great shift. My shift started by giving medication to my assigned resident. But before administering medication‚ I had to take her blood pressure. One of the interesting things that I found was administering nebulizer for the first time. It was definitely learning and getting a new experience at the same time. However‚ once I was administering medication and documenting that‚ I was back to the patient. Moreover‚ I did take the rest of the vital signs for my assigned resident. In additionally
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due to lack of interaction and 75% report material being taught is not interesting .” While I had many challenges and success with writing over my younger years‚ for the most part they were pleasant experiences due to having been given the proper tools and guidance by teachers and other adults‚ by reading a sufficient number of complex books throughout my life‚ and by maintaining confidence and never faltering when I would make a writing mistake. Guidance from teachers is essential and should never
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My First Skydiving Experience "Jumping is fun! Skydiving is not just falling; it is flying—the closest we have been able to come to free‚ unencumbered‚ non-mechanical individual flight‚" says Mike Turoff in the book The Skydiver’s Handbook. I totally agree with him because skydiving provides the maximum liberty that one can ever experience. In this article‚ I’d like to describe to you my first jump in order to show you how much fun skydiving is. First of all‚ I learned about skydiving via the
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