Growing up in Lincoln Park Chicago‚ I went to a private school for preschool through 1st grade. Although it was a exceptional school for elementary kids‚ the education for middle school and high students was not as adequate. On Average‚ three or four teenagers graduated from the eighth grade class. When I was in 2nd grade‚ my parents made the decision to move to the suburbs. On June 27th‚ we all packed into our Honda minivan and drove the 45 minutes out to a new home in the town of Winnetka. Wishing
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Growing up I had dreams of what I wanted to be when I grew up. As I got older my dreams changed to new things‚ I never stuck to one thing for too long. I soon realized that one day I would have to pick one thing and actually pursue it. There are many things I would like to do but to this day I still cannot pick one. When I was younger I wanted to be many things “when I grew up.” I wanted to be a dancer‚ a teacher‚ a gymnast‚ a professional sports player‚ a singer
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followed by several racial slurs. I began to understand what they were saying. Where I grew up‚ racism was a part of the norm. I had never been exposed to these beliefs because my parents did not have the same feelings‚ as most white families in that era. The message was simple‚ hatred for people different from us. When I began my teenage years‚ I was slowly being swayed into feeling this way. Growing up‚ a lot of my friends felt this way and I guess you could say it “rubbed off’ onto me. I found
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Introduction Growing up I was a very athletic child. I played basketball in school‚ and eventually became a cheerleader in seventh grade. Around the age of thirteen I noticed my right hip became very painful‚ and difficult for me to walk. The pain caused me to miss cheerleading practice‚ which I then informed my mother. My mother took me to the emergency room that same evening. I was given x-rays and then the doctor diagnosed me with a broken femur head in my hip. The right hip femur head had broken
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Growing up in Stockton has taught me how to relate to the challenges faced in underserved communities. My interest in medicine started during my year of service in AmeriCorps at International Community School. During the year of service‚ I have encountered several students who needed to get checkups and their physical pains evaluated but lack the resources and insurance. I am surprised in an urban setting such as the greater Atlanta area‚ how there are so many people who need to see a doctor but
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Growing Up Before‚ During and After World War II Around and during World War II there were many challenges and many exciting and terrifying events occur. Many things happen such as the Great Depression‚ Pearl Harbor‚ D-day‚ and Hiroshima. Billie Jean Ramsey-Styles grew up during this time. Billie was born in Burnsville‚ Yancey County‚ North Carolina on December 30 1930. Her mother was a homemaker; her father was a brick mason. She lived in a five-room house that had electricity
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Growing up in El Salvador‚ I would have never imagined my life would be filled with so many adventures. However‚ due to my dad’s work we moved around a lot. In the past seven years‚ I have lived in three different countries‚ and each of them has taught me something different. For my fifteenth birthday‚ unlike most hispanics‚ I did not get a big party‚ but instead‚ an airplane ticket to Mexico. Moving to Mexico was thrilling and terrifying at the same time; for the first time‚ I was leaving my comfort
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A young man going through puberty‚ not knowing what he is doing or where he is headed‚ in a world in which he feels he doesn’t belong in‚ and feels he is always around a bunch of "phonies." This would describe the position of Holden Caulfield‚ the main character in The Catcher in the Rye (1951) written by J.D. Salinger. The book‚ all narrated by Holden in first person‚ in its very unique and humorous style‚ is about Holden‚ and all the troubles he has encountered through school‚ family‚ friends
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the addicted person but it also affects their families as well. Many children who grow up in homes where one or both parents are alcoholics or abuse alcohol will in time need to have help in sorting out all of the issues associated with a parent or parents that abuse alcohol. Sometimes children of alcoholics are physically‚ sexually and emotionally abused. Even when there is no outward abuse the child growing up in an alcoholic family suffers damage. Once a parent is on the road to living in an addicted
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Growing up poses challenges to most people at some point in their lives. 16-year-old Holden Caufield is no exception. He is an apathetic teenager who’s flunked out of many schools. Underneath the cynical exterior though‚ Holden is troubled. He has different methods for escaping his problems but in the end they just cause him more problems. J.D Salinger‚ in his novel The Catcher in the Rye shows that often times when an individual faces problems in their life they will try to find a means to escape
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