Have you ever had a moment in your life where just one second can change it forever? My Baseball Showcase was one of those moments. A baseball showcase is an event that allows students-athletes just like myself‚ to show off baseball skills in front of college and professional recruiting scouts. It was one the most stressful and life learning days of my life. Never will I forget that moment. The emotional and physical drive that day gave me is a constant reminder to never give up and to always keep
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crushing pressure and dark‚ dank air felt like my only company. I was dying‚ or so every part of my being was telling me. The immense‚ clutching pains radiating from my chest to my jaw could be only one thing… a heart attack. I lay there silently‚ overwhelmed with crippling fear and panic; frozen‚ immobile‚ waiting for what my mind had deemed inevitable. Wait…the pain was beginning to ease. The powerful clutch of dread freezing me was beginning to weaken. My mind flooded with hope. I’m going to be okay
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As a child‚ looking at the world‚ everything seemed big and scary. Naturally‚ most children would dive into the new world with fresh eyes and contentment‚ but I would always stay back. I would think things through and consider consequences before acting irrationally. My friends would always do things with spontaneity while I would get left behind sitting alone shrouded by my fear. As life gradually moved on‚ I grew to overcome my fears and not overanalyze situations with the help of a few moments
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‘Moments in our lives that define who we are’ When we are born we are defined by our surroundings‚ particularly family‚ our culture and religious beliefs. As children we get told what to eat‚ what to wear‚ how to behave etc. but as we get older we begin to have control over our own lives and these are the moments that define us as individuals. There have been many defining moments in my life but there are two that really sum me up. The first was when I qualified and represented South Africa
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industry‚ goods and services were localized to small towns and villages‚ and the lives of the people in them revolved around things made and produced there in. In the piece entitled Hard Times by Charles Dickens‚ the harshness in the practice of child labor is brought to light by emphasizing the word fact and its reference to efficiency to produce. Life before industrialization‚ was much different for people than life after. Before industry‚ agriculture was the way of life.”Throughout
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being and my happy place is my horse barn. I started riding as soon as I could walk. My mom grew up riding and also worked at Palm Beach Polo in Wellington‚ Florida where I got very involved with horses. When I was three I started lessons and every Monday through Thursday you could find me working on learning how to ride like my mom. By the time I was seven I was showing and barrel racing. I continued racing until I was fourteen. At the New York State Fair in 2009 I was showing when my horse collapsed
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My exploding moment is when I was doing gym and my pants ripped when we are play clean the boat and when I was squatting and I heard the rip then I know something had happened and I told the gym teacher and she started to laugh. So I walked out the gym with my shirt over my pants and went to the office.Then I called my mom and asked her to pick me‚ but she was gone somewhere so she called my aunt to pick me up. Then I went to my mom’s job and I went on to the store and other things. After that
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first time. I was happy the day before‚ I was planning nothing out but acting like I was. I woke up at 5:30 in the morning‚ my eyes were tired‚ I was still sleepy. I laid in bed and went on my phone. I was checking some social media and watching videos off of youtube. I pluged in my phone so I can do something on my way
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My memory may have failed me that day‚ but I knew I was going to get into the house one way or another. I had seen dozens of movies where people got into their house without a trace so my twelve year old brain thought I could pull off the same stunts as a million dollar movie. In my mind I had planned out the best idea for a break in and ended up with a sliced up a finger dipped in hydrogen peroxide‚ having to wrap plastic all over the windows so snow wouldn’t get in and overall forgetting my phone
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How to raise a happy‚ healthy child is not something that most parents are taught. In fact‚ many just stumble through the entire process‚ albeit with the best intentions. Consequently‚ it is all too common to find an unhappy state of affairs in families‚ with constant friction between parents and children. The main problem with children is how to live with them. The adult is the problem in child raising‚ not the child. A good‚ stable adult with love and tolerance in his heart is about the best therapy
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