cancer and what it does to a person. My grandmother had died from lung cancer before I was born‚ so I never was exposed to the gruesomeness of the disease. Bo was twelve years old when he was diagnosed with a rare form Leukemia. Prior to being diagnosed with Leukemia‚ Bo was an normal active boy‚ who was friends with everyone. I was three years older than Bo‚ but we lived in a small community where everyone knew each other. Bo Johnson was friends with a lot of my friends siblings and we all would hang
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many hardships in my life. When my parents divorced‚ my grandpa died. Also at this point‚ my mom and dad started fighting for custody of me. All of those events occurred within one calendar year. In addition‚ I assimilate all of those experiences‚ I learn and there are many things to be delighted about‚ nevertheless you have to go through those experiences to get to what I been though. I reckon that all experience is make me unique I have a strong emotional a better look at life I learned to find
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In basketball‚ always dribble with your head up. No‚ this is not something I learned from one of my coaches or any of my teammates. This is one of the many lessons I learned from a young African refugee. It began on a snowy day‚ peering through my frost bitten window at the basketball hoop across the street. Amongst the falling snow there was someone I had never seen before with a basketball in his hand and a smile wider than I thought the blistering cold would allow. At first‚ I was hesitant to
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spend all of my life even until today. Being born and raised in a suburb like Plano I did not learn a lot of skills that my mother had learned while she grew up. My mother grew up in a small town north of Plano called Whitewright‚ Texas. She was raised riding horses with her friends‚ exploring the vast amount of land‚ and spending time with everyone that she knew. My mother and I were raised completely differently and I was always curious about her childhood. The rest of my family stayed
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with organized sports. When I was about 4years old‚ I was one of those kids as well. Sports are a big part of my life and they always have been. My father and I have always connected through sports and they still do. Football is probably one of the most impactful sports in my life. Football and I weren’t always the closest of friends though. We went through our up’s and down’s throughout life‚ but in the end I always came back to it. I remember the first team I was ever a part of. A basketball team
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tremendous part of my life. It is a sport that has taught me to be self-reliant‚ a team player and a leader. It has helped form may character. Golf requires self-control‚ sportsmanship‚ and integrity. It is one of the only sports that a player must call himself out for a miss hit or non-permitted shot. The sport of golf also grants you maturity‚ patience‚ and acceptance as good and bad shots happen. I was introduced to golf when I was 11 years old. I participated in a summer golf program at my local course
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I was thrilled when Opa presented me with a college fund on my thirteenth birthday. It had two hundred dollars deposited in it and was‚ by one hundred and seventy five dollars‚ the most generous present that day. It was later in the week when my mother revealed to me that only after my eighteenth birthday could I put my hands on my grandfathers’ gift and was to be used exclusively for the payment of my college studies‚ something unappealing to a thirteen year old. I was disillusioned that moment
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was 17‚ my mother left California and I was forced to finish high school on my own as well as support myself financially. So I got a job and graduated high school. Upon receiving my high school diploma‚ I was left with an unsettling feeling of uncertainty with regards to my accomplishments and future. I knew I needed more than a high school diploma to achieve the goals I so desperately wanted and the obstacles I felt I had to overcome. During Fall Semester 2016 I had complications regarding my mental
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Going through life‚ we as humans face many obstacles and conflicts. Some thing change a person’s perspective and some things don’t. This something changed my life so suddenly‚ it wasn’t until recently that I realized how big of an impact it had made on my life. As a little kid you don’t understand the big things that go on in the real world around you. When I was four I was adopted. I was taken out of the poor‚ underprivileged part of Phoenix‚ AZ‚ and was given a new life and new opportunities.
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Blanca‚ my mother. That is who I admire the most and she believes in me when I don’t believe in myself at times. She always tells me “You must go through the rain if you want to see the rainbow”. When I was trapped in a situation where I am ready to give up and throw everything away‚ I always remember that quote my mother tells me. She thought me how to fight through the struggle and to chase my dreams no matter what it takes hard work always pays off. At the age of 10 I watched my dad get on an
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