The world I come from is filled with trouble. Growing up has been awfully challenging for me. On one side of my family‚ there are well educated people who know their responsibilities and understand right from wrong‚ and on the other side there are troublemakers who seek to enjoy themselves as much as possible (with the exception of a few) with little to no responsibilities. During a major part of my childhood‚ I had been best friends with one of those cousins for a long time‚ to the point where I
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become rich doing this‚ but it’s what I love‚” she said. She refers to a woman who essentially changed my life‚ Corinna Sowers-Adler. A mentor‚ a teacher‚ a director‚ and a friend who I’ve only come to know for a little less than a year now. This refers to the wonderful world I hope to be immersed in for the rest of my life‚ theatre. Corinna and I were conversing on our way to Starbucks with the rest of my new theatre family‚ Gaslamp Academy of Performing Arts‚ a program I had just enrolled in for
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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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Introduction 3 Social media platforms and change in friendships 3 Conclusion 8 References 9 Introduction Technology has become an integral part of human society in the era where information sees no geographical boundaries and there is exchange of information with the help of use of various technological and communication tools. The advent of digital media has helped people reach developmental milestones‚ such as fostering the sense of belongingness and sharing personal problems (Donath
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Molloy College wide-eyed‚ excited‚ and eager to peruse the life her immigrant parents worked so hard for her to create. Now unfortunately for the girl‚ life didn’t seem to go in the path she and her family expected. Her mother had been diagnosed with Breast Cancer. In the way cancer always seems to operate‚ it snuck up on the girl and turned her idea of “future” inside out. Her life began to spiral out of control in way not many people in her life could understand. Suddenly the career-driven‚ caring‚
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Jimmy changed forever today. He had darkness around him and it was as dark as a person getting disturbing revelations. Because Jimmy was not prepared for today‚ the day was more depressing. Jimmy’s thought about old people’s value in society drastically changed today. Jimmy walked to his hotel bedroom‚ and he felt exhausted. The floor was squeaky and loud. In addition‚ the ceiling looked as though it was ready to confess its sins because of how menacing it looked. Just about to open his room
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When I was in kindergarten‚ I knew I loved to help people and express myself through a creative mindset. When my teacher told us we were having gameday I would go around and ask people if they wanted to join me in a game of hot potato or another fun activity‚ I got filled with excitement. I would go around and ask if anyone wanted a partner to help with reading or on our homework papers. I love to help people more so than sports or business which mainly focuses on making money for your own business
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terrified me. Death has scared me even though I am many years away from it I would think about death and it would terrify me. Luckily a lot of times in movies when people died I knew it was fake‚ so it did not scare me as much‚ it was when I thought about my family dying and dying myself. This fear caused me to decide to live forever. I came up with all sorts of crazy ideas. Even if they would never work‚ I kept thinking about them and it consumed me. It kept me from living my own life. That lasted up
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of behaviors that I have not tried because the thought of accomplishing them has never crossed my mind. One of these behaviors happen to be rock climbing. I am not a very athletic person but this is something that I have never done before. Thinking about how this could’ve changed my life‚ if I was ever interested‚ is such a deep thought and shows how just a certain behavior can be a huge or small influence in someone’s life. Rock climbing is a very athletic sport that requires a lot of upper body strength
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newspaper in modern times if you can easily go on the internet. She supports this by showing and explaining how spelling checkers and much more are slowly messing with the way we spell. What Trubek states in her argument is very true‚ spelling has went from “As soon as possible to ASAP” just in a matter of centuries. It all started in 1475 reducing the amount of letters in words‚ abbreviating. Back then there was no one or thing to tell you whether you spelled it wrong or right now we have many systems
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