growth and development in my life. During adolescent years‚ healthy development is imperative. In adolescent years‚ the frontal cortical develops in which contributes to the refinement of reasoning‚ goal and priority setting‚ impulse control‚ and evaluating long and short term rewards (Crews‚ He‚ & Hodge‚ 2007‚ p. 189). My adolescence years brought much hardship; however‚ it displayed my strength and resilience. Facing death at this age was not fully understandable. Death was my biggest fear and this
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Never in my outright life would I have fathomed life to have thrown me a curve ball like the one pitched at me in August of 2012. The person I once knew‚ Tammy‚ had gone missing until she found herself. The transition to a puny town from an immense city completely changed who I was. Let’s start from the beginning. I had a vast amount of friends‚ majority of my school knew me‚ being accepted into AVID‚ people knew my religious personality‚ and accepted my disposition‚ and I had a sense of belonging
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has their story‚ and anyone can be moved by that person’s story. I feel like my story is not really a sad one‚ but a revealing one. Before the age of 13‚ anyone who knew me would say that I am not the same person they saw waking up and going to school‚ not following the rules and thinking I was too cool for anything. In my head‚ I ruled my own little world‚ but in the real world‚ I was nothing but a victim of bullying. Life isn’t easy for anyone‚ I ‚ in particular‚ was genuinely scared a lot of the
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America? When I was sixteen my adoption changed my life. It was one of the most exhilarating and terrifying days of my life because I didn’t know what to expect. My adoption was emotional for me and all my family it impacted not only my life but many of the people around me lives as well. Everyday changes our life in some way shape or form however‚ some days have more of a lasting impact than others. My adoption was also part of an award ceremony for one of the judges. My adoption was an extremely
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Football is my favorite sport. It has taught me a lot of things in life. Without football during football season I would be very bored. Football has made me stronger. Football has made my life a more fun. Football has changed my life. Football has changed me because it has taught me teamwork. If football didn’t teach me teamwork I probably wouldn’t have played baseball or basketball. Teamwork has taught me patience. Teamwork is a big effect in my life because you do it all the time. Without football
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It was during the summer leading up to tenth grade. My best friend at the time was a girl named Kayla. She was the greatest person I had known up to that point in my life. She is one of the first people I spent time with outside of school. We went to go see a movie together‚ which broke me out of my antisocial shell. She also helped me talk to a girl that I liked for three years‚ by being an intermediate for us to spend time together. She made plans for all of us to go to another friend’s house‚
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we volunteer for a certain amount of hours. I would usually volunteer with my troop to work on community gardens and other small tasks similar to that. I did not enjoy volunteering because I was too young. I was forced upon something that I did not want to do. I just wanted to have fun and did not understand the concept of community service. Now that I am done with Girl Scouts‚ I have moved on to a different stage of my life. I now know that volunteering is worth the time and effort. After years of
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My mom has multiple sclerosis. Having been diagnosed with the disease almost eighteen years ago‚ my mother has never been healthy in the time that I can remember her. Because of this‚ I have been accustomed to a different childhood than a majority of my friends. There were a lot of things that I didn’t do with my mom as a child that many other families do. We did a lot of traveling when we were younger‚ but we stopped taking trips after I was seven years old. Although my aunt and uncle always stepped
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At the age of 13‚ shortly after the death of my grandmother‚ I experienced an existential crisis. I pondered the meaning life and at the time the inconsequentialness of our life on the pale blue dot in the vast cosmos. Life seemed pointless when the reality of death constantly loomed. From biology classes I took in high school‚ I learned about microorganisms and there found the answers I had been seeking. The parallels between my life and these organisms were astounding. Although these microorganisms
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they had been hours before.” (John Green). In my opinion‚ loss is one of the worst things one can face in life. It hurts. It sucks. It makes you feel as if you are the one who is dead. People tell you to prepare yourself when you know a loved one is about to die but that is simply not possible. The doctors gave my paw-paw six months to live. So for six months we knew. I think in those six months I did the opposite of prepare myself. I spent all of my spare time with him. I stayed the night at hospitals
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