Although I have had many injuries growing up‚ there is one that particularly changed my life for the better. The injury occurred when I was playing eighth grade football. It was August and we were scrimmaging Westfield; a very good team that had a lot of big players. The coach called me onto the field to play fullback‚ which means that I was probably going to carry the football. As I was running onto the field my heart started to beat a little faster. I had a bad feeling about getting the ball. I
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This day couldn’t have come sooner. For all of my existing life that i’ve been programed and been taught of what happiness is worth ‚in the city of Omelas. I never really understood it. Living in Omelas‚ life was good‚ and still is to this day. I would describe Omelas as the happiest place in the world. On second thought‚ for all my life i’ve lived in Omelas and has never set foot outside of this city. One of my buddies‚ Mark and i have been friends since we were about four or five. We grew up
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Life and Music of Ray Charles The history of musicians is a very interesting subject. There are thousands and millions of interesting types of musicians. Ray Charles was a very talented musician. His focus was on Soul Music‚ which was Jazz combined with Gospel music. Jazz was also a big focus of his music. Ray Charles wasn’t like other musicians. He was a blind musician. Many often wonder how someone can be blind and also be a musician‚ but Ray Charles was a fine example to show that it was possible
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Throughout PFC I have learned and gained many new important factors in life whether they are new skills to lifelong friends. Being in PFC has exposed me to new ways of learning and becoming a better leader in the future. From the beginning‚ I have inherited new skills through the trainings conducted and last minute conflicts on the freshman days of service I have been a part of. The trainings were not just a way of torture‚ waking up on Saturday mornings dragging myself to work so I can sit there
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For a majority of my childhood‚ the sport of baseball was the one activity I loved above anything else. Nothing could compare to the exhilarating freedom and satisfaction of bolting full speed around the bases‚ determined to steal‚ beating the "Throwdown" by a fraction of a second. The massive dust cloud kicked up by my cleats and the thunderous boom of the umpire shouting‚ "Safe!" made me feel empowered. It was in moments like these‚ when I was in control of my own fate‚ choosing whether to stay
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and I do believe it has changed my life in one way or another. Makeup can make one feel a thousand times more confident. Growing up I had amazing skin. High school is when it all started going downhill. My skin was so bad I was always wanting to cover up my acne marks. When I would wear makeup to school or any public place I honestly felt much more confident about my skin. Now I am not the only one that has experienced
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any interest in me. This‚ on top or being pathologically shy‚ didn’t make things any easier. I also wasn’t pushed by anyone to get better; my biological parents never took the time to sit down and help me with my reading. Throughout my younger years I was reluctant to go to school because I would get teased by my classmates. Reading was not always one of my favorite things to do‚ but one book changed it all. The first day of fourth grade in a new school rolled around; I was absolutely petrified
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I believe that my race and ethnicity impacted my identity in major ways. Even though I believe race is not real but everyone does not know that race is real so it still impacts me in many ways. It impacts my life in many different ways especially in this city because I am white so in this city I experienced a lot of racism at many different degrees. Even though we are not different under our skin we all have bones and we all bleed blood. We also all have the same amount of chromosomes in our body
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Fury. Depression. Disgust. Shame. C team again. Nothing has hurt or changed my life like the disappointment of being relegated to C team as a sophomore. I fell in love with soccer when I was eight years old‚ and it has remained my passion to this day. From the feeling of winning a header to completing a perfect pass or even just messing around with friends‚ it is the most sensational feeling I know. I never expected this beautiful game to cause me so much pain. I realized this was the thing for
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When the ball hit the court‚ that’s when I knew. Our season was over. I looked at my coach’s face and he had a look‚ not of dissapointment‚ but of pride. Volleyball had completely changed my life in showing me the type of person I am‚ a leader. Volleyball began as a backup sport for me. I didn’t make the soccer team my freshmen year so I tried out for the next best option. My first year I was placed on junior varsity as a hitter. I didn’t get a lot of playtime‚ but on the bench I could see the
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