One of the most significant‚ influential days in my life thus far occurred when I was in eighth grade. I had made the varsity cut for volleyball. This might sound shallow to most people; I got into a team‚ great‚ but what is the big deal? For me‚ it was‚ however‚ because this one thing that happened‚ that day‚ changed my life forever. Getting into a varsity team in eighth grade shaped the rest of my high school years. Being part of a team in which your age is a drastic outlier makes you particular
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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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A rich kid growing up in a loving family provides for an easy life; this life is simple in the early years‚but curves in the road arrive in everyone’s life. I grew up extremely with an extremely close relationship to my “Boppa”. Boppa was invincible; my mom’s dad could build a treehouse in the mountains at seven thousand feet of elevation without breaking a sweat. Nothing could hold him back. When he was told he had 6 months to live‚ this came as a huge shock to everyone to him and those who loved
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As the end of my high school career is coming to an end I am glad to say that one thing has not changed about me at all and my passion for it has actually grew since the beginning of high school. Fishing is an amazing outdoor sport and activity. Fishing has been in my life for as long as I could remember and I loved that my dad is the one to introduce it to me. It is a sport that is a stress reliever especially for me and it is relaxing and when the fishing is good it’s so much fun to do. There are
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would be good for me to get over my past. As I looked around‚ I remembered back to when the station was full of soldiers going off to the war. The bombing had clearly taken its toll on the city. It had been nearly a year since the end of the war and many factories were still damaged. I had become so
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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 until I was in my 2nd year of homeschooling. I was in 5th grade‚ and I was given the choice of picking a book from a selection of grade
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IMPORTANT TO PREPARE‚READ‚WRITE AND STUDY IN PREPARATION OF ACADEMIC SUCCESS? INTRODUCTION: Failure to plan is a plan to fail.this is an old adage once used by Winston Churchill during the world war II that emphasized the importance of planning ahead.Planning for academic achievement requires various components that need to work in harmony to facilitate that success.these components are critical and no success can be achieved without them. There is a big connection between the way I prepare myself
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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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According to C.S. Lewis‚ “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny…”. Have you ever met someone who was persistent in the face of adversity? My life story is a complicated puzzle‚ starting with my struggle with depression and Generalized Anxiety Disorder‚ otherwise known as GAD. I am very strong willed; and I am determined that despite my tough past and present disparities‚ I will continue building my knowledge of history and obtain my goal of one day becoming a successful
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Recently‚ a visit to see my grandma changed my perspective. This visit was the first time I saw my eighty-nine year-old grandmother in her new home‚ an assisted living facility. My grandmother was always a strong‚ independent woman. But now she can no longer live independently‚ due to her advanced age‚ and we have had to move her out of her home into an assisted living facility. The facility that my grandmother lives in is rather innocent looking when you first glimpse it‚ but when you see the residents
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