I am involved. I have been dancing for fourteen years now‚ playing the piano for thirteen years‚ and running track for almost six years. Not to mention‚ I have managed to hold three jobs now and‚ I have donated the remainder of my free time to community service. Perhaps to say that I am involved is an understatement- I am totally involved! Nonetheless‚ I don’t think I would be nearly as well-rounded as I would be without four vital virtues: scholarship‚ character‚ leadership‚ and service. I believe
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to all sixteen musical pieces‚ and from the three big band selections we have to choose from‚ I want to say that my favorite one is “Sing‚ Sing‚ Sing” by Benny Goodman. One of the reasons could be because I had hear this musical piece before‚ maybe in movies‚ commercial‚ or cartoons‚ but also for its rhythm‚ fast tempo and fast beat. This type of music was famous during the swing music area‚ not that I remember it‚ but it is depicted on almost all movie scenes of that era. Some of the sections
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There many reasons why I want to pursue a career in nursing but ultimately I want to make a difference in the underserved communities. Throughout my life I have always had a desire to help others in need. I want to live for something that will remain in my heart for the rest of my life. We wake up every day but that doesn’t mean life is promised to us on a daily basis. Life is too short so I want to take every advantage of it and make a huge impact on the patients that I will get to work with. My
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Augustino Robert Fulghum Essay F Block 1/23/2014 In Robert Fulghum’s essay “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” he expresses several lessons that he leaned while in kindergarten that still apply to his everyday life today. Robert believes the lessons are so important in life because they are the guidelines to life in his eyes. Fulghum made his list to reach out to his readers about how people underappreciate and undervalue these core lessons to life. I agree with his opinion
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Arthur Miller’s play‚ The Crucible‚ portrays the fundamental causes of paranoia amidst its effects on a society and its individual counterparts‚ united with the terror of supernatural forces. In Puritan New England‚ the occurrences involving the presence of witchcraft fittingly resembled the appearance of Communists in America in the mid-1900s. Senator Joseph McCarthy roused up hysteria in the American people by encouraging the belief that Communism had slipped through the cracks of the United States
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Why I play Soccer From the moment of birth‚ I was destined to grow up and enjoy the beautiful game called “Soccer.” I grew up in a typical Italian household. As a child I was only spoken to in Italian and grew up living in the same house as my grandmother. My parents were both born in Italia‚ making me a first generation Canadian. Unlike most kids my age‚ who are second generation Canadians‚ I had to learn everything from the start. I had to learn to follow the Canadian traditions for the generations
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of view but they both show how the black and the white got treated back in the day. Honestly Walt Whitman was more laid back about the situation in America and Langston Hughes was more serious about the situation. Walt Whitman poem “ I Can Hear America Sing “ talk about how the hard working men and women in America . Walt Whitman talks about no matter what America’s people work hard. Walt Whitman point of view is to show how rich people lived back in the day. The poem by Walt Whitman shows that
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Right now I am attending Polk State Collegiate High School in order to obtain my Associate of Arts degree while I am still in high school. One of the main reasons that I am attending Collegiate High School‚ besides to get ahead is because I have no college funds. My college savings were used in order to try and keep my step dad from being extradited back to England. In the end he still got deported leaving me and my little sister to survive off of my single mom’s teacher salary. My ex-step dad‚ who
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There is was finally‚ our island‚ our very own island. It looked beautiful above the waves and fog but there was still one question to be answered. Why had they sold it to us for only five dollars? The reason why they sold it for five dollars is because they had been lots of mysterious accidents. Like someone went missing and they did not find any clues or anything that would link any people to the crimes. So it all started when a guy went to the island for a vacation and he took a boat out there
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Langston Hughes’ “I‚ Too Sing America” poem is an empowered speech of an enslaved black man in america. In this poem‚ Hughes insinuates the revolt of the slaves who will one day will be on the other side of the spectrum. The tone and imagery of this poem puts the reader in the perspective of the mental abuse and degradement African-Americans were put through during the times of slavery in the United States. Not only this‚ but it also shows the strength and determination African-Americans had and
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