Why I love to play hockey When I was young‚ six or seven years of age‚ my mother gave me my first hockey stick(s)‚ a pair of Fisher-Price goalie sticks. I used these to play street hockey with the older local neighbor kids in the cul-de-sac‚ where my buddy Eddy and I were the goalies. This was the spark of my interest in hockey‚ but I did not play it competitively on the ice for a few more years. In the third grade where I was already active in baseball‚ soccer‚ and basketball‚ I decided to learn
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I love Buckeye Lake. It is where I live‚ where I raised my family‚ the home of my business‚ and it is the only place I want to live. Unfortunately‚ Buckeye Lake is going through a trying time. The low water level‚ construction‚ and lack of communication‚ impacts us all. My feelings during this past (lake-less) year have finally settled down to a point where I can express my thoughts on a personal level regarding the lake situation. To the residents of West and North Banks‚ I wish to express
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– Where I found love As a little girl when I imagined finding my true love‚ I thought I would marry my high school sweetheart. At one point in my life it seemed as though I would never find that “one” person. On August 18th 2005‚ I was on date with Antonio and we were in California on Coronado Island‚ San Diego. I thought this was just another date. I had been dating Antonio for two months when he asked me to go away with him in a few months to meet some of his family in California. I told him
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Q1 - In If I Stay by Gayle Forman‚ the novel reveals an important theme of love and friendship. This theme reflects the text incredibly well in my opinion. In a traumatic car accident in the novel on a snow day where Mia‚ her parents and younger brother Teddy decide to take the day off to visit friends. They pile into the car‚ joking and arguing about which music to listen to‚ like any other family going on a drive. The next thing Mia knows‚ she is overlooking the wreckage of their car. At first
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When I was younger I didn’t have much to do. Since my school gave me a deficient amount of homework‚ I would be bored most of the day. Then one Christmas my mom gave me a miniature remote controlled car. The car was a crimson sports car with charcoal flames running down either side. On the rear of the car was a pitch-dark spoiler with a red line streaming down the middle. There were small rubber spikes all over the tires built for traction. However‚ the main thing that made me love the car was
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I love Disney princesses. They were always fun and adventurous. I had one problem though‚ none of them ever looked like me. Several of them looked like my friends‚ but not me. When my mom showed me The Princess and the Frog‚ I immediately fell in love with Princess Tiana. I admire Princess Tiana from The Princess and the Frog because she is hard-working‚ loyal‚ and determined. Ever since she was a little girl‚ Tiana wanted to own a restaurant. Everyone said that she couldn’t get enough money to buy
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“How Do I Love Thee?” is a sonnet written by Elizabeth Browning. The speaker begins by posing a question that the entire sonnet will go on to answer: "How do I love thee?" Both this poem and Romeo and Juliet present the theme of love. There are similarities in both views of love including love as everything in life. But there are differences in these two types of love like their maturity and desires in the love relationship. In “How Do I Love Thee?” love is presented as everything in the speaker’s
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How I Love Highschool (A satirical essay on how I love school) It is just amazing on how much that I love school. School is the place where I go to relax and have fun. It is just so exponentially exciting going to the same place over and over again for what seems like an eternity. The biggest and most amazing surprise is all the amount of crap the teachers give us to do. I like having to waste my significant time being in a place that I wholeheartedly want to be at. I hope that the teachers have
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Describe why you love arts & crafts I have always enjoyed making art ever since I was young. I have been influenced by many people in my life including teachers who have opened me up to make many different types such as drawing‚ painting‚ music‚ and crafting. Art has helped me communicate and build meaningful relationships with other people throughout my life. It is a way for me to express my feelings as well as relieve stress. Not only do I enjoy creating art but I also enjoy learning and seeing
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Love is not a Fairy Tale Alan Dugan’s poem entitled “Love Song: I and Thou” is not a stereotypical love poem. On the surface‚ this appears to be a poem about a man building a house and all the trials that accompany such an undertaking. In actuality‚ the author is using the building of a home as a metaphor for building a marriage and making a marriage strong. The poem is told from the narrator’s perspective. It begins with the narrator building a house‚ but nothing was aligned‚ as it should
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