My First Submarine Underway I was stationed in Pearl Harbor‚ Hawaii and had recently graduated from Advanced Sonar School in Groton‚ Connecticut. In May of 2000 I embarked on my first submarine underway of my navy career. To have been there was one of the worst moments in my life. I arrived on the USS Key West full of energy and ready to finally start my job after six months of grueling sonar school. Little did I know my new division had other things in store for me. Immediately I was handed
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My First Time To Alabama “A simple life is good for me. I don’t need a whole lot. For me‚ a T-shirt‚ a pair of shorts‚ barefoot on a beach‚ and I’m happy‚ “ once stated musician‚ Yanni. That quote describes one of the best weeks of my life in the spring of 2016. When I was invited to travel to the beach with the Evans’ I was ecstatic. The youngest kid in their family‚ a 3rd grader named Jason‚ who has dark brown hair and freckles dotting his face‚ and his baseball team was leaving for a team trip
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band was called Studio Big Band and was under the direction of David Scott. It was held in the Casa Loma Room which was large and had the ability to hold many excited music lovers. It started at 8pm and was about an hour long. Since this was my first jazz concert‚ I wasn’t sure was to expect. This was a new experience for me and my family. It was very different from the usual rock concerts that I had previously attended. The purpose of this concert was to give a kind of a homecoming
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Memoir:Summer VBS My first time Counselors at vbs was Awesome! I was with Kindergarteners and Preschoolers. I was the junior counselor. The other counselor was a Grandma that was a church regular. I had to take all of the boys to the boys bathroom‚ i waited outside for them. and the little boys took for ever. two year-olds have very small bladders‚ they went all of the time. Most of the kids went all week‚ only two missed days. Josaih only went once out of the whole
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As I woke up to the smell of French Toast and bacon while my mom was yelling for me to get in the shower‚ all I could think about was that days’ game. The moment I got to school‚ I immediately had to rush to the team meeting before class. While every other team meeting was the usual‚ brief‚ “Y’all stay focused today now. We’ve got a ball game to play‚” This one was different. It was homecoming‚ and we had to deal with all the distractions of the homecoming parade‚ pep-rally‚ and all of the alumni
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of students from 9th grade to 12th grade along with adult mentors and we build and compete with a robot in the FIRST Robotics Competition. As member of the team I help with the responsibility of getting the robot programmed in the 6 weeks we have to build it. In the past two season our team has been to the regional competition that is held at Lehigh University and last year for the first time we had won a district competition and after regionals we had qualified for the opportunity to go to the World
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I had progressed fast enough throughout the day that I had built up a false sense of confidence‚ as it was only my first day of skiing. Confidence that was short lived when faced with the biggest challenge yet‚ an intermediate level ski run that required a controlled precision I had not yet developed. Down the slope I went quickly accelerating to a blaring speed‚ I rounded the first turn and could feel my legs struggling to keep up with the pace at which I was proceeding. I sensed that it was only
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The first time in my life that I ever experienced true anger and fear was in the sixth grade. A little before Thanksgiving Break‚ I was diagnosed with malignant melanoma‚ a type of skin cancer‚ in my lower back. I had a mole there that was removed earlier that year‚ and the test results on it had come back positive. I did not find out until later‚ but when my mom sat me down across from her to talk‚ I knew something was wrong. It was then that she told me what was going on‚ and I broke down in
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This is my first math autobiography. I have sat here reminiscing about my math experiences. For starters math has not been my favorite or strongest subject. Many years I have struggle with it. It seems like when my teachers would start to talk about math I would cringe at the thought of it. Never liked math. Always would say what does math have to do with my job or the job I’m getting? What’s the need of it? Not going to use it that much. But little did I know I will use it the rest of my life
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Personal Narrative Yet another Thanksgiving‚ and I was stuck in my uncle’s basement watching the Redskins face off the Dallas Cowboys. Michael Jordan‚ Serena Williams‚ and various other famous athletes all grinned at me from their respective Wheaties boxes‚ seemingly mocking my pain. My uncle collected them and‚ for some reason‚ had decided the bright orange boxes would be a great decorative addition to the basement wall behind the television. I remember once‚ when I was younger‚ I was searching
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