English 113 28 Sept. 2010 The Season that Changed My Life I was a senior in high school. My final softball season had just begun. Our varsity team was the reigning state 6A state champions from the year before and we had very high hopes to win again. However‚ we were definitely an underdog according to all the preseason reports. The pressure was on for the Broken Arrow Lady Tigers. This would be the season that I changed the way I played softball and would make me work hard
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the Great Depression finally hit my family. My family had been doing good compared to the other families that I knew‚ but in 1934‚ my life changed for the worse. The clothing company that my father and mother had been working for was struggling and every month more and more workers were getting fired. The company didn’t need as many workers‚ because they didn’t sell as many clothes as they did before. Then one day my mother and father came home weeping‚ when me and my siblings asked what happened we
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it is my life. From the countless hours I spend training‚ running‚ and conditioning‚ to the numerous games I’ve played‚ to the hours upon hours I’ve spent with my teammates…Soccer is my life. When I turned 5‚ I was finally old enough to play recreational soccer and my parents registered me for a team. When we started practicing I started to really get a feel for what soccer really meant. It was even better that most of my teammates were my best friends and my uncle was our coach. In my first
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Goals Essay Going in the military I thought I would be in for 20 years‚ however I never would have thought I’ll just do a few years and then be out. Now that I’m out it was hard to choose the right career when you have injuries that stand in your way. However finding the right career for me is not as simple but not as hard. I will find the right choice that I’ll be able to lead and set an good example for those around me. Looking up different types of careers or jobs was not easy. It’s not something
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Maga: How It Changed My Life Being the victim of armed robbery on two separate occasions led me to want to learn Self Defense. I began to research the different schools of thought on the subject and settled on Krav Maga. It provided the most real world applicable defenses of all those that I researched. As a student of Krav Maga‚ I have seen changes physically‚ mentally and personally in myself. Slowly as time passed‚ and I took the classes‚ I began to notice changes in my body and stamina
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the most significant world event I have experienced was 9/11. Though I was very young‚ I remember my mom turning on the news and just starring in awe. She didn’t know how to react exactly‚ but I remember the shock on her face and how she seemed scared. I was too young at the time to really think much of it‚ but now thinking back to it‚ I understand why she was so shocked. It was an event that changed our country completely. Security at airports were made extensively more secure and people started
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How Baseball Changed My Life Baseball may seem like a game where individuals remain around and sit tight for a ball to be hit‚ yet that is not what baseball truly is. To me‚ this game has changed the way I see life all in all. Each player has been taught to have great hard working attitude‚ regardless of whether it’s in a weight room or even practices. Coaches have given leadership chances to players every year and this year it’s my turn due to my hard working attitude and my capacity to lead a
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is the only one that positively affected me. All of this started when I listened to one band’s song. One band changed my life. It began on a Monday in mid-December during my freshman year. (I had a dreadful cold from the week before‚ and I was still getting over it.4) It was a frigid and snowy typical winter day. (I was exhausted because I had spent a few hours in the hospital checking on my Uncle‚ although looking back it was a bad idea since I was still sick but he was in the hospital for a severe
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My life has Changed in The U.S. In December 2014‚ I came to the US to study english‚ There are a lot of reason‚ The first reason is I want to challenge myself‚ don’t want to stay in comfort zone.The second reason is in 2014. That time the hong kong government really made me felt disappointed‚ because at that time‚ Hong Kong people had a demonstrations that called umbrella movement. That was a very peaceful and Non-Violences activity‚ But the government used the barbarous way to solve it. That really
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At the beginning of my sophomore year in high school‚ I became unhappy with my appearance. Food was my best friend. I used it to cope with my emotions‚ usually ice cream or a chocolate bar did the trick. Whenever I went into the doctor for a regular check-up‚ she told me I was overweight which caused me to have high blood pressure. I never thought or did anything about it because I figured it was the muscle from athletics and weightlifting. The motivation to lose my weight came from several moments
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