I was hospitalized for three weeks at Seattle Children’s after enduring emergency surgery to remove a rare tumor in my large intestine. What I figured was random stomach pain was life threatening. Since I have endured so much in my life‚ it is not easy for me to be emotional. When I found out that I needed surgery in a mere few hours I did not know how to process my emotions. Being in the hospital taught me that I need to take what may seem meaningless as something that could be serious. I learned
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My Experience from India The one foreign country I have been to is India‚ and it has changed the person I am today very drastically. The last time I visited India was April 2011‚ and that is when I realized most of the things I did‚ and it helped me change my outlook on a lot of things. For example‚ it gave me a completely different perspective on poverty‚ which is something they have a lot of in India. Living in Canada‚ I have not seen much of poverty‚ but after seeing the substantial number
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My Mindful Experience The mindful experience of eating involves multiple processes. Every process has to take a certain amount of time and be savored just long enough to be defined as mindful. Physically‚ the food has to be eaten slowly‚ eaten in small pieces‚ chewed several times‚ and swallowed gradually. Mentally‚ each bite of food has to be filled with enjoyment‚ focused on with all attention without any judgement‚ and it is very important during mindful eating to know what exactly is being
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English talk. Irvine welsh. Irvine Welsh is a very famous Scottish author‚ He’s wrote books like Trainspotting‚ The Acid House and Marabou Stork Nightmares etc. Irvine Welsh Is probably most famous for his gritty depiction of a gang of Scottish heroin addicts‚ Trainspotting‚ Irvine focuses on the darker side of human nature and drug use. Irvine welsh is also known for writing in his native scot dialect‚ Making his prose challenging for the average reader unfamiliar with the style. His
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Freak. Fag. Lesbo. Queer. Tranny. Eath insult is more hateful than the last. Every since I began to present and identify as male and experiment with my gender expression‚ I have experience a wide variety of reactions. Some could be simply be chalked up as not understanding or a result of close mindedness. But many reactions have a specific reason behind them. Transphobia. Transphobia is when someone treats a transgender person negatively because of their gender identity and/or expression. It can
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My tutoring session came at the near the end of my writing process‚ but it could be helpful at any point. In particular‚ I was in the Editing stage‚ as presented by James D. Williams in Preparing to Teach Writing. The other stages are Invention‚ Planning‚ Drafting or scribing
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European as they come. My fraternal grandparents came over from Denmark and if we go a little further back‚ my maternal extended family‚ came over on the Mayflower (John Alden to be exact) from England and Ireland. At some point they all landed in the Midwest either in Wisconsin or Minnesota. We have always enjoyed a combined heritage experience when it comes to special holidays such as Christmas and Easter‚ but we have also been fortunate to share in Ramadan‚ Seders and other experiences due to the progressiveness
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My Experience as a Kiva Fellow Kiva is a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Kiva combines the poverty alleviating power of microfinance with the mass participation of the internet. It lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world. Since 2005‚ nearly 570‚000 people have used Kiva.org to fund +$200M in microloans through MFIs to more than 526‚000 working poor entrepreneurs around the world. Source: Kiva
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An Experience That Changed My Life Valen C. Hocog English 101-10 Dr. David Khorram February 09‚ 2011 Seven years ago I gave birth to a healthy boy who changed everything about me and my life. Before his birth I was an optimistic person who only thought of the fun things that would make my day. I was an immature girl without a care in the world. After his birth I grew up‚ stopped partying‚ and took on the responsibility that was gifted to me. It has not been a breezy walk
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work I felt the need to get away from it all‚ to rest and relax‚ and to broaden my perspective of the world. I made reservations for six solo days of scuba diving in Croatia. I was excited‚ nervous‚ even a little scared of traveling alone. I told myself that I’m 36 years old‚ have two kids‚ and lived in another country‚ so I held my head high‚ bid my friends farewell and took off. Upon arrival in Croatia I picked up my rental car at the airport in Zagreb. I got on the A1 motorway and pointed the
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