for my freshman year. I was mainly on my own with less support. My mother said it was okay to stay with my God-Mother and go to school. As the school year started and I was ready to start my freshman year at Leake Central High School. My freshman year of high school was very hectic but I was new so it didn’t bother me as much. Overall‚ my freshman year was great. My sophomore year was the year I started to slack and also my attitude was more involved my sophomore year than my freshman year. My sophomore
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My First Skydiving Experience "Jumping is fun! Skydiving is not just falling; it is flying—the closest we have been able to come to free‚ unencumbered‚ non-mechanical individual flight‚" says Mike Turoff in the book The Skydiver’s Handbook. I totally agree with him because skydiving provides the maximum liberty that one can ever experience. In this article‚ I’d like to describe to you my first jump in order to show you how much fun skydiving is. First of all‚ I learned about skydiving via the
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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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Courtney Craig October 25th 2009 SLS Reid M/T/W 8:00 My Community College Experience So far my community college experience has been the best I’ve ever had. I have enjoyed the freedom‚ my coursework‚ and all the new friends I’ve made. When I first started college‚ I wasn’t excited at all. I just knew that the work wasn’t going to be as difficult as a university and I basically saw the whole idea as a joke. After just a couple of short months at Florida State College of Jacksonville‚ I
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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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statements. However‚ my experiences with diversity have not always been a good one‚ and many times‚ it was very trying for me. Diversity has almost taken my will to live‚ yet I have still moved on. Sometimes I wonder how people get through tough times‚ only to realize that I have been through the toughest. When I was in seventh grade‚ my twin sister had an extremely traumatic experience‚ something that subsequently proceeded to rip apart my family systematically over the next six years. My sister is still
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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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