My name is Joshua Voss. I graduated in 2010 and started college in the fall of 2011‚ after taking a year off to work. I was born and raised in Henderson Texas. I am the youngest of three siblings. My father is a preacher and my mother is a two time cancer survivor. I was forced to grow up quickly and help my dad when my mom was sick. I began working for a landscaping company at 13 and became a full time fry cook at 15. I quit cooking the day I graduated high school and started land surveying and
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Basketball and Life Growing up‚ sports were an important part of family‚ and in turn a very important part in my life. From the small plastic basketball hoops‚ Nerf footballs‚ and little tike golf clubs. I was always surrounded by sports. At home in my younger days I’d spend all day either shooting hoops on my small basket‚ or attempting to hit golf balls around the yard. My dad would spend hours of every evening perfecting my shot and playing countless games of horse. I can remember if I would
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to the ivory tower of pure reason unmindful of the realities of life. It is not a mere empty statement to say that the modern mind lives‚ breathers and has his being in this age of science. In every minor detail of our life science plays a very valuable role. I wish to contribute my share in making this world better than I find it. At the very beginning‚ I may make it clear that if I were a scientist‚ I would like to carry on my work in the province of pure science. Pure science is a relentless
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My Life Changed Leaving the clinic on that very day tears poured down my eyes as I tried to swallow the news the doctor had just given me. I grabbed my cell phone dialed 7 digits… no answer I hung up the phone and sat in total shock and disbelief‚ as I was about to start my car and leave my phone began to ring my throat tight palms sweaty I answered and muttered two drastic words I’M PREGNANT! The person on the other line must’ve been as shock as I was to hear those words “WHAT” they asked as
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Aimless life is certainly a sin. Many people have no definite aim in life. They are like the travelers going a head without any destination. Such people lead an aimless life and what they do in life‚ is largely a matter of chance‚ determined by the circumstances in which they happen to be placed. Aimless people do not achieve any thing in life. They just live because they have to live.A man or woman without an ambition is really an unfortunate person because his life is just like a ship without a
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has made an impact on my life‚ the first person that comes to mind is my older brother Jason. He inspires me to be the best person I can be. Graduating valedictorian from his class and attending Yale University‚ Jason has shown me that dreams do come true; he reminds me that I must never give up. Growing up‚ Jason was always the smartest kid in class. He was beating games at age five and had an eloquent vocabulary. At a young age my parents could see that he was a genius; my mom always joked how
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My Life Story Tammy Johnson PSY 202 Katherine Barnett What was your family like? The baby of eleven children. One parent family‚ father past away when I was 7 years old. Becoming a teenage mother at age 17. What are some of your favorite memories? Being spoiled by everybody My mom trying to spend so much time with me. Raising my baby girl. Do you have your own family now? I am married to my husband of 18 years
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only interact but also change over time. The First Ring that has influenced my development is the Mesosystem. Within my lifetime it has definatley turned out to have its ups and downs and quite an interesting journeyy for me. It involves family‚ school and church. My parents were married at a very young age and from completely different religious backgrounds. My Mother born and raised a very strict catholic and my Father of the Baptist religion . The Church Schools I attended were sometimes
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My view on life itself Loretta Brown ENG 121 English Composition I Leontine Armstrong June 10‚ 2013 Wednesday‚ November 16‚ was supposed to an ordinary day for my brothers and I. Little did we know it would turn out to be one of the saddest days of all our lives. The last day we would see or hear from our mother. My mother was a very well-known person. She loved helping and feeding people even if she didn’t know them. As far as I can remember my mother had her struggles and battles with
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A Moment in my Life A personal narrative by Kyle Baldwin-Langrehr The following is the story of a lesson learned by a younger version of myself. My name is Kyle. When I was eight years old‚ I got the chance to experience a thing that more and more lucky children get to see and live each day. This thing is known to many as divorce. Let’s back up a bit further‚ shall we? I was born on a warm California night on June seventeenth‚ in the year of nineteen-hundred and ninety-four. Right around the
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