It was my first day of college and I was both nervous and excited. Nervous because I’m older‚ have a husband and children at home. I don’t want to fail and disappoint them. I felt excited for the same reasons‚ my family. I can earn my degree and get a better paying job than my current EMS job. I would be able to spend more time at home and help my husband provide for our family. As I prepare for my first day‚ I look at my textbooks‚ my notebooks‚ all my pencils and pens and have my laptop out. Everything
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but scary day for my parents because the doctors found out that during my delivery my umbilical cord was wrapped around my neck. I was unable to be delivered by natural means‚ which forced me to be delivered by cesarean section. As I groom I ate properly and had no birth defects. When my mom gave me baby I really liked vegetable flavors. My mother was able to stay home and take care of me daily for three months until she found me a good babysitter and had to return to work. My first babysitter was
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get a second chance to make a first impression.” (Will Rogers). First impressions stick‚ and they stick hard. There’s no way around it‚ they remain as a layer on identity. While within that identity there might exist a different person‚ that different person still holds onto the external layer of a first impression. First impressions truly are almost impossible to change. In a book‚ people use post-it notes to remember a specific point. In society‚ people use first impressions to remember a specific
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English 111 March 16‚ 2009 As my boyfriend and I walked along the crowded pier: we inhaled the smell of freshly cooked crabs‚ shrimp‚ and lobster that came from the little blue restaurant that sits right on the pier. I could tell that the pier was an old bridge by the cracked cement and the old yellow road markings. The silver rail that surrounded pier was also aged and rusted. After walking about a mile we meticulously lined our poles on the rusted railing. My pole was blue and silver with bells
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COMN-152 QUESTION 25 Read your first journal entry. How have your reading and writing skills improved in COMN 152? What are some areas that still need improvement? I have taken a look at my first journal entry‚ I believe that my reading and writing skills substantially improved in COMN 152. In reading‚ I often did not use a dictionary and translate new vocabulary during reading a book‚ along with a random story in which I read on the internet. I try to finish reading it first‚ and then I guess new words;
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Those were the thoughts going through my mind when I went to go see my first ballet. It was only a few years ago and I still can remember how excited I was before watching it‚ during‚ and after. My mother and I went one afternoon to watch The Nutcracker. It was in San Francisco around early December in the year 2010. I remember showing up and for some reason I was so nervous. I couldn’t understand why it made me nervous‚ but the thrill of finally being able to see my
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catcher’s mitt from the pitch that came in around 80 mile per hour. As well as the crack from the wood bats as the players made solid contact For our first tournament of the year we went to Memphis‚ Tennessee while there we played stiff competition. It was the first time all of us as a team have really been together and we all played together well. The first game I was behind the plate the feel of the glove being
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this mostly with extreme violence. The book “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers”‚ written by Luong Ung‚ is the author’s story of growing up during this time period. She was five years old when the Khmer Rouge came into power. As stated in the author’s note‚ “From 1975 to 1979‚ through execution‚ starvation‚ disease‚
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The first day is always the hardest. You go from being the leaders of the school‚ to the babies of the school. It was the first day and everybody was full of both excitement and fear. I looked around‚ I saw a bunch of crowded newbies all around me‚ anxiously awaiting the bell‚ at the start the only person I could recognise was Chiara. Chiara is one of my best friends; we went through primary school together. Gradually more and more people showed up‚ until I could barely move. A few of them
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My first injury is what happened in May of this year (2016). I had dropped a 8-foot bench on my foot after cleaning up the lodge that my class was staying in. I had gone to Urgent Care and they x-rayed my foot as a bruise to the bone with a possible hairline fracture. My foot was to swollen to see if it has a fracture yet and the doctor had told me that within a week it could be seen. The injury is on the middle of my left foot. You can still tell it is injured and is still a bit swollen. Along with
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