been at a concert in San Francisco when I found myself out of cigarettes‚ an affliction I suffered perhaps every other day‚ my habit being less severe than those that had taken the lives of so many people I’d known. My friend and I had met at the theater‚ and we had split up after the performance‚ so I was alone in my truck when she approached me. My new pack was in my hands‚ and I was fiddling with the wrapper when she appeared‚ silhouetted against the bright lights of the corner liquor store
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My First Time To Alabama “A simple life is good for me. I don’t need a whole lot. For me‚ a T-shirt‚ a pair of shorts‚ barefoot on a beach‚ and I’m happy‚ “ once stated musician‚ Yanni. That quote describes one of the best weeks of my life in the spring of 2016. When I was invited to travel to the beach with the Evans’ I was ecstatic. The youngest kid in their family‚ a 3rd grader named Jason‚ who has dark brown hair and freckles dotting his face‚ and his baseball team was leaving for a team trip
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1 10-7-12 First five weeks of high school High school is an enjoyable‚ but challenging part of life. From the first day of school to the 5th week of school I was confused‚ excited‚ and lost. My challenges are getting A’s in all of my classes and being one of the top students in my classes. My successful moments have been getting A’s on my History‚ English‚ Geometry‚ and Biology tests. My goal in AVID is to find which college would best suit me. Also‚ I would like to increase my public speaking
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myself through the pain to make me stronger. Sometimes all I can feel is hate and anger filling my blood‚ my body and my mind. When I think of those years‚ the awaiting dark holes are released to blacken the rest of the few memories filled with light. *** The war had broken out and all the children were being evacuated to distant cousins or aunts in the surrounding war-free countries for safety. My parents had told me that I was only going away for a while‚ the war would be over and I would see
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confidence‚ as it was only my first day of skiing. Confidence that was short lived when faced with the biggest challenge yet‚ an intermediate level ski run that required a controlled precision I had not yet developed. Down the slope I went quickly accelerating to a blaring speed‚ I rounded the first turn and could feel my legs struggling to keep up with the pace at which I was proceeding. I sensed that it was only a matter of time before I wrecked‚ and that’s when it happened. My skis
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is love? I never knew until I was fourteen year old at my first horse show. My family has always told me that when I loved someone or something unconditionally for exactly what it was without expecting anything in return‚ and when I was away from whatever I loved I would feel like something was missing‚ and only then would I truly understand love. At that first horse show I understood what they told me. For me my first horse show changed my life‚ it made me feel so alive and I never wanted to leave
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Before I was first playing baseball I wasn’t very good and didn’t understand it‚ I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off. I played t-ball and parent pitch and it was very fun‚ I could never really hit‚ but I could field pretty well‚ and I was always better than my peers. My parents loved baseball and were always very encouraging of how I played baseball‚ and how bad I was. Once I turned an unassisted triple play‚ Which means that I got 3 outs all by myself‚ In the same play to end
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Oct 9‚ 2010 English 001 MA Essay My First Job in U. S. A. Before I came to The United States‚ I worked in several jobs in my natal country‚ Dominican Republic. The most of them were not exactly the kind of job that people would enjoy. I have worked under the hot Caribbean sun‚ lifting and carrying heavy bags of sand at a construction
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woke up Saturday morning without my alarm which was the first time because I got an extra hour of sleep. I usually warm up my bagel in the toaster‚ but instead turned on the oven for that. I had to do some homework for my classes and read a couple of chapters of Fahrenheit 451‚ and I did that for a couple of hours. Every time I wanted to check my social media‚ but I stopped myself. Since I was so bored‚ I started drawing and coloring. I played some card games with my sibling. Usually‚ when I am doing
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Song Analysis for First They Killed my Father In Phnom Penh a little girl named Loung and her family had to leave everything behind because of the Khmer Rouge soldiers. Loung Ung wrote a book of her life in Cambodia and three themes for the book are confusion‚ pain‚ and hope. This book is called First They Killed My Father and the song I chose that goes with the book is called Gone too soon by Daughtry. For the song I choose three parts from the book. The parts include when Loung had memories of
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