boosted my confidence. I did something never anticipated to do. It was the day that I had been contemplating for weeks. It was finally my first softball game as an Outlaw‚ and I was as nervous as long-tailed dog in a room full of rocking chairs. I was determined to defeat the rival team as the pitcher. I wasn’t feeling very confident in the first few innings of the game. Then‚ it hit me. Something snapped inside of me that made me so furious that we were losing. What happened next blew my mind
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W1T Literacy Narrative Draft 1 English is not my first language. In fact‚ I didn’t learn it well enough to have a conversation until I was about 10 years old. I remember the embarrassment of being new to a country I called home after living in Mexico for years. Things changed quickly the first day of 8th grade. I remember being energetically greeted by a slender athletic man in his fifties in a muggy summer morning. The hum of the air conditioning as welcome sound as we found our seats in this room
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In my freshman and sophomore year I lived in South Korea‚ and attended Osan American High school. For two years at Osan I played on the varsity soccer team‚ we often had to travel far for the games‚ but there is still one game that I can not dismiss from my memory. Our first away game was a very emotional road trip for our new team‚ a group of girls just getting to know each other’s strengths and weakness‚ on and off the field‚ the game was an hour away from our school on a friday and we were pumped
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I was 7 years old I got my first dirt bike little did I know this was gonna lead to some pain. When I was 9 years old I was minding my own business riding my dirt bike when I hit a tree stump and flew off into a barbwire fence. I stood up and my arm hurt so bad and I tried to lift it up but it fell straight back down. I had to get home so I had to walk to get to my house. I walked in the house and said “mom there’s something wrong with my arm.” She looked at it and told my dad we would have to go
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My first cognitive distortion is that I always tend to overgeneralize everything about my appearance. I personally think that I have bad skin genetically‚ I have really huge pores and I feel like my face is naturally oily which I hate! When I wear makeup it makes the oiliness even worst! Secondly I don’t like my weight at all! None of my clothes fit me the way I want too and my arms are still fat and don’t proportion with the rest of my body now that I have lost weight. I wish I wasn’t as skinny
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111-N03 05 September 2009 My First Son’s Birth I have dreamed of having children for as long as I can remember. I was almost eleven when my brother was born‚ so I got to experience watching him grow up. At the age of seventeen‚ I got married. After two years‚ my husband and I decided to start a family together. I knew that having a child would change my life‚ I just didn’t know how much. The birth of my first son has created a more intense bond between my husband and I‚ started me on a new
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When I first arrived to Richmond Early College High School‚ I anticipated an academic career characterized by hard work‚ nightly homework assignments‚ and incredible doses of stress that a middle school classroom could not synthesize. Although I actually landed my first college class in the second semester of my ninth grade year (ACA‚ which was required for all newbies and taken simultaneously by all 50 of us)‚ I found myself still shaken. I looked forwarded to the challenges of a college experience
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The first briefing of this assignment happened in an afternoon class which was my second tutorial session. The class tutor explained to us how to go on with the assignment. AS the tutor started talking about this assignment I felt so nervous that suddenly I got the feeling I will not be able to finish this assignment. In my nervous state I fumbled my book‚ papers‚ and stationary all the while stumbling over the assignment questions on my mind which was not making any sense to me. But my classmates
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and my heart was pumping. I was ready to play some football. Following warm-ups‚ it was game time. Of course‚ the first play was for me‚ the tailback. It was forty-four gorilla our most popular play. Immediately following the snap of the ball‚I took the ball from the quarterback with authority and confidence. I ran right‚ cut back to the left and was finally wrestled down after sprinting for a ten-yard gain. The fans were as rowdy as ever. We ran a few similar plays to me‚ to feed my hunger
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I was hugging my family goodbye as I was getting on the plane headed down to Lackland Air Force Base for basic military training. My story however begins way before this plane ride. Since I was a pre-teen computers and technology in general fascinated me. Growing up with a father that could fix a car engine with a 2X4 and a roll of duct tape and a mother who still is to this day a system analyst at Albany medical center‚ building and working with computer software and hardware was my hobby. Now working
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