I met with my College Algebra Professor‚ Sarah Hawkins on October 12‚ 2016 at 11 am. The reason I met with her was to discuss my grade in College Algebra and to improve it. I also discussed upcoming tests and how to study for them. When I first walked into her office I was really down about my grade because I recently failed my first test and it brought my average really down. I asked if there was any way I can bring my grade up and she told me how a student can retake one test out of three for
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11/22/13 AP Comp Precis Type: Process “My First Conk” In “My First Conk” (1964)‚ Malcolm X reflects back upon receiving a conk and elaborates on how degrading it was to him and many other African-Americans to lose their identity. He reinforces his point that African-Americans lost their individuality by getting a conk by providing an anecdote from his life (“This was my first really big step toward self degradation.”) and then by giving examples of the other African-Americans who received
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movie world. My mom always told me they were real people dressed up‚ just like we did for Halloween. We would talk about how they created the special effects. Scary as it was‚ there was always some creative ketchup idea that covered the blood and gore. It became very interesting to me and I began to watch more and more horror movies with my mom. I was unaware that some of these movies were based on real accounts until I got older. When I was about nine years old I watched my first horror movie
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My worst day of school was my freshman year. I had the worst day of school in the beginning of the year‚ September‚ to be exact. It wasn’t the first day of school but it was close. It started of as most terrible days of school start‚ missing the bus. It wasn’t that I just missed my bus it was that I was wearing wrinkled clothes and my hair was all messed up also. When I actually got into the building‚ the one good thing happened to me‚ I found a five dollar bill on the floor. But that luck wouldn’t
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A Lesson Learned One day my mom and I was out and enjoying a nice day together; then all of the sudden in a blink of an eye things go from great to horrible. On April 14‚ 2009‚ turned out to be one of the worst and scariest days of my life. I had to learn a extremely hard lesson a extremely hard way. On April 14‚ 2009 my mom and I had went to Jackson to pick up some Easter pictures‚ and we had stopped to get something to eat. We finished eating dinner and pulled out into traffic. The traffic
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My Favourite Day of the Week I cannot say which day of the week is my favourite day because it is unknown how a day would end up. But still‚ school days are never days that I look forward to. School‚ homework and tuition classes burdens me. Excluding the schooldays‚ only Friday or Saturday would be my choice. The day I like the most‚ is Saturday. Saturday is perfectly placed at the last day of the week. As usual in the morning I would have to go to school for co-curriculum activities. Those activities
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While reading “My First Conk”‚ written by Malcolm X‚ many thoughts came to mind. It is truly astonishing how a human being will withhold an immense amount of pain just to create a new personal appearance. In this case‚ pain really is beauty! Malcolm wished for a different look to represent him in a positive way. The hairstyle known as a “conk” was very popular on white males‚ however they were predominantly worn on upper class African American men‚ specifically entertainers. The conk would represent
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My favorite time of the day Everyone has a favorite time of the day and I am no exception as I enjoy the late evening time specifically around 8 O’clock PM for many reasons. First‚ this is the time where I’m done with all my house chores from making the beds early in the morning‚ prepare 3 different breakfasts and lunches before drooping my girls to school‚ then pick up some grocery on my way back home‚ to do some laundry‚ and more cleaning .By the after noon I make sure that I have the dinner
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Tears streamed down my face. Each falling in time with my rigid breath and heavy sobs. One never forgets a night such as this. A night spent in the halls of the oncology ward‚ just feet away from a woman who I loved‚ and who I would never get the chance to tell. I remember this experience vividly. All the way back to the moment I found out my Aunt Kirsten had stage IV breast cancer‚ which marks the cause of the most grievous night of my life. At approximately 11:30 pm‚ the world quiets to a whisper
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It was Prize-presentation Day. I was chosen to be the model student of the year on the recommendation of my teachers and classmates. I was happy that they thought so well of me. When I went up the stage to collect the prestigious medal and cash award‚ I was filled with pride and joy. All my teachers and friends congratulated me warmly. My parents beamed widely. They were very proud of me. After the prize-giving ceremony‚ my parents brought me to a ‘Toys-R-Us’ shop. There‚ they bought me a remote-controlled
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