A time when I experienced extreme failure was when I was in my sophomore year of high school. When I started the year‚ I had the mindset of‚ “This is going to be easy. I’m not going to sweat it.” Reason being‚ in my freshman year‚ I passed all my classes easily and I thought the next school year would be the same. I was in for a rude awakening by then. It was my first year starting an AP class and I heard stories that it was going to be easy if one paid attention in class. As the first semester went
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My football coach always says‚ “success breeds success‚” yet I feel that my failures define my high school career. The first two years I played culminated in a mere two victories‚ but my sophomore year of high school brought new hope. This was the first time I was eligible to play on the varsity team‚ and with only three returning starters‚ playtime was available at every position. Additionally‚ the team had made the playoffs the previous 10 years‚ so success seemed to be on the horizon. But this
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19 March 2014 How I View Failures In life‚ no one wants to fail at anything they do because they think failure leads them nowhere. They think failure is embarrassing and they usually given up trying to finish what they started. Sometimes people fail due to their own faults such as not studying for a test‚ therefore that person will fail. But other times it may not be their fault in failing. An example would be in a competition where someone gets picked as the winner and the other person doesn’t
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continue to impact our lives every day so many years later. I am thankful for the beliefs and ideas they based the foundation of our Constitution on. When thinking about the biggest impact on my generation‚ it is difficult to narrow it down to just one or two. However‚ I feel that America’s greatest gift to my generation is Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Speech. Religious freedom has long been a part of our everyday lives even if we don’t think about it every day. Without religious freedom ‚
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What is the greatest invention of all time? Throughout time there have been lots of new inventions which have both hindered and helped everyday life with humans. There are many different possible world’s greatest inventions because they have all helped out humankind in some way‚ some more than others. I think that the greatest invention of all time is Harnessed Electricity. Some may argue that this was not an invention it was a discovery but although electricity itself was a discovery there was
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Allison Towery ZimmerCrowe American Studies 6 February 2014 The Greatest Generation: What Made Them The Greatest? “This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.” This quote was borrowed from Franklin Delano Roosevelt describing “the Greatest Generation” found in “The Time of Their Lives‚” written by Tom Brokaw (Brokaw‚ 1998). Roosevelt must have foreseen the future before speaking that comment about that generation of America since they won World War Two. However they shall take
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Zoe Jackson WHAT HAS BEEN OR WHAT YOU ANTICIPATED BEING YOUR GREATEST CHALLENGE Since the third grade my challenge has been the FCAT. I was determined not to let this test defeat me again. This assessment has affected me in several ways. My third grade teacher’s thoughts about me passing the FCAT were not good. She made accusations‚ evaluations‚ and predictions that I had a learning disability. She believed I was withdrawn socially‚ basically‚ stating that I had no social skills. The FCAT was a
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My experience with failure came with athletics. For my whole life I have always been involved in sports like soccer‚ tennis‚ basketball. When I was in the fourth grade I joined a swim team and that was the first and really only sport that I stuck with; swimming came naturally to me‚ and it was something that I could do year round and I loved every minute of it. However‚ once I was in high school I stopped swimming and joined my high school’s cross country team. My dad was a runner all throughout
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My Biggest Failure By Andrew Gilfillan Public speaking has never been my forte in school; the days preceding any sort of presentation were filled with many meetings between my forehead and a desk -- the moments before a presentation were filled with crippling stage fright.The worst time I ever messed up a presentation‚ I didn’t exactly learn from my mistake the first time over. In the sixth grade‚ as part of a final project for our reading unit on the book Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli‚ I chose (from
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ASSIGNMENTS My biggest achievement was when I was chosen by the Senior High School to join the mathematics Olympiad East Java in Wijaya Kusuma University Surabaya. I really did not suppose this matter because for my studying process not including the clever student‚ but because of the curious feeling that was so big about the lesson that was explained so as I always active asked. And during the Olympics I was very grateful because of could enter 15 big from hundreds of students‚ this was the achievement
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