Bridger Washington Greatest Success After graduating high school‚ I knew I had to make a decision to either go to community college or join The United States Army. I decided to diligently join the Army and make something of myself. I knew‚ coming from where I did‚ you either sink or swim. I refused to become another product of my environment. I left for training a week after I graduated high school. As an 18 year old‚ I did not know what to expect. I would train rigorously. Although I was always
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I had a lot of failures in my short lifetime. Some of the failures I have done have done a lot of good for me. I am a person that likes to do a lot of things and with a lot of things to do; there is a lot of failures that comes with it. The biggest thing I like to do is play basketball. With basketball a lot of the greats had found failure before they became the biggest hero in sports. This essay is about things I have failed at and how they turned into success moments. The first thing I can remember
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Title: My Fear Begin the story (clearly explain what this is about) Fear is an unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by the belief that someone or something that dangerous‚ like pain‚ or a threat. Set the Context (Give some background) Today I will tell you about my fear. What a thing that I fear / I fear something that / I know everyone used to see it absolutely / This is house lizard Involve the Audience / Listener (Why is this relevant to them / check they are still listening) Hey! Why I scared
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Fear of change is a common human behavior because it’s something we don’t expect and may make us uncomfortable. Changing schools and moving to a new house all at the same time was overwhelming for me. The fear of moving to a new place was stuck in my mind‚ I couldn’t stop thinking‚ "how will I make new friends? My main fear was being introduced into a whole new environment with different people and different customs. I ultimately grew up knowing my friends since first grade and to move to a new school
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Down in the locker room‚ one of my favorite coaches looked at my team and stated‚ “I’m sorry. I will not be returning next year to be your coach.” I sat there almost in tears‚ because at that moment my love for basketball almost left with him. Billy Martin was a favorite coach of mine. He loved each of us like one of his own‚ and treated all of us the same. He wanted each of us to succeed and would do anything to help us reach that. Coach Martin instilled in me no matter how talented a person was
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Fear As the instructor put me in that choke hold on my second to last day of swim instruction I knew I broke the one rule I tried so hard not to. “Get the hell out of my pool” he yelled. I dangled there in the middle of the pool wondering how this man could hold me in a chokehold while keeping both of us afloat. “You weak bitch‚ get the fuck out of my pool”. As those words echoed through the empty olympic sized pool room I was let go‚ left to reach the side of the deep end under my own power
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learn as much as humanly possible. Throughout my high school career I have challenged myself by completing six advanced placement classes and taking other honors classes. I have taken these classes as a way to help guide myself for what is to come in the future in college. I was inducted into the National Honors Society during my junior year of high school‚ and I graduated with honors. Both of these successes are the two greatest accomplishments of my high school career. These two achievements prove
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I used to live my life in fear. With every step I took‚ I felt like I was disappointing someone‚ somewhere‚ whether it be my family or some stranger I saw walking down the halls. My existence was one big failure‚ and I never really understood why I expected so much of myself. Society has a way of making one feel little. Advertising nowadays is spent entirely making the consumer feel incomplete without this new gadget‚ or without this brand of makeup. I feel like that mindset has carried over into
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go out of this room. Biting my lip‚ I groped around the black darkness. I quickly made my way towards the staircase. Just moments ago‚ I was still waving goodbye towards my parents when they went to their friends wedding party. A cool wind began to blow‚ causing the leaves to rustle and the curtains to flap madly. I waved goodbye as my parents entered their car to go to their friend’s wedding. Shivering‚ I quickly entered the house and carried on watching my program until the lights flickered
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actual thing. In the poem “My Fear” by Raab‚ he depicts a reality of fear the emotion. Raab uses vast personification to bring fear to life as he refers to the powerful emotion as “he” or “mister” to produce a more personal feeling. Raab uses fear to show the argument of how we have to respect the things we have no power over. He wants us to know how alive and well fear is and it’s power it can hold on us as it lives inside each of us. He referred to fear as “Mr. Fear” in stanza two as a way of
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