Basketball is a wide known sport‚ that has impacted my life in many ways. I love basketball‚ it has kept me from doing other things‚ but I truly can’t complain because of many amazing opportunities I have been granted. Not only has it impacted my life it has also impacted millions of people’s life around the world. My passion for basketball has impacted me in many ways‚ short term things that are good include new friends‚ always being busy with people who work as hard as you do‚ you get to travel
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How your mindset can affect your life. I believe if you have a fixed mindset it’s never too late to change and adapt to a growth mindset. The growth mindset will lead you to try new things but a fixed mindset will stop you in your tracks causing you only to fail. The type of mindset you have is very important because it will influence your life in many ways. What is the difference between a growth and fixed mindset? Well a growth or positive mindset leads to a desire to learn and therefore
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“Television has too many advertisements during programmes” Is TV being ruined by adverts which have no relevance to the programme? Well throughout my piece of writing i am going to give my personal views and the views of others on why i think there are too many commercials now-a-days on television. When you watch a programme generally you do not want it to be interrupted by irrelevant information? Have you ever had a glance at what is going to be on next and the show says thirty minutes‚ but
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Throughout my high school career‚ I have participated in basketball‚ baseball‚ and also football. I have many long lasting memories from each sport. I have learned aspects such as how to be disciplined in everyday life and how to be a leader to my teammates. It has also taught me how to take on the tough challenges that life throws my way. Now that I am a senior‚ I can clearly see how playing sports have impacted my life. Although I played all three sports‚ basketball in particular has impacted me
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positive force in one’s life. I believe that your attitude determines this force. The purpose of this journal is to discuss how change has impacted my own life. It will also discuss whether or not I see change as mostly a positive or negative force. Even though I am thirty-four years old‚ I have experienced many changes in my life. I have witnessed life begin and end. I have experienced love and hate. There are a variety of other emotions in between‚ but reflecting on my past‚ these are the emotions
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In my life I have traveled and experienced many opportunities that most people my age haven’t. I have had many diverse experiences that some people may not have had. Being born in Portland Oregon has really played a part in my diverse life. Oregon has changed from when I was born in 1996‚ but for the most part for the better. It has shaped my life into the person I am today and how I view the world and the people in it. In this paper I will go through some experiences that I have had from birth
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Everyone is affected by certain events or individuals that greatly change their life. Many people have influenced me during my life. One wonderful person who has had a special effect on me is my volleyball coach. Six years ago‚ when I first went to the volleyball training‚ I found out that my coach was seventy years old. It was very surprising for me because she did not look her age. After some training with her‚ I realized that any young person would envy her strength and energy. At her age she
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high school‚ my life revolves around the sport that I love. Digging my cleats into the soft dirt infield and smelling the freshly cut grass is truly my favorite thing. The triumphant feeling that I get when my team does something good such as: hitting a homerun‚ striking out a batter‚ or winning a big game. February to April may be a bit cold and dreary to other people but I deem these three months my favorite time of the year. My life revolves around softball season and it has shaped my personality
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people you come across throughout life. Identifying the source of your literacy is easier said than done‚ but the simplest way is to identify your "sponsors". Sponsors is a term coined by Deborah Brandt‚ in "sponsors of literacy"‚ to mean people or situations in your life that affected and developed your literacy‚ “Sponsors seemed a fitting term for the figures who turned up most typically in people’s memories of literacy learning” (Brandt‚ 1998). Personally‚ most of my "sponsors" were situations that
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Oliver Twist Oliver Twist was novel written by Charles Dickens that had been brought to the big screen. It is about a young orphan boy named Oliver who only tries to stay good in a society of the upper class that refuses to help the people under them. Oliver gets sent into a workhouse once he turns nine and soon finds himself in a gang of pickpockets that work for a man named Fagin. At each turn he is threatened by characters that believe their deliberate cruelty and lack of compassion to be the
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