your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” Henry David Thoreau Senior year‚ the most dreaded year for any high school student‚ with all the standardized tests coming up‚ AP classes‚ college applications and the question “What do I want to become?” It is hard and stressful to decide a career at the age of 17 or 18. Yet that is the way we are trained. We have to find our passion in 12 years of education. After my 12 years of education I have made a decision to become a Computer Engineer. It feels
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INTRODUCTION (what is the story about) Last year I went to visit my grandpa in Ireland. My dad and mum are both from Ireland‚ so I have lots of cousins there. I had been in Ireland before‚ but this trip was going be the most interesting ever. I would discover the Stuarts had a dark family secret. BODY (what happened) Grandpa met us at Belfast Airport. We had been travelling for a long time and were tired and hungry. “Let’s get you home young lad and get some good old Irish sausages into
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I am Thai‚ but inside I am also Chinese “My hometown China‚ I’m so sad that I had to leave you”‚ is a part of the song I heard all the time when I was little‚ and I still remember it. Not much is known about my background; I only know that I am actually Chinese. I could have cared less about it because I was born and raised in Thailand‚ and I considered myself Thai until my mom told me about my grandparents. My grandfather used to be a doctor in a small communist camp in China. He didn’t like it
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The name Kanissa is a creation‚ a hand me down with a twist. A name‚ similar to my aunt Anissa. Ever since I was little‚ my aunt has always been there. Whether it be from the first day of 1rst grade‚ where I cautiously walked down the gargantuan and tedious halls marked by the pencils of the children before me. Or birthday parties spent at Oma and Opa’s. Oma and opa means grandma and grandpa in Dutch. Holidays and birthday parties that are spent at Oma and Opa’s house are hectic
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who I was and altered the way I returned to my community‚ Los Angeles. The most important thing I learned at this internship was the ability to “fit into” this new way of life. While studying abroad‚ I believe that this skill I gained from my internship will allow me accommodate and adapt easily to the new culture. I also learned from this internship how to properly communicate with new people in general‚ but also with people who may not be familiar with my own culture and lifestyle. This new skill
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time I was wondering my neighborhood thinking about my dad and my great aunt. My dad passed away when I was only 7 months old‚ my great aunt when I was in 4th grade. I remember thinking about what we would be doing and whether or not we would still be together or not. As I am walking around and thinking my friend that I have known for 10 years bumps into me. We hung out all of the time. Whether we were just sitting around each other houses or hanging out at a park but we spent most of our time on the
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Yes I agree with the results from my work culture preferences activity. The results matches with my considered work ideal culture. My results was everything I except it to be. I want my work place safe place to work to be comfortable‚ well-designed work place and to be high standard. In my career fill I want my job to be a fun place to work‚ secure‚ stable environment clearly defined jobs‚ goals and expectations no conflicting demands considerate management. I know my career goal will turn out for the
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Manu Professor Sanders English 111‚ Section 1841 3 October 2012 Spartacus: Blood and Sand Upon all the days of my life‚ I have watched hundreds of movies‚ but the one that I really cherished the most is Spartacus Blood and Sand. The title character was played by Andy Whitfield‚ and it was produced by Steven S. Deknight and Robert Tapert. In this movie‚ a Thracian gladiator called Spartacus from the year
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Rishiv Chugh 9/24/12 4th period My Opinion On War War‚ it’s one of the biggest things to happen to the world ever since then human evolution. So my opinion on war? Well to me‚ war is good on one side‚ and a terrible thing on the other side. So why do I think it is both good and bad at the same time? I might as well tell you and give some brief explanations why. So to start off‚ I’ll tell you the pro’s of war. For one thing‚ if there was no war‚ for all we know‚ there just might be more chaos
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My Dyslexia Philip Schultz‚ the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author most recently of My Dyslexia‚ who is diagnosed with the severe learning disability dyslexia‚ shares his journey in his book. Being dyslexic made his life very difficult and made him feel not normal. “More than once he says that a special cruelty of dyslexia is that those suffering it lose patience with them and come to consider themselves inferior to normal people” (Olson). It took Schultz years to read and write. At age of fifty-eight
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