As a young boy reading was never an exciting activity for me. Since the first day I began reading proficiently in the first grade all the way through high school‚ reading was always a chore. Novel after novel we read in class in which I found myself dozing off into the distance dreaming about everything but reading. The only books I’ve ever enjoyed to this day continue to be Magic Tree House‚ but after 3rd grade the story line begins to repeat and mock the others‚ kind of like a Capri sun after drinking
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Experience at Work Speech Collin Coolbaugh At McDonalds lines of communication are pretty open especially for the ones still in high school or college. They give whatever hours you request and how many days you want to work. If you need off one of the days just be sure to ask off two weeks in advanced and they will make sure you get the day off. The overall experience at McDonalds after being there for over a year now is outstanding. I know most people think hey its McDonalds‚ but the benefits they
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9 8/28/14 Word Count: 500Diagnostic Essay This is my first year at Benedictine and it is important for me to get my high school career started off on a positive note. In order for me to do that I must excel academically‚ athletically‚ and spiritually. It is very essential that I achieve the goals I have set for myself. Although this is my first year at Benedictine this is not my first year in high school. Having attended another high school last year I feel like gives me advantage because I know
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experienced the unexpected‚ which changed my perspective of life and how fast things can go bad. Everything went into slow motion‚ a few seconds felt like one minute; I would have never seen this coming in such a short time. I was tired and my face was numb; I forgot my face mask at my uncle’s house. I wasn’t in any rush to get home but the wood stove and my comfortable bed was a pleasing thought. The headlight on my snowmobile was only shining about ten feet in the distance when a giant
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to adjust in the western society. In school I did make few friends but some still hated me. I started to build confidence again in myself and started recognizing the social struggles minorities were facing when it came to diversity in high school. I also started getting adjusted in my community and making new in church. I attended prayers every evening and helped in cleaning of church every weekend. While at my community church‚ I noticed that many students in my community were culturally different
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My heart beating so fast‚ I’m scared it may jump right out of my chest‚ I look up and face the entrance to the worst place to be‚ the Principal’s office. Terrified‚ I follow behind Mrs. Taylor through the doorway. The first person I see is my best friend sitting at the round table with all of her things out of both her backpack and purse spread out‚ everywhere. For some odd reason‚ my friend and I are both being searched. “What is going on? I most definitely have nothing to be afraid of‚ there is
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When I came back from studying in the United Kingdom I had a goal in mind to lower the cost of education so my parents weren’t as financially burdened. When I was accepted to Bentley University I thought things were going to be better since it would not cost as much as studying overseas. What I did not account for is things going wrong. Quickly many things did go wrong. The registry listed me as a sophomore while other departments did not. The housing department moved me into a dorm which caused
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speak on experience an event that had happened this past summer. After finals when my school had sent out final report cards‚ it was sad to see that my final average in my US History course did not meet the requirements to continue to the next grade. From there I had two options: to go to summer school and pass so that I may continue school at the academy or transfer schools and repeat my junior year of high school. With these two options I decided that it would be best to go to summer school and put
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us into who we are”? Well‚ I have an answer for you‚ the events we go through. For me‚ a couple are‚ the first time on the Armstrong High school swim team‚ the relationships I made and the unity on the team‚ and even my first experience with the vast world outside normal life in Minnesota‚ United States. For example‚ the first time I was joining the high school swim team I was apprehensive due to the fact that I was only 13-years-old and there would be big‚ scary 18-year-olds on the team. I showed
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English 032 Dr. Miller 04/03/2011 Motivated to Graduate High School Growing up poor is one thing‚ but growing up poor without a father figure has to be one of the hardest obstacles in life. Well anything worth having in life is worth working for. That is why when I saw the opportunity to be the first male in my family to graduate high school‚ I ceased the moment. Failing at anything was not an option so I motivated myself a lot. My mom worked two jobs and I started to feel like the only thing
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