Personal Narrative It was October 12‚ 2007. A calm and quiet evening and an empty highway lined with trees. Something happened that changed my life forever. I lost someone I loved and will never be the same without him. There was a devastating car accident that cost my father his life. To begin with‚ my parents got a divorce when I was four years old. My father had a fiance for about a year or two after the divorce and was living with her. He had an alcohol problem. After he was coming back from
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subject help you to reach your life goals? Hello I’m Shawn I attend IS 49 and am in the 8th grade in class 810 I enjoy the outdoors and playing sports. Hopefully mine will because my favorite subject is English Language Arts and almost every job will require you and I to be a good reader. English Language Arts is my favorite subject for many reasons. I enjoy reading because I am able to read about the author’s life experiences and see if there’s any way that I can relate to their stories. By
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Types of Families Family is a group of people who live together and share different physical and moral dresponsibilities in their daily life. People usually start the families in order to be successful in this life‚ to have someone special to love‚ be loved back‚ to have children and bring them up. It is impossible to understand the role of family for our society because all the basic principles of moral‚ social behavior and personal development are being set up in the family; as a result‚ there
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aluminum remelt facility called Alexin. I was one of three invited to make the move from western Kentucky by the presidents of Alexin because of my knowledge of the industry‚ my reputation as a hard worker‚ and my positive attitude. In the past nine years a lot has changed. Even though I know longer work in the aluminum industry‚ I still pride myself on my knowledge‚ reputation‚ and attitude. The job has changed‚ but what it takes to be successfully in any occupation has not. I left the industrial
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This is a letter to someone that I am proud to call my mentor. My definition of a mentor is someone you can look up to and try to emulate regardless of the topic. GySgt Alberson is the Marine I have choosen to write about because he leads by example. This Marine though our incounters have been few always left me with new ideas or words to live by. On day back in 2005 the communication’s platoon decided to play ultimate fresibe for fun and leave the invitation open for anyone who wanted to play
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When it comes to personal strengths and weakness in writing‚ most people are probably good at getting the work done on time and struggle when it comes to spelling and double checking their work‚ however I’m the complete opposite. I am generally a great speller and have pretty good sentence structure‚ but when it comes to getting the work done when I should‚ I always have a hard time. After identifying and understanding my weaknesses‚ I hope to turn them into strengths to better my writing. Unlike
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My Personal Hero What do you think of when someone says a hero? Superman? Batman? When I think of a hero I think of ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Doug Stork is an ordinary man doing extraordinary things for his family and the community. What makes Doug Stork so extraordinary? He is funny‚ intelligent‚ and inspiring but how does that make him a hero? He inspires me to be funny and intelligent. He tells his eight grandchildren stories‚ teaches them about cattle and how to fix things
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My Distorted Foot The Story of My Search Three years ago I was told‚ to have flat feet‚ high arches and an extra bone in my foot. Me being my curious self‚ I was wondering what this all means and what this could cause in my life? “Could I continue playing soccer?” “How long have I had this?” “Can I still do physical activities?” I already knew that I had an extra bone‚ because of the everlasting pain that it would put me in when trying shoes that were not wide enough for my foot. I also
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Types of Depression Depression is now considered as the most common mental illness. As of September 20‚ 2012‚ the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported that about 9 percent of Americans are experiencing depression and 90 percent of suicidal reports are commonly caused by depression. The brain has a certain chemicals that work to keep your moods balanced. When your brain is not generating enough of these chemicals‚ there’s a tendency for you to become depressed. Depression is commonly referred
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I first began looking at colleges my freshman year of high school. First‚ I looked up schools I thought seemed interesting and had majors I thought I may want to develop and pursue a career in. My list started off with about 20 schools and by sophomore year I would need to break it down to about 10. I began to visit these schools 1 by 1 and saw the type of programs they had to offer. I began at colleges such as Wake Forest‚ Clemson‚ and University of Tennessee at Knoxville. But I could tell that
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