European as they come. My fraternal grandparents came over from Denmark and if we go a little further back‚ my maternal extended family‚ came over on the Mayflower (John Alden to be exact) from England and Ireland. At some point they all landed in the Midwest either in Wisconsin or Minnesota. We have always enjoyed a combined heritage experience when it comes to special holidays such as Christmas and Easter‚ but we have also been fortunate to share in Ramadan‚ Seders and other experiences due to the progressiveness
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Courtney Craig October 25th 2009 SLS Reid M/T/W 8:00 My Community College Experience So far my community college experience has been the best I’ve ever had. I have enjoyed the freedom‚ my coursework‚ and all the new friends I’ve made. When I first started college‚ I wasn’t excited at all. I just knew that the work wasn’t going to be as difficult as a university and I basically saw the whole idea as a joke. After just a couple of short months at Florida State College of Jacksonville‚ I
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My tutoring session came at the near the end of my writing process‚ but it could be helpful at any point. In particular‚ I was in the Editing stage‚ as presented by James D. Williams in Preparing to Teach Writing. The other stages are Invention‚ Planning‚ Drafting or scribing
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My Experience as a Kiva Fellow Kiva is a non-profit organization with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. Kiva combines the poverty alleviating power of microfinance with the mass participation of the internet. It lets individuals lend as little as $25 to help create opportunity around the world. Since 2005‚ nearly 570‚000 people have used Kiva.org to fund +$200M in microloans through MFIs to more than 526‚000 working poor entrepreneurs around the world. Source: Kiva
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Freak. Fag. Lesbo. Queer. Tranny. Eath insult is more hateful than the last. Every since I began to present and identify as male and experiment with my gender expression‚ I have experience a wide variety of reactions. Some could be simply be chalked up as not understanding or a result of close mindedness. But many reactions have a specific reason behind them. Transphobia. Transphobia is when someone treats a transgender person negatively because of their gender identity and/or expression. It can
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An Experience That Changed My Life Valen C. Hocog English 101-10 Dr. David Khorram February 09‚ 2011 Seven years ago I gave birth to a healthy boy who changed everything about me and my life. Before his birth I was an optimistic person who only thought of the fun things that would make my day. I was an immature girl without a care in the world. After his birth I grew up‚ stopped partying‚ and took on the responsibility that was gifted to me. It has not been a breezy walk
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My First Military Experience The date was September 23rd 2003. I was leaving my home for the first time; I had been dreading the unknown of entering basic military training for months. I knew difficult challenges would lie ahead‚ but little did I know what changes were about to become of me in my first military experience. The trainees were stuffed into the bus like sardines; I was shoved to the very back on the floor by exit sign. The smell of fear and the odor of a gym locker room filled the
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work I felt the need to get away from it all‚ to rest and relax‚ and to broaden my perspective of the world. I made reservations for six solo days of scuba diving in Croatia. I was excited‚ nervous‚ even a little scared of traveling alone. I told myself that I’m 36 years old‚ have two kids‚ and lived in another country‚ so I held my head high‚ bid my friends farewell and took off. Upon arrival in Croatia I picked up my rental car at the airport in Zagreb. I got on the A1 motorway and pointed the
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My experience of Problem Posing Paulo Freire demonstrates two types of educational concepts in “The Banking Concept of Education”‚ which are banking concept and problem posing. My personal experience with education illustrates Freire’s “problem posing” concept mostly. The reason might be I went to high school in the U.S and most of the American teachers from high school are relaxed when they teach‚ because the education system is not that serious as in China. In my point of view‚ problem posing
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My experiences of playing a sport Two years ago‚ I went to visit my relatives in Nha Trang and I tried playing scuba-diving. It was my wonderful experiences. First day‚ my cousin – a diving instructor of VietNam Dive Center (VinaDive) – invited me to take part in a scuba-diving tour. I thought it was a great idea and I was very interested. This was a chance of overcoming my fear of water. Next day‚ my cousin taught me about dive equipment‚ how to breathe and move underwater‚ basic skills and safe
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