My First Skydiving Experience "Jumping is fun! Skydiving is not just falling; it is flying—the closest we have been able to come to free‚ unencumbered‚ non-mechanical individual flight‚" says Mike Turoff in the book The Skydiver’s Handbook. I totally agree with him because skydiving provides the maximum liberty that one can ever experience. In this article‚ I’d like to describe to you my first jump in order to show you how much fun skydiving is. First of all‚ I learned about skydiving via the
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today I see my seven year old self sitting at the wooden dining room table in front of filling page‚ pencil in my right hand and yellow crayon in my left hand. Eager and ecstatic my right hand writes faster than my mind can think; seconds later my left hand colors in doodles as I gave rest to the rhetoric. (Semicolon) What could a seven year old boy be so happy about writing about though? Well‚ Spongebob of course. Growing up I was an avid viewer of Spongebob which ultimately led to my Nebo sensation
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to engage in a pediatric simulation with my clinical group. The simulation took place in the simulation lab at Western Regional School of Nursing. My clinical group‚ two nursing instructors‚ and I were present during the event. Our clinical group was there because it was a clinical component of our pediatric clinical rotation. We were required to apply our knowledge and use critical thinking during the simulation‚ acting as if it were a real life experience. Our clinical group was separated into two
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I was hospitalized for three weeks at Seattle Children’s after enduring emergency surgery to remove a rare tumor in my large intestine. What I figured was random stomach pain was life threatening. Since I have endured so much in my life‚ it is not easy for me to be emotional. When I found out that I needed surgery in a mere few hours I did not know how to process my emotions. Being in the hospital taught me that I need to take what may seem meaningless as something that could be serious. I learned
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Writing is a universal skill and it is my skill. It takes effort and passion to become a writer. Then‚ using writing as a catalyst for expressing yourself and creating art. Proceeding my skill‚ I believe I was a different person. I had no way of expressing myself which is very important to me. I could not paint‚ draw‚ or sing so the creativity and feelings in my mind had nowhere to go. This frustration made me irrational and hypersensitive to others and myself. I would act immature and exaggerate
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My Experience from India The one foreign country I have been to is India‚ and it has changed the person I am today very drastically. The last time I visited India was April 2011‚ and that is when I realized most of the things I did‚ and it helped me change my outlook on a lot of things. For example‚ it gave me a completely different perspective on poverty‚ which is something they have a lot of in India. Living in Canada‚ I have not seen much of poverty‚ but after seeing the substantial number
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self-assessment on my writing I always got good grades in English back in high school‚ but I was a student of the digital age so computers were always my backbone. They have document outlines for pretty much everything (essays‚ journals‚ letters etc.). Spelling and grammar check also play big roles in my writing today. I have to admit that if these tools were no longer available to me‚ and I had to depend on just paper and pen alone‚ I would have a rough time with my writing. As a matter of
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think about my writing skills‚ I can identify several strengths and weaknesses. In regards to my strengths‚ I believe I do an excellent job avoiding repetition which helps ensure my writing is not redundant. I also believe that my writing is very direct and I do not ramble. Although I feel I’m proficient in proof reading other people’s writing‚ I find it difficult to critique my own. I am good at brainstorming ideas; however‚ I find it is difficult to express them. As I evaluate my additional
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My Mindful Experience The mindful experience of eating involves multiple processes. Every process has to take a certain amount of time and be savored just long enough to be defined as mindful. Physically‚ the food has to be eaten slowly‚ eaten in small pieces‚ chewed several times‚ and swallowed gradually. Mentally‚ each bite of food has to be filled with enjoyment‚ focused on with all attention without any judgement‚ and it is very important during mindful eating to know what exactly is being
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academic weaknesses. Those weaknesses‚ being reading and writing. I had never been comfortable or confident while reading or handing written work. This struggle with reading and writing has made me unambitious in the past. I had not motivated to go to college and I made the decision to go to college but only to please my parents. My plans have since changed‚ in 2012 after recently graduating high school‚ I gave birth to my son. He became my motivation to go to college and excel; to set a good example
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