Eighteen years ago‚ my parents moved to the United States from Ukraine to create a better life for our family. Growing up here I found myself becoming easily accustomed to the American ways‚ but even though my family and I may have gotten used to that way of life we never lost sight of our Ukrainian culture. When I think about it‚ the best way that I can describe what my culture is like would be a jigsaw puzzle. When making a puzzle one begins with connecting as many pieces to each other until the
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father. He is the reason why I view a lot of things like I do. The reason why I don’t like alcoholics‚ reason why I don’t like violence‚ reason why I don’t like yelling/arguing. He has had the biggest impact on my life than anyone. July 18‚ 2001 is when it all started. When I was born. My mama always told me that he wasn’t there when I was born and that he took our jeep to go get drunk and such. I’m not sure when my mother divorced my dad‚ I was too young to remember. I don’t really remember much
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I used to be popular. I used to make friends as naturally as breathing. I used to be so sociable that adults would tire of hearing me speak. I used to find myself standing before the teacher’s desk‚ receiving some minor punishment for socializing too often. Then my family moved‚ and I lost all the relationships I had built up. I used to start all over again with the same level of enthusiasm as initially. And again. And again. Every time my family moved‚ I started to see less and less of
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How People Make Economic Decisions Paper University of Phoenix Eco 212 May 29‚ 2011 Economics plays a role in every person’s day-to-day life. One aspect that it plays apart in is decision making. For every decision that is made economics is applied. There are principles that relate to decision making. First is that for every decision made there are tradeoffs‚ to get one thing something else is given up. The next principle is for every decision made there is a cost. The cost is what was given
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I feel so nostalgic a lot of the time‚ watching the waves crashing into shore‚ people paddling out to hit the crests. I remember the feel of the water‚ the road of the wave‚ and the zen like moment when you hit that perfect pipe‚ and ride it halfway back to shore. I’ve been taking in a lot of the local Californian events lately‚ watching the new breed of surfer make their way out to the waves‚ hitting the spots I used to hit‚ part of me feels good‚ part of me misses it. I still hit the ocean when
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brother Reggie and I woke up and decided we were going to go fishing. It was a hot‚ sunny day like most of the days in Texas. We lived outside of Wichita Falls‚ Texas about ten miles near the Wichita river. My parents have about twenty acres of land that that the Wichita river runs through‚ we always went fishing there and caught a fifteen pound flathead at the most‚ but this trip was different. We set off at about seven in the morning so we could have plenty of time to fish‚ it was about a thirty minute
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I had heard talk of a mother’s love for her child before the day I had my own. I’d heard stories of a mother that gives her life to save her child’s. I’d seen that kind love expressed by my own mother everyday. I guess‚ I never thought it to be much different then the love a person feels for any other immediate family member. Boy‚ was I wrong. It’s not that I don’t love my other family unconditionally and entirely‚ but a mother’s love is undoubtably incomparable to any other. October‚ 20‚
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words now light something inside of me that I once never knew existed. Waking up with butterflies in my stomach‚ I had my first cross country meet. After months of intense training‚ it was time to display our fitness to the competition. The meet was at our home course‚ it had rained the night before and I swear I still remember the exact smell of the morning air. A combination of grass & mud‚ almost as if they were blended together to make a smoothie. I stepped out of Alyssa Schroeder’s silver car
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English 101 2/2/15 Narrative/Descriptive Writing Essay “I can’t wait for the day I can move out of this house‚ I’m sick of it‚” I exclaimed‚ teenage angst rising with every passing moment of silence. “And I’m sick of being treated like a little girl‚ like I can’t be anything without your help‚ I don’t need you.” Those last words burnt my throat on the way out. I could tell I hurt her‚ and I didn’t want to leave things like that‚ but I didn’t have a choice. It was 6 p.m. and I left her standing there
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room which I watch my grandfather unhurriedly lose his life in. As I walk away in desperation of wanting to see my grandfather one last time I turn my head back to see his wrinkly‚ run down face and he cracks his last smile at me and attempts to lift his limp arm to wave and be strong for me‚ the door closes. When the doctors closed the doors my mouth felt dry‚ my body felt weak‚ and my breathe felt cold and slowly but surely I felt as if a piece of my soul was being ripped out. I had looked at my
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