wrestling experience‚ to an intensive weeklong‚ two-a-day wrestling camp. There I was‚ thrown into the deep-end‚ without a clue of how to wrestle. The other wrestlers constantly tossed me‚ took me down‚ and turned me on my back. The bruises and mat burns started appearing as I was beaten over and over again. This was not a fun experience. Battered and bruised‚ on the verge of tears‚ I told my brother that I couldn’t do this camp. I’ll never forget how he responded. "If you quit now
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talking about my 8th grade year when I had played basketball for the Dupree Tigers and how it had a big impact on me. This event had occurred last year and was a very fun experience for me which also brought me very close with everyone who was on the basketball team that year. Everyone who can’t play again this year will be missed and no one will be forgotten because of how much fun everyone had been on the team because there isn’t only just bragging rights‚ ability to dunk‚ or how much points you scored
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A Snowboard Have you ever seen a giant before? I have. I’ve seen colossal white giants at Lake Tahoe before‚ and the story of the first time I experienced one up close is what will hopefully get me an A on this assignment (Mr. Maples‚ please have mercy on my C+). I remember how at that time the mountain’s raw and terrifying glare already frightened me enough to reconsider my actions and choose to give away to fear. What did I‚ a small‚ scrawny 9 year old boy‚ do in the face of these giants? Believe
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While reading the Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass‚ I received an inside look on Frederick Douglass’ life as a slave and how he was mistreated. While serving his time as a slave‚ Frederick took this opportunity to learn how to read and write. The concept of this essay is to see if learning to read and write impacted or changed Douglass life in a positive or negative way. I will be answering to this quote in chapter 6‚ pg. 20 “… she very kindly commenced me in learning to spell words of
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to the dugout‚ and my teammates high-fiving each other‚ our coach‚ said we needed to score 2 more runs to win the game‚ 10 minutes later‚ we were celebrating‚ that we won the last game of the season. All the coaches‚ lecturing us on our season‚ about our ‘ups and downs’ all had a happy expression. At the end of the huddle‚ we all rushed to the table with our grumbling stomach‚ and our dirty hands‚ taking fried rice‚ somen salad‚ chili‚ rice‚ and hot dogs from tinfoil trays. We sat down and gorged
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But still then they couldn’t get an advantage‚ So minutes later one of their kids came up to me and said “ you’re so fu*&$#ng ugly ‚ and keep in my mind my family used to own you”‚ and at first I thought that I disregarded that comment‚ but I made a crucial error in the windup of the game which costed my team the victory.At the end of the game‚ I confronted this kid and in doing so I received a red card and was suspended for
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understanding of a large natural environment Credits: Four You should answer ALL parts of ALL questions in this booklet. If you need more space for any answer‚ use the page(s) provided at the back of this booklet and clearly number the question. Check that this booklet has pages 2–11 in the correct order and that none of these pages is blank. YOU MUST HAND THIS BOOKLET TO YOUR TEACHER AT THE END OF THE ALLOTTED TIME. You are advised to spend 60 minutes answering the questions in this
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We had about a half hour drive to the rental shop for my dad and I to get rental skis. My sister already had skis because she races for the school Nordic team. Once we had gotten our skis‚ we started driving to the trailhead and my dad and I slowly began to re-think ourselves. We got to the trailhead‚ put on our skis‚ and after about 20 minutes of skiing around what we thought was a short loop‚ we got a bit concerned. We knew that
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My Hockey Adventures As winter approached‚ my parents constantly bothered me about choosing a winter sport. Because I was only in the sixth grade‚ my options for sports within the middle school were basketball‚ dance‚ or cheerleading. Luckily‚ I thought outside of the box and suggested hockey to my parents‚ even though my school did not have a team. A couple of my friends who played for the Mandan Hockey Club had helped me convince my parents to let me give it a try. The next week I was already
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I asked my dad a lot of questions about fish but he would always kind of blow them off. Im not sure if that is because he really didn’t care‚ he didn’t know‚ or maybe a little bit of both. I always found the anatomy of it to be so fascinating‚ the way everything was placed so perfectly and everything was there for a reason. When my dad was done extracting the filet I stood there and explored
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