One day I was watching the news and they said that a hurricane called Harvey was coming to Houston and it was at category 4. I was shock and frightened of the hurricane because I didn’t knew what to do. I was watching the news the whole week‚ while school was cancelled. It was one rainy day that I started to watch the news and I saw that people were stuck in their homes and needed help to get out there homes. A lot of people had to evacuate their homes because of warnings of flooding but some people
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Subpar Experience I don’t think I had ever been so frustrated and annoyed in my life. I couldn’t believe what was taking place right in front of me. At the time I was unaware of the effect that it would have on me for years to come. My sophomore year in highschool‚ I was on the Cle Elum-Roslyn High School golf team. I had struggled all year long‚ staying after practice countless times so my coach‚ Wade‚ could teach me how to perfect my shot. Previously that season‚ I had gone to one tournament.
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Boom! I remember hearing those sounds on September 11‚ 2001 when I was aboard United Flight 93. That day has impacted the rest of my life and the way I live now. I can recall those events like it was yesterday. I woke up tired on a beautiful‚ sunny‚ Tuesday morning. It was the day I had to fly to San Francisco for my job on a cruise ship. I had been in between cruises‚ so I had taken the chance to come see my parents in Newark‚ New Jersey. Later I realized that it could have cost me dearly. I changed
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life forever.I had my first known seizure and it was perhaps the scariest moment in my life. It wasn’t the seizure that scared me‚ mostly because i was asleep when it happened‚ but it was the way my mother and father reacted. It was as if they had just seen a ghost. They were in disbelief. I could tell by the way they were looking at me that something terrible had just happened and nobody‚ including the paramedics was telling me what happened. All i know is that it had felt like I had ran a marathon
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baring treacherous conditions only for a chance to strike fortune. From a conflicting viewpoint ‚ the passage “A Woman Who Went to Alaska” by May Kellogg Sullivan shares a slightly different view‚ considering the miners got the pleasure of coming across a property of riches but only to have their riches stolen from their grasp by the government. Going over these excerpts I can gather the life of a miner was full of uncertainty‚ laws‚ and endless loss. First and foremost‚ uncertainty caused miners’
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the conditions‚ the better I do‚” Kostelic once said. Caspio has its own Janica Kostelic in Professional Services and Customer Support Director Bahareh Mahdavi. Whether speeding down black diamond slopes‚ sky-diving from thousands of feet in the air or leading her team to meet its goals‚ Bahareh is a thrill-seeking adventurer who treats each day at work as a challenge to overcome with commitment and enthusiasm. On her tenth anniversary at Caspio‚ we learn more about her exciting life and career
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I shifted in my seat uncomfortably‚ and looked again at the clock on the wall and sighed. Barely ten minutes have passed since I arrived here and I was already longing to go back home to crawl under the covers and just hide from the whole world because everything seemed to bother me‚ the ticking of the clock on the wall‚ the sound of laughter or maybe it was the idea of other people being so happy and full of sunshine and remembering that this was me just a few days ago before I found out that the
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go to Roaring River State Park and My brother and I were told we get to go this year. Usually the people that get to go are my dad‚ his brother/my uncle John‚ my dad’s dad‚ and my dad’s sister’s husband/my uncle Andy. It was the Brooks family guys trip. This year was time for us kids to go be with our Uncles‚ dads‚ and Gramps. My brother and I had no clue what trout fishing was like. It was a time to spend with family‚ experience something we had never done before‚ and make memories that would last
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Greetings‚ honorable judges and all participants. I’m number…. To begin with‚ I am a super fan of Pokémon‚ just like most of the players now. I remember sitting in front of the television after kindergarten every day with my brother‚ chewing doughnuts‚ humming the theme songs‚ waiting for it to start. Following it was a two hour marathon. The story‚ to me‚ was so fascinating that it was carved deeply in my mind‚ including the names of the Pokémon‚ that’s a must. That was how intense the feeling
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“Will I be ready when my chance comes?” As the Sutton girl’s basketball team traveled to Fairbury in late January‚ we had no idea that our chance for this moment would happen. The score went back and forth the whole game. Nobody in the crowded stands could guess which team would come out on top. The lead switched between Fairbury and Sutton almost every possession. As the buzzer sounded to end the third quarter‚ we knew the game was far from over. We were trailing Fairbury by two points. I sat
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