that prior to this I had never spoken English before. So as a five year old little Hispanic girl‚ I was faced with quite a predicament—learning to read and write in a language I could not speak or understand. I still remember my first day of school. I remember approaching the classroom which was filled with chattering and laughter. I remember my teacher trying to communicate with me. As I tried to recall the English I heard in my cartoons and Disney movies‚ I understood only about forty percent of
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When I hear the date "9/11" I rapidly drown in the saddest kind of nostalgic thoughts and emotions. Although many years have gone by since the devastating events of 9/11‚ its memory and the feelings it evokes remains immortal. In retrospect‚ I was five years old during the time of the attacks and I wasn’t even living in the United States. Nevertheless‚ as I was too young to fully understand the magnitude of the attacks‚ seeing how an event that took place thousands of miles away from me had the ability
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Never have I felt so important in my life. The experience of having hundreds probably even thousands of people coming on the court to celebrate the hard work me and my teammates have put in to make it that far. Nothing else can compare to it. I believe hitting the game winning shot for the state championship is a one of a kind accomplishment. I remember that game like it was yesterday. We started off really bad in the first half of the game. Many turn overs and stupid shots that had us thinking
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ending with: "...I wish I had spent more time with him. But it is too late now." ’Must you go?" asked Timmy‚ with pleading eyes. I kept quiet for a few moments. " Timmy...I promise you‚ I’ll be back. It’s only three years. I will still keep in touch with you even though I’m thousands miles away from you. I promise‚ I’ll come and visit you during my semester breaks." Timmy gave a reluctant nod and since then on‚ I only saw him in real every four months. Timmy was a 6 years old boy I met during a volunteer
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first time that I discovered that I loved football‚ was when I was playing football. My whole life I have been told i’m a really tough kid‚ and at the time I was a soccer player. My sixth grade year playing soccer I started to be more rough when I played. It got to the point where I was nicknamed the bulldozer. I was at the level when kids would start to flop to get the penalty. I then realized that I didn’t want to play a sport where you had to fake being hurt. So the next year I joined the football
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Test 1 Study Guide Ch. 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4 Ch. 1: The Road to Autonomous Learning Explain what the book means by a Quality World. The people we most want to be with The things we most want to own or experience The ideas or systems of belie that govern our behavior What are the four major arenas of life? Belief‚ Work‚ Relationships‚ and Service Define Academic Transformation: Process whereby you assess your current situation as a student‚ determine short and long term academic goals
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I felt this sense of fear‚ but I knew it was just nervousness. It caused my whole body to tremble. I creeped onto the field and pass by the fifty girls and all of the coaches. Just me walking by everyone gave me this ginormous knot in my stomach‚ it made me feel like I was going to pass out right on the field. I was breathing heavy‚ like I just ran a marathon. I was beyond nervous just to be the new girl on the field. I was scared of what the girls thought of me‚ and how the coaches thought I would
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Ivan IV (The Terrible) Pretend that the greatest leader to ever rule your country wanted to resign. You would want him to come back‚ but the price of that is to give him complete and absolute power. Would you pay that price? The people of Russia did‚ and as soon as Ivan IV came back‚ he killed them by the thousands. Ivan Vasilyevich began as Tsar at the age of 16. He was a great ruler for the first part of his life. He unified‚ and vastly improved his country‚ creating a more modern government
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I consider myself someone who is a people person. I have always enjoyed interacting and working with others as opposed to working on a task by myself. My experiences have taught me that it has always been in situations that involve team dynamics or social interactions (starting in high school as rugby captain) that I have thrived both as a leader and as a firm contributor towards a common goal. I start off with this point because to me it seems that one must have the ability to lead others and to
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The front cover of The Ivory Trail‚ by Victor Kelleher‚ reveals quite a lot about what the novel is about. It also attracts the attention of the reader using color‚ images and text. The text reveals that the novel involves a long journey made by the protagonist. The main colors used are orange‚ red‚ and black. These colors suggest eeriness and mystery. The color red suggests anger and rage‚ which is possibly felt by the main character at some point in the novel. The four graphics on
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