demands all of your attention. Concussions are selfish. They do not care about the project you have to finish or the phone call you have to make to your grandma because they dictate all of your actions‚ they have complete control of you regardless of what you have planned. I was still fourteen by the time I experienced my first concussion. The day was absolutely beautiful. The sun was scorching everyone’s skin as we all raced to my school’s dirt field searching for the shade the trees would throw across
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Senioritis Senioritis is commonly known around all high schools. According to the Merriam Webster‚ this term means an ebbing of motivation and effort by school seniors as evidenced by tardiness‚ absences‚ and lower grades. Senioritis is also considered a psychotic disorder. This word is not an actual sickness or disease in high school seniors‚ it’s just laziness because they’re getting close to the end. History According to the Senioritis blog‚ senioritis is mostly common in the western cultures
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December 15‚ 2007‚ My daughter’s birthday. I was stuck in afghanistan fighting a war. We were patrolling through a town heading back toward our extraction point. I was travelling with the commanding officer‚ and 4 others we walked for several miles and it was scorching hot. i was just ready to get back to base to get to some food. we hopped over a small wall heading down a road that lead to an abandoned town‚ machine-gun fire started up‚ echoing all around me. The thing about being shot at by a
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My first injury is what happened in May of this year (2016). I had dropped a 8-foot bench on my foot after cleaning up the lodge that my class was staying in. I had gone to Urgent Care and they x-rayed my foot as a bruise to the bone with a possible hairline fracture. My foot was to swollen to see if it has a fracture yet and the doctor had told me that within a week it could be seen. The injury is on the middle of my left foot. You can still tell it is injured and is still a bit swollen. Along with
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The purpose of this paper is to share my first deployment experience as the first sergeant. Serving in a war zone is an experience you will never forget. As a result of my first deployment to Afghanistan as a first sergeant‚ I practiced a new perspective on life‚ instilling trust in my Soldiers and NCOs to continue the mission. Perspective that I developed from the beginning with the pre-deployment preparation at the National Training Center (NTC) through the actual deployment to Afghanistan and
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smell the popcorn‚ nachos‚ pretzels‚ and mostly what I smell is sweat mixed with a dingy dirt. I’m thinking in my mind‚ “We all have to give it our all to win the game.” So I put on my dirt crusted‚ sweat smelling glove on and hustle out to the red brick chipped field. I’m playing short stop‚ the most difficult position to play‚ and was told not to let any hits go past me. The first hit off the aluminum composite bat was sent straight up the middle in a line shot that the other team thought was
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loud‚ it could be heard in china. The town were very grateful for these two young boys‚ well‚ for the most part at least. Dan and Phil’s first day at school was quite interesting! They woke up‚ very excited for a new place‚ a new building. They got ready‚ put on their matching t- shirts and hopped into their parents flying car and made their way to school. At first‚ all of the children stared at the two like they were straight from a story book. The two boys walked by everyone slowly‚ And hiding his
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One midsummer afternoon in St. Augustine Florida‚ the beach was calling my name‚ and I was shouting right back at it. This was the norm for me in summer 2013. I had it pretty easy for the first sixteen years of my life‚ being able to go out with no responsibilities‚ no worry at all. I found myself lurking around the house until finally deciding to surf away my day with friends. While on the car ride home with my bothersome brother and sister I found myself suddenly finding the urge to become more
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people‚ my mom got laid off from her job as an insurance agent for the St. Paul Companies. Between both my parents we lived comfortably for the most part‚ but after she lost her job things started to change. With two young kids to take care of‚ my mom had to start cleaning houses as a temporary job‚ but money was still tight. Finally my parents decided it wasn’t going to work and she had to find a more stable job. The only way to do that was to go back to school. So in 2006 my mom went to school to become
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For Bellmont High School our band always does concessions for football‚ basketball and wrestling season. In order for us who are in band to get our patches for our letterman jacket we must do eight concessions. Although‚ if we don’t have eight concessions for each year done by the time we graduate the students‚ who don’t have them don‚ can’t graduate without paying a $100 fine. Well sometimes there are difficulties to get all eight in. I think that the people who don’t have their eight in shouldn’t
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