Losing a game is not half bad but‚ losing an entire season is disastrous. It takes a toll on one’s confidence and makes one lose their interest and ability in that certain sport. And that is exactly what happened to me during my eighth grade basketball season. Although I wasn’t too good at basketball to begin with‚ I did have high hopes for our team. I believed my team and I could win conference that year‚ my last year at Glenside Middle School. We were a distinct group of kids from different cultures
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I was raised‚ since eight years of age in Canton‚ a northern community in Georgia. My upbringing was in a suburban setting‚ relatively quiet and with a lot of friendships developed right from my neighborhood. Except for vacations to Florida‚ most of my friends never left Canton and went to the same elementary‚ middle and high school. Our parents drove us to school‚ enrolled me in Lacrosse‚ baseball and football. I grew with‚ what I consider‚ a very normal American childhood. During the summer
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Bam! Crash! 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
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Every athlete always dreams of having that big moment. Hearing the crowd chant your school name as you make memories you will never forget. The moment where they reach one of the highest points in their career‚ but know it’s not the peak. They spend countless hours in the gym hoping that someday their moment will come. Thoughts run through their head‚ “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
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“ Rose clean this house and go to the market”‚ the crazed woman yelled. Only 14 rose is treated like a slave by her own mother‚ even worse she was terrified to go to the market. Although the market does not seem like a terrible place to visit‚ Rose would also have to visit her cousin on the way. Roy was much older and bigger than rose‚ he is almost 18. One week ago it started‚ Roy approached Rose on her way to the market. He confronted her of having a secret admirer‚ it was against her mother’s rules
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Surrounded by a massive ray of brightness‚ complete silence‚ I was just as shocked as my mother and father standing on the lush and thick grass. All I could see was my teammate‚ Zayna with her short‚ black‚ thick hair and the other team’s goalie. I was standing on the field right in front of the goal. Even at the age of 8 years old‚ one soccer goal would be a great accomplishment for me and would help me move forward in life. I was so excited when I joined my first soccer team‚ the Hornets‚ because
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The British-Australian mining company Rio Tinto and two of its former executives have been charged for hiding losses and inflating the value of African coal assets. The company bought the Mozambique assets in 2011 for 3.7 billion and sold it later for only 50 million. Despite these charges‚ the company won’t back down and will fight the charges. This comes at a time where coal energy is colliding with new forms of energy and many companies are starting to fight to stay relevant and keep coal as the
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Ever since Freshman year‚ weightlifting has been a massive part of my life. I originally began it as a way to become stronger‚ and faster‚ to make football more enjoyable‚ but it quickly evolved beyond that. I currently spend about three to four hours a day‚ four days a week weightlifting‚ building my body stronger and faster‚ without such a tangible reason any longer‚ other than what I figured out from my dead lift one rep max failure in fourth quarter of my junior year. It was a Friday‚ in late
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In 1992 the historic UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED‚ popularly known as the Earth Summit) held in Rio de Janeiro‚ Brazil witnessed unprecedented political will and commitment among governments to make a paradigm shift to sustainable development. Acknowledging the twin crises of poverty and the environment. About the Conference… United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) 2 week conference Largest gathering of world leaders in history “historic moment for
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at school about us moving but i couldn’t hold that for them. So at the end of the day I told the two of them that i was moving they were sad but they helped me and when I was sad they made me happy again.
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