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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People are like clay in the process of being sculpted‚ always changing and never be the same afterwards. We age‚ learn and grow everyday of our lives. Sometimes we experience events that change us in some way and we can look back on that event and recognize a difference before and after that moment. A life-changing experience that greatly contributed to forming the person I am today occurred during a three day confirmation retreat. I was born and raised Catholic‚ so it was expected that I would
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When I was thinking about writing this journal post a particular experiences came into my head. I pushed it aside for the fact that it didn’t fit the criteria for this journal. However‚ after struggling trying with writer’s block‚ I gave in to my original thought. The experience I am going to be talking about doesn’t fit the criteria of being a patient/nurse interaction because I wasn’t with a “patient” or in a clinical setting. On the night of Saturday‚ October 11th‚ Logan and I went out for a typical
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Kenny Haymon Mrs. LeBrun English 1010- Final 27 April 2006 Death Penalty Suitable for First Degree Murders The death penalty is morally right and just for people convicted of first-degree murder. Those who disagree should take a serious look at the issue at hand. They must remember that no one ever has to be executed. If no one ever murdered‚ no one would ever be executed. Those who oppose the death penalty act as if murderers are innocent people fighting for their lives. This could not
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various ways throughout their lives. One of my favorite teachers always used to say‚ " Life is not always a matter of holding good cards; on occasion‚ it requires being able to play a poor hand well." As a sophomore in high school‚ I had to face my first real challenge with adversity. My parents had to leave me on my own for multiple weeks on end to help support another sibling in a different state. Adversity had hit me in this stage of my life‚ because I was in a position where I had to mature faster
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medications‚ rather than looking to your inner self for help‚ you’ll have lost yourself in the process. I encourage myself to be free and do the things I want to do‚ not the things I think I should do. Life is beautiful‚ and I owe it to myself to experience
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MTAC‚ the Music Teacher’s Association of California. What does that mean? It means that I will be competing in one of the biggest‚ and hardest competition in California again. It would be the 3rd time in this competition for me‚ after failing the first time‚ and barely achieving ‘Honorable Mention’ the second time. I knew that this was my chance‚ my chance to finally show all the critics‚ all the people that believed I was just a talentless girl with extremely well-known teachers‚ that I actually
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My writing experiences has had a big effect in my life‚ although they have been troublesome. It was the first time in my life that I can recall feeling bad about myself which I was affected by name spelling‚ bullying‚ and anger issues. Learning how to spell my name seemed as if it would to be an easy task. chraels. There‚ I was finished. I lifted my right hand contemplating to myself‚ I was intelligent. I’m the first to finish‚ I don’t need any help. Then it came‚ my teacher told me a comes before
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As humans‚ we are constantly plagued by our own mortality. Death is one of the many things that we simply cannot escape‚ try as we might. This hopelessness has remained a constant throughout the entirety of man’s short existence‚ and will continue so. However‚ as with just about anything else‚ this sense of despair rises and falls in relation to the times. For example‚ wars exacerbate this; and WWI is not an exception to this‚ in fact this era contained more of this awareness of one’s impending doom
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As a mode of expository writing‚ the narrative approach‚ more than any other‚ offers writers a chance to think and write about themselves. We all have experiences lodged in our memories‚ which are worthy of sharing with readers. Yet sometimes they are so fused with other memories that a lot of the time spent in writing narrative is in the prewriting stage. When you write a narrative essay‚ you are telling a story. Narrative essays are told from a defined point of view‚ often the author’s‚ so there
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