Fadi Hana English 1180 /S1624 February 8‚ 2012 What Made Me Today Growing up back home since I was a little kid I loved playing soccer. You might ask me where back home is. I am from Iraq specifically a small city in the north called Mosul. I kept on playing soccer through elementary and middle school. I had dreams of becoming a professional soccer player and play in the European professional soccer league. When I moved to the states and started high school I figured this would be my chance
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Tom’s Lament. Old Tom limped down the street in the warm rain. He was heading for the bar on the corner of Henderson Boulevard where he regularly went for an ice cold brew on hot summer afternoons. Come to think of it‚ he didn’t so much drink his beer‚ as sit in the corner nursing the same glass for hours at a time watching those perfectly round chilled droplets hit the mahogany countertop. A young sporting type‚ who looked remarkably similar to his youngest boy‚ approached him and offered him
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The Most Significant Experience which Made Me Who I am today. Life is an opportunity. It is a cycle of most valuable and treasured memories that even a ninety year old and a crippled person will not be able to erase and forget. It is an endless road that is full of laughter‚ sweat‚ tearful and most of all loneliness. The land was extremely barren for my eyes. The blue angry waves of the sea made me feel so anxious to paddle my daddy’s canoe to collect sea urchins and sea cucumbers‚ that I
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Bryce Sulin 1/30/11 Family Matters My favorite vacation was two summers back just before I entered high school. My family and I traveled to South Padre Island‚ Texas; located in the Gulf of Mexico; connected to Texas by only a long narrow bridge. I had high hopes for the vacation‚ but they took a plummet during the course of my vacation. Although much of my vacation was an utter disaster‚ I learned that with family you can make the best out of anything. My trip started out alright flying
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Pom-Poms and Megaphones: A Cheerleading Journey People underestimate the competitiveness and risks that go along with cheerleading. Some also do not consider it a sport‚ which is an unfortunate opinion. I took a tremendous risk when I decided to join the cheerleading team in seventh grade‚ although I had neither prior experience in cheerleading nor any sport for that matter. Being lanky and uncoordinated for most of my elementary years caused me to avoid any type of sports for the fear of embarrassment
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As many as 60‚000 small farmers in the region of Andhra Pradesh‚ southern India‚ have taken to farming cotton instead of food crops. Some 20 of them have recently committed suicide by eating lethal doses of pesticide. Most of the farmers are extremely poor. Attracted by cheap loans from pesticides traders and the prospect of a quick buck‚ they borrowed heavily to raise cotton on small plots of land. ________ to the Ministry of Agriculture‚ the crop losses and destruction in Andhra Pradesh arose
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RACHEL: It was January 10‚ 2007‚ and you were working at a computer lab in Waco. RUBEN: I got to work‚ and first thing I did was crank up my e-mail. I discovered one that I didn’t know who it was from‚ addressed to “RP Salazar.” I figured‚ Hey‚ my e-mail is almost the same‚ so they probably sent it to the wrong person. I dug up this Rachel Salazar name‚ and I wrote a little message — “Hi‚ Rachel‚ holá‚ it seems as if this message came to me instead of you. I’m in Waco‚ Texas‚ USA.” And the signature
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Unexpected Parenting I´ve always been inspired by many quotes in life‚ but Walt Disney couldn´t have said it better when he said: “It´s kind of fun to do the impossible.” Life throws many curve balls at you through out the years. But nothing like the surprise of being a dad. Being a parent taught me three important truths to live by. I can´t seem to say that I have accomplished the impossible‚ but trying the impossible on a daily basis has been extremely rewarding and fructiferous. I got one
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I raised my right army and swore‚ “I‚ state name‚ do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies‚ foreign and domestic; that I will obey the orders of the officers appointed over me‚ according to regulations and the uniform code of military justice. So help me God.” My body tensed as they took my fingerprints to finalize my enlistment with the U.S Army. I was to ship in a couple days that would change my life forever. Little did I know
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Natural Disaster What is natural disaster? A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction‚ lots of collateral damage or loss of life‚ brought about by forces other than the acts of human beings. General cause of natural disaster 1. Significant physical damage or destruction‚ loss of life‚ or drastic change to the environment. 2. Extensively defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ catastrophic accidents‚ fires‚ or explosions
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