My experience with failure came with athletics. For my whole life I have always been involved in sports like soccer‚ tennis‚ basketball. When I was in the fourth grade I joined a swim team and that was the first and really only sport that I stuck with; swimming came naturally to me‚ and it was something that I could do year round and I loved every minute of it. However‚ once I was in high school I stopped swimming and joined my high school’s cross country team. My dad was a runner all throughout
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I have had plenty of adversity in my life‚ but I never knew it. I only realized this aspect of my life when a family member said it. Epilepsy is something that my family and I have dealt with for about twelve years; since I was about six years old. We never gave up on pushing seizures out of the picture. We have driven three hours to Cincinnati‚ Ohio for the years in which I have known about epilepsy. I have taken countless types of medicines for the issue‚ and recently got the VNS implant. As
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bad day or issues are on my mind‚ the one place I go is the golf course alone. It was a scorching hot day and my mom dropped me off. I told her to come back in an hour and a half. I grabbed my golf bag and threw them on my back like a bag of bricks and begin to carry it over to the range. As I walked by the first tee box the workers were packing up for the day and heading home. I could hear lock on the door click and I knew I would be one of the few people out this late. In the sky the sun graced
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athletic experience. So I did it and I joined the wrestling team at my junior high. It was a very different hobby as I had never been in a match or even know what It was about. As time came I started understanding more and more until I got better at the sport. A couple of days before my first match I earned a varsity spot. I felt like I wasn’t ready‚ but that wasn’t gonna stop me from going out there and doing the best I can. When the day came I was very nervous. I was so nervous I felt my heart beating
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Throughout my childhood‚ I’ve been exposed to a variety of socioeconomic environments which have given me a broad world view. When I was four years old‚ my family emigrated from Pakistan to Detroit. My parents‚ who were trained physicians in Pakistan‚ weren’t licensed to practice in the U.S. My father became a bartender and my mother a maid to pay for our one bedroom apartment in the projects. It was difficult but my parents sheltered my brother and I the best they could. I remember when the only
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A feeling so intense that you wished that you never have to experience it again. I am not someone who possesses a weak heart. I have always considered myself a brave and calm individual. But I guess there is a point in life when even the bravest of hearts are tested to their limits. This is no different. It was May 3rd‚ 2007 just another day. I had classes in the morning. As it was a Thursday‚ I stayed back and spent some time with my friends after school. We had chicken broast for lunch at Helvatia
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years‚ I spent the majority of my summer training for football. I didn’t hate it or else I would have quit the team and done something else with my life‚ but at the same time I felt as if we were given no break from football. It felt like it was an all year long sport. To me football didn’t just show me how to run the ball‚ how to catch a ball‚ and how to tackle. Football also gave me very many life lessons and experiences that I will never forget. Especially‚ one experience where I was racially profiled
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Experience of Being a Woman All throughout history‚ we see a trend between the greatest rulers and most powerful figures of all time; they are almost always men. Men have always been the world’s Kings and leaders‚ and have been expected in history to look after their families and provide for them. While the good kings of time had their ladies by their side‚ we rarely see in history a woman being put in the highest position of power. However‚ the last few decades of history have seen women gather
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that brought new experiences to my plate. On Wednesday evening‚ my clinical instructor and I ran Sr. Barn Buddies. This is a group of six teenagers that have autism. These individuals are great‚ but need help with appropriate social interactions and some personal care. Four boys and two girls attend the one and a half hour session every Wednesday evening. I was not really sure how to feel about doing this session because some of them can have behaviors and they are twice my size. These kids
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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 than most of my peers. Because
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