My mother‚ “Regina Hopkins‚” has been a positive influence in my life. She has raised 6 kids all by herself as well as earned a Bachelor’s degree in nursing from a City College in Gainesville‚ Florida. My mother has been through pretty much everything a person can go through outside of war and was still able to be there and provide for all 6 of her kids. In high school‚ my mother wanted to play football and couldn’t because she was a girl and back-in-the-day women were not allowed to play football
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In the August before my sophomore year of high school‚ a challenge emerged. My dad had passed away. Of course you would read that and automatically think about how that would affect me in many ways. However no one‚ not even myself‚ was aware of the many challenges that went with this. Death was something new to me. I had never had to deal with someone close to me passing. I had experienced my friends losing a grandparent or a distant relative‚ but it had not affected me terribly much. I always considered
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told my mother and I about a surgery that could practically change my whole life. He had said that if I didn’t go through with with this surgery that in the future I could end up being paralyzed. Of course my mom pushed me to do this surgery‚ as all parents do. My eleven year old mind went everywhere thinking of every scenario I could think of. As soon as I got home I did what I usually did read than played some Wii sports resort‚ which may I say I’m pretty good at‚ and lastly playing my flute
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I just finished my volleyball game‚ and my team won‚ I walked outside the gym to see my best friend standing there telling me I did awesome‚ we hugged said goodbye to each other and I left for home. I then went outside to watch my neighbors kids for four hours‚ then went inside and played Wii with my dad. That’s when it all changed. I looked at my IPhone 3GS and read the most devastating text I had ever received from my best friend‚ “Taylor‚ you need to change who you are‚ no one likes you…” This
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Personal Narrative The day right after Halloween‚ of the year of 2014‚ was the day of my Uncle’s‚ Pollo’s funeral. It has been 2 weeks since he died in a hospital. Here is an excerpt from a daily action news‚ “A Red Bluff man who was beaten unconscious last week has died from his injuries officials announced Monday.Red Bluff Police were called to fight in progress on the 700 block of South Jackson Street just after 5 p.m. Wednesday. When officers arrived
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Carlson Final Copy My life in High School I spent the first two year of high school at Westland High in Columbus Ohio. Those years were somewhat average and most of the time I felt board‚ even though I was on the track team. One of the more unusual things that occurred was that a classmate‚ who I had talked with many times and who sat by me in a few classes murdered his parents! I spent the rest if high school at Grove City High School‚ after moving there in my junior year. My senior year was
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grade I wanted to tryout for volleyball. I was very nervous because I had never played it before. I was super happy when I found out all my friends and I made the team. We had a lot of practices in December to get ready for games in January. I was really nervous for our first game. Our first game was supposed to be right after christmas break ended‚ but we had a snow day so it was cancelled. I wished it hadn’t been so I could just get it over with‚ but i was gonna have to wait. We were scheduled for another
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"When you both were married on the same day I born then why don’t you invite me on your wedding‚ now remember‚ I will not invite you people on my wedding"‚ the first time I angrily asked this to my dad on my second birthday when I could not even speak correctly. The same question I would ask my dad every birthday using the same words. The same answer I got with a kindly smile‚ "because you were new born and were so delicate to come". My birthday celebration was an amalgam of excitement‚ joy‚ and
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Everyone wishes they could changed an event in their life‚ myself being no exception. It almost has a weight upon me‚ after years‚ the one biggest regret in my life. The day my mother died. Her and I never had the best of relationships‚ she struggled with mental issues and drug abuse‚ and was never around me‚ which created a certain disconnection between the two of us. It almost seemed like a portion of my visits always ended in some form of argument. Even at a younger age I almost felt like the
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fathers. For me this statement rings true as my parents passed their guilt and shame about their ancestry on to me. I grew up in Los Angeles‚ the daughter of a biracial father and a German mother‚ and attended a coed private school from pre-K to 6th grade. During the summers my brothers and I went to Germany. Although I felt strong ties to my German heritage my mom never spoke about what it was like to grow up under fascism in Nazi Germany. Similarly‚ my father did not speak about his family and
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