this team yet‚ and I needed to work on my game and tryout next year. I was devastated; I could not believe it‚ I had thought I deserved to be on that team‚ but the coach did not. Without that day‚ I would not be here playing basketball on a scholarship for Wheeling Jesuit University. That day taught me so much. I came into that basketball tryout overconfident‚ like I had made the team already because I thought I was that good. In eighth grade I was the man in basketball. I could not be stopped
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Personal Essay Something so tragic couldn’t have happened on the best day of my life‚ "My Graduation Day." The day itself had actually been going very well indeed‚ and a seemingly endless surge of excitement had me going crazy! Things were going perfectly how I imagined it‚ I have been waiting for this day for 12 long years and just knowing the fact that it was here just drove me insane. The morning started out when I woke up and had a wonderful breakfast waiting for me out on the table with my
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and treats. I knew I couldn’t touch anything until mom and dad got up or I would get in trouble. :-) They usually relented and got up around 5:30 or 6:00 so I wouldn’t have to suffer too long. LOL I still love Christmas Eve more than Christmas Day. Little did I know as a kid‚ the anticipation actually made the night magical. Also‚ I remember throughout the holiday season my dad and I would lie on the floor with our heads under the Christmas tree just smelling the pine. We’d do it at night
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Communication Skills) Communication is an important facet of life. Communication skills are essential in all spheres of life. Be it an interview or dealing with the project leader or working out a solution with a team or writing a report‚ getting across the point effectively is what matters. The success of an endeavor hinges on the ability to communicate effectively in today’s fast paced life‚ everyone is asked to do more with less. In such a scenario effective communication holds the
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The Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos in Spanish) is a holiday celebrated mainly in Mexico and by people of Mexican heritage (and others) living in the United States and Canada. The holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and relatives who have died. The celebration occurs on the 1st and 2nd of November‚ in connection with the Catholic holy days of All Saints ’ Day and All Souls ’ Day which take place on those days. Traditions include building private
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readers believe that any one person can turn their life into something beautiful‚ even when all they have seen in their life is ugly? Based on this non-fiction poem the narrator finally realized his life wasn’t as bad as it could be. In Baca’s “Cloudy day‚” readers find a speaker very attuned to the outer world while being incarcerated. Born in New Mexico of Indio-Mexican descent‚ Jimmy Santiago Baca was raised first by his grandmother and later sent to an orphanage. A runaway at age 13‚ it was after
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The day of the Dead is a traditional celebration of Latin American Culture that is characterized by honoring the memory of people who have died. The origin of the celebration dates to thousands of years ago‚ during the indigenous civilization. It is celebrated in different ways depending of the Country where it takes place‚ but without a doubt Mexico is the Country where it manifests itself widely among its population ( Mendieta ) The offerings are something very typical of the celebration
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Alzheimer’s Day E.V. Ramakrishnan is a bilingual writer who has published poetry and criticism in English and Malayalam. He is the author of three books of poetry‚ publishing each after symmetrical intervals of fourteen years: Being Elsewhere in Myself (1980)‚ A Python in a Snake Park (1994) and Terms of Seeing: New and Selected Poems (2008). He is also the author of a landmark book of translations of modern Indian poetry. ‘Alzheimer’s Day’ highlights the pain and anguish of a man who could
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Major Signs Of Qayamat According To Islam And Science Islam:-One day all the world‚ humans‚ animals‚ jinn‚ angels‚ earth‚ skies and whatever that is in them will be finished. Except for Allah there will be nothing left. This is known as the coming of ’Qayamat ’. Before the coming of Qayamat. there will be some signs that will appear Out of which‚ we write some of them here. Auf bin Malik radhiyallahu anhu says: I came to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wasallam while he was in his skin tent during
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Father Andy: his childhood‚ his career‚ and his typical day of work. When Andrew Booms was very young‚ he wanted to become a doctor‚ having a family and living in the suburbs. As he grew older he wanted to make a difference in the world. While attending Port Hope High School‚ Father Andy was not a popular young man and did not possess much athletic talent. As a young boy growing up he wanted to live life to the fullest. He did not know one day he would be a pastor. He also didn’t know that he would
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