smell the popcorn‚ nachos‚ pretzels‚ and mostly what I smell is sweat mixed with a dingy dirt. I’m thinking in my mind‚ “We all have to give it our all to win the game.” So I put on my dirt crusted‚ sweat smelling glove on and hustle out to the red brick chipped field. I’m playing short stop‚ the most difficult position to play‚ and was told not to let any hits go past me. The first hit off the aluminum composite bat was sent straight up the middle in a line shot that the other team thought was
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In 1975 as the Vietnam War was ending‚ Mai Thi Kim sent her seven- year-old daughter Mai Thi Hiep‚ later known as Heidi from that war-torn country to the United States in "Operation Babylift". This operation saved many Vietnamese children’s life and gave them an opportunity to grow up and out of post-war chaos. This happened to Heidi‚ as she explains in the film “Daughter from Danang”‚ in which 22 years after she was given up for adoption‚ decides to go back to Vietnam and meet her biological
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the exhilarating sound of my first shot‚ and believe it or not I had actually hit something. It all started one morning in 1868 when I was home alone. I was only 8 years old‚ my father was dead and there was no one to hunt for the family. After an exciting experience as a young girl i went on to perform in carnivals and inspire other young girls to do great things. While sitting by the fireplace I noticed my father’s old Kentucky rifle just sitting on the mantle‚ in my head I put together that if
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My First Learning Team Experience My involvement in the Learning Team environment at the University of Phoenix has been a great learning experience. When we were assigned teams at the end of the first week‚ I did not really know what to expect. I have worked on teams numerous times in my career‚ both in the professional and private sectors. The teams I have worked on have always been to either produce a product or improve a process. Learning has always been a part of these teams‚ but I have
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The essay will be about the Novel Throwaway Daughter a fiction that is about a girl named Grace on a journey of finding her identity. The main story is about a young girl Grace Parker‚ who was abandoned in front of the orphanage by her mother and was adopted by a Canadian family. She is haunted by the fact why she was unwanted by her parents and she denied her heritage until she witness the death of protesters in Tiananmen square. As she continues to mature and grow she becomes more curious about
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yet a hopeful felling on my HBCU campus. Like many of my fellow students standing in one of the two lines separated by the first letter of our last name‚ we would be voting for the first time for President of the United States. On the Ballot Senator Barack Obama. The loud scream that erupted at 10:00 P.M. that night after CNN projected Barack Obama to be the President-elect. The campus became a place of celebration‚ happiness‚ joy that America had chosen to elect its first black president. That what
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B. 3rd block 9-11-13 My First Trip to Savannah‚ Georgia Looking up at the sky-high towering buildings I couldn’t believe my eyes. It was almost like I went into a time machine and went all the way back to the 1800’s with all these old fashioned buildings surrounding me. Then and there I knew I was going to like my stay in Savannah‚ Georgia. I had arrived in Savannah‚ Georgia with my Girl Scout troop we had been collecting money for months and the first place we planned to go to was
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The subtle ringtone slowly pulled me out of my dream and dragged me into reality. “Hello” I answered softly‚ not wanting to wake my wife up. “Someone broke into Shawn’s house but Shawn woke up and was on his way down stairs when he saw the intruder coming up the stairs so Shawn tackled him and they fought until the intruder pulled a gun and shot him… He didn’t make it man” Cavan sobbingly described. “What about Linda and the kids‚ are they okay” I asked hoping for the best but preparing for the
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The poem “To a Daughter Leaving Home” by Linda Pastan is an emotional poem about a daughter growing older and leaving her parents. The narrator of the poem portrays how there are special moments with the daughter and that there are “gone before you know it”. The author uses the analogy of the daughter riding her bicycle to portray a story about the maturing of the child from a parental point of view. In this poem‚ the narrator uses poetic devices to translate the deeper meaning in this story. The
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was created by James Naismith in 1861. He also designed the first football helmet. The first basketball game was played in 1891 at what is now Springfield College. My favorite position to play in the game is defense. I love to play defense because it’s so fun to block the other team’s shots and also I like stealing the ball from them and then scoring a layup. I also like to play offense because it’s so exciting when I score points for my team. I like juking people‚ which means getting past them‚
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