People always say that in a near death experience‚ your life always flashes before your eyes. I waited for that moment to happen‚ but all I saw was the series of decisions that led me to the situation I was in. I remember this morning clearly‚ the day I had been waiting for‚ When I received my SAT scores. I had never been a super bad student‚ just never really a good one‚ grades have never been important to me‚ it was always about friends. The spots for athlete and genius in my seemingly perfect
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I am thankful for my opportunity to work with Ralph over this past semester and the amount of information I have gained from this experience is substantial. Ralph is a fourth grade students who enjoys school and his teachers‚ when I first met with ralph I thought he was going to be a shy‚ timid student. I was pleasantly surprised by how much he would warmed up throughout our first session. My biggest take away from our first session was that Ralph defiantly does not enjoy reading‚ he would much
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It’s always a lesson well taught when you learn on your own. Doing something new is always a great experience especially when it came to me. Being that it was my first year at Strafford High School I decided to play basketball and I remember it like it was yesterday. It wasn’t my first time playing basketball but my first time playing on a team. When basketball season came along‚ I decided to get in shape and get fit playing a sport. Although I was chunky I did well. I tried out for freshman girls’
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I started learning the basics skills and rules of the game. I started playing Belle-Clair when I was four or five years old‚ after I saw my sister playing‚ I wanted to get started as quickly as possible. I played with girls that I went to school with. Every practice and game was so entertaining. Being able to play with my friends outside of schools and getting snacks after every game was the best part. Just being able to have fun as a kid was enjoyable as well. After a little while being on Belle-Clair
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People from all over the world have seen poverty in their life. Poverty means lack in the position of money in the individual or the society which prevents them to have the basic needs of living like food‚ water‚ and shelter. Every country in the world has a percentage of poverty that shows how the country’s economy is affecting the people’s life. For example‚ my home country Yemen‚ has a high percentage of poverty that reaches 85% of the population. I have seen poverty in my neighborhood in daily
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Imagine sitting in a class‚ surrounded by all of your fellow first grade friends‚ al sitting quietly at our desks enjoying some reading time. As you begin to look around the room at all of your friends and notice that they are already a few pages into their chapter books‚ when you look down and are still struggling to finish the first page. You begin to panic because you are so far behind everyone else in the class and for some reason you cannot understand what a few of the words are on that page
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When I had first volunteered at a preparatory school as a teacher’s assistant‚ I was thrilled and excited. I enjoyed working with children and I admit‚ was slightly disillusioned with expectations that the children would be dutiful and effortless to watch over. Unfortunately‚ all my prior imaginations crashed the second I entered the classroom. Everywhere I saw‚ it was pure chaos. I dodged a flying crayon as I saw children running around throwing paper airplanes‚ balls‚ while others just stared at
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Today they are my two best friends at school. It took me a little while to become not alienated at school‚ but I am so glad I came to The Northwood School. Bunch of really cool friends from all around the world‚ and it’s going to be a continuous experience that I don’t think I will get anywhere
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Adversity is something that all individuals encounter in various ways throughout their 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
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My writing experiences has had a big effect in my life‚ although they have been troublesome. It was the first time in my life that I can recall feeling bad about myself which I was affected by name spelling‚ bullying‚ and anger issues. Learning how to spell my name seemed as if it would to be an easy task. chraels. There‚ I was finished. I lifted my right hand contemplating to myself‚ I was intelligent. I’m the first to finish‚ I don’t need any help. Then it came‚ my teacher told me a comes before
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