SILENT KILLER: PANCREATIC CANCER Background of Personal Experience with Pancreatic Cancer My family never knew that pancreatic cancer was such a deadly disease that can creep up on you‚ until my aunt‚ Cathy L. Usey‚ was diagnosed with it in Aug.2008. My aunt Cathy better known as Big Mama was a 13 year breast cancer survivor when she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. I know you’re probably thinking the same thing my family was thinking "how could someone who had already survived a cancer be
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People are like clay in the process of being sculpted‚ always changing and never be the same afterwards. We age‚ learn and grow everyday of our lives. Sometimes we experience events that change us in some way and we can look back on that event and recognize a difference before and after that moment. A life-changing experience that greatly contributed to forming the person I am today occurred during a three day confirmation retreat. I was born and raised Catholic‚ so it was expected that I would
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This made me feel out of place because I love sports ‚ and not being able to do PE made me feel sad and out of place. This was very different because I was usually very active and I do not like to be sitting down doing nothing. Being back in school was very different. When I got to my classes it
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Prompt: Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure‚ how did it affect you‚ and what lessons did you learn? Imagine six months without a door‚ phone‚ TV and computer. It is not fun at all but now that I look back it is a funny story to tell. To start from the beginning I have always strived to be the best daughter‚ student and athlete to make my parents proud. Until I reached the age of 15 when I became a sophomore and got a little off track and started to go downhill. Not only did
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Personal Narrative Rough Draft Prompt: Evaluate a significant experience‚ achievement‚ risk you have taken‚ or ethical dilemma you have faced and its impact on you. As I heard the screams and yelps of kids and adults across Central Michigan University’s football stadium for the first time‚ I realized this‚ volunteering at events meant for “creating a healthier‚ more respectful and welcoming world for all” as the Special Olympics home page states. Growing up‚ I have always known that I wanted to
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Hearing about my mother’s experiences in her youth with her manic-depressive mother gave me a twisted misconception about how mental illness took over lives. When an urgent care counselor talked with me about the possibility of me having bipolar disorder in grade ten‚ this vision seemed
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loss that can be closely related to melancholy and understood only by the natives of Istanbul‚ proposing that insiders and outsiders experience the city differently. Outsiders might not share similar feelings as the natives due to differences in experiences and lack of cultural and social knowledge to their shared environment‚ as did I. Recalling my personal experience of moving from India to starting a new way of life in USA helped me realize that I‚ too‚ shared a different perceptive to my new environment
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Week six was another amazing week 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
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I have been a part of many clubs and organizations where I have had the opportunities to lead a team or be a helping hand. I have had many leadership experiences and they are all great‚ however‚ there is one leadership role that makes me very proud of myself and I am a part of it everyday. Despite the fact that I am the youngest child in my family‚ I have always been my mother’s right hand. Coming from a refugee camp to a country seemed like worlds apart in terms of economics or through opportunities
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analysis of gender inequality‚ including understanding the devaluation of cleaning‚ cooking‚ child care‚ and other “women’s work” in the paid labor force‚” (Duffy‚ 2007)‚ instead of a household necessity. My first point about this is my own personal experience with reproductive labor. At a very young age my parents separated‚ and I lived with my mom for most of my life. Growing up my mom worked an office job while also taking care of me. Now that I am a young adult‚ I could see my mom working a traditional
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