Between 4th and 5th grade I joined a basketball team. I was in tryouts but I didn’t think I did so well. I ended up making the team though. Practices after practices‚ my first game took place. My friend John played basketball too; but we weren’t on the same team. It turns out we play each other for the first game. John said “do you want to ride to the courts with me?” I said “yea‚ what time do you want to meet me?” John asked “what time do you have to show up to the courts?” I replied “my coach
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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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I remember the time when I used to work‚ as a cardiac monitor technician in the Intensive care unit of a local hospital in Tampa. I was watching the patient’s monitors while one of them started showing and ST elevation on the cardiac rhythm‚ (ST elevations usually on the strip can mean different things and depending on the leads showing on the screen‚ it might represent an infarct). In that case‚ the patient was experimenting a heart attack. Suddenly‚ the patient started complaining of shortness
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It was a little hard to remember everything we had gone over during the semester. I finally had to flip through the book to make sure I didn’t forget anything. I felt like some of the chapters didn’t apply to me like the chapter about drugs‚ but then I remembered my almost addiction to the most used drug in society. I drink way too much coffee. It doesn’t help that I compare myself to other people and see they drink more so I think I’m doing fine if I don’t drink a pot a day. I think that is my worst
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Going into Sophomore year‚ starting my Urban class with Mr. Berkson‚ I was worried. Although I had heard he was a great teacher‚ something about being in a different class then I had planned worried me. Going into Sophomore year‚ I had planned to join Eastern Religions‚ but after going through some serious consideration‚ I decided to switch into Urban. To this day‚ my decision has not let me down. I enjoyed Mr. Berksons class all year‚ for many reasons. These reasons include his great humor‚ his
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professionally. Professor Thomas P. Galvin had identified several competencies that describes altitude‚ behavior‚ values and ethics specifically associated with senior military leadership. Four of these competencies are “persistent”‚ or which does every day a “mid-career” officer. The rest four mission-specific roles for senior leaders that require skills and knowledge taught at the highest levels of professional military education‚ experiences and abilities
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The quiet‚ adroit girl who sits in the back of the classroom and keeps to herself is exactly who everyone thought I was during the first two and a half years of high school. Then‚ I became the quiet girl standing in front of the entire school‚ making silly‚ mesmerizing motions with her hands. Fifteen years from now‚ I will meet up with my old classmates again and not one of them will be surprised by me. My heart has been in the Deaf community ever since I started learning ASL my freshman year‚ so
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We have made an emergency travel to my country this July‚ which was too unexpected and cannot imagine the situation at this point. We lost our Mom (56). She had struggled with SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus) since past 8 years. During this time period‚ she was regularly followed by the Doctors advice and medicine with acute care. But‚ everything effort went in vain this July. She was admitted in the hospital 25 days before this was happened. We were in regular touch about the health condition
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in seventy seven. I stayed at Marist for two years teaching mathematics and then I left Marist for a period of five years. GN: In these coming to Marist where there interviews or you just saw the president of the chair of the department. What was the process by which you were approved? CV: So as an adjunct I showed up one summer morning afternoon or so in July. Had an interview with John Ritschdorff. And I said when I will know if I have the position and he said you have it. So I was excited that
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The sound of music and people laughing in the background. This is what I could hear even before I saw what was going on at every event. This was the homecoming events where every day there were different activities. For example‚ some of my favorites were the blow-up obstacle course and the oxygen bar. Usually they would have some activities and food from 11-1‚ and it was open to everyone who wanted to come. Also‚ they had giveaways‚ but those ran out within the first hour‚ and during the end of the
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