“Chicago! I was born and raised here!” They would then proceed to ask‚ “But where are your parents from?” Ask a Caucasian person the same question‚ and there will be a higher chance of them not being further questioned about their origins. I understand that some people are just curious about others’ ethnicities and that’s perfectly fine with me. It’s just the way the question is presented that irks me and makes feel like an outcast.
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Melissa Kagey December 12‚ 2012 Personal Narrative A Guiding Light You can call it following in footsteps or walking the same path‚ but I don’t see it like that. My grandmother calls her daughter‚ mother calls her sister‚ and I call her Aunty. She has always been my figure to look up to. She has inspired me to be the person who I truly want to be. My Aunt Marie is a strong‚ beautiful‚ and successful woman who‚ in spite of her work‚ has always been there for me when it counts in my life. I want
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After retaking the LASSI I have noticed a considerable amount of improvement as well as regression. In the beginning of the year‚ I vowed to myself that I would become a better student. I wanted to maximize all of my abilities in order to be successful. So‚ after I took my first LASSI and had my talk with Mac‚ I began to implement new strategies meant to help me accomplish my goal. First I had to deal with my anxiety. In past years I suffered with a lot of anxiety while learning math. I used to love
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Misty M. Hart ENGL 101-B05 June 3‚ 2013 Essay #1 Narrative Argument About Education Reading the web is not the same as reading in the book or magazine or even newspaper. The information that you read from the internet may not stick with you as long as it would if you were to read a book‚ newspaper‚ magazine‚ or journal. This can’t be a hundred percent accurate for everyone‚ but according to most people that I have questioned‚ the information that they read from the web/internet doesn’t stick
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open. The breeze from inside let out a familiar stench of ham sandwich. Last year‚ I was in this gym preparing to receive my confirmation. I was moved by the experience‚ so I said yes when I was asked to return as a teen leader. I did not know much about leadership‚ only that I wanted to give to others what I had received. I was led to a table of ten terribly troubled teens. At first glance I noticed that they came from different schools‚ ethnic backgrounds‚ and socioeconomic statuses. The teen leader
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Soccer Specific Aerobic Endurance Training Soccer Specific Aerobic Endurance Training Purpose The purpose of the is study was to design a dribbling track and a playing session that fulfills the criterion of effective aerobic interval training‚ and determine whether heart rate is a valid measure of work intensity in soccer specific endurance training (Hoff‚ Wisloff‚ Engen‚ Helgerud‚ 2002‚ p.218) Methods 1. Subjects: Six Norwegian athletes who were volunteer first division players whose
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It was the middle of an away sophomore baseball game against DeWitt. My brother‚ Keegan‚ was up to bat. The pitch came‚ he swung and down he went. The baseball came off his bat and drilled him in the left eye. There was only one parent there‚ one of Keegan’s teammate’s dad. He drove Keegan to the hospital and called my parents. At the time‚ I was at a softball game working the scoreboard for the varsity West Delaware Hawks team. My mom called to tell me my grandma would pick me up when I was done
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I remember that soccer game like it was yesterday. The entire season of our hard work and sweat would pay off in this final game. If we won‚ we got everything from bragging rights to the last spot in the highest part of the league we played in. The other team had scored in the first half‚ leaving the score 1 to 0. We knew if we were going to win we would have to find something to keep us going for that last five minutes. The right forward for our team had a beautiful run to the goal which
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I’ve always dreamed about being on TV as a little kid‚ but who knew that I could actually do it on one of my favorite shows: Survivor. Survivor takes surviving in the wilderness to the max. You are stranded on an island with about 23 other people‚ living on rice and beans and in a shelter that you created from the environment (bamboo‚ leaves‚ etc.). The point of the game is to survive mentally‚ physically‚ emotionally and most of all‚ socially. You are put into teams in the beginning and you compete
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change my beliefs about something. Therefore‚ this course was a stepping-stone in the right direction. I have changed and developed my sense of identity in three different areas. The first area I have enhanced is my personal identity. To my knowledge‚ personal identity deals with questions about oneself. I hope I’m not being too vague. It is obvious that everyone has questions they ask about themselves. However‚ personal identity is hard to understand for most. I researched personal identity and found
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