but I felt that it helped me with my problems. Having moved around so much and meet so many people and living by myself so many years I came to truly be thankful for my blessings and specially for my hardships. Hermann Hesse once said‚ "I have always believed‚ and I still believe‚ that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value." Helping others made me realize that we all need help and that my way to help others would be through
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obstacles throughout this semester. English composition 1 taught me a lot of verbal corrections along with how to set up Microsoft Word the right way with double spaced lines‚ times new roman and font. My first audience was a letter to Mrs.
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breath‚ repositioned my hands‚ and continued. CREAK! This cannot be happening. Again? Seriously? SNAP! This was the day I ripped my fifth roll of film. The four previous times it happened‚ I exited the darkroom‚ plastered on a smile‚ and continued on. On this day‚ however‚ when the bell rang‚ I scurried into the nurse’s office‚ pretending to be ill. Sulking home and locking myself in my bathroom‚ the bottled up emotions poured out in tears of frustration and embarrassment. Being my eighth mess-up in
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live forever if you were not happy and felt alone? My grandmother was born on June 1st‚ 1920 in Detroit‚ Illinois. Being one of seven kids‚ she strived to be independent and immersed herself in music. Relationship Description I have obviously known my grandma my whole life‚ but I have an extra special connection with her because I am her namesake. My grandma has lived with my parents for over 26 years; therefore I saw her everyday throughout my childhood. However‚ since moving away to college I
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My family and I grew up good portion of our lives in our native country‚ Bangladesh. We came to the US in the year 2006‚ looking to live a fullfilling life while getting a world class education to better our lives further. I started out as a 3rd grader at P.S.112 when I arrived here and my family was still looking to settle in. My family household count is at 7 and my dad works hard to provide shelter and food as no one in my family has sufficient time and skills to do any job. All my brothers including
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their legacy‚ which is the exemplification of who they are and what they have accomplished. I‚ like the majority of the rest of the world‚ am starting to leave a legacy as well‚ and plan to continue and enhance it along the shining stone path known as my life. A major part of one’s legacy is the thing that one considers as success. This is vital in light of the fact that these triumphs are the outline or bold printed part of your legacy. For me‚ success is an achievement many others haven’t been able
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Kaylin Knops Ms. McCleaf Written Communication I—11977 14 September 2013 1st draft 1000 words She Has Courage My mother‚ Christine‚ epitomizes the heroic quality of courage in that she grew up without a mother of her own‚ and now she is a single mother and she struggles on a constant basis to conquer depression. One day my mom came home from school and all her stuff was on the front lawn. Her mom kicked her out and didn’t want to raise her anymore. She was only 8-years-old. She moved
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I was fully optimistic that the day would go well‚ but it did not fall in the plan that I believed it would. It was the same routine in a new environment. My first day at Larned High School started like every first day before me. The principal‚ Mr. Langdon‚ gathered all the students and welcomed us into a new school year. The speech as long but informational. It was a familiar speech that I had heard every first day of school. Unfortunately‚ this familiarity would end‚ and now I was stuck roaming
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the sudden feeling of nervous butterflies in my stomach. Today was mine and Cassie’s first day at the Jefferson Davis School‚ a former whites-only school‚ who wanted us to join. No one really knows why‚ but Mama agreed. Mama came into my room to get me out of bed‚ then to Cassie’s. Both of us were extremely anxious and did not want to go‚ but Mama did not want to hear it‚ so we kept quiet and obeyed. After dressing up in our nice clothes and eating a good breakfast‚ we ran to ride the bus for the very
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When I took my first success profiler in the beginning of my freshman year‚ I was okay with my score and looked at it as a starting point‚ expecting natural progression. As any eighth grader would be‚ I was more than ecstatic. .Now I have experienced all the wonderful perks of being a freshman‚ and have a very different point of view than I did when I was fresh out of middle school. Ninth grade had an incredible impact on my mindset‚ and it was difficult to say the least. An enormous workload‚ early
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