It was a great day to break my arm. The accident happened right after I made the best choice of my life to jump off a tree into the water. Instead of caring about what could happen to myself‚ I thought it was the best decision. When I was about 8 years old‚ my family and I went up north to our cabin up in Antigo‚ Wisconsin. It was a nice sunny day‚ and that morning I remember waking up and going out for breakfast. When we came back from breakfast‚ we took our speed boat out onto the lake and went
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Sre FYS 8 September 2014 My First Job I got my first job at sixteen because my parents required it. However‚ I had no intention of getting a job and wanted to continue being a teenager where I had little responsibility. As I looked around my hometown for a job‚ I found that there were not a lot available. I finally was able to find a job close to my house at a local Dairy Queen working for minimum wage. Now that I had a job I had to make decisions in time I spent between friends‚ athletics
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summer of 2008‚ I had promoted from 8th grade and was about to make a transition to high school. At the age of fifteen‚ my only concern was trying to figure out how I was going to do at a new school‚ however‚ my mother had other plans for me. She decided that it was time for me to get a job. My mother was considered more as a single mom at the time. Even though our stepdad was existent‚ he didn’t really do much to help out with having us grow unless it was for personal gain. My mother also functioned
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Writing my first college Paper Writing my first paper for college was not easy. I was in English 050. It had been several years since I had been in high school. I was scared and I wanted to do a good job on my first paper. I wanted to show myself that I could do this whole college thing. I was trying to prove to myself that I did not wait too late to come back to school. When I turned in my rough draft to him‚ I remember telling him “I hope this is what you want”. The next time we met in class
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cigarette smoke as I sit around the smoking area listening to the seniors tell their crazy drunken stories and cat call at the numerous ladies. This is the dream for any freshmen‚ but not what I expected when I was thrust into Younglife weekend camp January of my freshmen year. These same kids who bullied me in middle school were acting like my good friends cheering me on whether it was my failing effort in Gotcha or chanting “chug‚ chug‚ chug” as I ruined my small stomach. Just hours ago‚ I had slowly
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your first job like? When I was sixteen years old I thought my first job was going to be at Mc Donald’s or some type of fast food restaurant. My mother wasn’t really the type that forced me to work at a younger age. Usually a lot of teenagers don’t work until seventeen or eighteen years old. Some times when I was a child I always wanted to be more responsible by doing things on my own‚ working‚ and driving‚ but at sixteen what can I be responsible at. As a young teenager I always looked at job postings
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Where My World Began My first home for many years. This land comes rarer to me as the day goes by. Forever changing the knowledge I had once gained. My corner of the world‚ where I have formed myself unique from all else. A place with spectacular monument. An environment that has filled me with joy‚ yet still fills with anger from time to time. This is my place in the world‚ my corner of Canada. There are many lands which have been described as similar to mine. A land with
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Before 7th grade‚ I never actually believed in bad things. I just didn’t think of them as things that actually happened to people. I don’t even know why I thought that‚ I was actually a pretty nice person. I had a somewhat unremarkable life‚ except for my mom being gone. I lived with my dad and my 7-year old brother in the suburbs. Life was hard sometimes‚ but I got through it. Eventually it came to the first day of school yet again. It was a typical first day of school. Rushing to get ready
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I can’t recall the day I first met my husband. I had seen him at work for a few weeks‚ and I was beyond intimidated. He strutted around the production floor of the food manufacturing plant where we both worked. He was a supervisor with a reputation for being hard and demanding‚ but his crew was loyal. He had a long goatee and even longer curly dark hair‚ which when not in a bun‚ fell past his waist. His hair had orange stripes from a hair bleaching gone wrong. When combined with his massive
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It all started when my stepdad declared he had a surprise for me and he gave me a box and I replied what is It and he said just open It and I was really excited to see what It is so I opened It and it was a gun I was really nervous because I have never shot a gun before but my step dad said if I follow the directions it would be ok. So the next day we went to the store to get some clays so that I could practice because I have never shot want one. So we got a box of clays and my stepdad said that
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