wanted to be looked up to because of my musical talent. Walking into Mrs. Kaiser’s 7th hour‚ 8th grade band‚ I didn’t know that music would have such an impact in my life. Music has become the spark of my intellectual curiosity. There are millions of combinations of key signatures‚ chords‚ melodies and rhythm in the world of music just waiting to become attached to a sheet of staff lines and spaces. Ever since my first experience with music in the fourth grade‚ my mind began to explore all these combinations
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watched my mom run herself ragged to try and support us. She was finishing her college degree‚ while working two jobs and raising me. My parents had just gotten divorced and I was scared and sad and didn’t understand what was happening. My mom and I were incredibly tight on money‚ and things were terrifying. I was a ten year old worrying about my next meal. As girls wore hoodies that read “Hollister” and “Aeropostale‚” I was wearing mix-matched outfits we had found at goodwill. While my friends
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In seventh grade I wanted to tryout for volleyball. I was very nervous because I had never played it before. I was super happy when I found out all my friends and I made the team. We had a lot of practices in December to get ready for games in January. I was really nervous for our first game. Our first game was supposed to be right after christmas break ended‚ but we had a snow day so it was cancelled. I wished it hadn’t been so I could just get it over with‚ but i was gonna have to wait. We were
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which means I was a kid without a home or family. Growing up in foster care is not so easy‚ but I always knew someone‚ somewhere else had it worse than me. I always had to change my personality for foster parents to like me. When you walk into a foster home most people think of Annie which is nothing like it is in real life. There isn’t millionaire that comes and wants to take you in for a week then adopt you. Usually the homes you go in are really messy and the foster parents don’t care what you do
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Three Ways Music Affects My Life Music has always been a huge factor in my life. Not only does it serve as one of my greatest influences in the world‚ but it also defines who I am as a human being. It has helped mold me into the kind of person that I am today‚ as well as the kind of person that I strive to become in the future. Three ways music affects my life are it gives me the strength to achieve my goals‚ it enables me to express myself through the emotions that I am feeling‚ and it calms me
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In the August before my sophomore year of high school‚ a challenge emerged. My dad had passed away. Of course you would read that and automatically think about how that would affect me in many ways. However no one‚ not even myself‚ was aware of the many challenges that went with this. Death was something new to me. I had never had to deal with someone close to me passing. I had experienced my friends losing a grandparent or a distant relative‚ but it had not affected me terribly much. I always considered
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People are always talking about moments. Those split seconds of your life where you feel like nothing can touch you‚ like nothing can go wrong. But no one ever talks about what happens after those moments. When you come hurdling full speed back down to earth‚ and find yourself one again in reality‚ looking dazedly around and trying to figure how for that one moment everything could have been perfect‚ and how it could change so suddenly. I’ve had plenty of moments. And they were everything a moment
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Significant Life Event Shumaine Gilmore Indiana Wesleyan University I have read and understand the plagiarism policy as outlined in the syllabus and the sections in the Student Bulletin relating to the IWU Honesty/Cheating Policy. By affixing this statement to the title page of my paper‚ I certify that I have not cheated or plagiarized in the process of completing this assignment. If it is found that cheating and/or plagiarism did take place in the writing of this paper‚ I understand the possible
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Life Events My three life events are‚ my godmother passed away‚ I’ve broken my wrists‚ and I started working with my dad. These experiences are good and bad. When my godmother passed away ‚ that was a sad day to remember. Also the day that I broken my wrists‚ It was painful but good. And working with my dad was a really good experience. In life experience can be good and bad but there is always a way to get in one and to get out of one. Having broken wrists it’s hard to do things and it’s hard
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When I was a child‚ I was very shy. I didn’t like talking to other people‚ or even being around others for long periods of time because it made me very nervous. My parents signed me up for theater to force me out of my comfort zone‚ and I fell in love. I became the person who I am today‚ a confident‚ energetic social butterfly‚ because I was exposed to something new that made me grow as a human being. Even though people can grow to become experts in a specific field‚ if they don’t step outside of
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