My family is extremely poor‚ living paycheck to paycheck and off of food stamps. My father is a construction worker/contractor who emigrated from Communist Bulgaria after the fall of the Iron Curtain‚ while my mother is a stay-at-home housewife with no higher education. As I grew older and more capable‚ naturally I was expected to help contribute in some way. This led to me having to constantly work and seek jobs from as early as 13 years old (typically babysitting or paper-route type jobs at this
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I have noticed myself being constantly pessimistic‚ expecting the worst and having thought of what if I wasn’t here‚ in this world‚ in this moment. No one ever diagnosed me with depression‚ I just assumed I was; having suicidal thoughts‚ self-harming myself‚ being distant from my family and friends‚ and always forgetting to eat. It got to the point where I just did what people told me to do‚ since I never knew what I wanted to do. The relationships I had with my family is not the dictionary normal
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As a freshman in college I was aware of the fact that I would encounter alcohol at some point. I always told myself that drinking was not something I ever wanted to do. My grandfather was an alcoholic and I had seen what it had done to him and his family. However‚ I got around a group of people whom I called my friends. Before I knew it I was pressured to drink and ended up giving in my second semester of freshman year. I only drank casually that second semester. But when the fall came around that
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It’s 8:00 am monday morning the day is sunny. Jalexi awakes in an abusing unsympathetic feeling as if ice froze her body and captured every feeling that could send joy to herself or anyone else. She whelms in misery like she’s alone in a dark corner in an aphotic room with no instruction. Jalexi last name is Cozart.‚ she has an aunt named Ron`ye Cozart. Both of Jalexi’s parents are deceased due to the pressure of the Pacific Ocean when they sunk in 1996 on a cruise ship 120 miles from the coast of
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During more than half of my seventh grade year I caught a virus.Which made me weak and sent me to the hospital for a month I did not go back to school right away. During that time I fell behind in school and because my grades dropped significantly. This was not going to make me end the year off with bad grades because I studied hard to end the year off with good grades. After I came out of the hospital. This motivated me to work twice as hard and to catch up with my classmates. The second time
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I attend the Electronic Systems Center for Hanscom Air Force Base bi-weekly Integrated Project Team meeting‚ and as the NGA FMS representative‚ I facilitate decision-making recommendation and issue resolutions specific to geospatial requirements for international partners. I implemented major improvements in the authorization of 3rd party co-produced data‚ resulting in the Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation HQ‚ adopting my procedures as the standard in handling NGA requests for the sharing
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Next day I woke up because of constant ringing of my alarm I tried to sit up but in vain and that is it when shewta came in.. Shewta - great samaira finally u r up!! She came in with a tray in her hand!! Samaira - my head ahh it’s like it will brust anytime I said catching my head between my hands Shewta - it’s okh take this u will feel better She handed me a glass of lemonade Samaira - last night what did I do??? Wine.... Sonali.... Virat... I don’t remember anything!! Shewta - it’s
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It was in the middle of July when we got the email that my Uncle had been diagnosed with cancer. When we got to his house he looked ok but he said he was in pain. Once we went to the hospital he had to go in to chemotherapy and radiation. One day when we went to the hospital we learned that he did not have enough white blood cells at the moment due to the treatments. He had to wait for a few days and during those days he was in pain. Steven was having troubles with eating so that started to become
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At the age of seven I enter prison‚ my life took a different direction at a young age where I was surrounded by people I didn’t know and faces I never recognize or even known existed. That was the day I came to America‚ imagine being taken away from the one place you called home to another dimension where people spoke a complete different language from the one you knew since birth. The angry and confused‚ I felt was intense‚ trying to figure out where I belong in such a huge place without actually
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" Hey kids we need to talk about something‚" mom says. My brother‚ and I look at each other strangely. Ethan asked "what do you need to talk to us about mom?" Divorce the legal dissolution of a marriage. This is what happened to my parents in August of 2009 they got divorced. It was a very big challenge for me to face. At first it was just a separation which happened in 2007 then slowly turned into a divorce. I was young so I did not understand a lot of it. After the divorce I had to change
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