hearing aids improved my hearing but was not a cure. A deaf person David Peter said‚ “technology makes life so easy‚ and advances at such a breakneck clip‚ that sometimes we forget that all the tech in the world still can’t change the way some people experience the world” (Peter‚ David). This phrase cannot be more accurate as there are many things I cannot
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When I was younger I would have been described as shy and reserved. I was like an un-blossomed flower. My life has since changed drastically. Many opportunities came across me such as taking a cruise with family and business friends‚ being nominated to be a Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) 7170 member of 2015 at SUNY Oneonta‚ and being chosen to go to a National Youth Leadership Forum (NYLF) for Medicine in Boston 2015 at Babson College. When I first started noticing a change in myself was after
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Reading and writing are two skills we learn early on in school‚ they are the basic tools teachers and parents instill in children‚ meaning that as someone who’s spent 14 years in school‚ I have had a lot of experience with reading and writing. Thinking back on my early school days in 1st and 2nd grade‚ I didn’t care for reading or writing. There were so many other things on the forefront of my mind like recess and lunch that learning just fell in the background. It wasn’t until 3rd grade that I
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some time until I got to attend middle school‚ where I stopped worrying about my grades and managed only to pass the subjects. I spent most of my time sleeping due to the frustration of not knowing what to do in the future. Most of my middle school experience was tasteless. I hadn’t friends at all‚ and teachers used to discourage their students about their future. “You’re not going to college‚ you’ll not be able to do it because you’re poor” used to say‚ Mrs. Vazquez‚ the math teacher who instead of
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directly into projectiles. Food would go down‚ and then come back up later. This issue required surgery to fix; if I hadn’t have received surgery‚ I wouldn’t be writing this paper now. The operation was a success; the first of many of my near-death experiences. After I recovered from my condition‚ I became the stereotypical toddler as I grew up: virtually unlimited energy‚ and the ability to create messes wherever I ventured. My curiosity also peaked during this time‚ as I began venturing into places
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and moving forward on the bike. I was so fixated on what I was doing wrong‚ I did not realize what I was doing right and what I could do to improve on what I had done right. Learning how to ride a bike was one of the most painful‚ life-changing‚ experiences I had ever gone through. I was ten years old‚ still on training wheels. I was still wearing: knee pads‚ helmet; elbow pads; and gloves. At first‚ my dad had
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This exercise was actually really difficult. I have learned a lot by participating in this activity. I have done activities in my past work experience and put myself in other people’s shoes‚ to see what it was like having disabilities. One time‚ I participated in an activity in which‚ I ate pureed food and thickened liquids. This helped me to see how a person with swallowing difficulties felt. This exercise assisted me to see how the food tasted and the texture felt. Another time‚ I used Hoyer
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Queens and Pace University in a nursing program‚ two completely different groups which I am apart of. Queens‚ Middle village is a small town that I resided in all my life and called my hometown. Queens is located in the center of New York City‚ but is actually a small knit town where almost everyone knew each other. On the other hand‚ Pace University in Westchester is a completely different environment. I am a nursing major at Pace University and this is the new group that I have joined in a new
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It was a nice‚ sunny day. Windows down and the stereo up. Going down the highway at about 75 in the middle of the day! All was well until she looked into her rearview mirror; the blue lights were high on her trail. She pulled over‚ the officers came to her window‚ is there a problem sir? Ma’am you were speeding he says. Oh I didn’t realize I was the woman said. The officer asked her for her license and she replied‚ I would give it to you but I don’t have it. Why don’t you have it‚ he asked? Well
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On August 24th‚ which was my last day in Korea‚ I went out for three appointments. I had to handle some errands beforehand though. Firstly‚ I spent my time on cleaning my room before heading out as my older brother‚ who would be completely free from his two-year military service‚ will be using my room after my leave. After cleaning my room‚ the second thing I did was to head out to the cell phone service store in the neighborhood to terminate my phone service and lastly‚ I also purchased some emergency
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