Essay “Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. “ This quote was said by Ruth E. Renkel‚ and I think this quote describes my dad the best. I think this quote describes him because even though we have never had a lot he teaches me how to be thankful for what I do have and to not take anything for granted. My dad teaches me a lot of values like to always have faith‚ love‚ and be thankful. He teaches me to have faith because he knows if I have faith then I can get through
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MY role model is my dad Robert‚ he is an amazing guy. He was a little wild as a teenager but over came that after a couple years. He met my mother back in 1982. They both started dating; she jokes and says he wanted me for my chicken‚ because she was working at church’s chicken. I found that really funny growing up. When I came along they were stationed in Germany where I was born in September 1983. I don’t really remember to much about Germany other than my dad had his own race car and would
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gym when people were shooting. All that could be heard were basketballs hitting the shiny brown floor with a bump. The fifth graders went fist‚ then the fourth graders‚ then me. Thump! My basketball fell on the ground after it hit the rim of the basket. I’m missing more than I did at practice! I thought. I shot it again and missed. I started to get discouraged; there was no way I could make it to top three! My eyes turned and saw my family in the bleachers. My mom and dad smiled. Discouraging thoughts
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If someone were to rely solely on television media‚ it wouldn’t surprise me if he/she thought that America’s schools were being taken over by these so-called "juvenile super predators." The American people would assume that every quiet kid who gets picked on is going to turn around in school one day and start unloading his newly acquired firearms on his peers. This is hardly the case. While there may be an occasional "super-predator‚" the media has highly over publicized these rare‚ extraordinary
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Love is a powerful thing‚ but can be quickly damaged when those who love‚ abandon their loved ones. Author Sarah Dessen portrays many themes and subjects in her works‚ most of which include love‚ friendship‚ romance‚ and abandonment. One of Dessen’s works is Lock and Key‚ where Dessen’s story telling method fits the feel of the story‚ allowing it to move forward as Ruby lives day by day but still clings to her past. It’s a thought provoking and intelligent story about all kinds of relationships and
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History of School Shootings School shootings have dated as far back to the 1700’s. During the 1800’s there were 38 school shootings. From 1900 to 1979 there were 125 School shootings (History of School Shootings in the United States‚ 2016). From 1980 to September 28‚ 2016 there have been 277 school shootings in the United States. Since from 1980 to 2012 there have been 297 people killed (Kirk‚ 2012). In the last 30 years the worse shooting happened April 16‚ 2007 at Virginia Tech‚ 33 students were
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year to win the African cup for the first time. With all that excitement‚ I kind of forgot that my dad was very sick and he too wanted people to forget that he was seriously ill. It began‚ one cold night of December 1991‚ when my mother woke us up at 2:30 in the morning‚ very scared and confused. “You guys need to go get your uncle Yamar”‚ she said. “What happened?” my older brother asked. “Your dad is very sick and I don’t know what to do‚ here is 1000 franc‚ hurry up‚ go get your uncle and meet
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Tribute to Newtown When I heard about the Newtown incident‚ I felt really bad for all those innocent children and teachers. Since Newtown is pretty close to Shelton‚ everyone was scared and talking about it. A lot of people stopped feeling safe after this. Our school reacted to this incident by locking all of the entrances to the school. I was very confused on why that man would do such a thing and I couldn’t stop thinking about it because it was all over the news. It’s a scary thing to think that
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The next review that was written by Basketball Dad on theMDsports was similar to the first one. He talks about how long it took to put it together and basically says you better give yourself a lot of time. He talks about his three kids playing with it and that they love it and get a lot of use out of it (Basketball Dad par.3)‚ which is one of my criteria. He is currently waiting for some replacement parts to be sent in to fix the rims that started breaking and says “I will update my review and add
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Whitman climbed to the top of the observation deck at The University of Texas in Austin. He was armed‚ and during a rampage which lasted 96 minutes‚ he killed 16 people and left 31 wounded. (Kingsbury.) Since then‚ at least 50 incidents of school shootings have rocked the nation at its foundation. ("Timeline.") Not all were so destructive at their ends as that of Charles Whitman. Some were more so. All have one thing in common: they have forever changed the face of the nation as we thought we knew
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