Los Angeles‚ California with my two parents whom the names are Arturo Ferreiro and Cynthia Contreras. We all lived in one small pink house with my grandmother named Yolanda Contreras. My parents worked so hard to move from the ghetto. My mother once said to my grandmother “ I don’t want my daughter to distinguish the negativity.” There were so many crimes around our area and honestly‚ it was dense to walk around the neighborhood without having a doubt that something was going to happen. The helicopters
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Growing up‚ my family and I were on and off church goers. In my younger years we went every Sunday‚ but as time passed‚ we seemed to go less and less. Though I no longer attended church‚ I still believed in God. I devoted my life to the lord at the age of seven‚ while attending a youth camp in Michigan designed to bring young hearts to the lord. I participated in the camp for several years‚ but as I got older‚ I wanted the summers to play sports and socialize with my friends. So I stopped going.
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suggests to the reader that scrooge was very wary of his actions. He was very sharp and never missed a thing. He also goes on to say‚ ‘hard and sharp as flint‚ from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire. Dickens told the reader that there something good about scrooge but then lowered the expectations by saying that no steel had ever struck out generous fire. He almost makes scrooge look like a pointless person with no good use. -He then uses a range of adjectives at once. ‘Squeezing‚ wrenching
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I was paralyzed from the waist down. I would try to move my leg or even shift an ankle but I never got a response. This was the first time thoughts of death ever cross my mind. At 12:30 at night on June 1‚ 2015‚ my life would soon change forever. I was pregnant with my first child and my water had just broken. My mom rushed me to the hospital where I was immediately put in a private room‚ in the hospital bed where I was about to deliver my first child‚ a son. He came so quickly (5 & 1/2 hours in
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At a very young age I learned I was only good at a very select number of things. I failed miserably at soccer‚ and my experience on the kindergarten basketball team was nothing short of catastrophic. I was far from the avid reader I am today and have needed a tutor in math since I learned how to multiply. It wasn’t that I was particularly bad at all of these things‚ but I used to be so remarkably unambitious that I couldn’t bring myself to commit to anything long enough to become good at it. That
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Sitting in the freezing rain on a December afternoon wondering what I did so wrong to be thrown out of my house. I look into the puddle that was formed due to the accumulation of the rain. As I lean forward to look into it all I see is a reflection of a child that was misunderstood and used his entire life. This child was me. While many children had a childhood filled with laughter and friends; this was not the case with mine. As a child that grew up with no friends; a person would perceive me
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I’ve been using technology ever since I was in elementary. And as I grew older it became a bigger and bigger part of my life. When I reached middle school‚ technology was part of my daily life‚ using it for homework‚ entertainment‚ and research. During this time‚ I’ve become and avid gamer‚ I own all consoles and a game collection big enough to bankrupt a small country. Though‚ this became a problem. Because I like games so much‚ I always wanted to get new ones. And games these days are
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Chapter 8-1: Energy and Life Some organisms get energy from the sun‚ these are plants. Some organisms get energy from consuming another organism. ADP (Adenosine Diphosphate) is a bit different from ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate) because it has three groups of phosphates. It stores energy in a cell‚ when there is available energy‚ by adding a phosphates group to ADP molecules and making ATP. When a chemical bond is broken between the second or third phosphate the energy is release. ATP produces
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That 1.8-meter-tall singer on stage was me. My schoolmates may not know me by name‚ but they can tell something about the guy who is damn good at singing musicals. After he finished singing on the stage‚ the principal jumped to his feet clapping hands. Parents watching online hurriedly posted messages of praise‚ eager to find out whose kid the singer was. I‚ proud but not vain‚ had been accustomed to such reactions. For me‚ loving and practicing musicals has been a long‚ inspiring journey; it means
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thing has. Identity is something every living human has. Identity is who you are as a person. As a person what are you. I as a person have gone through almost anything I could possibly go through. Anything thrown at me‚ I have overcome. I’ve gone through growing up with divorce‚ switching schools often‚ and having little money. No matter how hard things have gotten I’ve found a way to find the good. My identity is a fighter. Divorce. Divorce has taken up a lot of my life‚ having it happening with
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