describe me are determined‚ adaptable‚ and hardworking. An example of my determination is me raising my average from an 82 in freshman year to a 93.4 in junior year. An example of me being adaptable is how I moved many times over the course of my life and dealing with hurricane sandy and was still a successful student. An example of me being hardworking because I am able to manage school and work. Special circumstances in my life include my parents being divorced and living with ADHD. My parents being
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The stories of player perseverance against seemingly insurmountable odds are the anomaly in sports as opposed to the norm. Most players who make it to professional hockey have skated since they were kids. It is especially rare to see a player who was cut not once‚ but twice from his high school hockey team gain an opportunity for an NHL career. Adam Carlson is one of those anomalies. Not Good Enough Carlson wasn’t skilled enough to even make the junior varsity team his sophomore year at Edina
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The poem ‘Come Up From the Fields‚ Father’ was written by Walt Whitman. He was born in New York on May 31‚ 1819 and died aged 72 in New Jersey on March 26‚1892. He was a American poet‚ essayist and journalist. He was one of the most influential poets in the American canon. He was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War. Walt Whitman’s sexuality is often discussed. He is usually described as a homosexual or a bisexual. Some of Walt Whitman’s best pieces of work were based on the American
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"Where I Come From" is a poem in which Elizabeth Brewster expresses her nostalgic emotions and yearning for the tranquility and yearning for the nature of her hometown. The vivid imagery‚ which stimulates the readers’ senses plays an important role in intensifying the vehemence of her emotions. Brewster also expresses her nostalgia in a way that makes readers empathise with her strong yearning. The lack of rhyming scheme in this piece conveys a sense of fickleness and unsureness. "People are made
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If you ask me where I’m from‚ postal speaking I am from a small town named Sandpoint - right in the tippy top of Idaho‚ just below the Canadian border. But‚ when you ask me where I am from regardless of boundaries‚ I am from Sunnyside. In the mid 1800’s a couple stumbled across a field overlooking the lake and decided to make camp on such beautiful grounds. After many days past they began to realize that this land was unoccupied‚ went up the hill just enough to see the lake but to be able to access
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Energy comes from the earth. In order to make the necessary forms of energy for use‚ we must use the earth’s resources. Unfortunately‚ the earth’s resources that are being used to make energy cannot be replaced forcing us to conserve energy. Conserving energy can be achieved through energy efficiency. First we must define to conserve and energy efficiency. To conserve energy means to save as much as possible. Energy efficiency means to use our resources wisely and productively. So to save energy
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In the poem Come Up from the Fields Father‚ Whitman draws a picture of the emotional distress so many families experienced during the Civil War. The poem describes a family receiving a letter that their son has been wounded. He places the setting in the autumn season where all of nature is reaching its prime of life just before the death of winter. The poem describes a family receiving a letter that their son has been wounded. He places the setting in the autumn season where all of nature is reaching
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Perseverance of Gram and Buck Beating something can require perseverance in many different ways. In The Call of the Wild‚ Buck is taken from his cozy home and put on a sled dog team. He fights with the lead dog‚ Spitz‚ often‚ until one time Buck finally beat him in a fight. On the other hand‚ my Gram went to college and took a speech class. She was afraid of speaking in front of a large group of people‚ so she used perseverance to help her control her decisions. While Buck and Gram are different
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Describe the world you come from; for example‚ your family‚ clubs‚ school‚ community‚ city‚ or town. How has that world shaped your dreams and aspirations?(*) (200-250 words) Growing up in an immigrant Russian Jewish family resembles a chess tournament. All pieces have their precise position‚ movements and strategies; all my family members work together to achieve an ultimate goal of making it in this wonderful county. This puts enormous pressure on me since I am the oldest child‚ holding the
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Elizabeth did that because she would like to continue the second stanza exactly where the first stanza ended; so she has the same line of thought‚ but she moved from one place to another (city to the countryside). She also ends the first stanza with ‘smell of subway crowded at rush hours’ and starts the second stanza with ‘where I come from’‚ this is done to show the distinct change between the first and second stanza‚ with the first being a crowded noisy environment of an expected city while the other
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