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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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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My best Pecan Fest experience was last year. I rode the Zipper with Austen and Hayden for most of the time. My friends and I played all weekend and had fun. We bought lots of confetti eggs. They were very useful when we used them on other people. We also bought silly string and sprayed lots of people. We went on the Zipper at least 10 times. I went on the MI twice. I went on the Pharos Fury a couple times. I ran around the yard with my friends and we rode on lots of rides. I helped my mom with her
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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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As an Immigrant‚ there were many challenges I faced whether it’s related to language or understanding the culture. My family moved to United States of America when I was in 6th grade. I was always told by my parents that building a successful career is very important. This idea of building a successful career never stuck in my mind until the junior year of high school when I all sudden all the teachers and counselors started talking about going to college build a career in a field that you were interested
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M C FOOTBALL TIME eley one morning I had to get ready for football‚ so I got ready when we left the house my dogs startid to yap so we got going when we got to MC we stopt at sunries to git a drink and some thing to eat . my mom got a sluthey same thing with my dad i got a a troow moo melk and a slise of thatr pesu We got to the football field‚ the refs said game time .We won the coin toss‚ we received the ball‚ we ran it back for a TD‚ 7 to 0. The first play‚ we kick it to the other
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I have grown up in a predominately white neighborhood. This town is called Anacortes in Washington state and I have lived here my whole life. My mother is mexican and my father is black. I grew up thinking that I was slightly different from everyone else but not really looking at it in a negative manner. Racism didn’t seem like a big deal because i have never personally had to deal with it and it still seems like a far off idea‚ one that is there but not connected to me. My father works for the
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