12 December 2011 Case #: 10SM04402 The Best Mistake I Ever Made It was the last day of competition at the US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach‚ when I was arrested for a DUI. During the day‚ I drove up to Huntington Beach from my apartment in Mission Viejo and spent the whole day at the beach‚ enjoying the sun with my friends. After the final competition was over‚ we headed back to a house of a friend of mine. He was throwing a party since his parents were out of town. All of my friends were
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I bought my first car when I was sixteen years old‚ knowing nothing but the basic tune-up skills. I bought a 1982 Datsun 280ZX for $1200.00 and couldn’t be happier with my purchase. The vehicle had only 100‚000 miles on it‚ even though it was almost thirty years old. The car ran well already but I did my best to get it running as close to new as possible. I purchased new spark plugs‚ a new air filter‚ and also bought a couple new electrical components to replace the old ones. I didn’t quite know
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It was the beginning of February of my senior year in high school. I had been conditioning for months leading up to tryouts for the baseball team so I was in the best shape of my life and I was confident. The past three years before that I was put on the JV team because the coaches didn’t like my “attitude”‚ so my senior year I was determined to get a starting spot on the varsity team no matter what. During tryouts the coaches would always look at me like I didn’t belong and would whisper things
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The Best Decision I Ever Made Throughout life there are many decisions that have to be made. Some decisions are very important and the others are not so significant‚ like whether or not you want cheese on your sandwich. We make decisions every day. But what do you think would be the best decision you ever made? Out of all the decisions I ever made‚ I believe that going to college was the best of them. One of the reasons I believe that it was one of the best decisions I ever made is because it
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Exxon was as coordinator for an internally resourced improvement program focused on cost‚ throughput and quality. The project had multiple objectives: establishing performance baselines‚ setting stretch targets‚ ensuring robust end products and developing an implementation plan. Yet my greatest challenge was convincing the combined team and their supporting plant personnel to review the current working practices and develop the best‚ unbiased business solutions. Inspired by the challenge‚ I initially
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Exercise 40.1 1. Mistakes are made. 2. Music legends such as Ray Charles‚ Billie Holiday‚ and Johnny Cash are all an influence on Norah Jones. 3. Numerous reports of loud music from bars and shouting neighbors are being taken by the city’s new noise complaint hotline. 4. The violin solo is being performed by an eight-year-old. 5. The body’s immunological response to gluten can cause intestinal damage‚ in a patient with celiac disease. Exercise 41.2 1. The original Star Trek television show
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We’ve all had decisions we made in life. Some decisions were good and became life changing while others were not so good and become life experiences. One decision I made in my life will always stand out as the best decision I ever made. This involved my youngest son Gannon and the decision to have a major operation that not only saved his life‚ but gave him a better quality of life. To understand why this changed his life for the better you need to know what he has been through. Gannon is a nine
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500 Word Essay The improvements I need to make in my personalities are my mood swings ‚ to be more open minded ‚ and control my temper. I have mood swings like crazy . I’ll be happy one minute ‚ laughing hanging out with my friends . Than all of sudden my whole demeanor changed the person I’m talking to can be talking about a certain topic over and over again repeatedly. Or talking to loud like were on a football field an I’m on one side and there on the other side of the field ‚ in other
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The most difficult decision I’ve ever made We all have to make decisions everyday- big or small. But sometimes decision making creates a conflict and it becomes very difficult to make choices or to decide. Sometimes the smallest decisions prove to be the most difficult one. We all encounter different scenarios everyday. What‘s difficult for me might be the easiest one for you. My Mom and Dad always compare me with my younger sister. They said that I and my sister are very opposite in
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In the spring of 2001‚ I had my first and only panic attack. I don’t remember a lot of details other than uncontrollable crying (the really ugly kind) and gasping for every breath as if it were my last. I was 24 at the time – barely out of college – and I’d already survived a lot of early 20’s angst‚ so what triggered the attack was pretty tame by comparison: I thought my boyfriend was on a short list for a promotion‚ resulting in an imminent move to Charlotte‚ North Carolina.That’s it.Not usually
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