My Best Friend The year was a strange one‚ one that was beyond anything I had ever experienced before in my short 12 years on planet Earth. The Y2K scare had everyone running for water‚ food and power supplies in the beginning. I was leaving elementary school and life couldn’t be happier. Between the “summer Olympics”‚ my friends and I developed‚ the beautiful scents of the local woods‚ the ma and pa ice cream shop we went to in downtown Crete‚ Illinois‚ or the new addition of all of us reading
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My Moment I was tall for my age in seventh grade‚ the tallest girl on the junior varsity basketball team. I was goofy and gangly and not quite comfortable in my body. I remember how excited I was to get to play on the team. I was going to play for the Aviano Saints! Since we were just a small American school in northern Italy‚ everybody who tried out got to play for the team‚ but it was a pretty big deal for me. Some of my best friends were also on the team and we looked forward to an amazing
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age have learned to do all things to the best of my abilities. Acquiring that type of mindset at so such a young age would carry out for the rest of life. The three critical moments of my life come hand to hand and has shaped me to be the person that I am today‚ listing them in chronological order would be soccer‚ robotics and church. Soccer‚ the most popular sport in the world has taken a large portion of my life‚ eleven years to be exact‚ has driven me to my limits and beyond them. Starting off at
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Once I was training in my boxing gym and I was lifting 18kg weights. The other weights were set out on the floor for when I needed them. I was on my last set of ten when I fell back and the weight came crashing down and landed on my leg. I couldn’t feel my left leg. I twisted my ankle and then I was rolling around in excrushiating pain. My manager came in once he heard my call of pain. He sat me up and I hobuld over to the ring. He sat me down on the side of the ring and got me a glass of warter
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sees only your good days and good deeds but he stands by you even on the darkest day of your life. Ramu Rao studies in my class. We have been friends since class two. On many occasions when I would forget my lunch box at home‚ he has shared his tiffin with me. Once when I nearly fought with the class bully he saved me. He thought that no good would come from bad actions and to get good things in life one must do good things too. Like you throw flowers towards the sky they fall on you. So if you
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also where I had my “aha” moment. I was up first to play the supervisor role for stress management and was flipping through pages of the student guide to find instructions or steps that would help me communicate with my subordinate. My “aha” moment was when I realized that there are no exact guidelines on how to talk to a subordinate about difficult topics and that I must rely on open communication and my knowledge of resources to effectively be there for my airman. This has changed my problem solving
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How does the lanuage used create effects? The following paragraphs explore how language is used to create effects in the poem Not my Best Side by U. A. Fanthorpe‚ an ekphrastic poem that uses the free verse form arranged in three stanzas of nineteen lines each. It’s purpose is to entertain‚ which it does through the use of humour‚ using Standard English in an informal‚ conversational manner. Dramatic monologues from the characters re-tell from their own perspective‚ the historical myth of a
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MY BEST VACATION. Dear all‚ Today‚ I would like to tell you about my best vacation. A few summers ago‚ my sister‚ her colleagues and me took a vacation to Nha Trang for 5 days. As you know‚ vacation was special days! We visitted many well-known places such as: Vinpeal Land‚ Hon Tam Island‚ Diamond Bay‚ Thap Ba Pagoda‚...and so on. On the way riding in the cable car to go to Vinpeal Land‚ we saw several jelly fish in the very blue water. It is the first time I have ever seen an extremely beautiful
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number of moments in my life that have formed who I am today. Life is full of moments and experiences that create who we are. From graduations‚ vacations‚ and people you meet‚ but the things that may have the biggest impact on forming who we are may be our failures in life. Michael Jordan has said‚ “i’ve missed more than 9‚000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that
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Everyone has a friend with whom you feel like sharing every moment of your life. I am lucky that I found one .We have known each other since I was in grade 7. To me‚ he is really special boy. Not only does he has a good appearance‚ he also has a good personality. He is smart and handsome. However‚ the thing that makes everybody like him the most is his personality .He is always very positive‚ cheerful and modest. He’s one of the best student in my class. He’s good at every subject‚ but she never showed
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