A Moment in my Life A personal narrative by Kyle Baldwin-Langrehr The following is the story of a lesson learned by a younger version of myself. My name is Kyle. When I was eight years old‚ I got the chance to experience a thing that more and more lucky children get to see and live each day. This thing is known to many as divorce. Let’s back up a bit further‚ shall we? I was born on a warm California night on June seventeenth‚ in the year of nineteen-hundred and ninety-four. Right around the
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The Bane of Life and Beauty: Time "For every man‚ Time is an emptying reservoir; to fret over how much you have left only wastes it." - Lee Connolly. In every person’s mind‚ a clock is running. A pendulum is constantly swinging and ticking into the future‚ into the unknown. Every person must‚ at sometime‚ recognize Time as a measurement of their own life and not something that can be ignored and forgotten about. As long as there have been life there has been death‚ and Time is simply a tool
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Octavio Paz is Mexico’s greatest living poet. But let’s face it: that’s like saying William Carlos Williams was Paterson’s best writer. For Americans‚ a better way of indicating Paz’s importance will have to be found. Perhaps it would be more suggestive to say that in the universe of Latin American writing‚ Neruda’s poetry is solar: a lavish‚ Hispanic ful-mination--like a Tamayo watermelon--and Paz’s poetry lunar: a rarer‚ Gallic luminosity--like a Magritte moon--; or‚ to put it another way
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Being an immigrant brings both positive and negative impacts on my life. I cannot say that I was totally ignorant about the decision my parents had made for us. But I was totally unprepared when that day had finally come. Obscurely I remember‚ when we arrived at the LAX airport‚ I couldn’t understand a single word of this new world surrounding us. It seemed like all of my endeavors in English classes were useless. Luckily‚ my mother managed to have all of the documents set‚ and we peacefully crossed
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My Life as a Soundtrack Sometimes I wonder what my life would be like if there was to be a soundtrack playing in the background of it all. The soundtrack would just continue to play making sure to capture every moment in my life a significant one. When approaching a crush the soundtrack would be sure to pick a song that explained exactly how I was feeling‚ or on the days when nothing seems to be going my way‚ music that I like to call “thinking music” would continually play. Although having a
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Therefore I had an intention to achieve my goal‚ which was my first voluntary job in the medical office‚ named Janlian Medical Group. How does this intention came to my thought? It was an event happens two years ago during a summer’s morning. While I was doing daily exercise at the morning‚ a harsh car’s accident had occurred on my local street. I rapidly ran over to examine the situation. I could see suffrage upon the victim facial expression. Within a short amount of time after the accident occurred‚ the
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eldest in my brothers and sisters‚ I have a lot of duties to go with. Besides‚ I’ve a spirit to seek knowledge and progress in life too. I am well known of the sacred relations like friendship and fond of having good friends. I am grateful to Allah that He gifted me with marvelous friends. A group of sincere buddies make a chill talk and a special time is passed. Once I was at home. My friend‚ Arslan‚ came to me and said‚ “Come with me‚ I want to take you somewhere.” I took permission from my mother
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Smith English 1100 Soundtrack of my life Music is one of the greatest and most influential devices that we as humans deal with on a day to day basis. It plays such an important role in our lives and helps build character without us ever thinking twice about it. In today’s society there are so many types and genres of music that you can find a song for any type of mood that you’re in. Music has the power to bring thousands of people from opposite walks of life together. When I stop and think about
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’Maybe he gave up‚ maybe he lost his courage‚ that doesn’t matter to me‚’ insisted the stranger. ’But he cannot be considered to be the best archer in the country if he has abandoned his art. That’s why I’ve been travelling all these days‚ in order to challenge him and put an end to a reputation he no longer deserves.’ The boy saw there was no point in arguing; it was best to take the man to the carpenter’s shop so that he could see with his own eyes that he was mistaken. Tetsuya was in the workshop at
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desired to do‚ or aimed to do‚ or to be but since I’m just a human & not a superhuman to be able to do what I desired. So I would just tell people that “Well lets see where life takes me & what I end up doing”. So I just thought why not achieve something our parents desired for themselves or what they had aspired for us. So my mom suggested me that I could be a doctor. But that was a total no - no for me .I am not that strong enough to see & deal with blood at all. I really never wanted to be an engineer
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