to convey to the audience; it was my time to shine. At the moment‚ I was convinced that I longed to dance for the rest of my life. Dance delineates me; it is the only avocation that accurately defines each and every aspect of my life. Every time I ascend onto a stage‚ I feel unrestricted‚ I feel sovereign‚ and most importantly‚ I feel like myself. When I was eleven‚ I was asked to determine one word to portray my personality and naturally‚ only one term rose to my attention- dance. It was the ideal
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A rich kid growing up in a loving family provides for an easy life; this life is simple in the early years‚but curves in the road arrive in everyone’s life. I grew up extremely with an extremely close relationship to my “Boppa”. Boppa was invincible; my mom’s dad could build a treehouse in the mountains at seven thousand feet of elevation without breaking a sweat. Nothing could hold him back. When he was told he had 6 months to live‚ this came as a huge shock to everyone to him and those who loved
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happened in my life that I did not see coming. No of course it was not me who was hit with the big C. This happened to my sister when I was in the 6th grade. This took a major change to me and it changed who I am today. When this happened it took control of my sister. My sister has never had a fair life for her. When ever she would get passed a major thing in her life something always comes around to bite her. This thing that started it all happened when she was 3-4 years old and my sister needed
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As the end of my high school career is coming to an end I am glad to say that one thing has not changed about me at all and my passion for it has actually grew since the beginning of high school. Fishing is an amazing outdoor sport and activity. Fishing has been in my life for as long as I could remember and I loved that my dad is the one to introduce it to me. It is a sport that is a stress reliever especially for me and it is relaxing and when the fishing is good it’s so much fun to do. There are
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alongside my father as a butcher. I was born in Merida‚ Mexico to a single mother. As the man of the house I began working at the age of seven cleaning windshields at stoplights and polishing shoes for any available change that people could spare. I came to America at age of twelve. My father had been anxiously waiting to meet me the day I arrived in Houston. My first challenge tested my capabilities at adapting to a foreign country without any family members to support me‚ other than my father who
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any interest in me. This‚ on top or being pathologically shy‚ didn’t make things any easier. I also wasn’t pushed by anyone to get better; my biological parents never took the time to sit down and help me with my reading. Throughout my younger years I was reluctant to go to school because I would get teased by my classmates. Reading was not always one of my favorite things to do‚ but one book changed it all. The first day of fourth grade in a new school rolled around; I was absolutely petrified
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with organized sports. When I was about 4years old‚ I was one of those kids as well. Sports are a big part of my life and they always have been. My father and I have always connected through sports and they still do. Football is probably one of the most impactful sports in my life. Football and I weren’t always the closest of friends though. We went through our up’s and down’s throughout life‚ but in the end I always came back to it. I remember the first team I was ever a part of. A basketball team
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When the ball hit the court‚ that’s when I knew. Our season was over. I looked at my coach’s face and he had a look‚ not of dissapointment‚ but of pride. Volleyball had completely changed my life in showing me the type of person I am‚ a leader. Volleyball began as a backup sport for me. I didn’t make the soccer team my freshmen year so I tried out for the next best option. My first year I was placed on junior varsity as a hitter. I didn’t get a lot of playtime‚ but on the bench I could see the
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In my household‚ kids didn’t really have too many responsibilities. I would see pictures of adolescents in third world countries lugging around gallons of contaminated water‚ just to drink for a day and others who would have to eat something as absurd as clay just to settle their hunger. Meanwhile I had a stocked fridge and spotless clothes to wear as I attended public school like every other mediocre kid in the US. It wasn’t until after I graduated High School that I began to comprehend the little
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Going through life‚ we as humans face many obstacles and conflicts. Some thing change a person’s perspective and some things don’t. This something changed my life so suddenly‚ it wasn’t until recently that I realized how big of an impact it had made on my life. As a little kid you don’t understand the big things that go on in the real world around you. When I was four I was adopted. I was taken out of the poor‚ underprivileged part of Phoenix‚ AZ‚ and was given a new life and new opportunities.
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