I wake up surrounded by suffocating darkness‚ gasping for a breath that won’t come‚ my heart pounding. I don’t know what time it is and for a minute I don’t know where I am‚ I’m still trapped in whatever hellscape I was in. It takes me another minute to realise that I am home in my bed‚ and another minute to calm my racing heart and even out my breathing. In and out‚ in and out‚ over and over again until I’ve calmed down. At this point I’m too exhausted to go to find my parents so I settle for trying
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acting irrationally. My friends would always do things with spontaneity while I would get left behind sitting alone shrouded by my fear. As life gradually moved on‚ I grew to overcome my fears and not overanalyze situations with the help of a few moments in my life. One event I remember with startling clarity was when I was seven. Like many children‚ my brother and cousins loved to ride roller coasters and enjoyed the thrill that accompanied it. However‚ I never relished the execrable feeling of
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A Small Moment in Time An influential person in my life that made me rethink everything I was doing was my 4th grade teacher. In lower grades I was always advanced‚ and I knew more about everything than everyone else. In kindergarten I was put in a class to test my advancement for a year. Then after that year of testing I was offered to skip 1st through 3rd grade as long as I did summer math advancement help. My mom declined the advancement wanting me to be put with children my age‚ but this is
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My proudest moment was when I was 9 years old. It was the first day I had been back to horseback riding lessons since I was 6 years old. I had stopped riding when I was six because my horse had thrown me off‚ the winter was pretty harsh on my asthma‚ and my riding instructor told me I needed to take a break. So when my grandmother offered to pay for new lessons for me I was thrilled and I took up the chance right away. When I started horseback riding I was only 5 years old‚ and I went to the lessons
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extra push I needed. I sat down with a pen and a piece of paper and began to write. With each word my view of the world shifted. Everything became brighter‚ each noise became just a little bit louder‚ and each action became sharper. I finally had the moment of clarity that everyone was raving about. And it all started with a feeling. When I get the urge to write it’s the most miraculous feeling in the whole world. Sweat coats my brow‚ my palms become damp‚ I become nervous that this image that crowded
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The viciousness of Humanity in Hosseini’s A thousand splendid suns Brendan Blythe Miss Ebert April 16‚ 2013 ENG 4U In a world full of hatred and sins‚ humans have been known to do evil to one another. Some people do evil actions for good intension‚ on the other hand most people do evil for their selfishness and desire for power. In the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns‚ it is thought that the characters and society have shown cruelty and inhumanity among other characters. Hatred of humanity
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There are some people who believe in superstitions. They would follow certain “rules” that most of the time may make no sense. They’ll just say you that it is bad luck to do certain things. So what is the basis of these beliefs? Superstitions are beliefs that one event leads to the cause of another event without any physical process linking them. Oftentimes these were just based on events that happened by chance or coincidence. Others may just happen to be repetitious. Yet still others are just
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There are times that are ingrained in everyone’s mind. Some of these moments are filled with joy‚ and some are filled with pain. The moments impact us in some way. When asked to look at a moment that impacted me. I can only choose one‚ the moment that made the biggest impact‚ when my mom died. That event forced me to think in ways that I never had to before. Our roles changed‚ we became more independent. We looked after ourselves. We kids also help start dinner before dad came home. A role in my
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1) Identify 3 “aha’s” as you have progressed through the program. My first “ah-ha” moment was while taking the first class in the program‚ N3645 Transition to Professional Nursing. We had the opportunity to learn about theorists‚ at the time I had never heard studied or taken the time to understand them‚ then I got to read the writings of Jean Watson‚ and one statement she lives by‚ “Maybe this one moment‚ with this one person‚ is the very reason we’re here on earth at this time...” (Watson‚ 2012
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Life Changing Moment Ever since I can remember I spent almost ever y day at my Grandparents house. They live right down the road from my family and me‚ and that is how they got the title “Grandma and Grandpa down the road”. They lived in a small house three bedrooms‚ one bathroom‚ and a small living room with a fire place that can worm the coldest heart. And in their back yard stood a shed filled with old farm equipment and stray cats with their kittens that I would try to catch every day. They
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