Aliyah often laid in bed crying‚ feeling resentful towards her mother for not being there for her. Aliyah could not pinpoint the moment where her mom and her relationship started going downhill. Just like every eleven year old girl‚ Aliyah was more concerned with whether or not she could hang out with her friends or when dinner would be ready. Never once did Aliyah stop and think about others. Aliyah had an eight year old brother named Cole‚ and the two of them never had a problem with bickering
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Some say that life is like a roller coaster. That may be true‚ but no one ever tells you how many ups or downs you’re going to have or the fact that you’re getting on that roller coaster completely blind‚ unknowing to the many inevitable obstacles and loops you’ll go through. Everyone has their own specially built roller coaster that’s unique from anyone else’s‚ and mine looks a lot like a steady‚ upwards track leading to a deep drop when least expected. My childhood was no different from your average
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EMC Lifestyle - For five years‚ our backyard shed has been jammed with boxes from my previous life when I was a daily newspaper reporter‚ columnist and editor. A few days ago‚ when we were preparing for a yard sale‚ I decided it was time to sort through the stuff. But‚ after five years‚ the newspapers were disintegrating and damp. I tried to dig through them‚ but there were creepy-crawlers‚ cobwebs and unknown brown blotches on them. But in one box‚ I could see a few papers - three-hole-punch
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sit at my computer reading a predetermined list of phrases and words that include things such as “Northwest is best” to simply‚ “squirrels‚” I think about how each word or phrase has meant something to me at one point or another‚ throughout my life. After much thought‚ there are three finalists that resonate with me the most; “grit‚” “vocation‚” and “persistence.” These three words could easily sum up my life in the shortest way possible. The word “grit” brings to mind the idea of a person who “sticks
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with nothing but‚ cows‚ silos‚ and good old America football‚ I have been driven to a wondrous conclusion that fuels my purpose in life; to escape and fulfil a destiny much grander than anything my town has to offer. Though I have learned some useful skills and qualities that have shaped who I am today‚ primarily due to the impositions placed upon me by my community itself. My life in La Grange can be summarized as me fulfilling the role of Dante‚ going through numerous trials to realize myself and
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handful of black people in my small town. I was isolated‚ silenced. I observed a warped blue-eyed and fair-skinned version of the world that even television and films supported. They had a way of making the largest and most culturally rich cities seem as ethnically and socially uniform as my own town. Luckily‚ it fueled my introspection and creativity. I imagined countless scenarios with heroines that could look like me. Earning an undergraduate degree in Psychology reinforced my understanding of people’s
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As I wrote my literacy narrative‚ I learned many new things about how to perfect my writing. I used to always begin my writing process with an outline‚ because this is what I was taught in high school‚ but this time I tried a new strategy. I learned this new strategy from the text‚ Shitty First Drafts. First I typed up a bunch of nonsense that I wanted in my paper. Then I went back and put it all in order and made sense of it. This definitely made writing a 1000-word narrative a whole lot easier
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changes a person’s life they will remember it forever. It doesn’t matter how big or how small it is‚ it will leave a permanent imprint on that person’s memory. The saddest thing about that imprint staying in a person’s memory is that it could have either changed their life in a positive or negative way. In the last year‚ three major events have helped change and shape my life in a positive way. These three events have completely changed my life and have made me a better person overall and will always
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Influencing the Influential and Everything in Between By Ditta Mae C. Siena August 1‚ 2013 Many Civil Society Organizations (CSO) in the Philippines worked their ways to influence various sectors whether to support or opposed the Reproductive Health Law. Learning about Pollard and Court’s framework on how CSOs/NGOs influence policy-making made me realize that CSOs in our country adhere to the policy processes that would make their position in an agenda remarkable. Pollard and Court identified
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3rd Person Objective On a Saturday afternoon‚ Eric was disinserted in anything because there was nothing to do. His friends were busy‚ and he didn’t have a baseball game. Eric decided to climb a tree‚ as he looked outside and saw a tall tree to climb. Eric put on his shoes and went outside to the tree. As he was starting to climb the tree his mom asked‚ “What are you doing?” Eric replied‚ “I’m climbing a tree because I’m bored.” When Eric got halfway up the tree‚ he spotted a hawk. He looked
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