In basketball‚ always dribble with your head up. No‚ this is not something I learned from one of my coaches or any of my teammates. This is one of the many lessons I learned from a young African refugee. It began on a snowy day‚ peering through my frost bitten window at the basketball hoop across the street. Amongst the falling snow there was someone I had never seen before with a basketball in his hand and a smile wider than I thought the blistering cold would allow. At first‚ I was hesitant to
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cancer and what it does to a person. My grandmother had died from lung cancer before I was born‚ so I never was exposed to the gruesomeness of the disease. Bo was twelve years old when he was diagnosed with a rare form Leukemia. Prior to being diagnosed with Leukemia‚ Bo was an normal active boy‚ who was friends with everyone. I was three years older than Bo‚ but we lived in a small community where everyone knew each other. Bo Johnson was friends with a lot of my friends siblings and we all would hang
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from my slumber in a stupor. Half awake and half asleep‚ I stumble into my kitchen and blindly reach into my fridge for a bottle of water. To my brain‚ it is all I can comprehend in my trance‚ to my throat it is sweet relief‚ and to 663 million people; a cold and clean bottle of water would be a gift from God. Before I dedicate the rest of my essay to the 663 million people who live without safe water‚ I need to address my own personal conviction in writing this essay. Throughout my life‚ I have
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Music is what my life runs on from day to day. Without music‚ my life would be a lost cause. So all thanks to a German instrument maker and his son‚ the clarinet was created. Johann Christoph Denner and his son Jacob‚ improved the chalumeau by adding a register key to the instrument‚ and later the chalumeau received the Boehm flute key system (Bellis)‚ which created what my musical life all started on: the clarinet and family. The very first original clarinets had only two keys to be played –
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For a majority of my childhood‚ the sport of baseball was the one activity I loved above anything else. Nothing could compare to the exhilarating freedom and satisfaction of bolting full speed around the bases‚ determined to steal‚ beating the "Throwdown" by a fraction of a second. The massive dust cloud kicked up by my cleats and the thunderous boom of the umpire shouting‚ "Safe!" made me feel empowered. It was in moments like these‚ when I was in control of my own fate‚ choosing whether to stay
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26 th of january. Republic Day of India. Bhuj‚ home to my aunt and the place where i have been spending my holidays for the past 10 years or so. It was 8:55 in the morning. Everyone was ready for breakfast except me. I was always late on the dining table and often made mom angry. But that day mom didnt get angry. Wondering why ? Bhuj and neighbouring places had just witnessed a powerful earthquake that rocked the whole of gujarat. The word earthquake always evoked something-but that something was
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The Unexpected It was December 18th 2007 and I was in the park with a bunch of my friends. We played some football in the snow and had a good time. We were walking on top of a big hill and we weren’t paying much attention to our surroundings. I started to talk to Justin and the next thing I knew I was on my back going down an ice hill. On my way down I was thinking‚ “Oh god I’m going to get hurt”. There was a big wooden fence at the bottom of the hill. I extended and locked my leg so it wouldn’t
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Roller Coaster of a Year Have you ever had to do something so dramatic in your life that it changed your whole personality? These changes in a person’s life can alter everything not only in their own life but the lives of the people around them. A change of this magnitude could include just about anything. The change that will be talked about is an abortion that a couple went through. Some people believe abortion is murder to the unborn fetus. An abortion also has its psychological effects
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close friends. He was my first best friend. Coincidentally‚ we found out that we actually lived very close to each other. Since our houses were so conveniently close‚ we often visited each other. The two of us did everything together. Jeremy was the leader between us. He would be the one to come up with the games we played. I was just happy to hang out with him. I thought the two of would be friends for life‚ however it was not meant to be.
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I was brought up believing that life was not going to be easy‚ and that hard work is a necessity in achieving the goals you want in life. My dad came from India to this country with only twenty dollars in his pocket‚ and that proves to me that the American dream is attainable. One of the biggest accomplishments in my life that displayed my evolution from childhood to adulthood was having more courage by stepping out of my comfort zone‚ and having reasonable goals that could be met. As a child‚ I
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