Who I am? I am a Guatemalan and an American woman‚ throughout my life I have grown up in a misogynist society‚ my first language is Spanish and most of my education has been in Spanish. All my life I have lived in Guatemala and El Salvador. Since my childhood‚ I had the influence of two different mentalities. My mother is a Guatemalan and graduated from sixth grade with a very traditional education and my father from the United States who graduated from college with a four year degree in biology
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Basketball and Life Growing up‚ sports were an important part of family‚ and in turn a very important part in my life. From the small plastic basketball hoops‚ Nerf footballs‚ and little tike golf clubs. I was always surrounded by sports. At home in my younger days I’d spend all day either shooting hoops on my small basket‚ or attempting to hit golf balls around the yard. My dad would spend hours of every evening perfecting my shot and playing countless games of horse. I can remember if I would
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to the ivory tower of pure reason unmindful of the realities of life. It is not a mere empty statement to say that the modern mind lives‚ breathers and has his being in this age of science. In every minor detail of our life science plays a very valuable role. I wish to contribute my share in making this world better than I find it. At the very beginning‚ I may make it clear that if I were a scientist‚ I would like to carry on my work in the province of pure science. Pure science is a relentless
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My Life Changed Leaving the clinic on that very day tears poured down my eyes as I tried to swallow the news the doctor had just given me. I grabbed my cell phone dialed 7 digits… no answer I hung up the phone and sat in total shock and disbelief‚ as I was about to start my car and leave my phone began to ring my throat tight palms sweaty I answered and muttered two drastic words I’M PREGNANT! The person on the other line must’ve been as shock as I was to hear those words “WHAT” they asked as
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Changes in my life This essay is about how changes haveoccurred in my life. These changeshave occurredbecause I went to adifferent country. First in Pakistan we have a lot of differences. Like most of students not follow the time schedule. We also do not have a lot technology.In addition when I am in my own country I am dependent on others. Now that I have moved to Canada I have noticed a lot of changes in my life. The lifestyles in Canada are different from my own
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Process Paragraph What is a process? A process is continuous series of steps that produces a result. When you write a process analysis paragraph‚ you explain how to do something or how something works. Therefore‚ there are two actual processes: directional process and informational process. In both cases process analysis explains the process by breaking it down into a fixed order of detailed steps. Your process analysis paragraph should: 1- have a title 2- begin with the introduction
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Aimless life is certainly a sin. Many people have no definite aim in life. They are like the travelers going a head without any destination. Such people lead an aimless life and what they do in life‚ is largely a matter of chance‚ determined by the circumstances in which they happen to be placed. Aimless people do not achieve any thing in life. They just live because they have to live.A man or woman without an ambition is really an unfortunate person because his life is just like a ship without a
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My view on life itself Loretta Brown ENG 121 English Composition I Leontine Armstrong June 10‚ 2013 Wednesday‚ November 16‚ was supposed to an ordinary day for my brothers and I. Little did we know it would turn out to be one of the saddest days of all our lives. The last day we would see or hear from our mother. My mother was a very well-known person. She loved helping and feeding people even if she didn’t know them. As far as I can remember my mother had her struggles and battles with
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Developing Unified and Coherent Paragraphs A paragraph is unified when every sentence develops the point made in the topic sentence. It must have a single focus and it must contain no irrelevant facts. Every sentence must contribute to the paragraph by explaining‚ exemplifying‚ or expanding the topic sentence. In order to determine whether a paragraph is well developed or not‚ ask yourself: "What main point am I trying to convey here?" (Topic sentence) and then "Does every sentence clearly relate
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has made an impact on my life‚ the first person that comes to mind is my older brother Jason. He inspires me to be the best person I can be. Graduating valedictorian from his class and attending Yale University‚ Jason has shown me that dreams do come true; he reminds me that I must never give up. Growing up‚ Jason was always the smartest kid in class. He was beating games at age five and had an eloquent vocabulary. At a young age my parents could see that he was a genius; my mom always joked how
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