June through August‚ when I was young‚ entailed family trips around the state. In September‚ when asked about my vacation‚ I would say brightly‚ "I visited Mexico‚ Paris and Lebanon‚" and then in a quieter voice‚ "without ever leaving Missouri." Although my family didn’t go far‚ we were always learning. The show-me state attitude instilled at an early age‚ while riding in the back of a Buick Riviera‚ resurfaces each year around this time. Because I took leave from my writing responsibilities this
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At the beginning of the term‚ I quite honestly thought that this class would be both a waste of my time and my money. It just seemed that it would be one of those classes where the professor would just assign us pointless activities in an attempt to keep students within college. However‚ as I progressed through this course‚ I found skills that will not only help me throughout college‚ but in life as well. The first skill that I found influential to me was __ chapters in‚ the one on time management
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I have changed a lot as soon as I began high school. I started changing by not doing my homework and not doing class projects. When I was in middle school I would always do my homework every day and keep my average high‚ but know i’m going down on my average as soon as I went into high school. When I started high school I made myself a promise. I told myself the same thing I told myself in middle school “I will do my best and do my homework all week”‚ but that didn’t happen. It was already the last
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25 Things I learned 1. Dating back to the first week of school‚ it was instructed to eat at least 1 piece of fruit‚ some water‚ and toast‚ or grains. I then researched why it was important which helped me appreciate the advice along with the advantages to my health. 2. I learned that it is important to substitute soy protein instead of animal protein. Soy protein‚ it has been proven that they register lower levels of cholesterol. 3. Drinking green tea daily helps lower cholesterol‚ and helps prevent
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D.A.R.E Essay I learned in D.A.R.E that smoking and doing drugs can affect how you breath and it will turn your lungs a black moldy color. D.A.R.E helps you make good decisions on what to do if somebody asks if you want a cigarette or if they want you to drink with them. One of the things that I learned in D.A.R.E is peer pressure and peer pressure can be bad or good. One of the things that you feel when you have peer pressure is stress and what do I do. One example for peer pressure is if
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How I Learned to Drive was written by Paula Vogel. It is written in an autobiographical style‚ although it is never truly clear whether or not it is autobiographical in actuality. The story is about a woman (Lil’ Bit) in her 30’s looking back on her experience of being molested by an uncle (Uncle Peck) from the age of 11 through 18. The brilliance in Vogel’s writing is that despite the subject matter‚ Uncle Peck doesn’t come across as a “monster-like” figure. Instead he seems like a regular person—flawed
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thoughts I believe my strengths in composition have stayed the same. For example‚ from the beginning of the semester to now in the mid-semester‚ I have been working hard to complete all my assignments. I have been doing every assignment given to me and finishing it on the instructed due date. In this class‚ you can see on my Midterm grades that I have been doing my work and turning in my assignments on time. I have done every assignment and pushed myself to be better to get the grade I want to achieve
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The majority of people believe life is complicated‚ but realistically‚ they just need a more simplistic mindset. In Robert Fulghum’s All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten‚ Fulghum takes our “complicated” lives and breaks them down to terms as basic as Kindergarten. As the title suggests‚ he explains that one of the simplest years of our lives teaches us the most important concepts. His instructions include cleaning up after your own mess‚ living a balanced life‚ and sticking together.
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improved to the point that I wanted it to be before basketball. I have somewhat followed my goal of trying to run at the track‚ but I have been unable to run or workout 4-6 times a week. From where I was at on September 30th I have improved and compared to this time last year I am in much better shape than I was at the start of basketball season last year. One reason why I may have not reach this goal was setting the bar slightly too high. Instead aiming for quantity I should’ve leaned more towards
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goal was to work with a topic that I would enjoy. The opportunity to work on a Hogwarts house sorting survey geared towards your CU Summer Scholars Harry Potter class provided me with that enjoyable topic. As I started to work with the other members of MacAlystre’s Magisters to develop our deliverable‚ I realized that my teamwork skills were also being honed. This is most apparent because I had both positive and negative experiences with each of my teammates. I think that having a better knowledge
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