wasn’t great‚ but it was fun and what 7 year old is actually good at basketball. I just ran around the hot gym filled with sweaty kids‚ decked out in my baggy shorts and sporting my oh so fashionable sports goggles. Fast forward a few years and there I am in the 5th grade. Girls were developing skills and getting better at basketball. Travel basketball was an option because we were getting older and I‚ along with a
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definition of an American is a person born‚ raised‚ or living in the U.S. but is that what it truly means to be an American? Millions from all around the world come to USA to turn their life around because they weren’t doing so good at their home country. Many people have their own meaning of being an American which most are similar or have a similar idea but I feel like my meaning of an American is meaningful to me because of the state our country is in. Clearly‚ it means different things to many different
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Katherine Hua Mrs. Grubbs Freshman English H‚ Period 4 26 May 2013 Self-Interest Motivates Humans have always wondered what drives them to make the choices the make. One of the theories people have come up with is that self-interest primarily motivates mankind. This theory is defended in the actions of Luba and her suitor in Angels of Bergen-Belsen‚ the decisions made by Ilsa Hermann and Hans Hubermann in The Book Thief‚ and the struggles with death in Night. In Angel of Bergen-Belsen‚ Luba
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smart enough to handle my school works. Everyone else in the campus was doing really well but me. However‚ my math teacher did not give up one me. She putted so much effort on me by explained the questions. After that‚ I worked really hard on Math‚ and I cracked every test. I have to admit that overcome hardships can be really difficult and fearsome‚ but as long as we persist‚ nothing can be
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Plan essay #2 Robby Allen What Creativity means to me. When the word creativity pops in my head I immediately start to think of the word style. If you think of the word style‚ to me it is a way of creating a certain type of creative form that I would call my own. There are lots of activity’s and hobbies that I enjoy to do. One of the best examples I can give to the meaning of style is wakeboarding‚ which is a form of waterskiing. Style in wakeboarding is everything. It can be anything
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How to Succeed in English Class “Be concrete; get to the point; express your opinions colorfully” (1). In English‚ one has no limit to what they want to read or write about. But with all the so called laws and rules that English has‚ it can become a very difficult subject. To firmly prosper in English Literature‚ a person is expected to be prepared for the class by reading ‚ listening‚ writing‚ and thinking in a more advanced and intelligent way. For starters‚ in English Literature the basic
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About Me My name is ............................ I was born and raised in Queens‚ New York. Currently I am a full time college student at La Guardia Community College. My major is Criminal Justice. I am planning on transferring to John Jay of Criminal Justice after I earn my 45 college credits in order to join the New York Police Department Cadet ‚ my GPA is also good enough to be qualified on John Jay. I am currently a volunteer for New York Police Department Auxiliary. Since I was a kid I used
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This is the second most important quality that hope has‚ to me. I know that this is an important quality of hope because of the common goals that humans hope to happen‚ such as growing up and marrying a very special significant other and having kids of your own‚ or going to school and becoming very smart and hard
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the ability to take in both opinions and react approperately is empathy. Both of my parents taught me “have you thought about their side of the situation?” This use to frustrate me until I discovered that taking a step back from my perspective and looking at it from a different approach usually made me change my attitude about the situation. No‚ it didn’t always fix the situation‚ but it encouraged me to change my attitude from negative to understanding. Matthew 7:12 states “So whatever you wish
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For example‚ while my neighbor may not find it necessary to volunteer within our community‚ I believe that it is my moral duty to give back to those around me. With the use of ethics‚ I take the morals that I have formed throughout my life‚ such as treating everyone as an equal‚ and I apply them to every decision I make. To me‚ that is exactly what ethics means. It is the art of acquiring life experiences and using them
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