There are many values which have been instilled in me from playing football and that will always be a part of me‚ specifically effort. I believe effort is timeless‚ it’s something that you learn at some point‚ and used for the rest of your life. Last football season was a trying time for me. After putting in countless hours of training over the preceding spring and summer I found out I finished third in a three way quarterback competition for the starting job‚ 6 days before the first game. I had
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“What Veteran’s Day mean to Me” “Try not to become a person of success‚ but rather try to become a person of value”. ~Albert Einstein.Veterans are not just men and women who went to war. Veterans are the cause‚ we live in a safe country they are the cause‚ we walk on the sidewalk laughing and enjoying what life brings us. But the question in my mind is we laugh‚ play‚ and learn‚ what about Veterans they don’t laugh‚ they cry they don’t play they fight they don’t learn they die. We are not
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What Shaped Me We are all who we are for many reasons and some none at all. We all have molded into something because of someone or something. Wether we know who‚ what or why is something we mite never know. Luckily i know the answer to all those questions. Sports. They are what made me who i am and it wasn’t so much the sport but the coach‚ my team and the people who supported me. I started Track and Cross Country in junior high with absolutely know idea how much it would end up affecting
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What Cheerleading Means to Me After countless games‚ practices‚ and competitions‚ nothing quite compares to standing on the eight panel mat in front of thousands of unfamiliar faces or a high school football game on Friday night. It is a unique atmosphere where there is an air of utter togetherness and positive energy that I have never experienced anywhere else during my four years of cheering. Although it is the most intense‚ stressful‚ and time-consuming activity I have participated in‚ cheerleading
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other children around me‚ I was the privileged one. Even though I was the privileged one out of my friends‚ we were still oppressed when it came to our school system. It was actually somewhat difficult to come to some of these conclusions about my past‚ but they are also good and make me feel appreciative about where I have been and where I am going in my life. On top of that‚ where I am at now in my life gives me special privileges
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baselines‚ setting stretch targets‚ ensuring robust end products and developing an implementation plan. Yet my greatest challenge was convincing the combined team and their supporting plant personnel to review the current working practices and develop the best‚ unbiased business solutions. Inspired by the challenge‚ I initially didn’t understand the reluctance of senior staff to objectively evaluate their current practices. In their minds‚ any improvement we identified was a criticism of the current system
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What HOBY Means to Me. Leadership is defined as the leading of a group or an organization of people. I arrived at HOBY expecting that to be the definition of leadership that would once again be given to me. Although‚ contrary to what I believed‚ that wasn’t the description I received. HOBY taught me that to be a leader I don’t have to strictly lead others. I can also lead myself because I can make a difference. I have to be the change I wish to see in this vast world that I call my home. This is
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What Diversity and Multiculturalism Mean to Me By David Meads What does Diversity and Multiculturalism mean to me? I believe that diversity has become so much more than just the basic qualities of race or gender. It now includes all qualities that make everyone unique‚ as individuals or as part of a larger group. It is also the acceptance‚ respect‚ and understanding of these unique qualities that makes diversity work in a given society. Multiculturalism is the system that is centered around
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What Patriotism Means to Me In the aftermath of the September 11‚ 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States we are seeing many forms of Patriotism. I was surprised to find when I researched this word that it had a negative feeling associated with it. I believe that patriotism is actively showing your support for your country‚ standing up for what you believe in‚ and fighting for our individual free will and independence. I am proud of my country and I am not ashamed to fly the American Flag
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I believe drugs can kill‚ but basketball will save me. I am a young adult‚ a teenager‚ a young man who has witnessed close family members deceased due to the presence of drugs. As I witness this‚ the game of basketball keeps me safe. I was born into a family‚ a loving caring family‚ one who did not think they were doing anything wrong because it was not around me. Soon enough I came to realize they would no longer be around me. I saw some do it as I grew older‚ they said it makes them feel better
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