Garcia.Session 1.Journal As a thirty-three year old‚ I truly believed that I was too old for college. After high school‚ I was in a home situation that required I enter the work field right away. I made excuses for not attending college‚ often blaming it on money or time. The more years that passed‚ the more I embraced those excuses. I told myself‚ ?It had been too long since I was in school‚ I don?t remember any of it?‚ ?there?s no way I could do it?‚ ?I?d have to start from the very bottom‚ and it will
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I Told You I Was Tired I wake up at 6 am‚ tired and unfocused. Well doesn’t matter it’s time to get ready for school. Brush your teeth‚ comb your hair‚ get dressed‚ eat breakfast‚ and leave the house. I get to school‚ boom 1st period the test I forgot about. I work through the test just barely finishing. Next day I get it back and no surprise‚ C+. Many students are not getting enough sleep on a day to day basis. I believe that in order to fix this problem school start times should be pushed back
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The time before 1914 was a time of unrest and small fighting between countries. As a cause of industrialization‚ countries had had to find new markets which were often in other countries. To gain the markets‚ the country had to take over the land. This policy of conquering and ruling other lands is called imperialism. By 1900‚ Britain had control in over five continents and France had control of large portions of Africa as a result of imperialism and felt that their military could not be beat. Once
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FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL On my first day of school‚ my Dad came to drop me of. I was really nervous and afraid when I came out of the car and headed for the School gate. In the playground‚ I saw an abundance of big boys running around; that made me even more apprehensive. When the School bell rang‚ I quickly into ran to the hall so I wasn’t late on my first day. Mrs McNamara‚ our head of year was giving all the students a lot of essential information that we needed in the future so as a consequence
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started taking over. I was walking into my first school. I was afraid how I would do. It was a big building with a large compound wall. I forced up a weak smile as I left my parent. I took a deep breath and started walking towards the main entrance. As a small child I could not feel stable at the sight of the building. I thought to myself‚ why were so many people around me. Most of them were running around‚ zooming past me like racing cars‚ missing me by tiny fractions. I felt so alone‚ like a stray
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I could see that the man was very unhappy. As I watched him sitting by himself at the bus stop‚ a big brown paper parcel beside him‚ I felt my curiousity perk and was also strangely troubled. I sensed that the old man felt confused and needed someone to talk to. Yet I held back. The party was in half an hour. So I could not make the time for him. Besides‚ who was I introduced into another person’s privacy? These were my thoughts as I boarded the bus. As the bus drew away from the stop ‚ I looked
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Myself It was on May 31st 1987 that I was born in a little hospital in Bangkok‚ Thailand. My parents named me Thepnaree Oonhateparuk. I have 3 siblings; one elder sister‚ one older brother and one younger sister. I am completely not like any of my siblings because I am the only who resembles half my mother and half my father. I grew up with harmony and a cozy family has helped me in pushing my passion in education. Family is the first school in which a child receives the basic values of life. I learned
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Was Charles I the architect of his own downfall? Charles I became King of England‚ Scotland and Ireland since 1425 until 1449 where a civil war took place because of Charles wrong decisions he kept making. A civil war is regions within the same country‚ this civil war begun because of religion‚ money‚ and power. He didn’t care about these‚ which sadly leaded him to his own execution. First of all‚ Charles made his subjects and Parliament turn to his new religion‚ which was blindly Catholic‚ however
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Reading’s Review What This Cruel War Was Over‚ by Chandra Manning‚ so far has focused mostly on the happenings in the thoughts of the the soldiers‚ both Union and Confederate‚ shortly before the Civil War began. Manning focus on what she believes her evidence points to most strongly for the purpose of the men who joined the military forces in wake of the impending war. For those of the confederate south‚ it all came down to slavery right from the start. Whether it was a law of amendment that they believed
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Driving crowds wild with just the curling of his lip‚ Elvis Presley had led post-war era America into a rock and roll movement that would layer transform American culture forever. Elvis Presley was thought of as the Trojan horse of the new youth culture. He was fresh and new‚ and soon became a pivotal figure in rock history. Elvis had spontaneously changed people’s way of thinking‚ and because of his free spirited mentality we have the music and also‚ the desire for individuality and independence
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