H. English I’d like to begin by saying that it’s a lot harder to write about yourself than you think. Last night when I typed this‚ it took me longer than it probably should have. But that might just be me. Anyways‚ I’ll start out with when I was born. My twin sister Shannon and I were born at the Atlantic City Medical Center on Thursday‚ January 28th‚ 1999. Shannon and I are fraternal twins‚ and most people that we meet never believe us when we tell them we’re twins. She has curly hair and
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In Felisa Roger’s article How I Learned to Love Football‚ Roger discussed how her dislike for sports changed all together with when she had a reason to care about it more. She provided a great background when explaining why she changed her mind about disliking sports‚ and used a great variety of detail while explaining it. She talked about how as she was growing up she had a strong dislike of all sports. She talked about how she was never good at playing any sports in gym class and always hated
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The more I think about why I am starting college I do not know myself maybe I took it because it was the next step right after high school or I want to have a successful career and have a sturdy income. Also‚ it could be that I saw my peers starting college and wanted to know what college is. Another big element is my ethnicity because my uncles‚ aunts‚ and family members all went to college and they are either in the medical or in the engineering field they expect the same from me. They also keep
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I suppose if one were to look at the etymology of the word “team”‚ one would arrive at its proto-Germanic derivation‚ Taumaz‚ which signifies the act of pulling or to draw together. These are words that illustrate cohesion. A team consists of a collection of individuals put together to form or seek out a common purpose as a whole. Thomas Edison was once asked why he needed twenty-one assistants; he simply responded “If I could solve all the problems myself‚ I would...”‚ a response that elicits
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Why We Love Football It’s the most fun‚ most competitive‚ team-oriented sport in the earth. We would do anything to win a game. Ladies love us guys want to be us. Everybody loves the game‚ people are always playing it‚ it is the soul of the universe. When you put on the pads‚ lace up the spikes‚ and buckle your helmet you walk onto the field and nothing else matters. You will forget if you failed a test‚ fought with a friend‚ or lost some money…. Because for the next few hours your day will
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To my love Emmett Today was the day I was going to tell my best friend since 1st grade how I felt about him as more than a friend. Maybe it was time that I expressed my feelings towards him‚ and stop being a so called whimp. I moved from Mississippi when I was 10 year old and leaving Emmett was even harder. We were both raised in Chicago and we had always been together‚ even our families were close. This summer Emmett will be visiting soon for his two week vacation with his relatives‚ and had called
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A memoir from Lac Su‚ "I love Yous Are for white People" " I love Yous Are for White People" is a memoir about Lac’s journey and his family immigrated to America from Vietnam‚ after the Vietnam’s War. Lac’s family had to deal with cultural shock‚ language barrier‚ and difficulty finding jobs. As a Vietnamese immigration myself‚ I feel like Lac’s experiences live through me because there were a lot of similarities in his memoir compared to my past experiences with my parents. Lac’s family and
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Ola Ahmed Al-Aserei Level 5A April 13‚ 2013 My Best Friend and I Friendship is one of the greatest gifts ever bestowed upon mankind. While making friends may be easy‚ finding true and loyal friends who provide a lasting and fulfilling friendship is a much greater challenge. A real friend is one who stands by her friend in the hour of her need person deserts her friend at a time when she needs her most‚ she cannot be called a real friend if two persons simply know each other‚ and they can
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purpose. One example is the narrative of two sisters from the advertisement titled “Sister”‚ which was created by the National Cancer Institute of Thailand‚ or NCI. Narrated from the older sister’s perspective‚ the commercial recounted how the sisters’ estranged relationship improved due to the revelation of the older sister’s cancer. It was a story about the importance of familial love and hope‚ which influences the target audience to sympathize with the sisters. The commercial’s purpose was to persuade
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Why Teach? I want to be a teacher because I am passionate about literature. I love sharing it with others. I want to be a teacher because I am passionate about learning and as a teacher you are constantly learning. Kristen Brummel‚ the Teacher of the Year for the state of Hawai’i‚ said in her speech that she was “amazed daily by the insightful ideas that {her} children have and by the questions that they ask about the world around them.” (CCSSO‚ 2011a) I think that children are so open minded and
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