I have attended four different high schools in four years‚ and have played football alongside numerous teammates and coaches. I have always participated in sports throughout high school. Playing football has taught me valuable lessons for use on and off of the field. When I joined the football team my freshman year‚ I did not fully understand what I was getting into. Even though I watched football on television‚ I had no idea how much work was truly required for the sport. I worked vigorously for
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college graduation offers a greater remuneration‚ more prospects and self-fulfilment. Although I concur with the aforementioned explanations‚ I have supplementary reasons I agree that a college education is of high importance to me. First‚ college education will permit me to afford a better living standards for my family and household. We have survived without what several people consider to be basic. Buying a house‚ annual holidays‚ frequent camping expeditions‚ all-terrain cars and speedboats
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coming to an end. However‚ the lessons and values that I have learned from playing club soccer will stay in my life forever. I began playing soccer when I was seven years old‚ playing under the wing of Charley Amblo. Chaley was a huge role model for me when I was a kid because he was the assistant coach of the Holland team Ajax. I started off only working on training to improve my abilities. It was not until I was nine that I played for a travel team going to various tournaments and college show cases
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only one person that motivate me to join the track and field team. I remember we made a bet about joining‚ it was if I join the track and field team with her‚ she will do flag football with me. Unfortunately‚ She quit track 3 week later and I didn’t do flag football. I fell in love with throwing that discus‚ I felt strong and unique throwing it. I was still trying to find myself at the time‚ some kids would make fun of me. They would say it not a real sport and that me and my team mate are fat and
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in this assignment‚ I faced many things‚ some are interesting and others are difficult to deal with. For example‚ for this essay‚ it seems a new experience for me to write about poetry explication. I took me a while to first read the poem like three or four times until I had an idea about what the poem means. One of the things that helped me understand the poem is by trying to live the experience that the poet had experienced. On the other hand‚ although this paper is short‚ only 2-3 pages‚ but it
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five‚ I would always attend my step sister’s soccer games during the weekend while at my dad’s. I would always love to watch but I was more of a hands on person. I have always wanted to play soccer but unfortunately it was harder to do for a kid‚ like me‚ when I had divorced parents that lived 40 minutes away from each other. It was so hard because usually when it came to soccer‚ the games would be during the weekend and practices would be a few days during the week. Finally‚ after my sophomore year
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Liberal arts classes have been of great importance to me since they have shaped me to become a better critical thinker. To begin with‚ humanities have equipped me with knowledge about people and how to be humane. By knowing that people are different and reason differently‚ I can empathize with them before drawing conclusions. By studying social sciences‚ my mind has become open to the world‚ and I can‚ therefore‚ view things from different perspectives (White‚ 2011). I no longer limit my judgments
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even how some get through their week‚ knowing that on a certain day they get to relax and watch a good television show. For me‚ that television show would have to be Grey’s Anatomy. Every Thursday night I make sure I have nothing planned from seven to eight in the evening. I watch it so much I believe I could perform an appy‚ also known as appendectomy‚ if someone needed me too. But in the end‚ Meredith Grey has been through so much in the past eleven seasons hat I have learned many life lessons
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world into a better place. Whether it’s by saying "please" or "thank you"‚ recycling a soda‚ or just paying someone a compliment‚ these forms of kindness is what unify our community and inspire us to be good citizens. Growing up‚ my father informed me that "In America‚ there are no such things as friends and life are always a competition." This was puzzling because I understood that competition is what drives our society forward‚ yet never accepted the fact that solidarity was the way to success
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dark in the world‚ but D.A.R.E is the light that will light our way. Some of the most important things we need to be taught in life‚ we are not always taught in school. Some of these things include‚ decision making‚ not to use drugs‚ and not to smoke. These are things we have been told‚ but we never get told the seriousness of it. This is what D.A.R.E teaches us. I believe this is one of the most important things kids can learn. A few generations ago‚ the probability of people getting drunk
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