my life‚ learning and education have been integral parts of who I am. They have shaped me into the person I am today and have taught me the importance of experiencing new things‚ persevering through challenges and obstacles‚ and thriving toward excellence. When I was born‚ I was a Two and a half pound‚ twenty-nine-week preemie with underdeveloped lungs and a near one hundred percent guarantee of mental disorders. I am blessed to have survived at all. Living was rough for me; I could not walk until
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Who wants to be a Filipino? If you were to be reincarnated and given the choice‚ would you opt to be Filipino again? It was in 1998‚ at a Forum of students of top schools at the University of Asia and the Pacific‚ that I raised this question. As expected‚ everybody‚ except me‚ gave a resounding yes for an answer. Hypocrites! I could see from the way they talked‚ from the clothes they wore‚ from their ideas of what was good and beautiful‚ that even in this lifetime they were dying to camouflage
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How the Military has Shaped My Life and Prepared Me for the Future Barry Coleman PSY 202 Dr. Moore December 19‚ 2010 How the Military has Shaped My Life and Prepared Me for the Future For me the decision to join the military provided me with discipline and taught me leadership skills that will forever have an impact on who I am as a person. Many young people in United States decide to join the military after high school each year. Although military life can be challenging it can be rewarding
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When I was a young girl you had to be at home to receive a phone call‚ have a set of encyclopaedias to do your homework‚ post letters and wait days for a reply‚ take your video camera or camera out with you to be able to capture special moments and have your Walkman and cassettes with you to listen to music. It’s almost unbelievable to think that now in 2012 we have a device in our pockets that will allow us to make and receive calls‚ texts and emails‚ take videos and pictures and do many other
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Someone Who Has Made an Impact on Your Life A mother: a woman in relation to a child or children to whom she has given birth. Since the day I was brought into this world‚ confused and unknowing‚ my mother not only kept me alive but has given me the best life that she could offer me. As a child‚ I only knew that she was in charge of me and loved me‚ but now I know that there is so much more that my mother has sacrificed. As my role model‚ my best friend‚ and inspiration my mom has proven to be the
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nsportation has changed over time. Most of everything has changed even transportation has changed and business has also changed. Transportation has changed all types of cars and planes have changed now they use gas and charger’s . Cars run off gas and charger’s cause of all the things we have to use to make them. They use gas witch we have to pay for and it’s not cheap. Planes help a lot they are way faster than cars so are trains. The cars back than can not be charged or fixed we they didn’t
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example of how tourists choose their tourist destination and I have a wonderful destination that everyone should come once time in their life " Ha Long " . Ha Long is one of seven nature wonders of the world. Visiting Ha Long bay‚ you can experience the diversity of natural views‚ from sandy beaches to thousand year old rocky mountains. Why should you choose Ha Long bay to visit ? The word Ha Long in Vietnamese means the dragon descends into the sea and he legend says that the island of Ha Long was
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I’ve been a special education teacher for seven years. My first three years were spent working in a Title 1 school with some of the most economically disadvantaged children in our area. I call those my "Trial By Fire" years. Almost every child on my caseload had a heartbreaking story attached to their IEP. I cried a lot those years. I quit going to church because it was too hard for me to sit in the sanctuary full of upper middle class people that had no clue of the horrors I was seeing. That
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I Want To Be Better My anger had now completely gotten out of control. Although anger is a completely normal human emotion‚ I would not disagree that mine had taken control of me. My temper was quick and I had a short fuse. My deeds as a result of my wrath bore consequences that are hard to bear and I still regret my actions. On this particular day that still lingers in my memories‚ we were to go for a road trip with my little brother and a couple of friends. All necessary preparations had been
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In the short story “That Final Paper You Want from Me” by Polly Frost‚ we meet the student Sabrina McEvoy. For her Intro to Composition class‚ she has been asked to write a final paper. But since she does not really like the idea of a written paper‚ she comes up with the idea of creating a social network as a project. The Composition teacher‚ Dr. Pettit‚ rejects the whole thing‚ making Sabrina very angry and spiteful. She then writes him a long email‚ showcasing 4 different types of social media
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