Growing up in a diverse city‚ the culture around me has always been different. Every person that I see always has a different type of belief than me. I’m a 17 year old Muslim student who lives in Southeast Texas. My father is from the Middle East‚ and my mother is from Western Europe. My parents migrated as refugees from Croatia to Houston in 1995 due to the ongoing war in Yugoslavia. After they’ve migrated they’ve lived in peace here ever since. However that has changed a lot since 9/11‚ one of
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This letter is to tell you that I ( Erin Ellison) deserve an A (91.5%) in your class. I deserve this grade because I have put forth my best effort‚ completed nearly all my assignments on time‚ have received good grades on those assignments‚ and those grades are a direct reflection of the effort I have put into each one of those assignments. Another reason I have given this grade to myself is I regularly attend classes and try to take part‚ and not only attend class but be engaged with the class
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There were some sad days for me when I was growing up. Because I was born with a handicap that’s what they called it in my day. I was born with a club foot‚ which meant the bone in my right leg was broken during the time my mother carried me. And the doctors had to do surgery on me when I was 10 months old. I was told that the doctors had to fix the broken bone in my right leg. I still have the scar. As I begin to walk‚ I walked on my toes. I walked this way until the second surgery when I was about
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In the early morning hours of my twenty-second birthday‚ I awoke abruptly to my father’s voice commanding‚ ’Get up‚ quick! Fire is coming over the hills!’ Half dressed‚ moving through a powerless house‚ I stepped into the front yard. Like a picture captured into my memory‚ I witnessed the intensely bright ember glow of fire coming up and over the ridge lines‚ lighting up the sky and surroundings in a think orange haze. A flurry of sounds consumed my ears‚ exploding propane tanks‚ snapping tree trunks
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01-14-14 Language Arts‚ Period 4 Tuesday Convince Your Principal Letter Dear Principal Martinez Lopez‚ I think there is a great play our school can have about Robert Smalls‚ an African-American slave who disguised himself as a Confederate ship captain and dodge heavy cannon-fire to escape to the Northern
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Growing up in a small town I rarely experienced any adjustments. I attended the same school a majority of my lifetime. With rarely any change‚ high school was this unfamiliar petrifying setting. The breakaway from my daily routine was one‚ I was ready to encounter with the guidance of my loved ones. However‚ life was at a peculiar state just around this time. My family came across complications and my parents were undergoing a rough patch. Growing up in an unbalanced environment at this age‚ the
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My unique background is being un-unique. Growing up in Highlands Ranch‚ Colorado as a white female I don’t have much of a unique background. I have lived in Colorado for my whole life‚ in the same neighborhood and same house. My whole life I have been surrounded by privileged Highlands Ranch kids. Growing up in the city known as the “Bubble”‚ I am rarely exposed to those with different life experiences then my own. We all have similar families‚ houses‚ and lives. For the most part we all have the
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Growing up my environment was constantly changing‚ although my blood related siblings and mom remained the center part of my life. I was raised in twelve different homes‚ almost all of them in the DFW area. My parents divorced when I was very young and from that point on my siblings and I were always moving from one house to another. It never bothered me that we were always moving‚ it was exhilarating getting to experience new places. Although I was never able to make deeply rooted connection with
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Growing up fast is not necessarily bad; but in retrospect on my first year in college‚ I tried to grow up too fast and lost my youth. There is something about being young. The jokes. The fun. The spontaneity. But when does youth end? I do not think it should end. There is nothing wrong with occasionally goofing off or taking a random road trip once and a while. Moving to New York City and living right beside Wall Street made me believe that I needed to be serious and fully mature. I was already buying
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Growing up can be challenging even with the ideal surroundings. Your teen years are even more puzzling because you seem to be stuck in between being a child and an adult. Throw in not having a father or mother around and life gets difficult. The year 2001 was a difficult year for my family and the nation. My life growing up wasn’t picture perfect‚ but in one very long month I learned that kindness from those around will help you endure and survive. Moreover‚ I still remember the day my mom had
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