Life and Turning Point

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• A Turning Point Essay

  ... A Turning Point It was the first day of high school. I was not excited at all. My dad sent me to an International Private High School where bunch of rich people speak good English. The tuition fees to study there are pricy, too. My family isn’t really a wealthy one. My parents sent me there so that I could receive the “best” education in Malaysia. Tsk! Tsk! Sad to say this but I was totally not interested being there and the fact that I couldn’t speak English, at all, was really killing me. How was I supposed to communicate with the people there? (Note: Being able to speak fluent English represents higher status or level of that person in Malaysia.) Well, the reason why I can’t speak English at all is because I went to a Chinese elementary school and I was raised in a Chinese speaking family. The classroom contained only 28 students. The size of the class is really small, well, one of the reasons why the school fees are so scarily expensive. I walked into the classroom and randomly chose a seat and sat beside “her”. She had a long, black hair tied in ponytail, slim and fair. She is pretty and elegant. I looked way more boyish sitting beside her. I said “Hi” and that’s how our story began. Her name is Leanne. She is a very gentle girl. Her horoscope is Virgo. Now you can imagine how girlish and perfectionist she is. Her work is always neat and tidy. Academically, her results were always 90% and above. She was a runner representing our...

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• turning point Essay

  ... Controversy paper 1st draft Controversy : Gay marriage The forms of marriage vary and always have varied historically and culturally. And now we are at the moment where we see other big change coming. Same sex marriage is that change that has already started happening in our society. There are a lot of perspectives on this issue and gay marriage is among one of the most controversial topics that the United States talks about. One view on gay marriage is the protection of one’s unalienable rights. Declaration of Independence states, “all men are created equal… with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happinesss”. (par. 2). Supporters of gay marriage believe that marriage is included in the equality and pursuit of happiness portion of the U.S. Constitution. They claim that they have same rights as heterosexual couples because they have equal rights under the law. This year, President Barack Obama has shown support for this view at the inauguration. He said in his speech “Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law, for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit one another must be equal as well,” (Savage par 2.) Obama also emphasizes the notion of equality under the law just as the Declaration of Independence states. However, those who are against try to preserve the legal tradition of marriage by the legal definition...

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• Turning points Essay

  ...Turning Points College is a very important part of life. Going to college right out of high school is the norm in today’s world. My journey to college was interesting. There were several lessons that I learned on my way to college, many new people that I met, and new obstacles that I had to overcome to get to college. My mom helped me incorporate the lesson of being motivated and chasing my dreams with purpose into my life. One of the most important people that I met during my journey to college was the one and only Tom Parker. The most challenging obstacle I had to overcome in my journey was organizing my life in order that I could be successful in college. I grew a considerable amount as a person the last two weeks of summer when I started my quest for college. My senior year of high school I had several schools show their interest in me attending their school. My performance throughout high school in the High School Rodeo Association drew a lot of attention from several colleges’ rodeo coaches. I didn’t take the offers from these coaches very seriously. In fact I hadn’t even applied for college my whole senior year and most of the summer after I had graduated. Everyone has heard the saying ‘the best things in life come to those who wait.’ My mom, thankfully, helped me change my way of thinking. It was one afternoon toward the end of summer that I went to my mom at her office. I...

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• Turning Point of My Life Essay

  ... Looking back on it, my life was pretty plain and clear. I have been living a simple and carefree life ever since I can remember thanks to the protection and cradling of my family, especially with the love from my father. I took everything for granted without realizing their importance. That was until 4 months ago when my father got a terrible disease called Stroke, he can leave the hospital now but he hasn’t fully recovered yet since then, and it was very devastating to my family. During the time my father was in the hospital, I was very scared and that made me think a lot about my life. Father has been a wall protecting me despite all my ignorance and wrongdoing, but I had hidden myself behind that wall for too long without knowing that it won’t be there forever and one day I myself have to become a wall as strong to protect my own family, including my father. The door to the outside world, to a place that will make the child in me grow up is always there waiting to be opened, it’s only locked because of my fear and indecisiveness. The sickness of my father left some cracks on the wall but the light shining through will give me the courage to take a step outside and become a great man just like my father. As you can see, I have depicted that experience of mine in the image above. The walls represent my father with the cracks represent his sickness. I illustrated the outside world with a rainbow pattern to demonstrate its...

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• Turning Point in My Life Essay

  ...Seayam, Sidy Instructor: Ludmila Hart ENG 101 – 10 09/13/2012 Turning Point in My Life After I finished high school I knew that I had to look forward to my education, and check where I should finish it and think of the future, where I wanted to work and with a good job and if I was going to stay in my country or no. That was the beginning of my life change. June 5th was my last day of high school. I was like everybody happy that school had ended as every year talking with my friends about the exams and how every one did in it and what they expecting about their scores. After that I started to hang out every day with my friends because I didn’t know what I was going to do about college and did not know which major I will choose. I was confused, So I decided to wait for my results then take a decision, days been passing and decided to take Pharmacy or Dentist Major because I love chemistry and biology, but my parents wanted me to retake the high school because I didn’t get a scholarship, and I refused because I knew that’s my best and I’m satisfied with my score. August before my birthday with few days I though about studying overseas and the first countries were Russia and Malaysia, but some of my friends didn’t support me to go to Russia because their friends or siblings were there and couldn’t find jobs with the Russian degree in other countries the opportunities were low in there, So...

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• Turning Point in Life Essay

  ...A major change in life Graduating from high school was one of the most important parts in my life but not as important as joining university, everything changes except me asking myself am I capable of doing it? Fortunately there used to be only one answer either you can or not IT HAS TO BE DONE. However Travelling to a country where you almost don’t know anyone, finding out new traditions, new people, new friends and finally a new home is a bit difficult and could be risky too. That country was happily Malaysia. Malaysia is well known as one of the beautiful countries in Asia and even worldwide a lot of tourists visit this country throughout the year moreover its weather is really hot in all seasons but mostly raining. In a calm weekend in my place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia a very early phone call was received from DHL a courier company asking for the villa No. as they got something for me . 15 minutes later home bell ringing but I was lazy to a point that it took me days to go 23 stairs downwards. On the other hand opening the door for the DHL employee who was Pakistani named Abdullah wearing the company’s uniform stating in a very polite way “sorry for disturbing” and we got a shipped document for you. I was as scared as a small prey opening Sunway University’s letter but also had lots of energy and felt too excited to open it. Finally it was the offer letter from Sunway university asking me to pay the fees...

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• Essay about The Turning Point of My Life

  ...moment in my life that was a turning point. Actually, in my opinion, in every situation we have to draw conclusions and make useful lessons. I have met a lot of people and they are all different, as well as their way of life and their outlook on life. Some of them learn from their mistakes and constantly use their own life experience, while others fall under the influence from the external side. This can be our parents, or mass opinion, which we all are constantly pressed by TV screens, magazines, newspapers, internet. I think that most people try to live in accordance to a well-defined pattern that is fixed by the mass-media. For instance, we have to be good at school, than we should enroll in a prestigious university, get a well-paid job. But despite these seemingly positive directions, there is a number of negatives. All of them can be seen in films. We can notice as young people smoke, drink alcohol, and spend most of their free time partying, as they are too concerned about their appearance, even loose their virginity being very young, then marry but all this just seems to be OK. In real life “Happy ends" do not occur as often as on the TV-screen. I personally, believe that in every human’s life there are turning points, that change their outlook, change attitudes, interests, attitudes towards life and other...

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• A Turning Point in My Life Essay

  ...A new turning point in my life was my senior and getting ready to go to college. It was going to be new page of my life that hasn't be written yet. I had to make choices and deal with some consequences that I made threw out the years. I wish freshman year I didn't slack of as mush as I did and I'm gad I had as fun as I did senior year before a lot of my friends left for college. The year 2004 I was a freshman in high school. I thought the cool thing to do was to slack of and have a good time. I had a really low GPA and didn't realize that I was hurting my chances of getting into a four year college. I was more focused on what I was doing that weekend then my algebra exam the next day. Now when I look back on it I wish I could change it. My sophomore and junior year I learned how to balance the two a little better. I only bad thing was I still put everything else before my school work. It when sports first, what keg party was going on that weekend, how I wasn't going to look forward to work at nine in the morning that next day, then somewhere in-between was my school work. It's not like I failed my classes or was going to stay back. I just didn't excel myself the way I should have. Now came senior year where all the kids whore the name of college they were going to on there sweat shirts. It went from Bryant all the way to university of Massachusetts. Then...

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