horrendous happens and your life is never the same again. I was confronted with this when I received the shocking news‚ my breath was taken away and a sob was caught deep within my very soul. The unwanted yet undeniable words‚ telling me my cousin Johnny was dead. I so often seem to be immobilized by that moment. "He played life to the fullest‚ and without regret‚ he bet it all and braved the fall". For me‚ that is the day everything went wrong. Ray and Jerilynn‚ My parents and my daughter‚ Alexa
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The Day Everything Went Wrong! Where do I begin? I woke up early feeling refreshed. I had completed my morning workout and routine. I thought this would be the best day ever‚ but at a blink of an eye everything started changing for the worst. Even though we have bad day everyday is a learning experience. On the morning of November 23‚ 2010‚ I’m very excited that it’s my anniversary on my job. Around 7:45 a.m. this morning I received a disturbing call from my special friend. The first thing that
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My Odyssey Let me take you through what has happened so far; my senior year‚ which was 2016‚ I pulled a prank‚ my senior prank. I sat for months mulling over what to do; thumbtack on chair‚ loosen bolts on a desk‚ spray paint or graffiti the gym; I had all these ideas and could not decide! Then finally I thought of one that I just had to do. It was calling and tempting me‚ and let me tell you‚ when mean ol’ Ms. Bat came in her room she did not expect all of her desks‚ tables‚ and chairs to be
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I believe I remember when I was just a little girl‚ about the age of twelve‚ when I went to the Bedford Stadium and hundreds of people were scattered in the stands and at half time the announcer started to announce a bunch of girls names. I looked down to see a bunch of girls in long dresses march down the field with what seemed to be prince charming on their arms. After a while they all were down the field and the stadium would get quiet‚ and then the announcer would scream out a name and
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101:ND Paper #1 The Sanity Behind Insanity In the face on impending danger‚ the human brain resorts to primitive instinct to seek salvation. Instincts that drive humans to run from fires‚ fight off attackers‚ and hide from their worst nightmares. When those nightmares live deep inside their own minds rather than outside the body‚ the only way to escape them is through dissociation. Dissociation‚ the process of disconnecting one’s conscious awareness from his or her physical being to achieve a state
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life: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” is one of the most popular questions asked by your parents or relatives. Parents usually ask this question to their children to encourage their kids about their future. It seems like an easy question‚ but its not. Not many children know what they want to be when they grow up. Many of us say those careers that we think are the most popular such as; police officer‚ firefighter‚ nurse‚ teacher‚ or a doctor. I can remember when my parents would ask‚ “What
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many toddlers‚ I was fascinated by building blocks. They held me spellbound for hours on end and pushed me to make some imaginative‚ if not structurally unsafe buildings. I thus grew up with a great passion for architecture‚ and was very certain I would one day be an architect. But as I drifted into Secondary school‚ my interests changed. History‚ among all subjects captivated me the most. I grew very much interested in the past‚ and as I went from “Ancient Egypt” to “Communist Russia” I found myself
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clear after reading “When I Woke up Tuesday Morning‚ It was Friday” by Martha Stout‚ I realized she had the same opinion as Juhani Pallasmaa and Oliver Sacks. All three of them believe that in order to get the most out of life people must try to take in as much of their environment as possible‚ through their five senses. This thought was central to all of their articles‚ however none of them just come out and say it; they use examples to help the reader understand‚ and each one
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few it is more drastic than that. Dissociation is a mental disorder where the brain tries to protect an individual from traumatic events by detaching themselves from their surroundings both physically and emotionally. In Martha Stout’s essay‚ When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning‚ It Was Friday‚ she writes about dissociation and how it effects a person’s everyday life. Stout informs the reader on how dissociation begins with a traumatic experience in one’s environment that alters the way the brain programs
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When I Grow Up I have always had a difficult time with the question "What do you want to be when you grow up?" There are too many things that grab and hold my interest‚ for a little while at least. I have always known that I wanted to go to college‚ why I didn’t do so immediately after high school is a mystery to me but‚ I’m finally here and I intend to get every possible thing out of it that I can. I know it’s not necessary to decide on a specific degree tract freshman year but let’s face facts;
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