When I was a freshman in high school‚ a young boy named Bo‚ who I attended school with‚ was diagnosed with a rare form of Leukemia. This was the first time I was really exposed to cancer and what it does to a person. My grandmother had died from lung cancer before I was born‚ so I never was exposed to the gruesomeness of the disease. Bo was twelve years old when he was diagnosed with a rare form Leukemia. Prior to being diagnosed with Leukemia‚ Bo was an normal active boy‚ who was friends with everyone
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To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee. the book to kill a mockingbird is through the eyes of a young girl named Jean louise Finch who goes by Scout. She constantly is following around her big brother Jem‚ who she looks up to as a role model. Her brother Jem‚ who is four years older than her. Scout and Jem understanding about Boo Radley changes gradually throughout the book. Scout and Jem were taught to see Boo Radley as the town’s lunatic. It has been said that Boo Radley had stabbed his father‚ been
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A rich kid growing up in a loving family provides for an easy life; this life is simple in the early years‚but curves in the road arrive in everyone’s life. I grew up extremely with an extremely close relationship to my “Boppa”. Boppa was invincible; my mom’s dad could build a treehouse in the mountains at seven thousand feet of elevation without breaking a sweat. Nothing could hold him back. When he was told he had 6 months to live‚ this came as a huge shock to everyone to him and those who loved
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Science has been with us ever since our ancestors were barely civilized. It has simplified our lives to the extent that not only has it brought about positive effects but negative effects as well. Science is all around us‚ from the trash gathered in our waste basket to the chair‚ table and computer you are using to read this essay right now. To put it simply‚ as we continue our evolution‚ knowingly or unknowingly‚ the more we discover things through science and more change will be brought into our
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When I was about 4-5 I learned what death was‚ and it terrified me. Death has scared me even though I am many years away from it I would think about death and it would terrify me. Luckily a lot of times in movies when people died I knew it was fake‚ so it did not scare me as much‚ it was when I thought about my family dying and dying myself. This fear caused me to decide to live forever. I came up with all sorts of crazy ideas. Even if they would never work‚ I kept thinking about them and it consumed
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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around- the music and the ideas" - Bob Dylan (1992) From 1964 to 1968‚ there swelled a gigantic wave of cultural and political change that swept first the city of San Francisco‚ then the whole United States‚ and then the world. The efforts of the pioneers in the Haight-Ashbury to create an enlightened community took about two years‚ from 1964-66‚ to reach the flashpoint‚ and during those years the
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Nutrition was never a route I intended to take. Roughly six months ago‚ my life went through a whirlpool; I had no clue what I yearned to do & I was in utter turmoil. I previously desired to become a pediatrician‚ but that firely passion burned out. One day I came across a youtube video of Lisa Lorles‚ a vegan youtuber. In her video she explained that she was studying nutrition in college and that veganism inspired her to do so. At that very moment something clicked in my mind‚ I felt butterflies
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I was pretty lonely growing up‚ being an only child and all. I grew up in a somewhat small house in Plano‚ Texas where I would spend all of my life even until today. Being born and raised in a suburb like Plano I did not learn a lot of skills that my mother had learned while she grew up. My mother grew up in a small town north of Plano called Whitewright‚ Texas. She was raised riding horses with her friends‚ exploring the vast amount of land‚ and spending time with everyone that she knew. My mother
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In my household‚ kids didn’t really have too many responsibilities. I would see pictures of adolescents in third world countries lugging around gallons of contaminated water‚ just to drink for a day and others who would have to eat something as absurd as clay just to settle their hunger. Meanwhile I had a stocked fridge and spotless clothes to wear as I attended public school like every other mediocre kid in the US. It wasn’t until after I graduated High School that I began to comprehend the little
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The world I come from is filled with trouble. Growing up has been awfully challenging for me. On one side of my family‚ there are well educated people who know their responsibilities and understand right from wrong‚ and on the other side there are troublemakers who seek to enjoy themselves as much as possible (with the exception of a few) with little to no responsibilities. During a major part of my childhood‚ I had been best friends with one of those cousins for a long time‚ to the point where I
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