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 me. It kept me from living my own life. That lasted up until I was in my 2nd year of homeschooling. I was in 5th grade‚ and I was given the choice of picking a book from a selection of grade
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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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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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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. I was three years older than Bo‚ but we lived in a small community where everyone knew each other. Bo Johnson was friends with a lot of my friends siblings and we all would hang
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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 myself
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participating in sports ever since I was four. Athletics has always been a very big part of my life‚ and that is the way I love it. I play soccer‚ volleyball‚ basketball‚ and lacrosse for my school‚ as well as playing travel soccer for the LIJSL. I also enjoy playing softball‚ football‚ tennis and any other sport. Partaking in athletics has had an extremely positive influence on my life and my development as a person. For one thing‚ it has taught me cooperation and teamwork. It has taught me how to be a
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alongside my father as a butcher. I was born in Merida‚ Mexico to a single mother. As the man of the house I began working at the age of seven cleaning windshields at stoplights and polishing shoes for any available change that people could spare. I came to America at age of twelve. My father had been anxiously waiting to meet me the day I arrived in Houston. My first challenge tested my capabilities at adapting to a foreign country without any family members to support me‚ other than my father who
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The love I had for the game myself was unreal. My grandpa and my uncle took note of that and made sure that everywhere I went I carried a football. I already knew football was something I enjoyed watching but it wasn’t until second grade I actually got to pad up and play. I was a natural‚ I played offense
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I was born in 1758 on a Virginia farm on April 28th. My family and I weren’t a very rich family but we made do. We lived in a small house and I had two sisters with 5 brothers. My dad worked as a carpenter and planter. We didn’t go to school because we were tutored at home. We liked being home schooled but it wasn’t a very good education though. At the age of sixteen I attended a better college for a better education the college was called the college of William and Mary. Although I soon dropped
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In basketball‚ always dribble with your head up. No‚ this is not something I learned from one of my coaches or any of my teammates. This is one of the many lessons I learned from a young African refugee. It began on a snowy day‚ peering through my frost bitten window at the basketball hoop across the street. Amongst the falling snow there was someone I had never seen before with a basketball in his hand and a smile wider than I thought the blistering cold would allow. At first‚ I was hesitant to
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