How I Remember Hurricane Katrina By: William Ford Thesis: How Hurricane Katrina changed my life. On Saturday August 27th 2005‚ my wife and I had a lot of things on our minds. I was home from an eight hour overtime outcall‚ at my new job with Cable One in Long Beach‚ MS. Having only been there five days and also in the middle of packing to move from Bay St. Louis‚ MS over to Long Beach‚ only a little over six miles away‚ the stress level
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Burns Bissell My biggest influence: Andrew Calton I have had multiple influential people in my life‚ but I’m not going to say my parents or a great teacher‚ but rather someone closer to my age. Andrew Calton‚ a good friend and great influence. Andrew helped me “get back on my feet” when I was scared to kayak. I would stay on the lake and not go on rivers because I had no confidence in myself. Late at night he and Jack White‚ another good friend‚ came to my cabin at camp and told me there was a spot
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115 May 01‚ 2011 A Challenge in My Life A Challenge in My Life: How I Dealt With It A challenge is something that is like a hard obstacle to overcome. Challenges happen all the time in life. Challenges can be put to a test. Some people may pass or fail different challenges. I have had many challenges occurred in my life. The one that was very difficult for me to overcome and deal with was having an ovarian tumor. In May 2005 I started feeling sharp pains in my stomach and heavy bleeding had
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experienced quite a few times. This is how it all started. So it was a nice‚ cold day in Millbrae CA. I was in the library with my friends trying not to get as loud as we usually would be‚ so that we would not get kicked out. Eventually we did. While I was just hanging out‚ all of a sudden I get a weird phone call from my dad. I answered and it was quiet in the background and then my dad started to talk. He asked me what I was doing and I told him and then out of nowhere my dad said “ Shaina‚ your mom is
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My grandma’s condition wasn’t anything but hard for me and my family to deal with. Everyday with her was a roller coaster that held many twists and turns and couldn’t stay on the track. If you didn’t hold on tight‚ you’d thrown off. You never knew what she would remember each morning that she woke. Some days she would know the date and she was aware of her surroundings‚ while other days (which weren’t so great)‚ she’d be back in time when her husband was alive and she’d call for him. Then she’d be
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Picchierri English 151-28 30 September 2014 Freedom There are limits as to what is protected in the Bill of Rights and what is not. You need to realize when you cross that line of what is not protected. Due to the fact that students are protected by our Bill of Rights they have the freedom to wear what they want‚ say what they want‚ and put what they want on the Internet. With this in mind students have the right to wear what they want but only to a certain point. If what a student has on is offending in
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The English Bill of Rights precedent for other governments led the idea of unalienable rights to become a hot topic. Citizens under the French and British monarchies believed that “The promise of those rights can be denied‚ suppressed‚ or just remain unfilled‚ but it does not die (Hunt‚ 175).” Therefore‚ our rights still exist even if our government suppresses them. Those rights will always be there no matter how much the government tries to belittle them. The uprising of peoples’ belief in their
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My whole life‚ I was never introduced to change. I was always in the same school‚ same soccer team‚ and same house. But then‚ a gargantuan amount of change occurred in my life. I went to a school with the label of “new kid”. And I joined a whole new level of soccer. When I made the team‚ the weekend of‚ we had a game. We were driving towards the soccer field‚ and I kept on thinking about how excited I was to be playing with these girls I would be playing with for a while now. The day before
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present. Death touched my family about eight years ago. I still look back and try to remember. Even though my thoughts on the time are blurry on that day; I learned morals that shaped me to be the person that I am today. I wake up to the nagging and shrieking voice of my mother’s morning wake up call. I layed back in bed‚ thinking‚ how much I despised monday mornings. After about ten minutes‚ I sluggishly make my way into the kitchen. I make myself breakfast‚ and proceeded with my usual monday morning
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� PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �8� How Economics Have Changed My Life They say that if you look at it things closely‚ you will see the essence of economics going about its daily routine. Indeed‚ from the man buying his morning coffee to the woman calling for a cab‚ the economic system is all around us. Not many people notice it (or are just apathetic about it). But surely‚ it ’s everywhere. Day and night - it never stops. The moment the sun sets in one part of the world‚ money starts circulating on the
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