My sophomore year in highschool we were in the semifinals of state championship for football. The whole team was ecstatic because our team had been performing very well all season. So well‚ that we knew for sure that we would defeat Oak Grove and move forward to state finalist‚ or so we thought. Going to state and winning was everyone’s dream on the team and we had not the patience to achieve our mutual goal. That game was no close call; we were ultimately conquered by Oak Grove and had no chance
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Krav Maga: How It Changed My Life Being the victim of armed robbery on two separate occasions led me to want to learn Self Defense. I began to research the different schools of thought on the subject and settled on Krav Maga. It provided the most real world applicable defenses of all those that I researched. As a student of Krav Maga‚ I have seen changes physically‚ mentally and personally in myself. Slowly as time passed‚ and I took the classes‚ I began to notice changes in my body and stamina
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injuries many things shape how a person acts. Many of these things I have experienced but this is the only one that positively affected me. All of this started when I listened to one band’s song. One band changed my life. It began on a Monday in mid-December during my freshman year. (I had a dreadful cold from the week before‚ and I was still getting over it.4) It was a frigid and snowy typical winter day. (I was exhausted because I had spent a few hours in the hospital checking on my Uncle‚ although looking
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Brandon. I worked on projects led by fellow scouts in my troop and picked up trash in the local park in Rosendale more times than I can count. I’ve learned many skills in scouting besides the stereotypical knots and campfires that usually come to mind. I learned leadership skills‚ public speaking skills. Heck‚ I learned how to organize people to achieve a common goal when I had to lead my service project in the community. Scouts strengthened my religion‚ reinforced
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How Baseball Changed My Life Baseball may seem like a game where individuals remain around and sit tight for a ball to be hit‚ yet that is not what baseball truly is. To me‚ this game has changed the way I see life all in all. Each player has been taught to have great hard working attitude‚ regardless of whether it’s in a weight room or even practices. Coaches have given leadership chances to players every year and this year it’s my turn due to my hard working attitude and my capacity to lead a
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How Digital Media Shaped My Life Digital media has shaped and affected my life in a variety of different ways. The first way digital media is incorporated into my life is through social networks. From the moment I wake up until the minute I fall asleep a social network is probably open on some type of technology. Usually if I’m bored my phone is in my hand scrolling through newsfeeds whether it is on Twitter‚ Instagram‚ Snapchat‚ or even Facebook. Twitter is my way of staying updated on people’s
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Over time the Bill of Rights was amended to meet the needs of an evolving nation. These include the 13th Amendment which outlawed slavery‚ the 14th Amendment guaranteed equal protection for African Americans‚the 15th Amendment which gave African Americans the right to vote‚ and the 19th amendment which gave women the right to vote. The Civil Rights Movement was a defining moment in history because it denounced the unequal treatment of humans based on race. During the 1950’s‚ the United States operated
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When my parents were young the always talked about how their history class changed their life‚ but I never understood. They always said‚ “I learned many things that helped me live my life in a successful and positive way.” My parents always told me I’d understand when I am older‚ and I finally get that history isn’t just things that happened for no reason. Everything in history happened to create what we have today. For example‚ The American Revolution‚ happened for independence. It impacted the
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reading and writing. That is my passion. For a person who lives in their dreams‚ writing helps me write out all my thoughts. I was a late bloomer. Most kids my age learned how to read when they were 4 or 5. I‚ however‚ learned how to read at 8. The doctor explained that I would develop later than others because I was born severely premature. They also told my mom I wouldn’t be able to walk until I was 3. but my family pushed so hard for me that I was able to walk on my 1st birthday. I was able
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people you come across throughout life. Identifying the source of your literacy is easier said than done‚ but the simplest way is to identify your "sponsors". Sponsors is a term coined by Deborah Brandt‚ in "sponsors of literacy"‚ to mean people or situations in your life that affected and developed your literacy‚ “Sponsors seemed a fitting term for the figures who turned up most typically in people’s memories of literacy learning” (Brandt‚ 1998). Personally‚ most of my "sponsors" were situations that
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