year‚ I had already made up my mind to sign up again this year‚ and the remainder of my high school years. My first year serving as a mentor‚ as a freshman‚ was an exceptional experience where I emerged more fond of the experience and fulfillment that I felt‚ rather than the over 100 hours of community service that I received. I was excited to return for another year‚ however‚ there was a massive roadblock that strongly made me reconsider. As the week of camp approached‚ my classmates and I had also
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you cannot truly understand until you experience it. As a kid‚ I heard about grief in class‚ but was unable to comprehend that feeling. I heard about the grief my mother fought through when her mom died but was unable to understand how she felt. I would think about my parents one day dying and cry. Until this past June‚ I never grasped the concept of grief. Let me rewind a bit before the event of late June. My grandparents had flown out to Seattle to watch my cousin perform her last choir concert
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My admiration and respect for the profession of medicine developed at the age of 8‚ due to a close encounter with death. I was admitted in a hospital due to an extremely low and rapidly deteriorating blood platelet count. At first the doctors provided me with a treatment that should have treated 90% of the cases‚ but they didn’t have any effect on me‚ and with the time running out quickly they resorted to the next best treatment. If this treatment didn’t work‚ I was only left one other option and
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never been my strong point. I never divulged into the writing process as much as I have completed for this particular course called writing 101. The reason being‚ English was never my first spoken or written language. I am comfortable with speaking the English language however writing correctly and adhering to the writing process has always been a challenge for me. For once‚ I never had a clear idea of structuring an essay to reach a valid point. Without structural organization‚ all the essays I have
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I am the youngest child of my family. In addition to that‚ my older sibling is an inherently dominant boy. Therefore‚ I have spontaneously felt inferior to him. My strong sense of leadership was not established until I left my home country. A thirty-hour exhausting flight physically transported me from Vietnam to a foreign land - America‚ as well as figuratively transformed a childish girl to a young leader at the age of fifteen. I moved in with my uncle’s family in Texas. From a careless‚ youngest
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statements. However‚ my experiences with diversity have not always been a good one‚ and many times‚ it was very trying for me. Diversity has almost taken my will to live‚ yet I have still moved on. Sometimes I wonder how people get through tough times‚ only to realize that I have been through the toughest. When I was in seventh grade‚ my twin sister had an extremely traumatic experience‚ something that subsequently proceeded to rip apart my family systematically over the next six years. My sister is still
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My Experience as a Writer It all started when I was just a little kid. I began learning how to speak and use our language. I watched learning videos teaching me how to talk properly and use different words. Once I reached first grade‚ we began writing very simple sentences and learning the basics of writing. By the time I reached Elementary school‚ we learned about the sentence structure and we began making more complex sentences. We also started writing paragraphs and short essays. When I reached
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English Writing Experience English is not my native language; my experience in writing was very minimal‚ I starting writing when I came to college. First‚ when I star to write a sentence in English‚ I have an idea in Chinese. However‚ I have to write it in English‚ the confusion starts when I try to translate my previous idea. And the structure of a sentence‚ like we put the time and place at the beginning of the sentence in Chinese‚ but in English we put it at end of the sentence. After I come
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Northern and Southern Dynasties (386 - 589) The Northern and Southern Dynasties period (386 - 589) was a time of division in Chinese history‚ during which the Yellow River watershed of China first experienced a period of cultural transformation under the rule of a minority group. After the fall of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317 - 420)‚ four regimes - the Song‚ the Qi‚ the Liang‚ and the Chen appeared one after the other in south China. In north China the Northern Wei‚ the Eastern Wei‚ the Western
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Engberg WR 121/ Essay #1 9 July‚ 2013 My School Experience Throughout my life I have always struggled with school. You could say it’s because I have ADHD. That seems to be the favorite reason given by people who were trying to figure out why this “smart” kid was doing so miserably in school. I wasn’t convinced. For whatever reason though‚ I’ve always been a terrible student. Through high school‚ my plan was to join the military when I graduated; worry about college later. So my logic was to
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