It was my first day of college and I was both nervous and excited. Nervous because I’m older‚ have a husband and children at home. I don’t want to fail and disappoint them. I felt excited for the same reasons‚ my family. I can earn my degree and get a better paying job than my current EMS job. I would be able to spend more time at home and help my husband provide for our family. As I prepare for my first day‚ I look at my textbooks‚ my notebooks‚ all my pencils and pens and have my laptop out. Everything
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was created by James Naismith in 1861. He also designed the first football helmet. The first basketball game was played in 1891 at what is now Springfield College. My favorite position to play in the game is defense. I love to play defense because it’s so fun to block the other team’s shots and also I like stealing the ball from them and then scoring a layup. I also like to play offense because it’s so exciting when I score points for my team. I like juking people‚ which means getting past them‚
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My First Deer I woke up on a fall morning at about five in the morning. My dad woke me up and said‚ “We’re going hunting. Be ready by five twenty.” I rolled out of bed not wanting to go and got my hunting clothes on. I was quickly eating cereal as my dad constantly would nag me to eat faster. Finally‚ we were ready to go and drove up into the mountains. This took about a half hour. “It’s freezing out here‚” I said as I shivered. The sun had just barely came up and we immediately started looking
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English 093 My First Car I finally saved up enough money to buy myself a car‚ so I set out to track it down. My journey started out on a spring day‚ when the trees started to grow leaves shading the sun over my house. First‚ I drove to the store to get a newspaper‚ for I had already spotted a potential lead a few weeks back. As I searched through the classified section‚ I had my fingers crossed. I immediately spotted it. Because I had saved a pile of cash through the winter‚ I could
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illustrates for us in his piece titled “My first Conk” how his first conking went. For those unfamiliar with the term conking is a procedure in which black males concoct a gel‚ using mainly household ingredients‚ then apply it to the hair in order to straighten it. The incorporation of lye in the gel is what causes the bearer to feel as though the scalp burns. Malcom was at first a devoted conker but through the years has come to regret his old habit. At first he explains how good the conk made him
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to ask you something important. Ok so you know how my birthday was last Sunday. Last year you let me get my first tattoo and it turned out cute and you barely know it’s there unless I show you. The year before I got my first tattoo I was tuning 15 and you let me get my nose pierced and i would still have it had it not been basketball season. I feel like you should let me get my next tattoo because for one that was my main things I wanted for my birthday and i’m going to pay for it. All you have to
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English 111 March 16‚ 2009 As my boyfriend and I walked along the crowded pier: we inhaled the smell of freshly cooked crabs‚ shrimp‚ and lobster that came from the little blue restaurant that sits right on the pier. I could tell that the pier was an old bridge by the cracked cement and the old yellow road markings. The silver rail that surrounded pier was also aged and rusted. After walking about a mile we meticulously lined our poles on the rusted railing. My pole was blue and silver with bells
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Ung had felt a wild amount of emotions that had to do with the war in Cambodia. Distraught. Disbelieving. Disoriented. Confused‚ on how everything changed and ultimately a rebellion took over her life. In “First They Killed My Father”‚ Ung had her childhood stripped away from her‚ forcing her to work‚ adjust to wartime‚ and the consequences that come from war. During the war‚ Ung had to experience hunger and let this affect her daily intake of food. This was something Ung was not familiar with
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I changed my mind about running the day my father made me run my first race. It was a hot summer day‚ and I was inside watching television with my siblings when my dad asked us if we all wanted to run a race with him. At first‚ I wasn’t too sure about it even though he said it was only a one mile race. But‚ in school‚ we already had to run a mile in gym‚ and I wasn’t very good. All of my siblings said "yes" to it‚ so I had to also. I had no other choice. So‚ after a few days of doing nothing
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Those were the thoughts going through my mind when I went to go see my first ballet. It was only a few years ago and I still can remember how excited I was before watching it‚ during‚ and after. My mother and I went one afternoon to watch The Nutcracker. It was in San Francisco around early December in the year 2010. I remember showing up and for some reason I was so nervous. I couldn’t understand why it made me nervous‚ but the thrill of finally being able to see my
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