soon as my friend Sam informed me of the upcoming mission trip to Illinois‚ my heart immediately started to race with excitement. Millions of questions raced through my head: where was the trip‚ when was the trip‚ how many days‚ who was going? Despite all the questions‚ I knew I had to go‚ and even as I began typing the text message to my mother that would inform her of the upcoming trip‚ I thought about how different my easy excitement was from the emotional response I experienced the first time
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Core I Essay: Literacy Narrative Megan Smith ENC Valencia Students Prof. Phillips ENC 1102 02/16/15 My Love for Reading The first books I ever started reading were Winnie the Pooh and Dr Suess books. When I was young my parents were really good about getting me started with reading different books and for a long time I loved reading‚ as long as it was books I got to choose and enjoyed reading myself. Once I got further along in school and they started mandating what books we had to read I got
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My First Time Away From Home Leaving go to high school was my very first time away from home‚ and it took a lot of adjusting to a new surroundings. I didn’t have my mother or my grandmother right by my side anymore and I needed to become more independent on doing things on my own. Adjusting to a new city‚ community‚ and school was a challenge because I was used to being in my own city‚ with my old friends‚ at my old school. I often got homesick and wanted to go home‚ but I soon adjusted. Another
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As stated in my first journal entry‚ I originally saw this course as a skill to add to my resume. After reading chapter one I realized the value my personal life would gain learning about nonverbal communication‚ so I went into week two all gung ho and ready to tackle it! I knew having this skill would put my life back on track by giving me the tools I needed to hide my screwed-up life. This would lead to new friendships and relationships where I could verbally open myself up to others. All I had
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As a graduate student in economics‚ it is much easier to have a conversation with you‚ rather than tell you my life story. Kirkuk‚ a city of 1 million people‚ is where I saw the world for my first time. It is a city rich in oil in Kurdistan-Iraq‚ also called the “black gold city.” Those are all nice facts but it still is not the best place to spend your entire life‚ there is plenty of corruption‚ political and security issues‚ etc. Because of this‚ I dreamed of coming to the United States
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I was hugging my family goodbye as I was getting on the plane headed down to Lackland Air Force Base for basic military training. My story however begins way before this plane ride. Since I was a pre-teen computers and technology in general fascinated me. Growing up with a father that could fix a car engine with a 2X4 and a roll of duct tape and a mother who still is to this day a system analyst at Albany medical center‚ building and working with computer software and hardware was my hobby. Now working
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Chandra Chettri Prof: John English 1302 8 July 2013 Robert Burns: “My Love’s Like a Red‚ Red Rose” Robert Burns was born in Alloway‚ Scotland in 1759. His father‚ a poor tenant farmer‚ tutored his sons at home and sought to provide them with as much additional education as resources allowed. During his youth Burns endured the hard work and financial difficulties which beset his family as they moved from one rented farm to another. During his young age Burns proposed marriage to Jean Armour
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“Strike!” yelled the umpire. I knew my time was getting close. I tried not to think about hitting a home run because I have before‚ and I always
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For my senior project‚ I made books with my first grader girls‚ focusing on fostering both increased self esteem and positive feelings about being a girl. Each page tackled a different prompt: things they liked about themselves‚ a woman they admire‚ things the girls liked about each other‚ a job they thought would be hard to a girl to have‚ the best part of being a girl‚ what it means to be a girl‚ and that they’re strong. I tried to give the girls as much freedom as I could in answering each prompt
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When I first started marching band during the summer going into my freshman year‚ I didn’t expect to fall in love with it. Freshmen percussionists at my high school are required to be in the front ensemble their first year and couldn’t be in the drumline until their sophomore year. Knowing this‚ I thought of the upcoming marching season as just a waste of time because I wanted to be in the drumline and I would never want to stay in the front ensemble beyond my freshmen year. Although I wasn’t expecting
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