At the age of seven I enter prison‚ my life took a different direction at a young age where I was surrounded by people I didn’t know and faces I never recognize or even known existed. That was the day I came to America‚ imagine being taken away from the one place you called home to another dimension where people spoke a complete different language from the one you knew since birth. The angry and confused‚ I felt was intense‚ trying to figure out where I belong in such a huge place without actually
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This town is called Anacortes in Washington state and I have lived here my whole life. My mother is mexican and my father is black. I grew up thinking that I was slightly different from everyone else but not really looking at it in a negative manner. Racism didn’t seem like a big deal because i have never personally had to deal with it and it still seems like a far off idea‚ one that is there but not connected to me. My father works for the Anacortes Police Department where he is a detective but
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about something‚" mom says. My brother‚ and I look at each other strangely. Ethan asked "what do you need to talk to us about mom?" Divorce the legal dissolution of a marriage. This is what happened to my parents in August of 2009 they got divorced. It was a very big challenge for me to face. At first it was just a separation which happened in 2007 then slowly turned into a divorce. I was young so I did not understand a lot of it. After the divorce I had to change my schedule completely. It felt
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As an Immigrant‚ there were many challenges I faced whether it’s related to language or understanding the culture. My family moved to United States of America when I was in 6th grade. I was always told by my parents that building a successful career is very important. This idea of building a successful career never stuck in my mind until the junior year of high school when I all sudden all the teachers and counselors started talking about going to college build a career in a field that you were interested
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Throughout my life I did not really see myself in any kind of career field‚ I found it very difficult to pick a job or even find something I’d consider myself to be good at. After doing COOP it has come to my attention that I would like to learn more about the placement I have been at these last few months. I feel like this is the right placement for me‚ I am comfortable with the environment if anything I want to dig deeper and do more studies on different stages that occur before clients show up
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to go fishing. It was a time for me and my father to bond. It was also a time to relax and clear my mind of everything else. I have been fishing since I was six years old‚ and every since the first time I threw in my line I loved it. I have gained much knowledge in the sport from my father‚ who is a lifetime fisherman also. I have developed into a good fisherman‚ and learned many things over my fishing career. One of the things I have learned was to bait my hook and to cast it. I also learned how
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read the thoughts of the main character. Readers are allowed to to look in the eyes of the eyes of the protagonist. Good authors use first person to feel a way or develop thinking similar to the main character. Ned Vizzini‚ author of It’s Kind of a Funny Story‚ uses the first person view to help develop the character and find out what Greg is thinking. The story is about a young male‚ named Greg‚who suffers from disorders such as depression. Greg is slowly getting worse due to his imagination going
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It was in the middle of July when we got the email that my Uncle had been diagnosed with cancer. When we got to his house he looked ok but he said he was in pain. Once we went to the hospital he had to go in to chemotherapy and radiation. One day when we went to the hospital we learned that he did not have enough white blood cells at the moment due to the treatments. He had to wait for a few days and during those days he was in pain. Steven was having troubles with eating so that started to become
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Two Beaches in Vietnam There are many beaches in Vietnam‚ but I only have been to Nha Trang and Vung Tau‚ which are two famous beaches in my country. Even though both of them are wonderful places where people can relax on vacation‚ I prefer Nha Trang for three reasons. First of all‚ the sea view in Nha Trang is more beautiful. While Nha Trang has a blue sea‚ white sand‚ and a long range of coconut trees along the beaches‚ there are gray sea‚ yellow sand‚ and many rocks near by the
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issue in my life. What I did not know was how easy it would be to change that. Most of my life I struggled with anxiety and social awkwardness. I never knew how to talk to people because I always tried my hardest to avoid the situation. When I got thrown into a situation where I had no choice but to push past my anxiety I realized a lot. Having a support system and being secure in my own mind it helped me realize how easy it would be to move past my anxiety and be social with ease. Most of my life I
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