Americans have several reasons to be proud of their country. Everyone can be who they want to be. We are allowed to say what we want‚ and to believe what we think is right. Most importantly‚ we can choose who we want to run our country. In 2009‚ we Americans put our races behind us and elected our first black president. We are allowed to choose our leaders based on who they are as a person‚ not because of what family they were born into. After we signed the Declaration of Independence in 1766‚
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in everyone’s mind. Some of these moments are filled with joy‚ and some are filled with pain. The moments impact us in some way. When asked to look at a moment that impacted me. I can only choose one‚ the moment that made the biggest impact‚ when my mom died. That event forced me to think in ways that I never had to before. Our roles changed‚ we became more independent. We looked after ourselves. We kids also help start dinner before dad came home. A role in my first eight years of life I had never
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SHOULD I BE PROUD OF MY COUNTRY? Why am I proud of my country you ask‚ there are many reasons to it… some of them have been illustrated here forth… haffun… 1. Where else would you be allowed to pee on the road‚ on street intersections‚ footpaths‚ in short any place you would like. I have known that animals use a tactic of urinating over a place to mark a territory‚ but this is ridiculous. And don’t let me get started on spitting. 2. Where else would you find stray cows‚ buffaloes‚ dogs‚ cats
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The Happiest moment of my life Running on the road with wind shouting in my ears‚ I enjoyed the happiest moment of my life. Like people praying and participating in spiritual practices‚ I find my spirituality which eases and relieves me. It is running helping me retrieving energy‚ and the memory with it has become the happiest in my life. I found myself chasing after gold medals most of my vigorous youth. I started competing in athletic games since elementary schools. That time‚ I was competing
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I’m confused about life it seems like no one understands me especially my parents they try to run my life but they don’t understand my life’s my own to run they can’t run it it seems we live in two different worlds at two different times they should know no matter how much they try to control my life I’ll always rebel I don’t care about the punishment because they can’t take away my freedom‚ hope‚ dreams‚ memories and people I love ever. I wish they would understand
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My Moment I was tall for my age in seventh grade‚ the tallest girl on the junior varsity basketball team. I was goofy and gangly and not quite comfortable in my body. I remember how excited I was to get to play on the team. I was going to play for the Aviano Saints! Since we were just a small American school in northern Italy‚ everybody who tried out got to play for the team‚ but it was a pretty big deal for me. Some of my best friends were also on the team and we looked forward to an amazing
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A Defining Moment in my life Cancer‚ the word burned into my mind. My dad has cancer. The realization of this was so painful‚ that it was too much to bear. It was Multiple Myeloma‚ disease with which was not familiar. All that I knew was that my dad had cancer and my world was about to change forever. I always loved my dad and thought we had a strong bond‚ but our time together was limited. Between his work schedule and my school and sports schedules‚ we rarely saw each other. When he began his
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We enjoy the moments of pleasure while the moments of sorrow plunge us into despair. We cherish the moments of pleasure throughout our life. Such a moment came to me last year when I learnt that I had stood first in the examination. It was really the happiest moment. It appeared that I have won the whole world. Though I had fared well in the examination‚ yet I was not hopeful of getting a first class. In fact‚ I was anxious for the result as some of the papers were not up to my expectation. As
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“There’s no one defining moment that kills you or makes you.”(Sinbad). People’s defining moment in their life changes their whole personality and changes their point of view in their life.People’s defining moment in their life changes their whole personality and changes their point of view in their life. I never thought that‚ I was going to move to a new country. At 2012 my parents told us that we were moving to America. Dad told me that my mom got hired by a company to work in America as a nurse
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became an aunt. I just got out of volleyball practice when my cell phone rang. I knew it was my mom calling to tell me sister had the baby because yesterday my sister was having real bad stomachaches. Nervously I answered the phone and sure enough‚ it was my mom saying my sister‚ Jamie‚ had the baby. She was coming to pick me up from practice and we would go straight to the hospital. I couldn’t decide whether to be happy or scared for meeting my niece for the first time. But for curtain‚ I was going
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