There have been numerous times in my life where I’ve failed at something but there was one specific failure that really opened my eyes to what it really meant to fail. When I was in high school‚ I was in the band‚ my instrument of choice was the saxophone. While in the band it is required that you learn your sheet music before you attend any school event. This is to ensure that everyone is doing their absolute best and will make cuts to perform in every function the band was asked to participate
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Forever Remembered I knew that after walking into room 113 my life was going to be changed. I saw nurses saying‚ “sorry”‚ familiar faces with tears falling fast from their eyes‚ and arms opening wide for hugs. I knew something was wrong as I saw her lying still in her bed‚ eyes closed‚ and arms crossed over her stomach. Grandma Dorothy’s second stroke had slowly taken her life. Later‚ I wake up to my dad flicking my bedroom light on and him standing tall in my doorway. I could tell by the way
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“The Darkest Night of My Life and How God Save Me” Our lives are composed of sorrows and joys. If today we are happy‚ tomorrow we may be sad and vice versa. There are times when everything seems to be perfect and nothing can compare with the happiness that we feel during those unforgettable‚ momentous days‚ while there are some moments when life becomes so sad that they leave a trace of it for the rest of our life. The darkest night of my life was the day my grandmother died. She’s not only a
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School is a place where your teachers and peers should always be counting on you and lifting your spirits up‚ not a place where you are told you will fail. Failure is something that every person encounters in there life‚ but how they get there defines who they are. Not winning or losing but the path you took and how hard you worked in achieving your goals. If your start with the right foundation and push yourself to the limit‚ whether you win or lose does not define you as a person‚ or at least you
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quite the case. Although I wasn’t terrible I cheered for minor leagues in my younger years. Somehow things changed in middle school I didn’t make the team. Failure wasn’t the word for how I was feeling it was like my heart was breaking. This experience changed many things for me‚ looking at failure in a different way. Never really experienced failure before this‚ hoped to never have this feeling again. This made me cry and wonder why I didn’t make the team. Thinking as if I wasn’t good enough‚ with the
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Moving homes and relocating to another city sometimes feels like starting a new life. New home‚ new friends‚ and new streets to learn. I moved towns at the age of five and got to see things from a different perspective as I grew older. It was not until the age of 12 that I transferred schools and made new friends. At the time‚ I was frightened of the idea of moving‚ but after some time I was truly grateful it had happened to me. My parents‚ as well as a friend of mine‚ took a big part of this change
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that feels the same way. There was no banter between family members‚ were not talking about the usual every day life‚ instead there was live coverage of big events happening in downtown Manhattan. Though I was not fully wake‚ I tried to focus in on the T.V.‚ I saw fire and smoke flowing from the World Trade Center‚ where there used to be two towers there was only one. As I watched‚ the news anchors spoke about how the missing tower had just collapsed‚ that woke me up; the news was immense. I
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There are many stories about beowulf it is one of the most common out of all of them the story is about action‚ supernatural beings and different settings in time. In the story these people called the danes are having trouble with a monster killing all the people in their town. So they called on the mighty warrior beowulf to come handle the evil grendel. When beowulf finally gets to the danes with his fourteen brave men to take down grendel they tell the king of the danes that he is there to kill
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hardly able to sleep. The anticipation of this momentous occasion filled my mind with dreams of the fish that I would see swimming in the crystal clear water around me. I envisioned sticking my head under the water and looking around as the aquatic life zoomed around me‚ then all the fish erupted in song- or maybe that was scenes from The Little Mermaid making a guest appearance in my elated state of dreams. Whatever it was‚ I could hardly anticipate what the next day had in store for me. He picked
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Write a narrative essay on one of the following topics suggested. You may have a topic of your own‚ but make sure that it makes a good topic for a narrative essay. Besides‚ give a title to your essay. 1. Write about an important event or experience in your life. Describe the event‚ and explain why it was important and how it changed you. 2. Tell a story about a person who is important to you. Write about the unusual or exciting experience you had with this person‚ and how he or she has influenced
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