Life is like breaking your arm. 33 years ago I broke my arm falling out a window‚ stubbornly trying to see the stars and make a wish. The discomfort I felt in the weeks after was nothing like my seven year old body had felt before. It was immense and disturbed‚ and while the recovery was long‚ the fall from the window was worth the star. My Presidency will be a lot like breaking an arm and there are three parts that pertain to us. First is the reach‚ the yearning for greatness that we all have.
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Icing My Arm Failure was not an option. If I wanted to play quarter back‚ I knew what I needed to do. Playing quarter back for Heritage High School’s (HHS) Junior Varsity team required an immense amount of perseverance‚ versatility and dedication. It all began at the HHS football field. My parents arranged for coaching lessons with Coach Fogelstrom‚ who is a Los Medanos College quarter back coach and teacher at HHS. My mother dropped me off on a Tuesday morning. I met with him for the first time
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My Coat of Arms is a representation of my identity‚ the things i love‚ my family and culture‚ my character and my life obstacles. You may think it is very easy to come up with things that make you‚ you! In my opinion‚ it was very difficult to think of things that I really loved to do. I never understood how much my family and culture played a part in who I am today. This was an experience I was very happy to have and it taught me a lot of very interesting things. Family and culture is represented
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It was a great day to break my arm. The accident happened right after I made the best choice of my life to jump off a tree into the water. Instead of caring about what could happen to myself‚ I thought it was the best decision. When I was about 8 years old‚ my family and I went up north to our cabin up in Antigo‚ Wisconsin. It was a nice sunny day‚ and that morning I remember waking up and going out for breakfast. When we came back from breakfast‚ we took our speed boat out onto the lake and went
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could walk. Baby’s first learning to walk don’t walk backwards do they? No‚ they are biologically programmed to move forward. I wanted the breaking of my norm to be obvious. What better way than to walk backwards and go “against the crowd”. I began the breaking of my social norm at my locker. I decided to walk from my locker to my science class backwards and I had my friend (Rory) watch people’s reactions since I was no longer facing forward. I walked down two long hallways before reaching the door and
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on charges of arm robbery‚ As the came back reading a guilty verdict‚ I sat in my chair next to my high paid lawyer feeling just as guilty as the verdict that had just been read before me. Not wanting to break down in tears I looked over at the deputy standing just to the right of me and asked her to escort me back to my cell. On the walk back‚ I replayed everything in my head that had put me in the situation I was in‚ I remember it was about 5:00 pm on a Friday evening‚ me and my ex boyfriend were
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Breaking the Regular Personal space is an invisible boundary separating one from others to be normally content. When violated‚ one may feel discomfort‚ anxiety‚ or even anger. As humans‚ we set rules in our minds called customs. Many of these vary from culture to culture but some are universal. One of those universal rules is the idea of personal space. In America‚ we have a strong sense of personal space‚ especially when it comes to strangers invading that space. From what I have experienced in
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Breaking Ice I walked on a thin layer of ice in high school; every time someone judged me‚ I could hear the ice slowly cracking under my feet. My life was in a fragile and brittle state during my junior year. I didn’t have the support of my parents‚ nor of my closest friends at this stage of my life. My own parents‚ teachers‚ and classmates had lost faith in me; to them it seemed as if I had ruined my life and that I would no longer succeed. On the contrary‚ I was determined to be successful because
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The quarters still weren’t ready when we arrived so we spent a week in the American Arms Hotel. We had two rooms‚ and there were plenty of stores and restaurants in the area. And the Army was paying for most of the meals‚ so the transition was tolerable. The kids liked it‚ but it was small‚ and I was grateful it was only a week. We received the call our quarters were available for inspection. We were lucky to receive a four bedroom apartment on the first floor. There was a basement for storage
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Arm Wrestling with My Father In this essay written for his freshman composition course‚ Manning explores his physical contact with his father over the years‚ perceiving gradual changes that are‚ he realizes‚ inevitable. For Manning‚ description provides a way to express his feelings about his father and to comment on relations between sons and fathers. In the essay after Manning’s‚ Itabari Njeri uses description for similar ends‚ but her subject is a daughter and her father. “Now you say
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