I married a white man because he has money‚ or that my children will come out with "good hair". Some have had the audacity to say it’s because‚ "I think that I am white". What?! So today I would like to set the record straight. One of my pet peeves is when people classify or stereotype me because of the color of my skin‚ or the gender I was born! I am a black woman of Caribbean ancestry‚ and I’ve had my share of racism and sexism throughout my life that would warrant me to become ignorant. Yes ignorant
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was her very first basketball game. Chase came with me to‚ my older brother‚ Nate’s basketball game. We arrived just as the Chelsea Hornets were getting ready. The warmth of the gym wrapped around our bodies‚ and the scent of teenage boy sweat filled our nostrils‚ making me almost retch. Chase sounded very excited when she asked me‚ “Where should we sit?” As any normal little girl would do‚ we both raced each other to the top of the blue high school bleachers and sat down in sync. My mom‚ little brother
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I Survived My First Back Handspring Tumbling is one of the things I hate the most. Some people might think that flipping your own body over to do flips is really cool and exhilarating to do. I‚ on the other hand‚ hate tumbling. Tumbling is the act‚ practice‚ or art of performing acrobatic tumbles‚ usually on a mat or the ground. Tumbling is a part of my passion‚ known as all-star or competitive cheerleading. A back handspring is one of the more basic skills of tumbling. When I was younger
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three stages to having surgery. The first stage is learning about the procedure. The second stage is having the surgery performed‚ and the third stage is recovering. For me‚ recovering was the most challenging aspect and the emotional recovery left scars much larger than the lacerations from my surgery. These emotional scars required me to tend to them devoutly and they were the most difficult to heal. When I was in seventh grade‚ I was diagnosed with scoliosis. My orthopedic surgeon‚ Doctor John
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through all of the conditioning. We just recently played our first football game against Lovel. That consisted of two quarters‚ which the Freshman played the first two quarters and the Varsity played the second two quarters. At the end of the game‚ it was 45 to 17‚ it was not close at all. That was a good way to start off the Freshman year. We were going to play the Cody Broncs in a couple of weeks‚ but things changed very fast. One of my favorite quotes is “Sometimes it’s the Journey that teaches
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My First Two Months of Middle School Normally you would think starting your sixth grade year of being exiting and really fun. I did to‚ but once the first month went by it started to go downhill really fast. I had made only a couple of friends by then and not much later those couple friends started to not only pick on other kids but me to. So my lesson to you is to choose your friends wisely. Soon I had made a new friend. A nice and loyal friend. He is the kind of friend that I think everyone
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The short essay Rape: A bigger Danger than Feminist know‚ by Camille Paglia‚ is a very empowering essay. In this essay Paglia talks about the word many women fear: rape. The type of rape she focuses on in this essay is date rape. The words date rape can mean different things to different people. So the real question is what do these words exactly mean? According to the dictionary the words date rape mean sexual intercourse forces by the victim’s social escort.. My definition of date rape is when
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thing I’ve ever done in my life thus far was taking Spanish in my first two years of high school. Throughout my whole scholastic career‚ I never really had to try. I came to class‚ did the work‚ and then aced the tests. This history of nonexistent challenge was interrupted by my enrollment into foreign language. For some reason the ideas taught within the class never really resonated with me and for the first time ever I was no longer an “A student.” This took a huge hit to my pride but it made me want
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It was my first day of practice for high school swimming. There I was- a scrawny freshman‚ idolizing these upperclassmen who towered above me. Being the only freshman in my class‚ my coach had me train alongside these giants. I remember the countless morning practices‚ which always involved grueling endurance sets‚ where my teammates lapped me constantly while I struggled to make the intervals; feeling disappointed in myself‚ but determined to continue working hard in order to catch up to my teammates
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In this essay I will reconstruct my first visit to Nigeria. The journey took place when I was seventeen in early 1993‚ during which time Nigeria was under the military rule of General Sanni Abacha. For the most part of my trip I stayed in Lagos‚ former capital state and still highly recognised as the commercial capital of Nigeria‚ although I did visit other parts of the country including Ondo State and Jos. Between this time and the time I left‚ in early 1994‚ I experienced and learnt a lot about
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