My body slams into the ground. I get up wipe the dust off my back‚ pop my board into my hand‚ and sprint up the stair set for one more go. Growing up I fit the skateboarder stereotype‚ I was a skater boy who didn’t care about his future. Little did anyone know‚ skating was the one thing that kept me going. I spent most of my days skating after school until dark only to come home to my parents screaming at me to throw my board in the trash. Coming from Bangladesh‚ my parents always wanted me to
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homophobic comment‚ my brother accidently bumps into me‚ my music isn’t loud enough to block out the sounds of the water‚ the bus driver slams on the brakes‚ I hit my head‚ someone turns on the radio. Then I’m home. When I get inside my dad makes a comment about how much I’m eating I know he is joking but the water rises along with every awful intrusive thought I’ve ever had. I rush to my room‚ I can’t breath‚ I’m crying‚ with ever thought the water rises further above my head making it harder and harder to
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Surrounded by a massive ray of brightness‚ complete silence‚ I was just as shocked as my mother and father standing on the lush and thick grass. All I could see was my teammate‚ Zayna with her short‚ black‚ thick hair and the other team’s goalie. I was standing on the field right in front of the goal. Even at the age of 8 years old‚ one soccer goal would be a great accomplishment for me and would help me move forward in life. I was so excited when I joined my first soccer team‚ the Hornets‚ because
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Shameeka Herring 10 February 2013 Personal Narrative Essay A Frightening Experience When I look at pictures of myself ‚ I realize how much I’ve grown and changed‚ not only physically‚ also mentally as a person in the last fifteen years. Less then one year after graduating high school ‚I received some frightening news‚ I was pregnant. I had dreams and so much potential‚ this would surely detour me from my goal in life of
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do with a baby I didn’t want to be pregnant‚ but when I heard that first heartbeat for the first time things changed. When I saw my little one on the ultrasound for the first time all I could do was smile and I couldn’t stop smiling! When I felt the first kicks I had fell in love all over again and regained hope. I just knew then and there I couldn’t dare give it all up now. In the beginning when it all started‚ I started to give up on everything. The people that I thought cared about me the most
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I have found that one of my most hindering personal flaws is the fact that I have always been a rather spectacularly terrible speller. This of course was discovered when I began elementary school and started to learn basic reading and writing. In reading I flourished (a bit to be expected as my mother is a librarian) but in writing I continually struggled with spelling. Unfortunately‚ this caused me to become greatly discouraged with my academic ability for quite some time. Throughout elementary
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There are 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
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“Why should I get a dog?” or “What are the benefits of having a dog?” are some common questions of today’s people. If someone doesn’t know the answer to some of these questions‚ it might persuade them not to get a dog. Another common question is “Should I adopt a puppy‚ or buy a puppy?” In this newspaper article I will explain what the benefits of having a dog are and I will try to answer most of these common questions the best that I can. Hopefully I will encourage you to get a puppy. One reason
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Personal Narrative Essay I tumbled in my bed‚ while my emotions were going all over the place. I was waiting for this exciting and also dreadful day. I could not go to sleep‚ I kept saying to myself “Go to sleep‚ the day will come by faster.” I always thought of High school of having a bully taking your lunch money because of movies I saw. I loved the feeling of a new school‚ scenery; it is like more stages of my life. When I woke up I felt refreshed‚ and ready to start the next
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Personal Narrative I was the second and final child born into the family before my parents got divorced when I was five. As the baby I wish I could say that I was treated that way‚ but I was not. I was the girl that reminded my father of my mother and was frequently ignored‚ while my brother was the pride and joy and could do no wrong. This being said it played a big part in my neuroticism personality trait as a young child. I was very quiet and withdrawn from my family and considered a loner. In
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