Hector Amezcua Ekins Writing 0990 05 Mar 2013 Personal Narrative Starting from a place I remembered as a teen‚ moving from a place that was warm to a place that had all four seasons; such as winter‚ spring‚ summer and fall. The First place that I grew up was surrounded by mountains. During the winter it was full of white snow‚ something that I was never used to seeing coming from California where all one would see was sandy beaches and the waves clasping one another. As I remember being
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Tragic Accident It is amazing how many things we take for granted. We make plans for the day‚ and don’t think twice about how those plans can be taken away in the blink of an eye. I never thought much about it myself‚ until I was faced with the shock‚ and undeniable truth of my cousin’s death. I don’t think anyone really thinks about tragedy until they are actually faced with shocking news. I woke up on what I thought was going to be a wonderful Thursday off from work. I had the coffee brewing
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school survivors. Helen has never had good relationship with either her parents because of the childhood trauma that she and her siblings suffered from their parents. Helen and her siblings are survivors of sexual abuse from relatives that have passed away. Because of this it has made it difficult for Helen to ask for help when needed‚ Helen has been an independent woman all her life. Helen has taken the step to ask for help where her granddaughter Marcy is concerned‚ Helen has explained that Marcy has
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eventually told me when we had moved out to Rosemont. I had met some new people when I went to school but I only made one friend. Her name was Selena Guzman. She was always there for me when I ran out of my house. I say was because she had passed away in “09. Anyways‚ things started getting bad. The nightmare will now begin. I had never imagined Steven being all nice to me. I knew he had disliked me because I wasn’t his daughter. He used to treat me bad. He used to hit me. It was just horrible
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could play against every member of my team and come out the victor on any given day. It was the first day of practice that week‚ and challenge matches were scheduled to begin. The team went through our daily shuffle of drills‚ conditioning‚ and running to prepare for what was lying ahead. While warming up with my friends‚ I felt great‚ talking about homecoming‚ boys‚ and a variety of irrelevant events. I felt ready. The odds were in my favor and nobody could stop me. Coach called us to a huddle
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My brother and I continued to sprint through the dark‚ damp streets. Puddles splashed under our feet making eerie echoes. We passed closed shops and empty parking lots. It seemed like I wouldn’t even have nightmares as creepy as what I was walking through. It was darker than usual. A unearthly feeling was in the air. No one was around‚ which was normal because it was almost midnight‚ but it felt different. “Maybe I’m just in a bad mood‚” I whispered to myself. School had proved to be a tragedy yet
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start to see how the impact of maternity leave provisions on mothers. The FMLA has required employers to provide employees job-protected and unpaid leave for qualified medical and family reasons. Some qualified medical and family reasons include personal or family illness‚ family military leave‚ adoption‚ pregnancy‚ or the foster care place of a child. The act started off by saying that “…it is important for the development of children and the family unit that fathers and mothers be able to participate
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play it then‚ I should be able to carry it‚ and if I cannot carry it‚ then I should not play it‚” I would amiably reply‚ and continue to push my instrument elsewhere. During a practice‚ the band director told everyone to go outside. My section was running back and forth trying to carry out everyone’s equipment and arrive to the practice field on time. An older female teacher walked the door next to the band hallway and looked at me‚ “You look like you’re struggling. I’m sure that there is a big‚ strong
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only ten‚ and I only seven. At the time my mother worked third shift‚ she was driving us to our baby-sitters house. It was dark out‚ I don’t remember exactly what time it was but it was late. I had on my favorite pink nightgown‚ it was wet from running to the car in the downpour. I was on the right side of the backseat looking out at the rain‚ it was raining very hard that night. No one was talking‚ we were all very tired. There was no radio playing--my mother hated music. looking out the window
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twitter‚ Facebook and I would always come up with some bullshit person just pretending to be someone‚ and although they saw it as some funny game but it was a nasty joke to me that would tare up my hope every year. So when my mom’s (my real mom’s) personal investigator found the names of my brother and my birth mom the first thing I did was search for them on Facebook‚ I found my brother and I messaged him three times on October 29‚ 2013 and received nothing. Finally when I had given up on everything
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