school’s varsity soccer team. I even ventured out enough to coach a YMCA team last year. Having this sport in my life has shaped me into the person I am today‚ but my passion for this sport was not always this solid. In 2010‚ my best friend Haley and I joined the same YMCA team for the first time. I can expressly remember our first day of practice. My mom had just bought me a brand new purple soccer ball. When we walked on the field‚ we were immediately
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Portland earlier this spring‚ I made new friends and they asked me to join them and play basketball together. It has been a long time since my last basketball game then. As a result‚ my skills have dropped and did not play as well as I used to be while I was in elementary school. I was pretty disappointed with myself. However‚ my friends gave me a lot of support and told me that I had the potential to become very good in basketball. They praised me that even though my shooting were not accurate‚ I was quick
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they have a topic down for a test. Either way‚ writing is useful. Writing serves many purposes in my life. It acts as a gateway to creativity and self-discovery‚ or as an aid in studying and solidifying knowledge. Writing as an art has been important to me. Even though I do not utilize it in an artistic way much anymore‚ I still enjoy just writing for fun. Nonetheless‚ I did write a substantial amount when I was younger. Having a very active mind‚ I loved to write fictional stories. Like Zebroski
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He was huge‚ and wore all black. The only thing that didn’t quite add up to his scary demeanor was perhaps his two protruding buckteeth. Worse came to worse‚ as he was assigned to sit next to me! That came to be the day where he would torture me non-stop. I remember how would follow me around and pick on me. He would always steal my school supplies and lie about it‚ to such an extent that I had to label everything including each marker from the already
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Earth‚ so what is it that makes me so different? I wear Nike‚ I drive a car‚ I play video games‚ I have chores‚ and could be considered a pretty normal person. I love‚ I laugh‚ I get angry‚ and I have emotions just like every other human being. The one thing I heavily identify with is football. For as long as I can remember I’ve played ball‚ and made some great friends along the way. The picture in the top left is a great representation of this. Football has taught me lessons of leadership‚ perseverance
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at the time went through a divorce‚ and then my grandparents‚ who I was very close with‚ got divorced. This was a huge adjustment for me; the loss of closeness in the family was unreal‚ and I felt that it would never be the same. New Years of 2014 I lost one of the most important people in my life‚ my papa Bucky‚ to a heart attack. It came as a complete shock to me‚ and was the
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from a "group" or "community" perspective. These are important because besides medical knowledge a nurse really needs to be kind‚ sympathetic and compassionate. Patients have families. The information gleaned by even a cursory study in those fields could contribute toward being a kinder‚ gentler‚ nurse. In addition‚ there are currently many ethical questions in medicine which can be partially covered via the study of sociology. Today‚ nursing goes beyond focusing on disease and pathology I to
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My parents had me involved in many basketball camps and programs. The sport is like a stress reliever for me also‚ when I am overwhelmed about something I just take it all out on the court. If I was ever going to quit basketball I never thought it would be like this. Maybe because I got injured or was starting
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remember reading has been a up and down thing for me. I always loved to get read to when I was a little girl and to look at picture books making up my own words to go along. Throughout the years reading has grown on me in many different ways. Some of my early reading memories were creating words with letter blocks with my mother‚ reading rhyming books that taught me the basic sounds such as “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom” and “Cat In The Hat” that helped me rhyme/blend words while in kindergarten. After
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I have played sports my whole life since I was just a young kid. Sports have taught me so much in life and have really helped to make me a better person. Sports are a very good opportunity for kids to meet new people and have lifelong best friends. They teach you so many things in life and it has shown in my life especially. Some might think of children playing sports as dangerous and unsafe‚ but playing can teach kids so many life lessons like being a leader on the team or a leader in anything in
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