refused to attempt roller blading. My parents bought me multiple pairs of roller blades that went to waste. I was terrified I would collapse and break my arm or end up with a concussion. Then‚ one day I decided to face my fears. I strapped on my roller blades‚ along with my helmet and wrist pads and braced myself for a moment I would never forget. Adrenaline ran through my veins as I stood up and attempted. Instantly I fell and scraped up my knees. A little scrape on my knee was not going to bring me
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“Race” James Baldwin once said‚ “I am what time‚ circumstance‚ history‚ have made of me‚ certainly‚ but I am also so much more than that. So are we all.” When the subject of race comes up‚ I feel like that quote is very meaningful. According to class lecture‚ race is an arbitrary social classification of clearly bounded categories based on skin color which corresponds to no biological reality. To be able to understand race today‚ a person should have a background on the history of race. According
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taught me what the real american dream is. The opportunities this place has given me and the
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My Dream‚ My Future Do you pay attention in how fast time goes by? Before we realize‚ time has passed by and all the dreams we had for our future have not yet come true. The reason is because our dreams are just dreams and haven’t yet become goals. Life is no Nintendo game. You live only once. Therefore‚ we must fulfill those precious one called Dream during the rest of our short Life. As for me‚ I have my own dreams too. If you ask me this in my childhood‚ I would say: “I want to be a teacher…
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that had to do with the war in Cambodia. Distraught. Disbelieving. Disoriented. Confused‚ on how everything changed and ultimately a rebellion took over her life. In “First They Killed My Father”‚ Ung had her childhood stripped away from her‚ forcing her to work‚ adjust to wartime‚ and the consequences that come from war. During the war‚ Ung had to experience hunger and let this affect her daily intake of food. This was something Ung was not familiar with‚ therefore she had to get used to the
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Similarly‚ God is making these decisions like a father would make a decision about their child having a surgery on their tonsils. They may just be slightly bothering the child now‚ but the father knows that eventually it will cause a major problem with major suffering. Of course‚ the father doesn’t want to see his child in any pain whatsoever‚ but he knows if they have a surgery now to take out the tonsils that the pain of the surgery‚ will be less severe then that of swollen tonsils. That is the
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rights violations. One in every five people would end up dying‚ each one in its own ruthless way. From 1975-1979‚ Cambodia experienced one of the worst genocides in the history of the world. One girl experienced this atrocious genocide at the age of five and lived to tell the tale. The girl‚ Loung Ung‚ shares her experience in the book First They Killed My Father. The theme of First They Killed My Father is that in times of crisis‚ everyone will be forced to make sacrifices. One peaceful day in Phnom
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In the book “Bad Dreams” the theme is that odd is not always a bad thing ‚ in the story Mel one of the main characters is trying to figure why her friend Imogen is scared to read books‚ yet she is a great writer. The author of the story “Bad Dreams” is Anne Fine ‚ this story takes place in many places but the main place is school. The two main characters in this story are Imogen and Mel‚ Imogen is the new girl trying to fit in and hide her secret‚ Mel on the other hand is the “Nosy” one she likes
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and the gene may not function correctly or at all ("Trinucleotide repeats: fragile-x‚" 2008). Huntington’s Disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance. Males and females are equally likely to inherit the mutant gene. The change in the gene takes place when the gene is passed from parent to child. Nontraditional inheritance plays a role in the development of HD when symptoms appear at an earlier age with each generation. The mutant genes repeat more times than the usual number in
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THE MOLECULAR BASIS OF INHERITANCE I. History A. Discovery of “transformation” – a change in genotype and phenotype due to the uptake of external DNA by a cell 1. Griffith 1920s did experiments with Streptococcus pneumoniae (p294 fig16.2) a. took two strains of S. pneumoniae‚ one virulent‚ one not b. heat killed virulent strain‚ then mixed them with the living nonvirulent strain c. living nonvirulent strain became virulent d. nonvirulent strain took on virulent strain’s DNA became virulent
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