At the beginning of my sophomore year in high school‚ I became unhappy with my appearance. Food was my best friend. I used it to cope with my emotions‚ usually ice cream or a chocolate bar did the trick. Whenever I went into the doctor for a regular check-up‚ she told me I was overweight which caused me to have high blood pressure. I never thought or did anything about it because I figured it was the muscle from athletics and weightlifting. The motivation to lose my weight came from several moments
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it is my life. From the countless hours I spend training‚ running‚ and conditioning‚ to the numerous games I’ve played‚ to the hours upon hours I’ve spent with my teammates…Soccer is my life. When I turned 5‚ I was finally old enough to play recreational soccer and my parents registered me for a team. When we started practicing I started to really get a feel for what soccer really meant. It was even better that most of my teammates were my best friends and my uncle was our coach. In my first
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Nordic skiing has changed my life. When I was young I did not think I was capable of performing in such an intense sport. I saw women with such strength and power‚ gliding effortlessly across the snow. I wanted to be like them‚ but I lacked the confidence‚ and I was hesitant to leave my comfort zone. I wanted to stay in a corner of the world where there was no pressure and nothing was expected of me. I joined BSF when I finally realized that I would only feel pressure if I put it upon myself. Since
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“We learn from failure‚ not from success! (Stoker) My first thoughts about English 1304 was disgust due to the fact that I was placed in a class that wasn’t even counted as a credit. But‚ I stuck with it because I believed that it was going to be an easy A and‚ I will exceed in it without any troubles. But‚ boy was I wrong about that‚ I was struggling week by week on assignments and papers that were due. What actually shocked me was my grade on my first English paper and‚ from then on I knew this
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It is a accident change my life . A car accident is often a life changing experience for those who were involved. May 2010 forever changed my life. My perspective on life isn’t the same. You are never quite the same. I often have flash backs of that day.I was picking up an ex boyfriend for a dear friend of mine. I shouldn’t have been out that day. If I hadn’t‚ I wouldn’t have been in that wreck. However I feel as if everything happens for a reason. I’m not sure why it happened‚ or why bad things
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� PAGE * MERGEFORMAT �8� How Economics Have Changed My Life They say that if you look at it things closely‚ you will see the essence of economics going about its daily routine. Indeed‚ from the man buying his morning coffee to the woman calling for a cab‚ the economic system is all around us. Not many people notice it (or are just apathetic about it). But surely‚ it ’s everywhere. Day and night - it never stops. The moment the sun sets in one part of the world‚ money starts circulating on the
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The Day That Changed My Life On August 8‚ 2009 I woke up like any other day‚ not knowing that it was going to be the worst day of my life. As soon as I cracked my eyes‚ my hand went to my phone to check a variety of things including my Facebook‚ my text messages‚ and my instant messages. I was hoping to see a message from my boyfriend‚ Lucas. Three months prior to this day‚ my boyfriend’s best friend‚ Michael‚ had died in a motorcycle accident. As long as I had known the two of them‚ they did
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Jeffrey Hayes December 12‚ 2014 Social Justice B7 It Changed My Life The tragedy in Ferguson has not only happened in Saint Louis‚ it has happened every where in the world on a daily basis. These situations have open up our eyes and tells us something is wrong‚ but sometimes things get out of control and we can’t handle it. I know for a fact what happened in Ferguson has effected my life and the lives of others by showing us that we are an endangered specie‚ showing that murdering
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The Accident That Changed My Life On the sunny morning of June 28th 2012‚ my life changed forever. Or should I say the way I viewed it‚ in its own complicated‚ strange‚ yet beautiful way. After months of planning my friends Chasen‚ Aaron‚ Kayla and I left our hometown of Carlsbad‚ New Mexico to head to a concert in Las Cruces‚ New Mexico. We had eaten breakfast and my gas tank was full‚ so we just took off. We played our music super loud and laughed about little things that had happened in the previous
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It was the month of November and the year was 2008. I did not plan on going to the hospital on this day but my mother received a phone call. That one call was my reason for being waken up at 4 a.m. listening to my mom as she reused me to get dressed. One call changed my life forever. A person from the hospital called and said that my grandmother was not breathing normally. After we got to the hospital we find out that the cancer she was diagnosed with has affected her breathing‚ which caused tubes
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