Community Service My community service experience took place in my local area in Sylmar. I was volunteering at Angels of the Valley‚ which is a facility that they take care of seniors and patients. I assisted the administrator‚ she showed me a lot of things and explained what is her role in her job. I found this very interesting. I believe that community service and volunteerism like this are very important. By spending your free time helping others in their community‚ you can experience and learn
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States that seriously injure themselves each year. For two out of my three years of high school‚ I have been piece of this grim statistic. My sophomore year I fractured the left side of my fifth lumbar vertebra located in my lower back. This was caused by running too hard. Then the next year‚ the right side of the fifth lumbar vertebra was fractured too. Both of these injuries brought an abrupt halt to my cross country season. Fracturing my lower back was an extremely difficult experience that has taught
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- the devil in disguise‚ root of all evil: this was advanced placement calculus. Since the beginning of my AP Calculus class‚ I knew that problems were bound to arise as I found myself not being able to understand what others perceived as “kindergarten math”. Problems I normally answered with utmost confidence converted into an internal conflict of increasing self-doubt and confusion. My eyes became geysers gushing out gallons of tears. Numbers rearranged itself in an ineligible fashion‚ a foreign
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you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently‚ too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” Terry Pratchett‚ A Hat Full of Sky My sponsor role is with AOL Inc. AOL Inc. is a brand company‚ which is “committed to continuously innovating‚ growing‚ and investing in brands and experiences that inform‚ entertain‚ and connect the world.” (corp.aol.com‚ 2012) AOL has a prominent
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year’s annual training conflicts with my civilian schooling. I‚ SPC Melissa Vicenty‚ am currently a junior at East Stroudsburg University majoring in Business Management. This semester ends May 5‚ 2017. I understand my Military Duty has precedence over civilian duties and it is mandatory by law that civilian workplaces give the soldier the necessary time off to complete their military duties. I have talked to my superiors at school and it is possible for me to take my finals after
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Reflective Consolidation Leadership Insides SUB. BY: ABC Table of Contents Reflective Consolidation Paper Introduction: “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It ’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion.” — Theodore Hesburgh‚ President of the University of Notre Dame. In the beginning of this course I was frightened by the work load of weekly discussions‚ discussion modules‚ papers
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Civil Rights Moments Diary Antonette Brown HIS/145 March 21st‚2012 Amy Champ February 21‚ 1965 Dear Diary‚ This afternoon I went to the Audubon Ballroom to hear the great Malcolm X speak. When I got to the ballroom things was different there was protesters or police. Any other time Malcolm X meeting in the heart of Harlem had police everywhere. As usual I was with my boyfriend who followed every step of Malcolm‚ he believed that things needed to change and Malcolm
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someone has demonstrated leadership. Not one is as intriguing as the one I want to share with you today. It was when my mother lived in Mexico when she was 20 years old. When she got married she came to America. She decided to go to New Mexico. That is where she stayed with a couple who had one daughter. They owned a car dealership. My father worked for the husband by washing cars. My mother was a maid at home‚ taking care of the child as if she was one of hers. She didn’t have any children until one
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For summer reading prior to my start of tenth grade I had to read two books out of a section of memoirs. The two books I chose were Night by Elie Wiesel and A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah. These two books were very inspirational to me and made an impact on my life. After being a sophomore for four weeks the curriculum has already begun to make me more aware of myself and the world around me. When I first learned about the holocaust in the fifth of sixth grade‚ I became very interested in that point
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The Diary of Anne Frank This journey that Anne Frank encounters was although a short journey had a big affect on her life. A few steps down the road from where she lived had changed her life forever‚ more than she could’ve imagined. Anne Frank was forced to leave her life behind‚ in a time of WW2. The diary of Anne Frank represents an individual strengthened by going on a forced‚ reluctant journey. She’s forced into hiding after living a “spoiled life” with boys from school “admiring her”.
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