I am Puerto Rican‚ or‚ as my family constantly reminds me‚ "boriqua". As a result‚ I grew up learning two languages; English and Spanish. However‚ ever since I have attended school I have lost much of my Spanish. Unlike the other kids who cried and clung to their moms‚ I was very enthusiastic about starting school. I think the enthusiasm came from my parent’s encouragement to learn‚ as well as their assurance that they’d be there at the end of the day to pick me up and take me back home. Being
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I stood in front of a headstone. A peculiar but familiar sensation spread through my body. “It is a feeling of indissoluble connection of belonging inseparably to the external world as a whole.” The words from Freud’s book whispered behind my ears like a gentle breeze cooling the heat of July in Rome which was burning my exposed skin. This feeling reminded me of my childhood. I do not remember when I first reached for the coarse surface of a stepping stone. The stepping stones‚ relics from the
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Challenges I Have Overcome Being alive means facing with challenges‚ and feeling satisfied when overcoming them. In my life‚ I faced with many challenges‚ and I am happy I was able to address them. One of the greatest challenges in my life was to become a student at the American university. In order to achieve this objective‚ I had to work hard to learn the language‚ and to adapt to the Western way of life. Although overcoming these challenges was quite stressful‚ it made me a happy and confident
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everything in me: I have a Norwegian mom and a dad from Chicago; I’m a lanky redhead in a land of dark-haired short people; I speak English‚ Norwegian‚ Albanian and even some Spanish. Moving around and attending and international school has added even more variety to the salad that is my life. My family started out living in a city in the south of Albania called Vlora. Vlora was where my first years of preschool as well as life in general happened. Though I was only four years old I knew people and
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I am a Vietnamese person who has moved to America for about thirteen years‚ and I did not think that I am going to study art because my family‚ a Vietnamese tradition family‚ did not want me to practice in art. In their mind‚ art is something that is unreal job. They said that artists do not make good salary‚ and their works become expensive only when the artist passed away. They believe that only doctor‚ nurse‚ and lawyer are real job. Therefore‚ when I told them that I am going to practice art
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Once when i was a kid my favorite colors were blue and orange and my favorite team was the okc thunder. I believed in the thunder because i believed in the star players that played on the team. They are really good and have a good future ahead in the NBA. basketball is my favorite sport that’s why i believe in in the thunder so heavy. Everytime i watch the thunder i get excited and have a good day. I also know that me watching certain players on the thunder will give me a boost in my basketball
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When I was younger I didn’t have much to do. Since my school gave me a deficient amount of homework‚ I would be bored most of the day. Then one Christmas my mom gave me a miniature remote controlled car. The car was a crimson sports car with charcoal flames running down either side. On the rear of the car was a pitch-dark spoiler with a red line streaming down the middle. There were small rubber spikes all over the tires built for traction. However‚ the main thing that made me love the car was
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Before I Was‚ There Were What makes us who we are? Is it our friends‚ our job‚ or our activities in which we participate? I believe it is our family that strongly influences who we become. My mother‚ Diane‚ was born on February 17‚ 1969 to Dean and Yvonne Starry. My mom has two older brothers: Joseph and Adam. My mom and uncles were latchkey children because my grandma and grandpa were divorced in 1977‚ and my grandmother raised them on her own while working a full time job. I never had the opportunity
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I am Tiara Maclin. Throughout my high school career I have maintained a GPA of 3.89 and attended two schools‚ Covington High and Stratford Stem Magnet. College has been apriority of mine since primary school‚ but I did not discover my passion for psychology until my junior year of high school. Today it is my goal to graduate with a master’s degree in psychology before continuing on to become a licensed psychiatrist; after attaining my psychiatry license I plan to open my own practice for the abused
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turned upside down. Before my friends and I got here we had a normal life. We better start with this before we get to present day. I want you to know how amazing my life was before this new life. Addy‚ Isabel or as we call her Izzy‚ Lucy‚ and me were all spending the night at Isabel’s having a fun time while on our phones‚ sing karaoke‚ blaring music laughing our heads off‚ messing with boys on this weird website it’s been so long I no longer can remember. But I was texting Blake while he was with his
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