Just after noon on Tuesday‚ April 20‚ 1999‚ I was preparing to leave my downtown Denver office for a meeting when I noticed the red message light flashing on my phone. I worked for the state of Colorado‚ administering training programs for people with disabilities; my meeting was about student scholarships‚ and I figured the message might be a last-minute cancellation. But it was my husband‚ calling from his home office. His voice was breathless and ragged‚ and his words stopped my heart. "Susan—this
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There cannot be good without evil. This is one of the most important lessons that I have learned growing up and I will keep this close by me as I get even older. Conflict between two ideals is a great place to find meaning and lenses for us to view our world. I had this conflict with myself starting at a young age. This conflict came about when I started thinking about what I wanted to do with my life. What should I be doing with my life? One of the strongest places this has shown up in my life
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Rohan Shad in Understandings & Epiphanies3 min read Why I want to be a doctor First of all‚ I really enjoy medschool; it’s full of crazy ups and downs‚ but honestly‚ I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. I actually started this essay almost a year ago‚ and it’s been stuck at that one line until now. I confess that I am slightly materialistic‚ I do care about the money. I do care about the life I want to live when I’m older. I feel guilty about it sometimes. The general public views doctors as
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Why I Should Be Promoted to PFC. PV2 Champlin 11 OCT 2010 Here are a few reasons on why I believe that I should be promoted to PFC. First‚ I’m ready to further my career as an enlisted soldier. Being the best I can be is all I’ve ever wanted and I’m ready to take the next step in the army with being promoted to PFC. Secondly‚ I’m ready to take on more responsibility as that shows that I’m becoming a better soldier and beginning to make progress on becoming a leader because with more rank comes
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is Bryan Hitchings. I am a 32 year old person passionate about food and aspiring to hone my cooking skills to become a professional chef. I have always loved cooking even as a child. When I was a child and barely able to see the eyes on a stove‚ I was given a stool by my grandmother and allowed to cook with her. I have had several influences such as my grandmother who was an excellent home cook‚ one uncle who was a chef‚ and another uncle who was a cook in the Navy. Though I don’t come from a large
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Why I Have Chosen This Career My grandfather served for twenty-seven and a half years in the United States Army as an engineer. That’s where it all started with the idea of me joining the ranks. He began educating me on his field of work and branch of service and telling me the benefits and goals I can achieve while doing a job I love. It sparked my interest. I then began talking around throughout the years to veterans‚ young airmen‚ and even my parents. Everyone supported the idea of joining. Once
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that always bugged me. Now I see why. When I entered high school I never considered it until senior year came creeping along under the covers‚ ready to eat me alive. This was when Shakespeare made sense: "To thine own self be true" his words made sense. It was like he could grab the world in his hands and tear it apart piece by piece. I never really forced myself to be more of a people person- it just happened. Over time you tend to develop more social skills naturally and I hoped that everyone understood
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in accounting because I have always enjoyed working with numbers. I enjoyed math classes in high school‚ but I knew that I wanted to be working in some sort of business field. I have aunts and uncles in the accounting field‚ so when declaring a major in college‚ I chose accounting. Once attending college‚ I declared a major in accounting because I enjoyed the number crunching and the logic of the financial statements. I wasn’t sure that I had chosen the right degree‚ until I completed my pre-business
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I remember how much I hated being Catholic when I was younger. My mother wanted my siblings and me to understand the importance of going to church‚ the same way she was raised to be. I learned to understand that people stayed and left the Catholic church for their own reasons . When I was younger‚ I wanted to be part of a different religion. Sunday school required children and parents to be at the church an hour and a half before mass started. My brother and I dreaded going to Sunday school so
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Neshell Tucker Module 4/ SLP English 101 December 2‚ 2012 Dr. Glen Baxley Why I Want a Wife In Judy Brady’s personal essay‚” I Want a Wife‚” she explains why she would want a wife. In her essay she was trying to teach the unmarried and the married women the role of an uncomplicated wife. Everyone wished they had someone to do things for them. Brady is letting you know she dreams a wife should be. She wants a wife so that she can be independent‚ take care of the children‚ physical needs and
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