...Agbasi 11/27/2012 Significant Event My most significant event would have to be the passing of my great grandfather. He was 78 years old and died 2 weeks before my 12th birthday. He was carrying a coffin for another World War 2 veteran when he had a stroke. He was rushed to the hospital and was not on life support for 3 days. His heart was beating for a full 24 hours after his brain and stopped working. The man was a fighter. He was an Army Ranger one of the first. He loved what he did and passed that love of the army on to me. He taught me a lot of life lessons and how to be a good man to not only my family but others around me. He helped raise me due to my mother being 15 years old when she had me in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I would have to say that this event is completely accurate due to me being at the funeral. I was there to help with the funeral and do the setup. It is possible that due to my age that some of the details were left out or even exaggerated more than what happen. It also could be due to the frantic stat that everyone was in I also could have left out some details or exaggerated some of the details. Due to my knowledge of the situation I am pretty accurate. I can tell you everything about the flowers that were on the grave and the color of the tombstone. I can even tell you the exact location that he fell while carrying the coffin to the burial site. I can also show you the plot where the veteran was buried at. So to my knowledge and memory I have a pretty...
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... My most significant event would have to be the passing of my Uncle. He was 40 years old and died 2 months before my 20th birthday. It was early morning and he had seizures. He was rushed to the hospital and he was on life support for 8 years. His heart was beating for a full 24 hours after his brain had stopped working. The man was a fighter. He was a Software Engineer. He loved what he did and passed that love on to me. He taught me a lot of life lessons and how to be a good women to not only my family but others around me. I would have to say that this event is completely accurate due to me being at the funeral. I was there to help with the funeral and do the setup. It is possible that due to my age that some of the details were left out or even exaggerated more than what happen. It also could be due to the frantic stat that everyone was in I also could have left out some details or exaggerated some of the details. Due to my knowledge of the situation I am pretty accurate. I can tell you everything about the flowers that were on the grave and the color of the tombstone. So to my knowledge and memory I have a pretty accurate encounter with this situation and memory of what happened. Well going from the definition out of the book. “Subjective well-being means the individuals’ global judgments of their own life satisfaction.” (Introduction, 2008) I would have to say my subjective well-being would be that I am very happy and satisfied with my life up to this point. Due to the...
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...I was born two weeks past my due date and had some issues early in my life that caused a few hospitalizations. My doctors now believe that my condition could have been identified much sooner. When I was just two weeks old, my mother took me to the doctor due to my hands and feet turning blue during certain times and her concern was that something was not right. I was treated several times for symptoms of pneumonia which with the help of my medical research, I now realize it could have been indicative lack of oxygen due to my undiagnosed heart condition. There were many signs during my youth that were indicative of my heart condition that could have been treated differently if the doctors had looked into it. I was always small in stature, I have several eye and vascular issues that were affected by the lack of oxygen, I always worked extra hard within athletics and was very slow to improve. My doctors and I now believe all of these issues could have been much less significant should my Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) have been discovered and repaired early in my life. A simple pulse oximetry test at my birth may have picked up my condition and proper treatment delivered but back in 1999 when I was born that test was not standard procedure after birth at the hospital in which I was born. Similar stories to mine are more common than...
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...don’t like to share my life with anyone but this is an exception. LaRita Nicole Curier, born to Theodis Curier and Rita Dawson on August 23, 1981 at 12:01 a.m. This date was special because it’s also the same date of birth as my father. I was born in Birmingham, Alabama at Cooper Green Hospital. I’m the second child of five and had to grow up fast due to having to help with my siblings. I didn’t have much of a choice in the matter but I adapted well to the life I became accustomed to. I attended Woodrow Wilson Elementary School, Glenn Middle School, and Ensley High School where I did not graduate. I received my G.E.D from Virginia College of Birmingham in 2000 because I knew I wanted to further my education and was to smart to be so stupid. I later attended Virginia College for there Pharmacy Technician program which I didn’t complete due to medical circumstances. Being in a large family taught me a lot of independency and nurturing. I can honestly say it made me into the woman I am today. I’m a loner, in spite of all the siblings. I’m not a people person at all but I get along with everybody, how ironic. My attitude is stand offish and very reserved. These are just a few traits that make me who I am. When I was 15 years old my mother decided to leave my younger siblings and I with my dad. That was the lowest point of my life. I felt as if my world was crashing. I had to help raise and care for my two brothers and...
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...My Sister's Back Surgery When I was 14, my younger sister, who was 12 at the time, had surgery on her spine to treat her scoliosis. For those unfamiliar with scoliosis, it is "a sideways curvature of the spine"(Mayo Clinic., 2017). Most cases of scoliosis are mild, and only need to be monitored by a physician annually. My sister was not one of these cases. She had Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, which is a type of scoliosis that develops during puberty. According to Scoliosis Association (2015), Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis "results in the spine curving sideways and twisting at the same time. This twisting can pull the ribcage out of position, often leading to a hump on one side of the ribs.". My sister's back was severally curved, almost...
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...Throughout my childhood, I had trouble figuring out which category I belonged to and my maturity was widespread and ubiquitous. Between third to eighth grade, I switched from being the talkative kid, to the quiet kid, the trouble maker, the loner, the music kid, and the average kid. When I graduated 8th grade in 2015, I received an award for being considerably artistic. It was a unanimous decision made by all of my teachers and my peers. Among various arts, I enjoyed expressing myself through drawing, music, and writing. However, due to the constant pressure to succeed in school, I stopped enjoying what I loved habitually. It developed to a point that a fear of failure in high school and the idea of perfectionism stopped me from succeeding. As a result of this, I did not know who I was and I became a walking contradiction. Over time, I disconnected from myself and from others and I was depressed and lonely. I had problems recurring in my social life, school life, and more importantly, my home and my personal life. I never wanted to tell anyone these problems mainly due to a fear and not wanting to be a burden to them. My parents were rarely home and I could not even talk to my friends, due to their busy schedules. Despite thinking that I was in...
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...My Reflection of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind While reading The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, several things about William Kamkwamba and his family stood out to me. For example, the endless hours that William and his father worked daily in the fields to provide their family with food. Also, how little belongings he and his family possessed. Located in Malawi, Africa, their home being made of mud, clay walls, dirt floors, single sheet of steel as a roof, a pump outside the home for water, and no electricity. All of this during recent times, too, dating from 1989 to 2007. Being that I am from America, and have the luxury of having the world at my fingertips, I find it hard to imagine that this was William’s normal everyday life. However,...
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...The bulling continued along with my depression, in addition to my depression I began to fear the outside mainly people. The constant judgment was to much to handle and caused me to skip school and stay home. I played being sick throughout freshmen year, while the time I was at home I began to venture into self harm. Self harm is known has self inflection of pain, but in my eyes it relieved the pain. The continuous cycle carried throughout freshmen year into sophomore year. Sophomore year was the year that my main medical condition began, which led to my near death experience. I had no control in the external world nor in my internal and as humans we crave control. I found my control in my weight mainly my food. I began to restrict the daily meals in which teens need to grow. My breakfast contained a celery stick and a piece of bread. I consumed this meal only throughout the day no more if I did then I would work out for an extensive amount of time. On average I would exorcise for for 5 hours. the weight began to fall off and like drugs I became addicted. I loved the feeling of the number decreasing daily. This point of feeling great about myself ended when I became unhappy with the amount of weight I was loosing. I continued with the same routine throughout sophomore year at this point I was 160 lbs. In the beginning of Jr the amount of stress rose when the school requirement of performance...
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...Shannon Ben SCIE206 Professor Jantz 18 September 2013 My Stages Through Lupus To ESRF(End Stage Renal Failure) Important events happen on a regular basis, but achieving the goals set up for yourself while over coming obstacles with things that pop up along the way making it a even harder struggle. In 2011 I began my fall semester classes, and during this time I became very ill, but I was still attending classes with pneumonia (that I suspected). This went on for 3 weeks in October, until I was at home barely breathing, so I had to call 9-1-1 and was rushed to the hospital. My friends and family continuously kept telling me to go to the doctor, although all I kept insisting was “It’s a cold; I have class!” My education was and still is my main priority, and I refused to let anyone or anything stand in my way. While lying in the hospital bed with tubes up my arms, I was lonely in a isolated room and my visitors wearing mask made me feel even more isolated. I had all kind of crazy things running to the finish line to see what the problem was and why was I isolated from the world? Once the doctors came in and asked me all kinds of questions like; “Have you ever passed out or have you ever felt any kind of illness? “No!” However, after all the questions and answers the doctor announced that I was blessed, because I have Lupus and End Stage Renal Disease, and my kidneys were at a 19%. The Important Event in my life is when I overcame “End Stage Renal Failure.” End Stage Renal...
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...or explain, are considered fate. The things people can control are just events in their life. Fate is an imaginary crutch people use to explain things that they cannot make sense of or control. I believe my life consists of numerous events and fate has no role in it. In eighth grade, I moved to Saint Clair from Cincinnati, Ohio. This was not due to fate. I moved to Saint Clair because of my father. My father is a chemical engineer that works for a paper company. In Ohio, the company he worked at was fifty miles away from our house. He was required to drive there and back every day, which was inconvenient for him and for us. He heard about a better job opportunity in Saint Clair and decided to take it to make our lives easier. It was my father's choice that led me and my family to move to Saint Clair. Fate had no influence on his decision. Diseases such as diabetes are not brought on by fate. My father is a Type II diabetic, like many of my other relatives. He became affected by diabetes because of the poor health choices he made in his youth. These juvenile choices are what led to his disease. If he had eaten healthier and had been more active, then he could have delayed the effects of this disease. My father is a diabetic that needs...
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...a challenging tasks, especially when one is recollecting for certain events in which created a significant impact on their own life. As for my personal experience, I decided to reminisce through old photographs, and...
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...in reflecting on my life as it has transpired thus far, I find myself struck by a pattern of emptiness in my life owing to loneliness–a lack of value in my survival–due to what might be described as cultural and social incompetencies. These incompetencies, owing to my upbringing away from my extended family, as well as my continued struggles with Social anxiety disorder (SAD) and its resulting chronic depression, are not without means of improvement, however. Among these means of improvement is the upcoming OCC trip to Madrid,...
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...Growth from Grief Life often throws many obstacles our way and the approach towards it allows us to grow as an individual. A combination of significant events has shaped me into the person I am today by changing my perspective on life and teaching me valuable lessons. Through my life, I have been very lucky to not experience many deaths which is why I feel that the deaths that do happen, is the main matter that has impacted my life immensely. These specific experiences include losing my grandfather, my friend passing away, and getting a new puppy. As a result, I am able to grow as a person despite the mood and the lessons learned due to what the circumstances may have been. The first event that has touched my life greatly is when my grandfather passed...
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...In my life, I surely must have experienced multiple nightmares, those unavoidable terrors that spring from the fears we met in our everyday life. However, now as I have grown, there is only a singular nightmare I can still recall in detail. (Reflecting on it now, some part of me scoffs at how my young self managed to find such a dream to be a nightmare, but upon deeper thought, I now understand that though my fear was not traditional in the way of that which comes with most nightmares that I have since heard described by young children, it was still just as excruciating to my young self.) I suppose that I remember this one so intensely when compared to other nightmares that I had, as this one concerns a more serious topic than spiders or heights,...
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...August 15, 1412 BC Well here I am, in the need of that Olive Tree. My life is more than chaotic and I need that peace. You would think that being in a land surrounded by rivers, I would find the peace and tranquility that I seek. Yet there is always a strife. I guess it could be bad like my friend, who had to pay to live here and be treated as an equal since she is not originally from here. She brought over a piece of bronze and told me to look at the shiny beam and always think of my life as such. That was a nice gesture. Friends are sometimes hard to come by. I struggled with the issue of feeling free. A lot of my people feel we should be free as long as we follow the laws of Greece. Not to mention in 508 BC we became one of the first cities to establish democracy. Thinking back over how I arrived at the time in life I am, I think back to my ancestors. I have been told they originated as early as 5000BCE. Maybe even 7000BCE. I know my life is little in comparison to theirs but not much has changed. Due to our location, the soil was not setup for large agriculture so my people had to rely heavily on trade. Thank goodness my husband was and original Athens. That affords us the luxury of not having to pay those darn taxes. He is a metal maker, who helped make weapons. But the thing that makes me mad is he gets to go out and vote and yet I am stuck here mainly in the house. And not to mention he gets to go to the Olympic Games. Always saying he wishes he were in the...
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