...to be young and naïve. I took everything in life for granted, particularly the immeasurable blessing of having parents. During the entire time that I was with my parents, I used to be ignorant and resentful. My parents raised me, they nourished me, they educated me, and they tended to each and every one of my wishes. Yet I took their love and care for granted. I could never see the value of what they were doing for me. My parents never let any of my needs go unfulfilled. Still, I always demanded more and more of them. My father worked his shoes off to be able to provide for me while my mother sacrificed everything from her time to her energy for raising me. She taught me, cleaned after me, cared for me, and helped me strive for success in life. But alas, I was young, I was naïve. I never recognized what they would do for me. Whenever they could not fulfill my wishes on time, I would feel discontent with life. Whenever they could not tend to any one of my silly needs, I would be angry and upset with them. Whenever they forbid me from doing something, I would argue with them, not realizing that it was for my own good that they always forbade me. Today, I sit here in my house, my own house, thinking of how stupid and child-like I used to be. Through the efforts of my parents, I’ve become what you would say a ‘success’ in life. I have a stable job, my own family, my own car, my own house; but is this everything that matters? No. Now as I sit in my lounge, I realize that I would...
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...starry night From the Birds that Sing, In the Tallest Trees. To the Human Life, of you and me. From the Desert Sands, to the place we stand. He is God of All, He is Everything. Waohhh I'm giving my life to the only One who makes the moon reflect the sun. Every starry night, that was His design. I'm giving my life to the only Son, who was and is and yet to come Let the praises ring, 'cause He is everything 'Cause He is everything From the autumn leaves, that will ride the breeze To the Faith it takes, to pray and sing From the Painted sky, to my plank filled eye He is God of all, He is everything Waohhh I'm giving my life to the only One who makes the moon reflect the sun. Every starry night, that was His design. I'm giving my life to the only Son,who was and is and yet to come Let the praises ring, 'cause He is everything. Ohhhhhhh (everything) Hallelujah (Hallelujah) Hallelujah I believe Ohhh Hallelujah (Hallelujah) Hallelujah I believe I'm giving my life to the only One who makes the moon reflect the sun On that starry night, He changed my life. I'm giving it all to the only Son who gave me hope when I had none. So let the praises ring, Ohhhh Let the Praises Ring I'm giving my life to the only One who makes the moon reflect the sun. Every starry night, that was His design. I'm giving my life to the only Son, who was and is and yet to come and the Angels sing, that He is heavenly So let the Praises ring 'Cause He...
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...thankful means to me is to see everything as a gift from God. I see my very life as a gift from God, and I am so thankful just because he lets me wake up every day. He has always provided for me with everything that I need so I never need to worry because he takes care of me. I am so thankful that my parents can afford to pay for my school, for my teachers, and for my close friends. I thank God for helping me get through my struggles. I thank God for the loving family I have. I have so much to be thankful for. My life wouldn't be the same without the people that have shaped and molded my character. They have helped me succeed, and for that, I am thankful. I think it is important to be humble, and remember all of the people that helped me get to where I am, whether it's my parents, my siblings, my close friends or even God. Being thankful is being able to not focus on the hardships of life, and instead acknowledging everything in my life that has made it better. I am thankful to God and my family, and my friends, and even my teachers for helping me improve my life. Being thankful to me is appreciating everything God has given me. I think it means counting all of my blessings and being grateful for all the wonderful things in my life. Being thankful to me means stopping to realize I have a wonderful supportive family as well as really good friends who care and love me very much. I am glad to know I have so many wonderful and loving people in my life that support me always. I am...
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...I lived my whole life in Venezuela, and let me tell you, it was amazing. We bought a nice apartment and stayed there for two years. Then one day, things started to get real ugly in the country, mostly in my city, the country was completely paralyzed, nobody could go to the street and everything was closed, including my school. I lost around 3 months of classes, that is the moment in which my dad decides that we must move right away. 9 months later, my family is in the United States, more specifically in Miami, Florida. Miami is beautiful city, I felt in love with it in the moment I arrived, I spend Christmas with my family, and I started my freshmen year in a very big high school. At first, it was horrible, I did not speak English at all, I was missing Venezuela...
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...Life Changes in a Blink of an Eye Life is not what it seems; we don’t recognize ourselves as we’re all lost. I think; therefore, I doubt whether I am or not. One’s life is not what it seems, nor is what we were taught since childhood. The idea of living life is reduced to a life tacked by common sense. My own significant weight is what led me down the path of realization. My life had a slight change July 9, 2010, I was charged with two felonies. January 1, 2010 was when everything began. I started dating a young man that wasn’t right for me and I knew it, but I looked past it and gave him a chance. I was in deep LIKE. His lifestyle wasn’t the legal lifestyle and his friends wasn’t right either, but I looked pasted all the wrongs and continued on with my relationship. I would do anything for this guy, I only asked one thing from him and that was to not put me in any trouble and he agreed; but his friends had a different view on others life that wasn’t theirs. The summer of 2010 was when everything started to change. We decide to move in together and continue on with our relationship. Life and Love can be a tricky thing. Rather I knew right from wrong I believe he was right for me. Again, the friends were a issue and I knew it but I trusted him to have them in order and make sure or house was our home. Life is not what you dreamed it to be. July 9, 2010 my partners’ friend asked for a ride and when I dropped him off I notices he left a black book bag in my vehicle, I didn’t...
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...Person Who Made An Impacted On My Life The person who made an impact on my life is my son. Emmanuel is the reason that my life is what it is now. If it wasn’t for him I would be somewhere doing the wrong things. Since Emmanuel is only two, he doesn’t understand the impact that he made on my life, but my family. My mother Melba Peterson and my two older brothers TraeVon McKinney and Michael Peterson, do know understand how Emmanuel made the huge significtly impacted on my life. My mother Melba can tell you a whole story about my life, but the most thing she likes to talk about is me growing up and becoming a respectful young lady by bringing my pride and joy Emmanuel in to world; he changed my life to give him a better future. My mother would tell all her friends about Emmanuel and how special he is to her. Her favorite story is the day Emmanuel was born. For some odd reason my mother and Emmanuel became real close after he was born. I asked my mother how Emmanuel made an impact on my life. My mother responded by saying, she don’t know how I graduated high school when I barely went before I had Emmanuel, but after I had him she made sure I went every day. My mother also talks about how I use to run the streets, get into fights with anybody, getting arrested more than 10 times and doing things that a girl my age at the time shouldn’t been doing. She would always want me to do well but I never did. She says when Emmanuel came into my life my behavior started to improve; I stop...
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...A Day When Everything Went Wrong A.I.U Abstract This paper is a story about how I never thought I would be that someone who goes threw a rough day like I have experienced in my life. The sad part is that it seemed to continuously happen throughout my whole entire da, but when I really do some brainstorming it does not take a genius to figure out am not the only one who has days out the week that are ups and down. So therefore I am going to share one of my days that I had when everything went wrong. A Day When Everything Went Wrong There not a person in this world who can say they never had one of them days everything went wrong. An you sit back and say to yourself why is this happening to me. Well everybody life has it’s high and low and ups and downs. Sometimes you might have a day you feel as though you’re on top of the world, and then other times you may feel as though everyone and everything is against you. I remember it was the month of May my high school junior year was a day when everything that could possibly go wrong went wrong as of that day. I remember as though it happen at this very moment, it all started by my alarm clock not going off by me forgetting to set it the night before. I woke up late and only had ten minutes to do everything I had to do and make sure I mad the school bus. Well luckily in that little bit of time I had made the bus but in the back of my head I knew it was not going to...
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...Everyone has someone in their life that they look up too and admire.Someone that is brave, strong, smart, kind, thoughtful, and fun. Your role model doesn't have to be someone who is perfect, unless he or she is out of a story book.Your role model can be anyone from your friends, family, teachers, or even a sports hero. Not everyone has the same role model in life. Everyone has a role model in there life for a reason. My role model is my mother. She is the one person in my life that I can go to for anything, she is a very hard worker, and she always tell me the truth even when it hurts. My mother, who taught me to walk my first steps, who danced and sang with my crazily, and who has always been there for me as my support whenever needed, is my role model and has made an unforgettable impact on my life. My mother is the one person in my life who I can go to for anything, everything good or bad. She always has my back through everything I do in life. She is the one person in my life who has kept me on a straight path to success, because she has always told me that failure isn't an option .If you set your heart and soul out to do something you must succeed in anyway possible I have Iearned from my mother to believe in god, and do my very best at everything I do. She has always told me and my brothers to treat people the way you want to be treated, and never take for granted the talents god has given you, because there are people out there less fortunate. I'm thankful...
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...The best advice I have received was the advice from my mom who said " everything thing happens for good". My mothers advice was so true and applicable . It gave me hope that when bad things happened to me or things don't turn out the way I want them because of my mom's advice I understood it was is for a reason. I followed it also because through out my life it was easy to find situations where I could get upset. Since I was a little girl I heard my mom say "everything happens for Good" I heard her say it both for the good and the bad things that happened. hearing her telling me this when she saw me upset made me put it in my mind and apply it in my everyday life. Finding myself in small situations being mad like missing the bus to get to school or being rejected by a friend, I remember always getting mad at myself , people or even God. The time I applied for a job and after waiting two weeks for interview I was mad because I didn't the new job. This days thanks to God I have been changed because my mom' advice was so true and applicable. Now rather than just worrying myself why things always don't work out as I expected I learned not to give in or give up easily in every situations I found myself in but always I try to see beyond what is in front of me or try to focus on the positive sides of situations as they saying goes " you can either think the cup is half full or half empty". The best counsel that I got from my mother when I connected it with what I read on the...
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...People Identify one person who has had or is having a positive influence on your life. What are the qualities you most admire in this person? What qualities did you gain from this person? * The person that is having a positive influence in my life is my fiancé AnnaMae Evans. * She is extremely driven and dedicated in everything that she does. She is a promise keeper and when she says that she is going to do something she will do everything that she can to make sure that it happens. She has a very strong work ethic and always puts her family before herself. * The qualities that I have gained from her is a stronger drive to succeed and to achieve my goals. I have learned to do what is necessary to get what I want in life. Imagine yourself 20 years in the future. You have achieved everything you hoped to achieve. List your accomplishments. * Bought and paid for a home. * Debt free * Vehicles paid for * Have the career that I want * Be able to take care of my family the way that I feel I should What are the ten things most rewarding to you today? 1. My kids 2. My fiancé 3. The chance to be able to go to school 4. My home 5. The ability to see the results of my labor 6. My military service 7. My two brand new vehicles 8. Being able to wake up and move every morning 9. Being able to put food on my table 10. My guns Review what you have written. Circle the key ideas/words/phrases that...
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...My father has been the most influential person in my life. He has taught me what the true meaning of life really is: family, aspirations, God, honesty, kindness, and etc. He has always motivated me to follow my dreams and put forth an hundred percent in everything I do. My dad has always been a hard worker, and wanted to do the best job possible. I strive for this in my life. My father has been my source of inspiration. Numerous times we have had late nights together because he would be helping me with homework, watching late night movies, or talking about gospels of the Lord. In other ways, he also acts as a motivator in my life. He always has a positive attitude in everything he does and never complains. Everything my dad has done for me has made me the person I am today. I have learned a lot of lessons from him that I hope to apply to my life and what I aspire to become. He never ceases to impress me with his dedication, determination, patience, and other numerous qualities that I hope to someday gain. He has enriched my life with his passion for learning. With his endless love of everything and everyone being touched by it, I have seen a life that is truly exceptional. He has been there for me every step of the way, and I hope we can continue to have this close relationship now as well as in the...
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...YICUN LI ENL211 Feb.6th What does my grandma say “YICUN, come over here, stop playing your game, it's time for eating.” My grandma was yelling. Under this situation, if I don't go to eat, she definitely would walk to me with a Chinese shovel and drag me to the dining table. This is my grandma, a normal housewife. She had taken care of me for 13 years since when I was born until she passed away when I was 13 years old. In our life, there should be a person who plays a most important role from your family, giving you love and building up your personality. For me, my grandma is that person. Without her, I cannot be who I am now. In China, a lot of family are really traditional, most of the kids would be raised by their grandparents, and my family is one of them. Because of the arduous business work for my parents, they didn't have time to take care of me, so that I grew up in my grandma's house. When I was young, everything I learned was from my grandma and her instructions and inspiration gave me an important benefit in the future of my life. Then, what does my grandma say? She told me to be honest. There is an interesting story that happened when I was 6. I lived in a big house with a huge garden. My grandma planted a persimmon tree in the backyard, so the happiest time for me every year when I eat persimmons. The story happened surrounded with this tree. In the summer of 2001, I went to the backyard for soccer and accidentally found out that there was a seldom ripen...
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...trouble writing a paragraph, and then we are expected to write a huge essay telling about something in our life or respond to a weird question with a topic that most people won’t even think about. With topics such as, “Explain how your life changed with a death of a parent,”or “How would college affect your career,” or even “Why I deserve this scholarship.” Well, I’m going to explain everything I possibly can. The death of any parent would make anyone change, because no one is the same; we are all unique. With my dad’s death I didn’t know how to act for the longest time, and I still don’t; I say this because the day my father died, the doctor called all of my family back where he lay, hooked up to life support, lifeless. Just looking at his body, I didn't feel anything; however, I looked at the situation as is he wasn’t really dead because I was 12 and didn’t know...
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...grow up in the same time period, but she knows exactly what I go through. This women is more than a best friend to me, she’s my mom. There are many girls that don’t have a very good relationship with their mom. Not every girl can tell her mom everything she goes through. Me on the other hand, I talk to my mom about everything that goes on in my life. Whether its problems at school, in cheer, with friends, even the boy problems, or just when I want to have a nice conversation with someone, my mother is the one that is all right by my side with open ears and ready to listen to everything I have to say. I do see my mom as someone who has made a big impact on my life. Working 12-hour shifts over night just to make sure we are together as a family at least during dinner. Always making sure that as a mother all her kids are happy and feel loved. She is very hard working and very dedicated to everything she does. My mom is someone who takes on as much as she can to make sure my brothers, my sisters, and I grow up with everything she never had as a kid or while she was growing up. Every day I am around girls here at school that don’t have that good of a relationship with their moms, and that makes me feel very blessed to have someone in my life that I can go to no matter what. Some that I know how will always be a true friend to me whenever I need her the most. My mom is someone that I will always look up...
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...(Intro) Bm - A - G - D/F#, A/E Bm - A - G (Verse 1) Bm A G Savior I come quiet my soul D - A/C# remember, Bm A Redemptions hill, where your blood G D - A/C# Spilled, for my ransom (Pre-Chorus) Em A Everything I once held dear Bm7 A G I count it all as loss (Chorus) G Lead me to the cross D A Where your love poured out G Bring me to my knees D A Lord I lay me down Bm G Rid me of myself D A I belong to you Em Oh lead me G A Bm Lead me to the cross Fill: G - D - Bm - G - D (Verse 2) Bm A You were as I Gmaj7 Tempted and tried D - A/C# Human Bm A The word became flesh G Bore my sin and death D A/C# Now your risen (Pre-Chorus) Em A Everything I once held dear Bm7 A G I count it all as loss (Chorus) G Lead me to the cross D A Where your love poured out G Bring me to my knees D A Lord I lay me down Bm G Rid me of myself D A I belong...
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