2013 I admire her the most……… For me admiring someone is the act of looking at someone with approval, respect, and even love. As we grow older, we find someone we look up to and admire. The person I admire the most is neither world famous nor a multimillionaire. I save my admiration for a special woman, my mother. Who as I grew older has taught me many things in life, those in which have helped me in many situations till this day. My mother has showed me more than I could see in the world. She’s
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their life. To cherish every single moment with her parents, create memories, and to reminisce about all the times they had. It was always my wish to have both Mommy and Daddy in my life, but my story is different. At the age of seventeen my mother gave birth to a beautiful baby girl and named her Niah Dominique Cummings. Growing up, I knew for a fact that I had my mother in my life, but I hardly ever saw my father. I came to my senses that there was no father. My mother finally filled me in and
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LOSS HISTORY/PERSONAL AWARENESS Kimberly Quillen University of the Cumberlands November 18, 2015 When it comes to loss, I have experienced quite a bit in my life, beginning at a young age. The problem is I don’t remember the specific circumstances very clearly and I am not sure how I reacted. The first deaths that I remember in my family were of my great-grandparents. I had 4 great-grandparents living on my father’s side of my family and it seems like they all passed away within a few years
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Religion to me is a part of everyday life. The decisions and judgments I make on a day-to-day basis are created based upon my upbringing and what religion I was taught being raised as a child, which is what was instilled in my parents from their parents and so on. I was raised Catholic and try my very best to attend Church on a weekly to monthly basis. I went through the ranks having been Baptized, First communized and Confirmed. I don’t consider myself a “religious” person in the sense that
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terrifying experience for me and my family. My life has created its own story, and this was the chapter that decided my fate. The beginning of a new era has occurred. My life is a mystery till this day of how I got the chronicle illness, they say someone in my family has it but no one will confess to being the reason for my new and well deconstructed life, so I guess nobody wants to be the blame so I just blame everyone on my side of the family till someone confesses to giving me what I have to deal with
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1963 in a small town in Lamar, Mississippi. He attended school at Ashland High School where he quickly made a name for himself playing basketball. Ashland is also were Calvin meet the love of his life and his future wife Josephine. Calvin’s senior year at Ashland he got Josephine pregnant and his life changed forever as he was now the father of a beautiful daughter. After graduation Calvin had to make a decision to either go to school to continue his basketball career or get a job to support his
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it or not that was my down fall. No one took me serious, I hated being captain. Until I got the best advice from my dad. “You don’t have to be the captain of the ship to make the boat rock”. You know that one teacher coach that you can push over. Well that was me. I got any excuse they could think of! “Hey Antanette I can’t come to practice I forgot clothes”, or my favorite “I forgot we could wear our hair down do you mind this once”. Until this day I don t understand why I fell for any of those
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Tiffany Houpt Professor Habbestad English 104 2 December 2013 The Pleasure Scale As we go through life we will experience different events that will help shape the scales that we use in life. Biss talks about how pain is our own experience and no one else can feel the same intensity of pain that we feel at any given point in the day. I believe that it can also be turned around no one can feel the same type of pleasure that I feel. There is no way that I can write a scale of pleasure that fits
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open my lips, and my mouth shall declare your praise” A blessed day to you, my fellow traveler. The Grace and Peace of the Lord be with you as we enter the third day on our journey with Jesus. I would like to welcome our brothers and sisters who are joining us on this journey throughout the District. It is amazing to see how the Lord works in very unusual ways. I have been asked and encouraged by a member who has been journeying with me to try this approach and I feel so blessed to know that so many
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carnivals with your parents and begging them to let you go on the bouncy castles and rides? “Mommy! Mommy! Can I please go on the bouncy castle!” and then getting to go and asking again. “Mommy! Mommy! One more time, pretty please!” Well, that was never me when I was growing up. And it was not until last spring when I stepped into a bouncy castle obstacle course for the first time. Think about getting to go on a bouncy castle obstacle course for the first time. You are excited and pumped to see what
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