grateful. I would absolutely love to be given the chance to represent our school, and possibly parish and state. To know my school and its staff have faith in me, has increased my strong determination. I come from a diverse family background. I’m lucky in the sense that I have two families; though different and don’t always agree, they come together to form one big family. There are few things I hold in higher regard than my family. Without their support, I think it’s safe to say that I’d be lost
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you’re only going to look away for a couple of seconds. Next thing you know you’ve lost control of the wheel and when your eyes open again, you’re lying in a hospital bed. You have broken collarbone and arm, but yet, you’re considered lucky because you are alive. You’re lucky because you ran up a curb and hit a tree, not another car or a biker. Texting and driving is a growing occurrence. All it takes is a few seconds of your time away from the road to get into an accident. While some might not believe
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He repeats the phrase, “I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky”(17). He introduces this part while still growing up and wanting to succeed to escape his life in the reservation. Later in the essay, he visits other native American reservations trying to break through to the kids. At this point he repeats the phrase, “ I am smart. I am arrogant. I am lucky. I am trying to save our lives”(18). He changes the tense of the phrase “my life” to “our lives” because
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The next character I have chosen is Ambassador Louis Sears; I have described him previously as "the bad." Louis Sears had spent 18 years as a popular and successful American democratic senator. During his time as Senator, he earned the nickname Lucky Lucky Lewis because of the circumstances surrounding his election and reelection as Senator. Sears was not particularly please or desirable of the nickname. After his service as senator, feeling that the party owed him something, he sought the National
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eyes. I was able adapt well and not worry about the environment. I saw how people lived their lives, and just how different it was. The schools were nowhere as “high-tech” as our schools here. I was able to see many differences that made me feel so lucky that I live in the
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What would you do if you lost things you did not give much thought about prior to losing? Back when Hurricane Sandy hit the US in 2012, I was living in New Jersey. I was lucky that I lived in the western part of the state. My house was not destroyed by the hurricane, but my household, consisting of my mom, brother, and me, was inconvienenced for two weeks. A day before a drop of rain even touched my house, everyone was preparing for it. People were stocking up on food at the grocery store, and schools
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or so I thought. The huge manatee in front of me was scary, but not going to hurt me. It was Thursday afternoon in Miami, Florida. We where on vacation for a week in these mangroves, in which we got to kayak down and swim. It was very cool. I was lucky enough to get to see huge stingray and manatee up close! Not many of then are around here, so this was fairly rare of a sight. Florida was a great vacation choice, and very beautiful! The weather was so hot that it was hard to even move. March 16th
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that you can do pretty much anything you set your mind to and that you should not care what others think about it. The quote from the essay that stated, “I throw my weight against their locked doors. The doors hold. I am smart. I am arrogant. I am lucky. I am trying to save our lives.” means that whenever he got older and tried to teach other kids how to read and write, there were some who would listen and want to learn and there are some who don’t listen. This is because since they are lower class
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worship. Freedom to get an education. One thing that many people take for granted in this country is their freedom, life, and pursuit of happiness. Every time I listen to this song, I think of what an amazing life I have been given and that I am very lucky to be living in such an incredible place. My father, , served thirty years in the military and dedicated his
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Penn State HIST 121 Term Paper 23 April 2014 Children of the Holocaust This research essay is about the devastating and gruesome incidents pertaining to the children of the holocaust. This essay will cover the unbelievable lives these children had to live and the horrible pain they had to undergo threw this war of extermination. They suffered losses of family, friends, and many became orphaned or homeless. The holocaust took the lives of about 6 million Jewish men, women, and children. There
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