be considered a traditional role. Long gone are the days when we spoiled our grand-children and sent them “home” with mommy and daddy. With both social (neglect, child abuse, drugs and jail) and economic (lower wages, higher expenses) pitfalls of today more and more grand-children are being raised solely by their grand-parents. According to the 2010, Census there are over four and a half million children raised in grand-families. My role as a grand-mother, to Piper Reanne, was drastically
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not knowing if you’d ever escape the seemingly eternal suffering of suffocation. It’s terrifying that I don’t always have complete control of my body. I’m an athlete, so I train, yet training myself mentally is what continuously challenges me. I’ve never been one to purposefully express myself externally. I have learned from my mistakes and realised that oversharing is too much for other people to digest. The only logical solution to this problem would be to bottle up my emotions. Unfortunately
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never complain about the snow, and any vacation I took would be to the “Cape” or Martha’s Vineyard. I can remember watching the 2004 world series where the “sox” won. I might have a lot of shared memories with my Boston brothers, but there are too many differences to count. For example, my favorite donut shop isn’t even “dunks”, it’s Krispy Kreme. Marblehead is a historic fishing town 16 miles outside of Boston, but it might as well
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Throughout my life how I see my future has changed in so many ways. How many kids I want, what kind of man I want to marry, my job, the car I want, even the type of community I want to live in, has changed. When I was little my dream job seemed to change everyday depending on how I felt that day. As I got older, being a veterinarian stuck in my mind. That idea didn’t change until my freshman year of high school, when I decided that being an Athletic Trainer was going to be my thing; after taking
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changing experiences in my life. One, moving from India to the United States, and the other changing schools at the age of thirteen. I was only five years old when we moved from India and have a hard time remembering moving to this country. Of course I am aware of the deep changes that move has had on my life. But the memory is a distant one. Moving from Anderson schools to Lakota schools, on the other hand, is more defined in my head. That change is forever associated in my memory with fear, apprehension
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After one day of soccer camp, I started towards my dad’s orange Ford. I took my phone out to see who had texted me while I was working hard during soccer camp. I was scrolling down and I saw a text message from Joe Cappadona that read, “Do you like roller coasters?” My immediate reply was, “Oh yeah, why?” Joe told me that he was going to Cedar Point in Ohio in a few weeks and wanted to know if I wanted to go. Of course I had to ask my parents if I could go before I told Joe I could go with him.
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Traveling is something my family has always done since I was born. Many times we do day trips, but we always try to have a summer trip to a place that's more than a day's travel away. Our main trip this summer was to Key West, Florida. It was a wonderful experience. Other interesting places we’ve traveled to in the past was Kerala (India), the Smoky Mountains, Toronto, and Chicago. These trips not only made me more adventurous, but it also taught me valuable lessons that can help me for my future. During
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city parks 3 days a week to save money. Meanwhile, a major celebrity has died. The park story has greater effect on your viewers, but the celebrity death will get bigger ratings? Which do you make your lead story and why? I would be as misleading as possible in order to gain as many viewers as possible. This is a bending of the ethics that govern journalism. I would make the city parks closing seem like it was my big story. All over the air ways I would claim to have the best coverage and
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nearby town where I reside. I live in a small rural area in Southeast Missouri, I grew up here and until about two and half years ago, I was gone for fifteen years, and decided to come back because my mother was getting sick, and I was missing my family, so my fiancé and I packed up and moved to my hometown of Essex, Mo. When I initially returned home, I immediately starting applying to all the hospitals, in the surrounding towns, that would not be an hour drive for me. And didn’t have any luck
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It was just a regular day, where Barry played football for a couple hours then played Madden 17. Barry’s favorite NFL player was Barry Sanders, an elite halfback who played for the Detroit Lions. It was just a coincidence that they had the same name. Or was it? Barry went to Eastern Valley High School, where he was loved by everyone. Everyone that Barry met wanted to be his friend. Barry was always the best football player on the team, no matter what team he was on. This was because his father
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