as I was sitting in my barracks room and it dawned on me that I had never read my daughter a story or book, this realization brought me to an uncontrollable sob. All in all, it could have been and probably was the very day that my daughter was born. The experience of witnessing my daughter being born was second to nothing I had experienced or ever will experience in my lifetime. If I think about a story that I would want to tell, I will always come back to the day Vanessa, my daughter, was born
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journey of discovering my personal sexuality is ongoing and I believe it will last a lifetime. Reflection and exploration is key to understanding and becoming comfortable with not only personal sexuality but create an openness those around you. Many things including parents and home environment, religion and society have influenced my sexuality, and taking this human sexuality course has affected given me a better understanding and ability to communicate my wants and needs to my husband. A person’s
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During my sophomore year in high school my oldest sister moved back into my parents’ house with her partner and new born baby because her partner had lost his job. At first, I didn’t mind it all that much, yet it slowly started to become a problem. The house was way too crowded and that caused a lot of tension within the family. It got to the point where I couldn’t sleep because the baby was crying, and I couldn’t concentrate on my school work with everyone around me and that manifested through my
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unimaginable things happen and are achieved. One of the best ways to achieve unimaginable things is for one to find something that motivates them and drives them to be the absolute best person that they can be and to never let themselves do any less. The entire world would be a more amicable and surpassing place for everyone. Throughout the different scenes and obstacles that the novel’s hero experiences in Ayn Rand’s, Anthem, it shows that in order to be the best person one can be they have to find themselves
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it ever occurred to you that a car can resemble beauty like a person in many ways? Well I have, the day I first saw my friend’s car. I was leaving school early one day and as I walked closer to the path leading to the street a huge gleam shot across my face. When I turned and looked, there it was, one of the most beautiful objects I’d ever seen parked across the street. It was my friend in his new white Monte Carlo. The paint job on the car reminded me of that cup of milk before I dunk my cookies
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like most girls that age, one of my favorite hobbies were watching Disney movies where the main characters were usually princesses. My sister Etinha spend a lot of time planning and having fun in our childhood and pretending that we were famous people or top models and always we preferred pretending that we lived in a land far, far away. In our imagination, we lived in a huge castle that would have made any princess of Monaco, or England, want to become our best friends forever. In our royal bedrooms
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No matter how many times you are told something, and practice it day after day, sometimes you don't change your actions until you have no other choice. In other words, some lessons can only be learned the hard way. When I was 11, we moved to a new house, before we moved in, we visited the house to clean up and I can remember my sister and I exploring our soon to be home. My parents asked us to come out to the porch because they had something to tell us. I can recall sitting on the porch steps
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TIME MANAGEMENT FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS Have you ever found yourself bleary-eyed and strung out from too much coffee and too little sleep after pulling an "all nighter" right before the big biology test? Or did you ever want to kick yourself for putting off that history project your instructor told you about at the beginning of the semester so that you ended up throwing together 15 pages of "garbage" just to get the report in on time? Or how about the time your computer crashed when you were wordprocessing
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truly wonderful experience. I could begin the story with my first tennis lesson, at age five, however, I’m going to fast forward to tennis season my Sophomore year. Our lineup was the same as the previous year except for one addition, a seventh grader named Nicola. She played the number two position on the team. This shifted everyone down a position. In high school tennis, number three, the third best player on our team, plays the third best player on our opponents team. Nicola’s addition to the team
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normal attribute to someone’s everyday life. One of my personal strengths is that I am very independent. I am able to take care of myself because I was raised that way. My parents raised me to be able to take care of myself because one day they will not be there for me and I will be living on my own and need to take care of myself. I learned a lot of things from watching my parents do everyday chores such as cook and clean and doing laundry. My parents are divorced and at a young age I learned to
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