People dream of becoming an NFL superstar or an MVP in the NBA. But none of those players achieved greatness without years of hard work and practice. People must work hard to gain skills and maintain them. Without hard work and practice, the chance of people becoming successful at something is very slim. I don’t hear many stories of people that don’t put forth the effort to achieve their goals, but there are millions of success stories of how people gained success through hard work. My sister for
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Eulogy of Caillou - Rough Draft Dear friends and family gathered here today. This day today is a hard one for us all. On October 3, 2010, Caillou lost his battle with cancer. It is so much easier to mourn in silence as it takes away the worry of not being able to get your words out, or even just simply getting the right words out. But silence or not, one thing which I am sure we all appreciate today, is being here together, sharing in each other's silence, sharing in each other's moments of thought
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Paper My Name is Derliny Jurine Louis, I am a freshmen at Quinsigamond Community College I’m currently in my second semester. I was Born and raised in Haiti in the capital of Port-au-Prince. I came to the United States at the age of seven years old where I lived in New Jersey until I moved to Worcester Massachusetts October 2013. I live with my mom and younger brother I have a older sister who lives in British Columbia Canada. I’m majoring in Human Services at QCC. My career goal is
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these three adjectives are suitable to my characteristic. Firstly, I am a reliable person when doing assignments and projects in a group. Usually, through making a detailed plan beforehand and having a keen awareness to assignment’s deadline, I could not only finish my portion of work early but also be able to collaborate with other members in my group if they need me to do so. In the same time, I define myself as a positive person. It could be embodied in my attitude towards difficulty. For instance
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always my goal, but when I was getting bullied I had to join a boxing gym and I fell in love with that sport. All I would think about all day was about boxing. So I decided to peruse boxing as a career. What I’m looking for in boxing is not fame, or glory, but to be the best fighter in my division, to work my way up the boxing ranks, and obtain the middle weight championship of the world, but fame and glory would be nice too. Becoming a boxer is also another key element to achieve the rest of my other
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important perspective employers. Horror stories immediately started to pop up all over the world. People were being fired because their boss saw vacation pictures from Cabo when you had taken time to go see your ailing grandmother. The pictures from your freshman year in college showed up on a friends account and subsequently took you out of the running for your dream job or promotion. The technology literally erased any expectation of keeping your business and personal lives separate if you chose to participate
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PAST TENSE: Of all my bad and nice experiences in highschool, camping is my favorite even though it only happened in the school premises. We had camps when I was 4th year in highschool. My favorite camp is the first when the juniors and we, the seniors, collaborated to have our first camping for our rover scouting. It was a surprised for us that it isn’t only just camping because they implemented strict rules and policies for three days and two nights. One of the rules is to always be on
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Anastasia Mozols Prof. Kate Simonian English 1010 30 September 2013 Personal Essay. It was a sunny day. My older brother and I were playing in the kid’s room, when our parents came. “We want to talk with you about something very exciting! We are going to move pretty soon! It is will be a long way to our new home! But, finally, our family will live closer to grandparents. Do you like that?" they asked. Of course, we did! Denis and I were very inspired about
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by Gideon Rosen who teaches Philosophy at Princeton impacted me and made think about who I was. Till then I looked at myself only as a Squash player. In between games and matches or during training, my mind started veering towards the above-mentioned words and I could not help but ruminate about what my culture was and what I had taken from it. At the outset, going by the cliched definition, I was a Tamil Brahmin; therefore I belonged to the highest rung of the Hindu society’s hierarchical order
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But ya’ll are my everything. I guess the thought of losing ya’ll kills me,” I said, “But on a good note, my acceptance letter from Butler is supposed to come today. Let’s see if it here already.” We went outside and checked the mailbox. There was only one letter. From Butler University. My heart was racing and I “woo hoo-ed” so loud that I woke up a few neighbors. We went inside and quickly opened the package. Malik and Jamal were anxiously waiting at my side to hear the news. I read
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