buy t-shirts on vacations or take a picture in front of a street sign that says ¨Welcome to . . . ¨ for all the states driven through. People keep memories in ways that are valuable to them, but I have a unique way of holding onto my memories. The ones that impact me the most I seal in a braclet known as a burn on or a piece of string that when burned onto
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Know Before You Go My favorite documentary filmmaker is Ken Burns. His historical retrospectives are masterpieces, covering a wide range of topics ranging from the Civil War to baseball to jazz music. Many viewers are familiar with his recent works describing the Prohibition era and World War II, but it is easy to overlook one of his lesser known gems: Horatio’s Drive. Horatio’s Drive tells the story of Horatio Nelson Jackson’s summer in 1903. The story begins at his club in San Francisco where
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did best. My parents were hard workers. My father worked at a factory and my mom as a hair stylist. They were strict parents to an extent. They were the kind of parents that raised me to respect my elders, and if I did wrong I knew there was going to be a punishment. Punishments usually never crossed my mind though, because of course you have to get caught doing wrong to get punished. Which I never thought I would, and sometimes I would not get caught. Until the summer I thought my friends and
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This is my third session here at the RAISE Program and since my previous years I have noticed a lot of improvement, it is a bit more structured and organized, a lot better than it was my first and second year. Throughout my time here I noticed that communication is still lacking and can use improvement. For example, the ending dates of the program was changed a couple
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Audre Lorde’s “The Fourth of July”, is a very descriptive essay about racism and how it affected her deeply on a family trip to Washington, D.C. Audre uses sensory language to captivate her audience. She starts her essay out as an innocent child on vacation because her parents have tried to hide the ugly truth about racism from her. She tells of how she learned of her sister Phyllis not being able to go on a senior trip to Washington because they didn’t let blacks in the hotels. She explains in her
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through hard work. My sister for instance, she always had a very hard time with math. So every night she would come home, and study for hours trying to figure out the problems. With her hard work she figured out how to do all of her homework, and received an A in the class The next quality is sacrifice. Choosing to study does require a lot of sacrifice. Many students give up on going to the club or spending all night playing online video games to study. It’s very hard to sacrifice my play time to study
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in putting together an Ad hoc Statistics Report to be submitted to the CEO so that he can make the appropriate corrective, proactive, and retroactive decisions for the troubled company. The Report Format As you might have known already, my brother, the Jordan & Associates CEO is a very difficult person: his way or the highway. He is also insistence on proper report format. Nonetheless, we have to address quite a few issues, which are listed in the later section. Meanwhile, please
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could; while my parents watched singing competitions on T.V., I would be in the dining room behind them, dancing to each song being sung. Growing older, I was no longer merely fascinated by the brilliant ambiance dance could create, but by the power it had; through movements and expressions, you could tell a story while displaying your
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Suicide is most commonly viewed as the act of giving up completely or self-destructing, probably for good reason. This decision usually leaves behind broken families and friends with no closure or explanation. This topic is touched on in literature with various opinions. One such is Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening,” where Edna Pontellier, the novel’s protagonist, brings about her own end through her eventual suicide. In her case, the significance of her suicide is ambiguous, and although published over
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step at a time. Typically, sports present high schoolers with an opportunity to continue playing the sport they love and to build strong friendships. Sports allow me to, not only prosper in my athletic potential, but to display my sense of knowledge and love to my teammates and coaches, and reveal my
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