Back in February of this year, an unexpected life situation forced to move into my sister's basement temporarily. During that month, I took a break from a lot of things. One of those things I paused was writing. For that entire month, I didn't write anything. I swapped manuscripts with my lovely beta reader, and we critiqued each other’s work. But when I got my critique back I sat it aside and didn't immediately address its concerns. At the end of that month I moved back home and began writing
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It Take to be a Great Leader My Journey Begins When I took the“30 Books in 30 Days Challenge”; I told myself to maximize this opportunity to learn something significant. Broadening one’s knowledge and learning from the best leadership books ever published is like a gift that landed on my lap. 1st day of my 30 day reading journey, I made a strategy with 1 end goal - to enter the minds of all the authors and get the best learnings and most importantly practice it. It wasn’t
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Brittany Mason Eng. 101 (2312) Mrs. Holland September 19, 2011 2009-2010 4A State Champions Working through hard times, when the odds are against my team, has always pushed me. Losing Victoria, my best friend since kindergarten, gave me the determination to make winning state possible. Pushing ourselves to the limit through these times had never meant more to the team. Using Victoria as our will power we paved a path to great accomplishments. The team started off the season great with twenty
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fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.” I relate to this quote because I am in a stage of my life that I cannot stop going forward, and I want to achieve the best that I can. As a result of moving to America, I learned to appreciate a trusting environment, the closeness of family, and the importance of education. As I was born and lived twenty two years in Iran. Then my family decided to move to America. Actually, this was not a sudden decision because they were thinking about
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rough life. My father passed away when I was just an infant in war. My mother died from a brutal murder when I was 3 years of age or so I was told. I was in foster home care and I Hated it. I get treated like I am a slave with no good qualities in my life. After a while I thought that was my fault. But deep down I had a magnificent voice and personality towards acting that was poisoned with hate, harm, and stress I am only just becoming a teenager and I don’t have a good role model in my life that
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telling you my story I want it to be clear that you are a very lucky group of people because I don’t like talking about myself and if you haven’t caught on yet I’m Harper Lee. My childhood best friend Truman Capote used to make me write on his old typewriter for two hours a day every day. At the time I hated to write but soon writing became my life. I once threw a Halloween party as a child and invited my black friend John White as a guest. The KKK showed up on my front lawn to kill John but my father
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A brand new start in life. That’s what I’m getting, just like Lily Owens in The Secret Life of Bees. From horrible days to the best. I was finally going to get the father figure I always wanted, but never had. I’m starting over. I was two-years old, clinging to my dad as he packed up his bags, and went to the airport to be deployed to Afghanistan. I would never see the same man come back, just an empty shell of the man. For the next three years we would just avoid each other. Until he got deployed
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Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard Bryanna Soenarie SLS 1501 T/R 11:00 am- 12:15pm Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard In the book “Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard” it’s about a young girl, Liz Murray as she grew up into the world clueless of life to now taking life as a prize possession. On
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Cadets) my squadron is 1846 Southall squadron. I go there every Monday and Thursday from 7:10PM to 9:35PM but they ask people to be their early so the register is done fast. Do you agree with these timings? We learn different skills and activities to benefit and prepare us, on our future careers either in civilian life or on the military life. I started attending Air Cadets because I was bored and I didn’t like the extracurricular activities being provided by the school so I expanded my search to
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months and a day after his death, I stood on the stage where he had played countless times, to tell over three hundred people, his parents included, why I loved him. That evening was a celebration of the life of my boyfriend, Parker. He had died in a swimming accident that summer, trying to save the life of a friend. A deep breath in, a deep breath out, and I began to speak, seeing his mother’s tearstained face in the patches of my vision unclouded by the lights. I concentrated my thoughts and
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