ties, culture, shared background, and size. All of these features are important features that can also determine what type of community you are living in. The community that I live in is predominantly military or military retirees. It’s a new neighborhood so everyone that lives in my community has only lived here about a year in a half. There are many families that have more than one child and a lot of mixed families and blended families as well. There are many different religion preferences as well
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an Education When I look back on this class and see what I have learned and what I have accomplished, I see things that I thought I never would have understood. Critical thinking and Ethics is an important part of daily life and does not only apply to work place situations. Everything that was taught in this class goes hand and hand with each other. It is important to set both career goals and education goals as you go through out your life. The goals that I have set for myself not only help me understand
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I sat in a passenger seat of an old rental van with five of my closest friends, who just happen to be my band mates, staring off into the distance watching the lights fly by the window one by one. The view of the surrounding landscape turned suddenly into a completely unfamiliar area as if teleported to a new world. The unknown street names and buildings took over the area around us. Everything hit me all at once so unexpectedly, like the sound of a first lighting strike in the beginning of a storm
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life was hopeless. I very seldom allow myself to look back to where I came from or spend time wondering how I got to the point that I am today. However, looking back now, into the dark corner of my mind, I can plainly see a great multitude of dysfunctional behaviors that leaves me wondering how I got as far as I have. Although the statistics are astounding, regarding the outcome of victimized children, I for one, realized the misconduct of the abuser, and focused on me and how I could make my life
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Throughout high school I attended three different schools; two of which were public, but located in different states. I had moved from Cincinnati, Ohio to Corbin, Kentucky to take care of my grandfather. I ended up dropping out of school at the end of my junior year, at the age of seventeen due to the circumstances. After awhile, I decided to move back home and sought out a way to get my high school diploma, which I managed to obtain through an online high school based out of Columbus, Ohio at the
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roads, I can feel adrenaline coursing through my body, my heart rate elevating with each leap I take. I start to feel the tattoo on my side burning, as if a pattern is being added to it. I stop; not willingly, but my body has just stopped moving. I know that if I stay stopped for even another minute, they will catch up to me. Looking down, boarding my planted
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Registration Frustration On July 13, I decided to return to Merced College after not attending school for some time. Going back to school was a big decision that I thought about for the last two semesters. I always seem to have a lot going on and it was just something that crossed through my mind from time to time. I never imagined I could find a way to make it happen until the day I decided that I needed to go back to college. Upon enrolling in school, I have experienced college-related stress
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I interviewed correctional officer Brian Sanchez from City Of New York Police Department 67 precinct. He began his career in the 67th precinct as a patrolman in 1989. In 1994, Brian was promoted to chief of police. Brian has his bachelors of science in criminal justice from John Jay College for Criminal Justice (University) and a masters of science in forensics from the same school. Since his time working as police officer, he also did numerous of volunteer work and some classroom instructions. In
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(I)-substance abuse affects on my life Substance abuse is one of the main universal problems that affects individuals daily. Several individuals experience the impact of untreated substance abuse during his or her lifetime. Today a fluctuating percentage of substance abusers admits to feeling depressed due to a variety of warranted concerns. This illness can cause thoughts of suicide, mixed emotional feelings, and negative effects / stressors on life. I have learned that substance abuse has
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be an interesting study to be able to record a week of my life, from the point of view of exactly what I see, hear, say and feel (physically and emotionally), and then review the movie and have an accurate picture of what the major stressors of my life are. There was a time in my life when I would realize that my mood had gone south, and when asked what was wrong, I would honestly answer that I did not know. Was it that my dishwater just leaked out of the sink? Was it that garbage needed to be taken
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