...Being a parent has given me responsibilities that I didn’t have as a young adult, in my early twenties. I am thirty-one with three young children four and under. At the moment I have three children by three different women, with three different personalities. I have a four year old son that lives in Dayton, Ohio, a three year old son that lives outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a one year old daughter that lives here in Cincinnati. Surprisingly, I see my son that lives in Dayton more than any of my children. If it was up to me, I would spend an equal amount of time with all my children but the mothers make it difficult for me to do so, so I call and talk to them as much as possible. Let’s begin with my youngest daughter’s mother. She is thirty-two, my daughter is her first child, and she is one. She is very over-protective and won’t let her out of here sight at the moment. Since we broke up last November, I’ve only been able to come see her on the weekends. Since she is a school teacher be off on the summer months has given me an opportunity to see her during the week. But now that I’m dating someone else she has not been answering my calls so I can visit. I see myself having to go apply for child support so I can receive visitation privileges. One of my close friends told me that she just wanted to have my child and would have nothing to do with me thereafter; I’m beginning to believe that. The last time we spoke, she brought up me signing over my parental...
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...had a good life into ….. My parents would fuss and fight all the time. A couple months later I was five years old when my dad moved out. That same day was when my family and I went on a vacation but, he did not go. When we came back after the summertime that’s when kindergarten started. I enjoyed it. One day my dad died from lung cancer. I was so sad and heartbroken. It was the worst day of my life. He was named Kareem Walker Between when I was six years old and eight years old, my mom had a boyfriend his name was Ernest George. He then turned into my stepfather when he purposed. He had a...
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...There is this vein that throbs in my upper thigh. I am well aware of it. I wish I could cut it like they do when they cut down dead boy’s body after he hanged himself before having orange juice or black coffee and eggs. Randomly I will remember things that caused me great pain: (1) like when my childhood neighbor and their kids decided to tell every parent they knew that my brother molested me. They told me that they had a right to warn other children. What about me? When are my feelings considered? Fading into the background became essential to survival and now I don’t know how to peel myself out of the backdrop. (2) the social worker who became my interrogator; I was not a victim, but a confession. Life becomes so sad when I become just...
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...Holden will not apply himself when he returns to school. It is empirically proven Holden will not change his behavior because he has been kicked out of multiple schools, he has never followed through on a statement of change before, he makes excuses instead of solving problems, and even after getting professional help at the end of the book, he still acts and thinks the same way, presenting no change. History proves that Holden will not change, which is why he will not engage himself when he returns to school. Some people say that Holden will apply himself in school, however, history proves that Holden will not change and will not apply himself in school. Holden will not apply himself when he returns to school because he has not applied...
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...decisions of my life. It was something that would certainly change everything. I had just turned eighteen years old, and was considering dropping out of high school. I was about to be considered as an adult and have the freedom to make my own choices and I was not sure I would act responsibly. With personal obstacles and building debt due to legal issues it seemed impossible to not make the decision I was debating about for weeks. I weighed the pros and cons and finally decided. It seemed to make the most sense at the time, and I dropped out. Report cards are what I dreaded the most in school. That moment that even if I could have fooled my father that I was working hard, the report card always told a different story. It infuriated me that I knew he would have a mouthful to say, but could have cared less to pay attention to what I was doing the last few months to get there. I couldn’t blame him completely for my actions, but some part of me wished he was at least consistent with his lack of interest. The freedom of being able to do whatever I wanted with zero accountability and only having to face the music when the report came home made slacking off quite easy. After the snowball of my bad habits seemed to find me digging a hole I could not see myself getting out of, I found myself transferred to another school. I arrive to Glenwood Academy, an alternative school for people with behavioral and social issues. I am nervous but also relieved to have a second chance at success...
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...monster. In today’s society, discrimination towards disabled people is a very big problem. Statistics show that in 2008 alone, Americans with disabilities were victims of about 47,000 rapes, 79,000 robberies, 114,000 aggravated assaults and 476,000 simple assaults (Invisible Hate Crime). The majority of these crimes are committed against younger people, sometimes as young as 12 years old. Although it isn’t rare to see an individual with a mental disability, the odds of a child being born disabled are very rare. At age 25, the odds of having a child with Down syndrome are 1 in 1250 (Down Syndrome). As age increases, the odds of having a Down syndrome child become more likely. This disorder occurs when the child has an extra copy of chromosome 21. Generally, everyone has 2 copies of each chromosome, but this extra copy causes the learning process and body/brain development to be slower than the normal rate. There are many health issues that can come with this condition such as congenital heart disease, Alzheimer’s, hearing problems, thyroid dysfunctions, and many others. This past September, a 16 year old boy and his family purchased tickets for a first class flight which went from New Jersey to California. Upon boarding the plane, airport security refused to allow them to fly first class because they saw the boy as “a possible distraction to pilots”. The airline booked them to the next flight, and the family was seated in the very last row, and no...
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...to school tomorrow, unless you buy a new broom.” My first grade teacher said. When I heard that, my body is shaking. When I was 6 years old, I become a very independent child. My parent did not spend any time for me, because they need to take care of their business. They sent me to the school that is very close to my house. So, I can go to school by myself. They didn’t ask any about my school or grade, they even don’t go to any of my back to school night, just because they don’t have time. One day, I was running around at the school with my friend. Then the teacher came up and asked ours to stop it. She said the one of our school rule is cannot run around at the school, need to use walk. Also, she asked me and my friend to buy a...
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...My Grandma Goes To School Just Like I Do Natalie Warren English 121 English Composition Instructor: Kathy Conner April 18, 2011 I hope that by the time you finish reading my paper; you will know why this old grandma decided to go back to school. On my birthday, Oct. 8, 2010, I woke up that morning and decided that I was going back to school. I had toyed around with the idea for a long time, but was never really serious enough to do anything about it. I thought I was too old. I also thought that I never would be able to afford it, but I met someone that was as nearly as old as I am, and she had gone back 2 years ago. She convinced me to check out financial help, and how she was doing it. I toyed around with it for a while, and then I just woke up that morning and decided that what I wanted to do. After I had told every one of my intentions, my little granddaughter was overheard telling one her friends that her grandma was going to school just like she was. She also stated “ I did not know that old people had to go to school too. I hope I do not have to go to school when I get old”. So I hope that by the time you finish reading this paper, you will know what made this old grandma want back to school. After that, I started researching schools, and I finally went back to my friend who was in her second year of online college and asked her where she was going. She told me that she was going to Ashford and she really liked it and she could be of great assistance...
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...My Father Affects Me I am the only child in my family. I am the apple of my parents' eye. My mother gives me all the things I want. However, my father looks solemn. He never talks too much to me. Maybe he is busy all the time, and maybe he does not like to express his feelings. For this reason, I can remember all the things that happened between my father and me. A hero, he affects my whole life. When I was seven years old, I was in primary school. I remembered clearly our teacher told us that we should tell our parents to cover our school books for us in order to protect them. When I came back home, my father did a really good job. He used calendars to make many styles of covers for my books. He showed me how to make a cover. I smelt a book's scent while watching my father construct book covers. I was really happy with how my books were covered. After one semester, our teacher told us to cover our books again. As usual, I asked my father to help me. My father said, "You should do it by yourself." I begged my father to do it for me, but my father never helped me again. Thus, I had to cover them by myself. I took scissors, glue, and calendars. I put a book on a calendar and surveyed the shape; I imitated my father to pack, to cut, and to glue. I forgot how long it took me to finish them. I just remembered all of the books' covers were too ugly, yet I was not sad because I did the whole process by myself and enjoyed it. Hence, I never asked my father to help me with it. I learned...
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...WWW.RASBD.TKSpeaking Practice Questions and Answers Introduction 1. Hello. Could you show me your identification card please? Hello. Sure, here it is. 2. Could you tell me your full name please? My full name is X. I am also called by my nick name Y. 3. What shall I call you? You could call me X. 4. How are you? I am well thank you, and yourself? 5. How old are you? I am 22 years old. In other words, I was born in 1980.On the eighth of March1980, to be exact. 6a. Does your name have any special meaning? Yes, my name does have some special meaning. My family name means peace,and my first name means strong one. My nick name was given to me by one of my high school teachers, and it does not have any special meaning really. 6b. Does your name have any special meaning? I presume you are referring to my Muslim name. Yes, the English equivalent of my family name would be something like peace, and in the case of my first nameit would be strong one. My nick name was randomly chosen by one of my highschool teachers, and it really doesn’t have any special meaning. 7a. Is your name important to you? No. I don’t think it can do anything for me. I believe a person has to work out hisown life. I am planning to do this as well as I can. 7b. Is your name important to you? Not really. I am part of the new generation who do not attach too muchsignificance to our names. Names were important to the older generation as theyof the opinion that it will determine your destiny...
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...Mother Copes with Loss of Brother “I have learned not to take things for granted. Life can change in an instant”. At 5:10 pm, on April 8th, 2005, Nicole Greiss received a phone call telling her that Justin Breen and Jeffrey Rentschler had died at 4:50pm. Jeffrey Rentschler was Nicole’s cousin and Justin Breen was Nicole’s 16 year old brother. This happened in Bernville, PA on a backroad on a cold rainy spring day. This is something that Nicole still copes with today. “I had a childhood filled with love and laughter. Not only was he my brother, but he was my best friend. When I heard what happened, it is almost as if the world and my heart had stopped. It never really started back up”. Nicole Greiss is nine years older than her brother Justin. Justin was born on January 13, 1989, whereas Nicole was born in 1980. When Justin was born Nicole was 8 years old about to turn 9....
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...was reissued this month. Child was born in 1802. Her husband David Lee Child, was an abolitionist who also campaigned for Indian rights and women’s rights. Jourdon, in the letter replied to his master that he and his family had moved from Big Spring, Tennessee to Ohio, after being emancipated and now he had a job and was being paid, for the first time, for his labor. The letter starts out heartbreaking and somber but by the letter’s end, it is revealed as one of the great, all-time, understated sarcastic missives, with the final sentence, “Say howdy to George Carter, and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.” According to Letters of Note, the New York Daily Tribune published the letter on Tuesday, August 22, 1865. Here is the letter — OMG! Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865 To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and...
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...sacrifices they had made for me. They help with every step of my life, especially with my daughter, as well as supporting me with my career and encouraging to finish college. They love me and I thank God that gave me such a great gift. My parents came from Honduras. My father left me when I was only sixth months old, and my mom when I was one year old. I stayed with my grandmother until the age of eight, when my parents decided to bring me with them. I know my parents put a lot of effort and thinking to bringing me here, so that I could be reunited with them as soon as possible, yes it took a couple of years, but they brought me. Everytime I look at my parents or even think of them, pride overwhelms me. My life and world is all thanks to them. My father is the one I always had more communication and trust with, because he was easy going and trusted me. My dad is very smart, he didn’t have a chance to finish school, he only made it to middle school. "I had to work since I was twelve because your grandmother did not have enough to feed all of us, and you know we are 8," he said. I admire him because he had to work at such an early age and even though he did not come anywhere close to finishing school, I can say he is much smarter than a lot of people I know. My dad is forty five years old and he works for a company called Shoreline Pools. I know live with my boyfriend and my 8 month old baby but my dad is always just a phone call away to help me ...
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...Every Good Boy 1. Hallo everybody. My name is Christian Borup. Actually my whole name is Christian Borup Rasmussen, but I don’t use Rasmussen when I introduce myself. People normally just call me my middle name, Borup. In other occsions they sometimes also calls me Bobo or Krelle. Well. 2. My mom and dad they soon found out, that I was a very energetic child. A big part of my childhood was spent on to fouding out, what I was good at. Then I started at football as 10 years old. But I quikly found out that I wasen’t really good at it. Then I’ve thought that I might could be good at karate! – but I couldn’t stick to the rules, I just began attacking with non-allowed movements. So as 11 year old I began at Handball. But at the first I wasen’t very good at it. So I was very close to stop at handball. But one day it wasen’t my father who came for me after practice it was my uncle. My uncle play at a semi-level so he knew how the games is. He told me, that “there arren’t something that you can’t do, you just can’t yet”. So he motivated me to keep on going. And that sentese was going to make me love sports. At many kind of sports I sucks at the bigging, maybe if some people sucks they just give up. But not me, not any more. 3. After I startet to play handball, I once saw a match between Kiel and Flensburg. At Kiels team there was a goalkeeper Named Theiry omeirye. He played an amazing game, with a lot of saves. So I thought that maybe I could get just as good at ham one...
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...autobiography about me! I’ll be telling you all about me. My name is Michelle Rain Ballentyne. I was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on November 13th, 1999 at 1:51am, while my fraternal twin brother was born at 2:02am. His name is Michael Thunder Ballentyne. As of today, we’re fourteen years old. These pictures are the Women’s hospital, my astrology sign and a picture of us. In 1990, our mom and dad were together. They had a horrible relationship. Three years later, they broke up and our dad stayed in Flin Flon while our mom relocated to Winnipeg. Our parents had us in 1999. Our mom was 18 at the time and this caused problems because of the great age difference between our parents. At 1 ½ months our mom took off with us to Thompson. At 2 ½ months, we were put into foster care because our mom left us with a babysitter to go to a party and she never came back. We went to a bunch of homes after that. One time, we went to live with our dad but Child and Family Services received calls from a dentist saying that our dad was drunk when he took Michael to the dentist. We went to numerous homes after that, although we don’t really remember what they were like. Our dad had six months to prove that he was able to take care of us. Sadly, he never got to keep us. I came home to my dad in a police car with my brother crying in a black car. I got in the car and a lady drove us to a new home. Those pictures were at our kindergarten graduation and us at the fair. We started school when we were five...
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