visited many states in my lifetime, and up until four years ago, I had lived in Tennessee my entire life. My families’ decision to move to West Virginia, a place I had never even drove through or visited before, turned out to be the best decision we could have ever made. Living in West Virginia was certainly a culture shock at first, but we settled in and found it the perfect place to call home. I was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. It was always easy for me to find my way around, even
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Git Rich or Die Trying Have you ever done something that you was not proud of, like indulge in criminal activities? I have, like Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson said “Git Rich or Die Trying.” Honestly, I believed that I would get rich from my criminal activity. I started with small petty crimes, working my way up to mediocre blue collar crimes and planed to become a Boss of organized white collar crime . I knew the path that I had taken would soon come to a life altering halt. The first crime that I
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1. I remembered my favorite story about my best customer service experience ever. Sometime in 2001, I was traveling from Chicago to Boston on the Airlines shuttle to my scheduled hotel. But that day was unlucky for the bad weather result in the flight delay. Anyway... my shuttle gets delayed several hours at Boston (insert sarcastic look of shock) and I end up getting into Boston around 1:00am. Then the fun really started, because "the Big Dig" was still in full shovel and even at that time of night/morning
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My Life 1963 Melanie C. Ward PSY 202 Domingo Mamaril September 9, 2013 I. Where I was born and raised A. Detroit Michigan B. Raised on the west side II. What was your family like? A. Nurtured by both Parent’s B. Youngest of six children natural sibling C. Parents adopted three children and fostered many III. What things do you remember about your childhood? A. Mother cooking B. Good times and fun times w/ family and friends C. Daddy time
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any noise… it was people talking. I opened my eyes and jumped out of bed to go out in my living room, thinking that I was going to see Santa. I was scared to death because I didn’t know what to expect. Maybe he would kidnap me. As I rounded the corner to the living room, I saw three figures standing by the tree, unloading presents. This was going to be the moment that every child dreams of. I was convinced I was about to see Santa. Instead,I saw my mom, grandma, and aunt stuffing the stockings
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little did I know that feeling would change for the better. I snowboarded a little bit when I was like 7 but I never got hooked on it, I guess I was too little to understand the joy. My whole family snowboarded. There would be these trips we’d take to Sunday River. It would be like three or four cars every time. My uncle was especially good. He was the one who persuaded me into snowboarding again, so when I was 12 I decided to try it again. So I started in this program where I was supposed to do
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Inside The Apprentice Acknowledgments Appendix Behind the Scenes at the Trump Organization About the Author Also by Donald J. Trump Copyright ◄ 4 ► ▼How to Get Rich To my parents, Mary and Fred Trump ◄ 5 ► ▼How to Get Rich The Mother of All Advice Trust in God and be true to yourself. —Mary Trump, my mother When I look back, that was great advice, concise and wise at once. I didn’t really get it at first, but because it sounded good, I stuck to it. Later I realized how comprehensive
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The day that President Obama was sworn in as president is significant to me, more than just for the event. Certainly the event itself has historical meaning to all Americans, but the thing I remember most is that that was the day that I learned a very important lesson from my children Leading up to the election my children were very excited that an African American man has a chance to become president of the United States. I have to admit, I was pretty excited myself. However, the history of the
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Carlos Olea-Tapia 9/02/15 Mr. F 5 paragraph essay Standing out I was only ten when my dad first told me not to be like the rest of my fellow students. He said, “The only two things that matter in this world are family and being who you are.” From that day on, I, Carlos Olea-Tapia, took these words seriously. It wasn’t easy since I was born on March 8, 1998, and at the time a lot of things were happening in the year 2000. The media was tough to face since everything out there was either mainstream
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you avoid using this cognitive distortion in the persuasive essay you are writing for this class? | Always Being Right | It is impossible to be wrong. | a) My favorite baseball team is the best of all time, and no one could tell me otherwise. I did not do any research to support this claim, but I just know my favorite baseball team is the best. b) I am so caught up in being right that I am unable to comprehend the actual statistics about other baseball teams. If someone tries to argue with me and
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