My grandfather Jose Orozco Sanchez was born on June 6, 1911 in Santiago de Velasquez which is located in the southern Mexican State of Jalisco. His French family before him moved to Mexico in the late 1800’s from a small town in France hoping to find a brighter future as business owners of a small store. My grandfather married his childhood sweetheart Trinidad Alvarez in Arandas, Jalisco on July 6, 1932. My grandmother gave birth to seventeen children which included three sets of twins but unfortunately
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Half of my life I lived in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, where I grew up since the age of 13. My parents found this suburban town to be good, not only due to the education, but also because it was on the United States' top neighborhoods to raise a kid. At first I really did not want to move because it meant moving school, which ultimately meant having to make new friends; while some might see this as a great opportunity, being the shy kid that I was, it was a difficult transition. Another thing that
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In my formative years I did not feel the need to be in touch with my culture, the main contributor to this was the fact that I had never actually experienced it fully because my parents moved to a town far away from their traditional homes. We rarely visited my grandparents and when we did it was only for a couple of hours. To me it was almost primitive knowing your mother tongue and I considered people who spoke it too often with contempt. However all this changed drastically in the year 2011. We
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Hae Won Kang EDUC-U210 11/08/10 Assignment: Paper #1 One of the toughest decisions I made in my life was to decide to go to America and earn a degree here. As a native from South Korea, I barely spoke any English and my knowledge of the culture of the United States was low. I knew it was going to be the biggest challenge in my life getting out of my comfort zone from home and trying to learn at a different environment. But I didn’t have much choice but to deal with it and try to adapt to the
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My hero isn't someone that impacted the world, but impacted me. She grew up poor and in a small southern town called Gleason, Tenn. Everyone knew everyone in this small town. But this person had made a huge impact in my life and was there for me when no one else was. Her name was Evelyn Webb and she was my grandmother. She, like everyone else grew up poor and was extremely lucky to be able to attend school, but never got the chance to finish because most children of this time had to
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“I’m Glad I” I am glad I grew up in Chelan; Not only is it just an absolutely beautiful town but its comfortable feel makes living here enjoyable. Those two attributes alone make me grateful I grew up here. Not to mention the community in our town is awesome; the people who live here are incredibly warm hearted folks. The businesses down town are locally owned and their personable, taking the time to connect with the customer. All of the reasons above being accompanied by our glistening fifty-five
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Good Afternoon chairperson, ladies, gentlemen and fellow debaters. Tonight I, along with my fellow team mates, will convince you that Urban Sprawl should not be restricted. (We agree/disagree with the oppositions definition of this debate, state their definition) We have defined ‘urban sprawl’ to be the expansion of a metropolitan or suburban area into the surrounding environment, specifically in Australia. Thus, to restate the case, we believe that it is both unreasonable and unnecessary to prohibit
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Hurricanes versus Tornadoes Hurricanes and tornadoes are considered to be natural storms that develop do to the atmosphere change, however, each type of storm is a disaster and devastation claiming many lives among family and friends each year. One storm comes from in the water, the second type is from the air. Aside from where they come from, each type of storm is devastation to several individuals from enormous amounts of damage each can cause to someone’s lifestyle or homestead. Knowing
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The rural town of Elkland, Pa bases its success on the support of its community and possess an umpteen amount of opportunities, activities that I partake and pride in. I moved to Elkland when I was ten years old not knowing anyone or the area I was now residing in, but when I joined the Presbyterian Parkhurst Memorial Church I gained a wider community than I had than where I lived previously. Multiple restaurants and family owned stores are what makes this little town thrive; furthermore, the restaurants
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My theme is surrealism, but none of my artworks are really directly related. I looked into mixing surrealism with expressionism because I like both styles, but they don’t really mix so I went with surrealism. After long deliberation I finally decided on surrealism, once I did it was hard to find works that were not only visually striking to me, but also correlated. So I choose these works mostly based on my liking of them. My chosen works and artists are Salvador Dali Woman with a Head of Roses,
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