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Jeremy Swanson Research Paper

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An enormous wave crashes into your boat nearly tipping it. The howling wind tosses the boat from side to side. Lightning strikes the stern sending you into darkness. The next morning you wake up to a calm, quiet sea ready for smooth sailing. Somedays the water is perfectly still making for easy travel, yet other days you have to endure a restless, unforgiving sea. This is how the road of life is perceived. The seas my father has conquered has taught me that life isn’t always smooth sailing. Forty years ago the Swanson family brought home their fourth and final member, Jeremy Swanson. You would never have expected this young boy to sail the most ferocious seas, but in the end it was never his choice. Jeremy never had a concrete childhood with his parents constantly moving their family from town to town, and the ever growing cloud of financial problems. To help pay the bills he became a paper boy along with his brother Kevin. Life inside of the Swanson household was never easy. With a strict father and unhealthy mother the only fun the boys every really had was wrestling with each other, which caused much mischief in their …show more content…

It came to him as naturally as a sailor sailing the seas. Although high school sports were his getaway Jeremy’s teenage years were vicious like the waves during a hurricane. His father left them, which gave Jeremy and Kevin no choice but to work. A couple years later, matters deteriorated when Pam Swanson was put out of work because of her aching knees. By this time Kevin had joined the Navy leaving Jeremy to pay the bills for their family. Their financial struggles intensified to the point where Jeremy had to dropout of high school in his Junior year to work fulltime. A few months later Jeremy went back to get his ¨Good-enough degree¨, but his boat was hit with yet another wave when he broke his ankle taking down his plan of going into the military with

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