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    level consisted of my mother and father. All throughout my academic journey leading up to college, they have been the ones who have carried me through the roughest and easiest of times. When I was in middle school, my immediate family had placed a demand on attending college. They looked at college as if it were the only option after graduating high school. This constant demand really altered how I looked at attending college. It was almost programed into my brain that college was my only option I had

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    thing I can remember about my writing was in 8th grade my English teacher inspired me to write. Not only about short stories but about my life if I didn't want to talk about my problems. I remember it so well, I was having a hard time with school and family issues were happening. My grades reflected that writing helped me a lot. I realized what I had to do, writing changed everything opened up more I felt better as a person my writing opened my eyes in a way. I did my work and efficiently. I don't

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    ago I went to the library and came across I am not Esther. My father is from Asia and is buddhist. My mom wasn’t very religious so, she just considered herself christian until she met my dad. Since then my whole family was just considered buddhist. When I was younger I really stuck with that. Most people were christian at my school and I would proudly say that I wasn’t. My mom, sister and I went to a Unitarian Universalist Church, but my sister and I wouldn’t enjoy going. We told our mom that the

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    I knew that my education was the only way for a more successful future. When I was young, my mother read a book to me every day until I was old enough to read by myself. She would purchase English and I would read them to the best of my ability. This is how I began teaching myself English. I came to the United States at the age of five years old because of all the violence, and was able to because of my status as a Canadian citizen. The court assigned my aunt legal guardianship of me, the reason

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    first encounters this method used by Douglass when he describes the beating of his aunt Hester. Douglass describes the effect of this scene upon his young self and uses this scene to help explain how slavery works. He presents slavery as not only a type of physical control but also a type of mental control. Douglass explains all of this to the reader by using his descriptive imagery. “Before he commenced whipping Aunt Hester, he took her into the kitchen, and stripped her from neck to waist, leaving

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    of life, and beautiful lady. My grandmother had one of the strongest impacts on my life. Everything changed on December 19,2015. One day as I was sitting in class an announcement came over the intercom saying, “Paige Norris is checking out”. At first, I was filled with joy thinking God had heard my prayers and was rescuing me from captivity. Then, the chilling thought followed that my grandmother was in the hospital and something must be wrong. As I was gathering my books, I struggled

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    A Life Journey About Me

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    about Me I was raised by a single mother, so there were some difficulties that other children from normal family that couldn’t understand. Since my parents divorced when I was three years old. My mother sent me to my grandparents place and let them took care of me at my early-age. It might be weird to say that the possibilities for me to see my own mother was pretty low, but that was the situation I had during my childhood. I needed to face the challenge when my classmates asked where were my parents

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    My Life After My Mother

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    on my way to get a haircut when my mother learned that her 19-year-old sister in law had gone into labor, she was six months pregnant. She gave birth to a very fragile baby girl that same day, but my aunt’s condition got worse and we spent the next hours visiting blood banks trying to get O- blood for her. I was 16 at that time, and felt so frustrated I could not do more than making phone calls to blood banks, not even donate blood, since I was not 18 at that time; she died that same day. My aunt

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    Cyrus Scholarship Essay

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    My name in this physical form is Cyrus, I won't express the usual teen nonsense drama in this essay. I will express myself 100% whether you like it or not. At one point in my life I hit rock bottom dark as can be, but I changed. Now one of my ultimate lifetime goal is to better help humanity. One way of helping humanity is mastering myself or become a better spiritual being. Because I am apart of the human race. I am working on this by eating healthy(veganism), taking care of the earth, quitting

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    All the women in my family, myself included, love the Rob Reiner film American President (the one where Michael Douglas is the president and falls for Annette Benning) to the point where my mother and two aunts can quote the whole thing without missing a beat. While I’m not quite on their level yet, one quote that I can always jump in on is: “We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them.” I want to be one of those people—a relentless problem solver with new, creative

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