My Life Ten Years from Now Essay

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    example of my ambitiousness was revealed one day when I was twelve years old. I was shooting hoops at my house one day and I was getting frustrated. My mother taught me three things to get over my frustration. She told me: don’t overdo things, the pros mess up too, and basketball isn’t the most important thing. The first thing my mom educated me to do was to not overdo things. When I was frustrated she just told me to relax. She encouraged me to go inside and get a snack to get my mind off my dissatisfaction

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    My mom, Alicel, was ten when she first moved to the United States. She is the youngest of nine siblings, most of which already lived in America. Alicel always visited her older siblings a couple times a year with a visa, which gave her six months to stay in the u.s legally. By the time she was 15 she was fluent in English and already familiar with American customs. She had been visiting America for 11 years before moving there permanently at the age of 21. My mother had expected to stay in Mexico

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    I opened my eyes after a long, energizing slumber. At first, I dreaded the upcoming school day, but I soon realized that it was Saturday. The scent of pancakes and bacon was wafting up the stairs, my family’s normal Saturday routine. I climbed out of bed and got dressed in preparation for visiting my grandmother, another weekend tradition. I stumbled quickly down the stairs, shoveled pancakes and bacon into my mouth, and ran upstairs to apply my heavy coat of teenage make-up. I turned my head and

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    Throughout his poems “Forgetfulness” and “On Turning Ten,” Billy Collins establishes a melancholic tone that is rooted deeply in the concept of forgetting. While Edna St. Vincent Millay establishes a similar melancholic tone, the sadness conveyed throughout “Sonnet II” is rooted not in forgetting, but rather in remembering. In both “Forgetfulness” and “On Turning Ten,” Billy Collins writes in free verse, allowing him the creative freedom to convey his thoughts without the constraints of regular

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    loved art from the moment I could sit up and hold a crayon. I have been a fully self-taught artist all my life. Creating art has always been my favorite hobby. As a child I pursued developing my skills more and more each day. I perused creativity and strived for perfection. In school, art was my strength, but also my weakness. Despite excelling at art class and artistic projects in other classes, my academic progress began to slowly become worse. Maybe I doodled too much in class, my home life was subconsciously

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    Brief Health Development Story At approximately, seven years old I started to learn the art of cooking with--Love and Spirit--near the apron of my Great Aunt Cora Spellman. She helped to raise me into the man I am today—God & Goddess—Bless Her Soul—Now & Always! (My mother worked hard as “The Help” who cleaned White folk’s houses for income and often came home exhausted.) Great Aunt Cora cooked fresh greens and other vegetables, made great tasting and stomach filling homemade bread, rolls, cakes

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    My father passed away in 1991, two weeks before Christmas. I was 25 at the time but until then I had not grown up. I was still an ignorant youth that only cared about finding the next party. My role model was now gone, forcing me to reevaluate the direction my life was heading. I needed to reexamine some of the lessons he taught me through the years. One of the earliest memories I have of my father is when he would take me to the park and we would play baseball. My father was eager to teach me

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    is a part of everyday life. People experience sociological changes when they get married, get a new job, or get discriminated against. All of these things can alter a person’s perspective on a group of people or even the world. Since the beginning of this class, I have personally endured several sociological changes in my life. I recently started a new job. I’m meeting new and wonderful people and I no longer dread having to go to work. I have also begun setting plans for my wedding to the one girl

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    In ten years from now I can see myself as a certified Physicians Assistant in the specialty of Urgent Care in a hospital here in San Antonio, Texas. I will do this by a series of multiple steps, graduating high school of course being my first step. After high school I will attend the University of Houston-Victoria where I will get my pre-med classes done with and become a nurse ( preferably a licensed vocational nurse ). within those four years I will learn my basics for he first two years then

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    did you learn about your values hierarchy through this activity? First, my top ten values were difficult in itself to pick out because I feel like I could have had many of the checklist highlighted. For instructional purposes I picked adventure, challenging problems, public service, being around open and honest people, leadership, integrity, honesty, helping others, having a family, and responsibility. If I were to narrow my list down to five, I would have adventure, integrity, helping

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