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    The most powerful moment that has happened to me involving music happened in the middle of my seventh grade year. Prior to seventh grade, I played the violin but desired to learn the Double Bass. I asked a few times if I could switch instruments so that I could fulfil that desire, but my teacher always turned me down telling me that I should just stick with the violin, this of course made me devasted. Then the following school year, the teacher asked if anybody could play Bass because Alex (the bassist)

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    Anna Quindlen’s reading How Reading Changed My Life was a writing about how throughout her life literature has helped her evolve into a writer. She agrees with Katherine Paterson’s quote to an extent: “ I increasingly feel a sense of pity toward my fellow writers who spend their lives writing for a speeded-up audience of adults. They look at me, I realize, with a patronizing air, I who write for the young. But I don’t know any of them who have readers who will read their novel over and over again

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    Have you ever had an experience that changed your life in a blink of an eye? An experience so intense that it keeps replaying in your head? I’m nineteen years old and in these days it’s not shocking to hear young girls getting pregnant, but no matter what age, it’s always hard to hear about any type of miscarriage. An ectopic pregnancy was what I had, and I’m still recovering from it. 1 in 4 girls have an ectopic pregnancy, which is also called a tubal pregnancy. It is not considered a miscarriage

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    Have you ever not liked doing something your parents wanted you to do? Well I use to, but it changed my life! When I was in sixth grade my mom use to make me go to church, and I did not like it. I remember after church was over I would come out in a bad mood because I did not want to go to church and it would ruin my mom’s day! Then we tried a new church, and it CHANGED my life! The church name was GUTS. They had this thing called Nightmare! The only reason I was in it is that I wanted to shoot

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    A tragic event can change someone’s life forever in a good way or a bad way. The holocaust shaped people's lives into a way where they can never go back. In “Night” by Elie Wiesel, the main character, Elie, changed as a person due to his experiences at Auschwitz. Elie was a victim of the holocaust and it changed his life forever as a person and a Jew. Before Elie went to the concentration camps, he had many good character traits such as loyalty, Religious, and Impatient. For Example, on page 33

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    “Everyone always says that anything is possible, but some things in life just can’t be reached. Sometimes your dreams just can’t be achieved.” (Carl Johnson) All humans living in America have dreams. These could all easily be described as the American Dream. The American Dream can frequently change from time to time due to the time period. It can also change due to the age of the person at hand. Children grow up having these dreams, but who knows how long these dreams will last. Some elderly

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    I did not have a care in the world. My backpack sat in the corner, filled with the importance of my future, but instead of opening it and completing my homework, I listened to the music louder and louder until my ears became numb. I sat there waiting for my homework to finish itself, not wanting to put any effort into completing it. Finally, I forgot all about it as the bass drowned my ears. this negligent behavior was the result of moving several times in my high school years, and not wanting to

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    Introduction: In life we all have something that has changed the way we perceive things. Most things that change a person’s perception happens to be an experience that they have gone thru and learned from. In my case it wasn’t necessarily an experience, it was a dog that changed my perception on life. My mind and heart was opened in a whole new way. I never thought I could love an animal just as much as I loved the people in my life. I always thought it was strange that pet owners loved and treated

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    significant song that changed my life was “yes you can” by Marvin Sapp. This song played a life-shaping effect on my life. This was something that no one in my school expected me to do. The reason why “yes you can” by Marvin Sapp was such a significant song for me was because I was going down a path of failure and nobody believed me, but when I listened to Marvin Sapp, he gave me a reason to keep pushing and never give up there is always somebody on my side. I am going to be talking about my first year of

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    I have lost many people in my life, family and friends. I feel like people have just vanished. I haven’t really given it much thought until lately, I look back in the past and realize that a lot of things have changed, slowly people have left, just like that. People always leave. In eighth grade I met a boy named Aaron, instantly we became friends. I met him on the first day of school, his honey colored, poofy hair instantly caught my attention. I heard the bell, I was quickly reminded of the sounds

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