For the past year, I have been experiencing the difficulties of maintaining a cross-sex friendship due to the other person being interested in more than a platonic friendship. This is my first experience in which I am content with nothing more than a platonic friendship. This relationship is one that I cherish, and hope to maintain as she is a great person but there might be ulterior motives motivating this friendship. The motivation behind our cross-sex friendship may be for...
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“Can anyone take my unluckiness?” that’s what I thought when I had my worst week. Everyone has a day that they could say “It’s the worst day of my life!” on which everything seems not working and feels like all the thunderstorms are following. My worst journey happened when I was in the First-year class. The start of my worst journey was different from others. Since the morning, I had felt really bad because I had a fever. Like a...
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Acrophobia is defined as having an extreme fear of heights. This could be anywhere from ladders, to as high as parachuting; they all induce that intense reaction. Throughout my life, I have tested this phobia but managed to fail more than succeed. I decided one day, to make an attempt and overcome this fear, by going rock climbing. I started off strong, looking up and making my way towards the top; until the very moment I looked down. Looking down...
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Escape From Aleppo is told through the eyes of a 14-year-old girl named Nadia who is trying to find her way to her family through the war-torn streets of Aleppo, Syria. Nadia was living with her mother, brothers, and aunts when their house was hit by a shrapnel bomb called a “Carmella.” Everyone except Nadia made it out of the ruined house safe before the bomb hit, and Nadia had hidden under a car to escape the explosion. She was...
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To what extent do you consider education has figured prominently in your family background? Education has had an interesting role in my family background. A few of my uncles undertook tertiary education after completing secondary school at comprehensive schools as the profession they wanted to go into required a degree of that sort whereas other family members such as my mother went to government-funded colleges, or straight into the workplace. My grandparents on my mother’s side, however, did encourage them...
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It was finally the day, the day that I could say I was the most excited person on Earth. I was leaving Earth to go to Mars at six in the morning sharp. I have spent years on Earth researching about Mars, but now I can finally go and do so many tests. I was even more excited when I remembered that I would be traveling by rocket that I had made myself and my buddy, Jackie Fan, She actually...
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'Siblings have a unique bond, which no one else can experience. So the death of a sibling is considered to be a unique experience.'(Robinson & Mahon, 1997; Worden, Davies & McCown, 1999). I would like to start my essay with this quotation because, in this essay, I will explain my experience, death of the loss of my sibling, and twin sister. In this regard, I will explain how a negative event (stressor) leads to and impacts physical and mental health...
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As Elias waited in the hallway, the light above his head was blinking, he was deeply thinking. The decision to send out the men was announced and Elias knew that trouble was knocking on the door. 70 men from the We Are Right (WAR) military group were sent to stop the enemy forces of about 500 men, the goal was to push the enemy back from a civilian school with children and teachers inside and keep the civilians safe, then...
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Introduction. What is Community Service? From ABCs when we first hear the term ‘community service’ the thought we get is that it must be something regarding giving back to society. Having a look at the proper definition, Community service is when individuals or groups of people come together to volunteer to help improve a community, with no hope of getting any reap from the community. It can also mean helping non-profit organizations or doing positive things that lead to a...
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Family is a very important aspect of my life. Creating my genogram and also communicating with my family about our family history was very eye-opening for me. The side that I analyzed was my mother's side of the family. I have three siblings. Their name is Daniel Hamilton who is my brother, Danielle Hamilton who is my sister, and Dana Hamilton who is my sister as well. Some of the physical traits that we have in common are, that my...
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For my cultural experience project, I participated in a holiday with one of my best friends from childhood called “Candlemas”. It’s a holiday that Hispanics celebrate every year on the date of February 2nd. The holiday is celebrated because of the custom cleaning of Mary, 40 days after the introduction of her child Jesus was born. The celebration is called Candlemas because this was the day that all the Church's candles for the year were honored. This day likewise used...
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The global pandemic enabled me to see how businesses adapted to face the new challenges of Covid-19 and how their main goal was survival. One example is John Lewis, which had to permanently close eight of its department stores so that they did not operate at a loss and also to recover financially from the Coronavirus pandemic. When reading about what happened to John Lewis, it made me want to read more about how Covid-19 had an impact on other...
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Let’s begin by saying “Jai Mata Di” as this is what people keep on chanting throughout their journey to the holy shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi. It is considered to be one of the holiest pilgrimages, and a large number of pilgrims visit this place every year. As a matter of fact, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Ji is known to reside in a holy cave that is located in the folds of the three-peaked mountain named ‘Trikuta’ and pronounced as...
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For me, the beach has been the place to escape to and have all my worries melt away from me like a snow cone in Phoenix on a summer day. It is my place that lets me feel free and like I can fly with the birds that fill the blue sky. Whenever a problem arises in my life, a trip to the beach has always been the answer. It is like as soon as my bare feet touch the...
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In the summer of 2018, I had the terrifying experience of my life. I planned to go out with my friends on a beautiful sunny day. We went on a trip to Michigan's Adventure. I thought it would be an exciting day for me, but everything was out of my control. I had never felt so scared in my life. After coming back from my extended summer vacation in Vietnam, I was planning to travel to Chicago with my friends....
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It was ten years ago, during my holiday trip to Singapore. Only seven years old and traveling to a country that I had never visited before, I was understandably nervous. Clenching my mom’s hands, I tried to keep up with her as she zipped through the crowd. After traveling around the country for two days, I got overconfident. I decided that it was time to stop being cautious and roam freely around the mall. As I strolled past the shops,...
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I open my eyes. I smile. Today was going to be an incomparable day. 24th of June 2017 - The Stone Roses – Glasgow. Their last ever gig and I was going to be there, one of the most extraordinary bands in the world and I was going to see them. I was as happy as ever. So as you do on the morning of something like this (or every day for me) I get up and I turn on...
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My critique is about a restaurant my husband and I visited for our 15th anniversary. When my husband and I arrived at the restaurant, we read online reviews that said 'very good service', 'delicious fresh food', and 'one of the best deli cuisines in the world'. We believed everything until we arrived, at which point we realized it was all a lie, in my opinion. First and foremost, we were assigned a rusty table directly in front of the toilets,...
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I have been through a rough time when I lost hope that I would live. I was 13 years old and very gullible, having a gun to my head made me realize the value of life. Life is worth more than anything and we should enjoy it to the fullest. Getting kidnapped wasn’t a pleasant experience for me or my family. I was 13 years old and very immature, living in Pakistan, and used to go to a private school....
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I examined my outfit once again, insatiate. It was all wrong. The ensemble I had picked the night before no longer looked cute. I looked into the mirror. My hair was knotted up from all of the tossings and turning from my restless night’s sleep. Normally I would let my brush battle my hair to tame the unruly waves, but today I simply tied the mess into a bun. I carefully placed the hijab on my head. I had carelessly...
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I believe in the truth that the lessons we learn from the obstacles we face can be fundamental to our later success. “What matters when you work on something is not the final result – it is the skills you have acquired that make you a better person”. Lin Zhou’s saying never fails to remind me of his uplifting when I work on designing video games. I’ve always appreciated him, but a significant experience last March helped me understand its...
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I didn’t understand until now, that fear is not always a harmful emotion and that you don’t have to fear the unexpected because it’s the very thing that could bring out the best in you. It all started at West Port High School when I was seconds away from performing my project piece for my Dance Repertory class. It was one of the last to show because my class and I had to travel from the classroom to the school’s...
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Mistakes are something that comes with being human, everybody has made them at one point or another, and most of the time they end up learning an important lesson from them. Sometimes mistakes are good and end up being beneficial, and other times they could be small little mistakes that end badly. Mistakes are not always good, but sometimes even the smallest mistakes, like somebody not tying their shoe when their dad tells them to, could end awfully. Adults are...
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As part of the restrictive measures of Covid-19, Plymouth University introduced online learning for the SCP course. I was advised that I would be required to use online platforms such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, to name a few, for lectures and group work. Before the start of the induction week, I felt anxious about navigating such technology. I worried about the prospects of technical difficulties, Wi-Fi connection issues, or how I was going to maintain my motivation and attention in...
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When I look back on special moments in my life, chief among them going on holiday, having a birthday party, and starting school, these all fade compared to the day I saw my team triumph over their greatest rivals. The reason why I have chosen this is that it is a very special moment for me as it was the first time I went to an old firm game at Ibrox and it was the first time Celtic had won...
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Manny Pacquiao's quote “Life is meant to be a challenge because challenges make you grow” makes me recall a certain part of my life when I had to learn English as a second language. Moving to the United States of America at the age of seven and spending my early development age learning a third-world language and culture instead, Urdu, molded me into the person I am today. My family and I moved here back in 2009 for better opportunities...
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I wake up to the bright beams of light shining in through the window of my bedroom and the birds talking to each other on the tall, bushy, green trees dancing in the soft breeze. As I jump out of bed, I realize it is my 10th birthday and I need to get ready, fast, as fast as a cheetah. Knock! Knock! Knock! I run to the tall, wooden door to welcome my friends, Ellie, James, Lucy, and her brother...
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Today when I went to the KSU dance concert, I arrived early to see the environment over there as it was my first dance concert. This concert took place at Kennesaw State University dance theater on the Marietta campus and it almost lasted for two hours. As I entered the theater, there were people at the door giving brochures related to the dance concert, with a brief description of the dance performances that were taking place tonight at the theater....
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An immigrant is a person who moves from his/her native country to another country looking for a better life. There are many different reasons why people leave their country to migrate to another country, such as to find jobs, seek protection, and get a better education. Being an immigrant in the United States is very hard because the way of life is not easy for most people since everything is about money, we have to pay a lot of taxes...
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One of the incidents from my recent placement was the most educational for me. I was looking after one of the patients in the facility (Ms. L) who has a history of epilepsy, cerebral palsy, type 2 diabetes, and intellectual impairment and was admitted after a stroke resulting in left-side weakness. As I was giving assistance with her dinner, she looked at me with a terrified expression, grabbed my hand, then said “Help”, and she started shaking. I was shocked...
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