For community service, I have helped out with Sunday School and Vacation Bible at Trinity Lutheran Church in Hicksville, New York. I not only help out with my church, but I have helped out with Big/Little Sisters at my school. Also I helped out with three library events that helped our community this past summer. I am involved at my church in helping with Sunday School at Trinity Lutheran in Hicksville, since I was in sixth grade. There I do many things for an hour. I help children learn the bible
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of Maine but grew up by the beaches of Florida. Although each possesses their own unique characteristics, I much prefer living out my years at the beach, to a life in the mountains. When you think about the climate, landscaping and activities they are so different. The only thing they have in common, both places are beautiful in their own way and people love to vacation there throughout the year. The mountains of Maine are truly beautiful, especially when covered in sparkling, white blankets of snow
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Planning Your Perfect Vacation Choosing a destination for your vacation may be the easiest part of planning the whole trip but planning the details of it is the hard part. Some people have it down to a science and some do it all last minute. When you wait until the last minute to plan your trip it can end up being very expensive. I prefer to keep it simple and take my time planning my trip, keeping it as stress free as possible. The first step in planning your vacation is choosing the destination
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One day, on the way home from school, my mom told me she was going to make up some new rules for me and my brothers and sisters. Before this, we knew she wanted us to be good, but we really didn’t have any rules. Well, Mom took care of that. On Sunday, she started giving us the “house rules.” Clean your rooms every other day. Be ready for dinner at 7:00 p.m. (that means sitting at the table, with clean hands). If Mom is having a meeting in the house, be very quiet (that means turn down the music
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Looking forward To My Summer Vacation I am really excited for summer to start. Even though it’s a short summer I plan on staying busy by wrestling, working out, and go to North Dakota Fargo. It going to be a busy summer and I can’t wait. This summer I will be very busy. I have lots to do it is going to be a short summer. I plan on wrestling, summer school, and training. The first thing I am looking forward is wrestling and lots of it. I need to start to be
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My Summer With The Warriors Moniette Wells ENG121: English Composition I (AXC1314C) Shayla Gordon May 6, 2013 My Summer With the Warriors The screeching sound of the alarm has me reaching over to hit the snooze button for just 10 more minutes, but I know to get there in time I must get started. It’s the last week of May and most families are preparing for the usual Labor Day festivities. A day filled with BBQ’s, fireworks, friends and family. My Labor Day will include friends and family
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cultures, Iranian and American, can coexist. My mother is from Sweden and I have been blessed to have family I visit every year there. It truly was a culture shock in the beginning of my travels to Europe, but quickly learned to appreciate the differences and grasp a whole new meaning to the world we live in. Swedes do a lot of things different; how they greet each other, speak to strangers passing by, and even how and when they eat. These experiences in my life have helped me enjoy reading about Firoozeh’s
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Spending every summer, from the ages 10 to about 16, in Orlando to St. Pete. I HATED IT!!! Nothing from the summers were enjoyable at all. I was beaten once and mostly verbally abused by my step mother. The most memorable summer was the year 2008. I spent every agonizing minute with my father’s wife. We never got along, and this summer my dad had surgery, being in and out the hospital. One day i was on myspace, where i am friends with my step mom, dad and step brother, meaning i had
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their circumstance, family status in the society, their identity and so on. A culture is the source of knowledge so it is very important to a child for his or her future life what depend on also to get a better education too. Here from my opinion also
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Spring 2015 English 0099 Jeff Previlon Prof Alam January 30, 2015 New years in the Jersey In my years living in New Jersey I feel it made me who I ’am today making me and showing me my lone wolf way of live. Living my last three years in New Jersey just before I moved to Georgia was very important to me because I had no idea when will be next time I’ll see the state I was born in again. I remember the day when my Mom and Dad can up to me and told me that we will be moving in three years because she got
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Chico Creek Nature Center Registration Form – Summer Camp 2013 Held at the Chico Creek Nature Center in the heart of Bidwell Park, Camp Chico Creek consists of 10 1-week sessions of environmental education camp for children 5-11 years old. The program is designed to provide outdoor recreation activities and to foster awareness of nature in a fun, safe, and caring setting. Themes covering the Park’s habitats and its natural and cultural history are presented to campers through guided nature walks
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Topic: “My most memorable experience” General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: At the end of my speech the audience will know some of the places I had visited and some of the foods that I enjoyed. Central Idea Statement: Going on the trip to Somalia created stronger long lasting relationships with family, unforgettable shared experiences and a revival of interest by being immersed in the culture. My most memorable experience was going back home to visit my country of origin Somalia this past
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Though it feels like it has been a long road during these past nine weeks but, I am glad to have taken this class. A few things that i will be taking away with me from this class is my new found understanding of the economy this is based off of my own research for the BQ but, i feel as though I would not have researched it otherwise. Another thing I am going to take with me is the fact that death is an inevitable fate that must be accepted. Until learning about death in this class i ignored the topic
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Class: English-103 (00027) Revised Assignment: Discrimination Essay My mother is a Filipina who lived her life in Saudi Arabia for many years. It was not a big surprised for us when she decided to convert her religion into Muslim since it was the right thing to do before marrying someone who is Muslim. In 2005, she decided to spend her summer vacation in the Philippines for almost two months. This year was a year of disaster for our country after the back-to-back
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times that my parents felt financially comfortable were only probably half of my teenage years. I am not saying that we were ever even below the poverty line. The real problem is that it's not what you actually have that truly counts, but the attitude towards what you don't have. Because of the way I was brought up, I believe I have a fear of being poor. My family in no way is opulent or living a luxurious life. But I believe that the lack of cash really molded me into who I am now. My family has
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02/08/2015 The Causes of Technology/Paper #2 The first article “How a Demon iPad Stole My Summer Vacation” by Doyle McManus I found to be a mirrored image of what most average family vacations probably are like. I agree with most of the viewpoints McManus points out in his article. The biggest one being the disruption technology has caused in the family. Family time is nothing like it used to be, not only on vacations but also in the household. Like McManus points out, family time spent together used
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Challenging Vacation Family vacations bring to mind wonderful summer time activities spent with those you love, unless there are challenges to over come in the family circle. National Lampoon’s Family Vacation adventures provide us with other types of family vacation time and social dysfunctions. A father and son plan a vacation to Florida, which puts to test their relationship. The father and son while having a distant relationship were brought together by the vacation which included riding
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issues of Upper Class Americans before the century’s tumultuous changes rocked American society. The main character, Francis ‘Baby’ Houseman summarizes the societal backdrop for us by opening the movie with the following statement, “That was the summer of 1963, and everybody called me ‘Baby’ and it didn’t occur to me to mind. That was before President
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Sports have been a huge part of my life since I first began watching the New York Yankees with my dad when I was a kid. This very team developed a bond between my dad and I that will last my whole life. This bond lead to the best vacation of my life, and still strengthens my relationship with my father to this day. For as long as I can remember, my dad and I have wanted to attend a Yankees home game in New York. To both of us it was our dream trip, and in my senior summer we finally got the chance
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With over 1,400 available taxis operated by our professionally trained independent contracted drivers. Issues faced by Beck:- The issue faced by Beck Taxi was the pricing challenge in a three months summer season. Summer was
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decision changed my summer on the island forever. The immediate pressure in my chest, the sudden loss of breath and the instantaneous numbness in my body would soon be the last feeling I remembered experiencing that summer. Long Beach Island, New Jersey, a barrier island just two hours and fifteen minutes from home was a summer colony for the Richards and the Mills families. With ten members amongst two families, we shared a beach house; a summer tradition aging back to the summer of '98. A tradition
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of its attractive beaches, the famous story of Old Rush and the fame of Hollywood, the center of early American movies. Therefore, when people talk about California, words like “beaches”, “multi-culture”, “gold mines” and “Hollywood” will come up to my mind. To me, colors like blue and gold are meant to be the best description of California. Started from the 1951, the colors of blue and gold were adopted as the state colors of California. Blue and gold represent the sea and the color of the precious
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municipal government gives up, curtail most services, and abandons the whole neighborhood. Nuclear power has helped many communities. It provides the proper electricity needed during the stressful times of extremley cold winters and dreaded hot summers. Nuclear power has proved in time to be an important supplement to the fossil fuel sources, in areas where fossil fuel is low. Proponents and oppenents of nuclear plants come to a disagreement on a number of issues. The question that comes to mind
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stuck in traffic. However, this year’s Labor Day weekend was amazing. It was a nice mini vacation that was much needed for my family and I. My families ranch was a nice getaway for my family and I because we got to spend quality time with each other; something that is very rare when we are at home. My family and I went to spend time with some family members at their ranch and spent three relaxing days there. My mother had planned to leave on Friday evening and come back on Sunday evening. During those
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Burkett Composition 1 18, September, 2012 My First True Love The first time I left my country to study in the United States, my girlfriend gave me our framed picture. That was our first picture taken together on the night we first met each other. Every time I look at this picture, it takes me back in time like a time machine to that night. It wakes up emotions and memories from that summer. I remember, that summer, I was on vacation in Montenegro with my best friend. We were spending days on
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involved with children throughout the day. I want to make sure as a teacher that I will be doing my job but at the same time be a great influence in my students’ life. My philosophy as a teacher is developing relationships with the students and my colleagues will allow all of us to excel and it will make a positive learning environment. I understand as teacher it can be both rewarding and challenging especially my first year as a teacher. So you asked what are three rewards and three challenges that I will
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Georgia and soon to be Georgia Regents University. Two name changes in 2 years wreak havoc with e-mail addresses. This past April, I completed my work at The Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry after serving as Editor for 10 years and as Associate Editor for 4 years. While I miss the interaction with authors, reviewers, and the Editorial Council, especially my fellow officers, I am ready for new challenges. They arrived quickly when I was appointed as Vice Dean in July. Kevin continues in his position
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max they need to get at least eight and a half hours of sleep a night and start the day with a healthy breakfast. Another study shows the effects of a voluntary summer reading intervention were assessed in a trial involving 552 students in ten schools. In this study, fourth grade children received eight books to read during summer vacation, and were encouraged to practice oral reading at home with a family member and to use comprehension strategies during independent, silent reading. Reading lessons
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First timer Growing up I have been told time and time again that I resembled my mother very much. But since I was raised by grandmother I was never able to relate to that statement. In 2004, as a reward for my good grades in school, my uncle generously bought my grandmother and I an airway ticket to Greece for a vacation to see my mother. I still reminisce about that vacation where I got to fly on a plane, see my mother and go to the beach all for the first time. I remember waking up at five
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Summer Jobs for Teenagers This summer, while all of your friends were on vacation or going to work outs every morning, did you find yourself having very little to do? If you told your parents this they might have suggested a number of things, such as join a new extracurricular activity or get a summer job. Usually a teenager’s initial thought when told to get a job is negative, and there could be several reasons for the negative thoughts, such as they think it will be boring, they envision it to
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