There are a couple of obstacles that have played a major role in me becoming who I am today. I've had naysayers trying to negatively influence my thoughts, and crush my dreams by saying that said I will never amount to anything, or that I should give up on my dreams and get realistic with my goals. A couple years ago I was a completely different person. I was out of shape physically, my academic performance was very poor, and I had a terrible attitude. I improved greatly in athletics and my academic career.…
Snapshots for Don. Start of the fun Sue (my wife) and I were sitting in the coffee shop with our long-time friend Liz having our weekly coffee. We usually met up every Thursday evening just to catch up on things with Liz and her husband. Liz was by herself that day because her husband, (Don) was across the world.…
At a younger age, I would say I believed that I can only trust myself and my mother, this is because as a little kid my mom would always tell me that there are bad people in the world and that giving them any information about anything can be very harmful. But as I grew up and realized what was actually happening in my country I knew there were millions of others that were suffering against the “bad people” and we could only do something about it if the whole community came together to help. It was at that time when I was about 25, when I started to put some effort into trying to establish more just conditions within my country especially after the implication of extremely high food prices. This is when I started my first strike involving my…
Greetings Carine McCandless, I finally made it to Alaska and I believe my journey is going to end soon. Later, after arriving, I ran out of food and I went out to search for food such as fruit or berries. After eating a handful I fell asleep and I awaken with excruciating pain. I started to read the book and I had got the plants mixed with a poisonous plant that look exactly alike. I started making myself throw up and began reading more into the book I figured that the plant I ate can cause starvation and death.…
As a child growing up in Rhode Island, the smallest state in the Union, the idea of a vast planet brimming with civilization and culture was more like something out of a fairy tale than it was reality. So, when my father announced that we would be leaving the country to go to Scotland, the home of his and my ancestors, my world began to expand at a rapid pace. This trip could not have been timed more perfectly. The summer of 2007 marked the end of fourth grade, my first year at Saint Mary Academy Bay View.…
Rileigh Deitemeyer A phrase I have heard a lot over the years is, “You look just like your father”, and each time my father and I would exchange a glance that to us meant, “little do they know”. This is because if you were to look at me next to my parents, you would have no idea that I’m adopted. My birthmother was thirteen years-old when she gave birth to me and was taking care of all her younger siblings in a household with drug and alcohol usage. Not being able to care for me, she gave me up for adoption.…
My experiences over the last six years living in NYC have shaped me into the approachable and compassionate person I am today. I have been immersed in a melting pot with many different culturally and economically diverse populations. These unique experiences have broadened my horizons and allowed me to gain valuable communication skills and the ability to connect with people from all walks of life. I searched out opportunities to give back and help the people in my community both in volunteering in hospitals, educating high school students, and interning in private practices. I even traveled with the organization Medlife, setting up a medical clinic to provide basic medical care and education to people in the poor and underserved communities surrounding Lima, Peru.…
College Essay Growing up in New Haven, Connecticut there weren’t big mansions, people with expensive cars, nor any sign of wealth .It ’s a small city filled with homeless people, violence and poor neighborhoods that made me into the person I am today. A city so small you see the same people everyday.…
The Keirsey Report asked good questions to really help me think about what kind of person I really am. I concentrated on the wording of the questions, as you went further along I felt I could see the flow of the questions. Then I realized the questions were not asking me the same thing just worded differently, each question was truly different. Each question really made me question the scenario, and try to place myself in such a scenario. I would ask my 16-year-old son, and my husband what they thought and several times we had same answers.…
Everyone remembers the day it came. I was just doing normal kid stuff when I heard a loud bang. I didn’t think much of it because there was occasionally loud noises in the area so I went on with my day as if nothing had happen. Later that night I woke up to an uneasy feeling that something bad had happen but I just tried to go back to bed.…
I have not been thinking differently but I am surely endeavoring. I have an arduous time changing things about myself so at this point I am just gradually endeavoring. After reading these two chapters I endeavor to disunite my emotions from my thinking due to the fact that they incline to get me into an abundance of trouble. Prior to making decisions, I stop and notice first if I am allowing my emotions to get in the way. I ascertain no emotions are tied to my decisions just so at the end I get a good outcome.…
The Never Ending Rollercoaster As my friends and I pass by store to store we had realized that there was a bright red flyers. It had caught our eye, we went and grabbed a flyer and it had said “Ladies and Gentlemen there is going to be a new rollercoaster opening up this Saturday! Come and join the ride!” My friends had said that they wanted to go and check out the rollercoaster.…
“Somewhere out there someone is wearing my parents clothes. The Bireley Foundation originally started helping out the Children's Hospital in Los Angeles. That is the core of how our grandparents wanted it to remain except in our hometowns. We have always helped out women and children in need through our charity gifting.…
This girl had my back during the hardest times, she kept me alive believe it or not. She was that friend God sends to help you balance out life, so for her to be taken from me at such a young age really hurt me more than anything i’ve ever been through. By the time i had to say my final goodbyes my mind and my soul were just so tired i laid on the casket and just cried. I couldn’t find words to say to her because i truly didn’t want to say goodbye, so i just laid my head on that casket and cried till i couldn’t cry…
After spending countless hours with Stefani, or Stefalicious, the thing that stands out the most to me is how much fun it is being around and with her. To try and say that I can accurately represent Stef from one experience or by one trait would be untruthful and an incomplete representation of her character. However, I can try to show you what kind of a relationship we have through a couple conversations and stories. I met Stefani the first Sunday of last semester. I was assigned to home teach her apartment with another gentleman in our ward.…