A Little Something About Me With millions of people in the world, each one different from the next, I wonder how someone can assume anything about anyone without first getting to know that ... . Whether it is a joke, face, stunt or sound, I can produce laughter. Laughter follows close behind wherever I go. Given the chance, I could turn a funeral into a late-night comic relief show. My friends know me as being one to go the extra mile to get someone to laugh. Falling on my face in a busy mall or making funny comments in class are all ... , they will see the real me. Only after they have perce...

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... first time in my life I wouldn't be playing soccer, my life had changed. The months that followed increasingly grew worse. I stopped hanging out with my friends, and found a new group of people that I felt I related with. Dropping activities like soccer isolated me; this new group was also isolated. They provided the ... 't see that I had a problem at the time. Then came the Tuesday night, October 12, 1999. After doing homework, my roommates and I headed downtown to our friends' house to drink and then we were planning to go out to a local dance club, Solids. It was a regular routine we ...

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... , Eric Morse and his killers, of Ghetto Life 101 and Remorse, and the rest of the world. The four aspects of community are neighborhood, peers or friends, family, and faith. Although, as an individual, a person shapes their own identity; nevertheless, the community that the person lives in plays a significant role ... this. The stress is too much, the community has forced his identity to change and adapt to what it wants. In the colonial days there was little to worry about. A community gets bent out of shape over a simple person's simple sin. Things like that occur very frequently in pr...

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... my own room, my own stuff where I want it, my friends that I've spent practically my whole life with, my family who put up with all my little quirks, and my car!! What was I going to do without my precious car? Some of my friends that had already been to college and had come back to visit ... telling them what to do all the time. And sure, the thought was extremely exciting to me as well, but how would I survive without my family and friends and the things that had taken me eighteen years to get used to. I felt like going to college was pretty much taking everything that I knew and ... t...

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... my own room, my own stuff where I want it, my friends that I've spent practically my whole life with, my family who put up with all my little quirks, and my car!! What was I going to do without my precious car? Some of my friends that had already been to college and had come back to visit ... telling them what to do all the time. And sure, the thought was extremely exciting to me as well, but how would I survive without my family and friends and the things that had taken me eighteen years to get used to. I felt like going to college was pretty much taking everything that I knew and ... t...

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... my own room, my own stuff where I want it, my friends that I've spent practically my whole life with, my family who put up with all my little quirks, and my car!! What was I going to do without my precious car? Some of my friends that had already been to college and had come back to visit ... telling them what to do all the time. And sure, the thought was extremely exciting to me as well, but how would I survive without my family and friends and the things that had taken me eighteen years to get used to. I felt like going to college was pretty much taking everything that I knew and ... t...

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... my own room, my own stuff where I want it, my friends that I've spent practically my whole life with, my family who put up with all my little quirks, and my car!! What was I going to do without my precious car? Some of my friends that had already been to college and had come back to visit ... telling them what to do all the time. And sure, the thought was extremely exciting to me as well, but how would I survive without my family and friends and the things that had taken me eighteen years to get used to. I felt like going to college was pretty much taking everything that I knew and ... t...

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... that are the root of my constant worries. My worries range from various school related issues, to family related problems, and of course I can't forget my friends. Overall these two symptoms can be dealt with if I just take time to myself, organize my thoughts, and figure out what needs to be done to ... black cat scratched me and now I'm scarred for life. Another time I can remember having a bad experience with a cat is when I was playing in park with some friends, when all of a sudden a white and gray house cat was got lose from a nearby residence; it ran straight towards me. I instantl...

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... got through lying and getting away with it, they felt pretty good about themselves. But soon Drew was getting bored of just cigarettes and wanted to get a little more extreme. So Drew started drinking alcohol. She immediately fell in love with alcohol. She would drink until she passed out. She loved the feeling of getting ... friends), with some of their other friends. Amy's mother was smoking pot and they were all surprised when Amy's mother offered them some. And of course without even thinking twice Drew accepted the offer and had her first try of pot. Drew had been slowly growing up a...

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... I enjoy laying in the sun with my mom or riding four wheelers through the creek with my friends. Something that we do every year at the cabin is hold a Fourth of July party. We invite all of our friends, my dad grills hotdogs and hamburgers, and we have a big fireworks display across the pond. ... It is something that our friends have come to look forward to each year and everyone always has a really good time. As I ... , we do a lot of quad riding at the cabin. Sometimes I go riding with my brother, sometimes with my dad and his friends, but most of the time I go with two of my own good...

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... in trouble in school, getting in trouble at home, and even getting in trouble with the law. Until one day I was expelled from school. I left my friends, my teachers, my work and I went to a brand new environment. This is when I began to see that I needed to change. In the first couple ... months of my freshman year I had to deal with the death of my grandmother. We had a very close relationship. I remember when I was little I used to sit on her lap as we played games or read a book. Because her death was never fully explained to me, I began to drift ... suspended plenty of times, arrest...

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... were pertinent to a happy life, were superficial and completely unrelated to who I am as a person. Today I appreciate the little things in daily life and am blessed to have many friends I never would have talked to years ago. I was born in Beverly Hills California and raised mostly in an affluent area ... understand people who obviously tried so hard. Starting in middle school I became a completely self-absorbed, egotistical bitch. I was nice to people outside my group of friends but I don't think it was with any sincere kindness. I was a bitch to my family, especially my two years youn...

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... in trouble in school, getting in trouble at home, and even getting in trouble with the law. Until one day I was expelled from school. I left my friends, my teachers, my work and I went to a brand new environment. This is when I began to see that I needed to change. In the first couple ... months of my freshman year I had to deal with the death of my grandmother. We had a very close relationship. I remember when I was little I used to sit on her lap as we played games or read a book. Because her death was never fully explained to me, I began to drift ... suspended plenty of times, arrest...

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... thought of it like that. If there was a problem I would try to fix it right away. For example, if heard from one of my friends that so and so was talking behind my back. I would go to the source which would be the person talking. Go up to them calmly ... but I do get attached very easily. I think that would be something I would have to work on. I know you can not get to involve or start being friends with your client; it's a professional job, so you must act like one to. I think I could overcome his by just changing my way of thinking. Understanding that ... and I won't be getting hurt w...

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... thought of it like that. If there was a problem I would try to fix it right away. For example, if heard from one of my friends that so and so was talking behind my back. I would go to the source which would be the person talking. Go up to them calmly ... but I do get attached very easily. I think that would be something I would have to work on. I know you can not get to involve or start being friends with your client; it's a professional job, so you must act like one to. I think I could overcome his by just changing my way of thinking. Understanding that ... and I won't be getting hurt w...

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... pressure on me, and I don't always want to be put under such scrutiny. Every little thing I do he judges me. If I am talking to a group of people, he is there making sure I am speaking properly. Even when I am out with my friends, I don't have the freedom to be goofy or just clown around for a while because ... I am so worried that I am going to make a mistake. I try to talk to my friends about the whole situation, but either they don't comprehend, or they just choose not to listen. I am unemployed, but I have the skills to do handy work ... around the house, or different crafty things....

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... bathroom and took out some pills. She stood by the sink ready to take the pills. But before she did she thought about her family and friends and her new sweet little kitten whom was on the counter looking at her. She then poured out the bottle and put away the pills and cried herself to sleep. ... Had it not been for family and friends being so encouraging this person may have taken her life, which would have affected everyone around her who cared about ... person himself also suffers from depression and is on medication and counseling as well. This person actually went through with a su...

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... I was already in a dysfunctional family, my dad had about 4 other children before he met my mom. They had me and they weren't married. They married a little while after I was born. Honestly I can say I never had any memories of my dad while I was growing up. I was born in Jamaica and before I ... really bothered me Melesia Vanriel because I was not close to my dad anyways. In a way I was kind of happy. Now I live with my mom and my little brother, I am real close to my oldest half sibling she is my best friend. So I guess I can say that being in a single family home is a ... forced to ...

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... friends and I used to pretend that we were priests. We would pretend that my living room was the church. We"d use the microwave as the tabernacle and potato chips as Holy Communion. Our biggest fights were who was going to be the priest first. It's funny looking back now at how simple games like "pretend" amused little ... Internet. Apparently, you could install a program called America Online into your computer, and if you had a telephone line, you could talk to your friends through a computer without speaking out loud on a telephone. It was called instant messaging. This was definitely ...

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... I couldn't understand why, and it didn't come to me until much later. It seemed like such a bad thing at the time, I lost all my friends and moved so far from everything I knew, and seemed as if nothing good would occur. Even though at first I hated everything about Georgia, my attitude coincided ... the people in it, but rather that I missed where I previously had lived and all of the many things that went with it. I missed my family, friends, house, and basically everything of which my life was composed. But by this time the damage had been done, or so I had assumed. But now ... feet...

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... into violent fist fights. The sad thing was that the ones who called me names were Chinese. That was one reason why I didn't have any Chinese friends at that time. That was also a disadvantage for me, because I thought that I could pick up some Mandarin by mixing around with other Chinese peers ... . So, I remained consistently immune to those names, which I was called until I finished high school. Everything went differently in college. I made huge amounts of friends. I felt like I had a chance of starting over a new life. That was when I really got to learn how to socialize, and adopt a...

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... is to maintain a social life and still do the things that I enjoy, such as spending time with my boyfriend Matt. I like to go and hang out with my friends, but it's hard to know when I can afford to. I also enjoy being with my family on the weekends, especially getting to see my nieces Ariel and Ashley. ... on this problem that I have, but at times it can be difficult to discipline myself. This often gets in my way and brings me down, making life a little tougher. It hurts me at work too, which is a challenge in itself while being in college. Working and maintaining an income is defiant...

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... , and kids rarely want to be seen with their parents, so the kids make their parents drop them off on the corner or anywhere away from where their friends would be. In Mexico it is not that way at all. Kids are brought up with a great sense of family and are shown how to have fun ... graduate from high school their graduation dance, which is equivalent to the prom in America, the whole community is invited. The graduates are there having fun with their friends as well as their parents and grand parents. That brings me to another point, that elders are respected much more in Mexico than in...

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... situations. It got to a point where my dad made me go to the doctor to talk to him. I was at the point where i wouldnt play with my friends in my complex unless i was right outside my house. i wouldnt go over anoynes house excpet for Colleen's because i trusted that my dad would show up to get me ... . If i was playing with my friends and my dad had to go somewhere i would stop what i was doing and go with him even though the other mothers had offered to watch me. i dont think ... my dad never saw it that way. He saw us as "different" from everyone else. He used to tell me that one day ...

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... thing" was parents getting a divorce. We felt like a minority moving here because our parents were still together. My sister and I would listen to our friends and how difficult it is for them to be fair and see each parent every other week. All we could think to ourselves was, "thank God that ... that we all had together during it all. Slowly things started to become obvious. Not only to my sister and me, but also to our family and friends that would come and visit. People would ask about their relationship and all I said was that I hadn't noticed anything. Although I just dodged their...

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