I’m an Aquarian by birth, but I’ve never been one to put too much emphasis on astrological signs. However, I am a water baby. I was born and raised on the Gulf Coast of Florida. I learned to swim before I could walk, I learned to fish before I could talk, and I learned to ski before I was riding a bike. I can’t remember a time when water wasn’t a part of my life. I grew up canoeing the bays and lakes and tubing the rivers and creeks. I even took up surfing for a few years until I got cracked in the head and almost drown. I learned a lot about myself because of that environment, and I believe it truly shaped who I am today.
I graduated high school in ‘93 with hair down to my waist and no vision, so I decided to take a year off to “find myself”. I didn’t actually look too hard. It turns out that I was right there the whole time smoking weed. I did somehow manage to enroll in the local junior college by the fall of ’94, but that’s only because I was getting a little pressure from my folks. Looking back, I think I started before I was serious enough to make an effort. I really wasn’t able to get my head into it. I did do well in the classes I liked, but I wondered through the rest of them in a self induced fog.
Time marches on, so a half dozen girlfriends and two years later I was still spinning my wheels, and I wasn’t even close to my associate’s degree yet. Back then, I spent my nights slinging sandwiches. Since I was only clearing a couple of hundred bucks a week, I decided I may as well start looking for a “real job” that didn’t require a degree. Although $90 a month for rent wasn’t bad, living with 3 roommates truly sucked. I needed to make some money fast, so I started browsing through the want ads.
One fateful Sunday I caugh...
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...amount of money. Luckily, on our own, we proved them wrong. We stumbled across a diamond in the rough, closed 30 days later, and have been living there happily ever since.
Now, I’m a first time dad, and that is truly what my life is all about. We were blessed with a son in March of 2005. By the time he was born, he had already managed to squeeze in a couple of tube trips in his momma’s belly. He took his first boat ride in his little life jacket when he was just two weeks old. Now, he’s an old pro. He was only 3 months old the first time he went swimming, and now he’ll shrivel up like a prune if you let him. With any luck, I’ll have him holding his own fishing pole by this spring, and I’ve already got my eyes on a little pair of water skis. Who knows, maybe 20 years from now, he’ll be writing an autobiography about how growing up on the water help shape his life too.
I have many things that I love in this life, one of those things is wrestling. I have been wrestling for seven years and I have developed quite the passion and love for it. Wrestling has always been an interesting sport for me. Growing up in Oregon I watched my uncles wrestle in high school. I watched both of them win their state tournament in their respective weight classes, this is one of my fondest memories of my childhood. One of them went on to wrestle division one, I thought this was the coolest thing in the world. I looked up to my uncles and wanted to be just like them. I did not always wrestle though. The process of pursing my dream as of becoming a wrestler started of with basketball, then went to a rocky start, then being on Worland High School wrestling team.
I had always been told that I was supposed to do well in high school, go on to college, and then I would be able to get a good job. So, that is exactly what I did, and that was not my case. I first went to college as soon as I graduated from high school. After changing my major a couple of times I decided on Criminal Justice. I was fascinated by the law and thought that since there was so much crime, there was no way I would not be able to get a job working in the field, and make a decent wage since I would have a degree. I told my parents thinking they would be just as excited for me and was shocked to find out they were totally against it. They told me that I would be dissatisfied if I chose that as a major, and that I would not be able to find a job. Being 18 at the time of course I felt that I knew more than them and went on to complete my studies and obtain a B.S. degree. Low and behold they were right. I applied everywhere that I could think of that offered a job in the criminal justice system. I applied for state jobs, federal jobs, and private companies. All of them were looking for someone with at least two years experience. I was dismayed and perplexed. How was I ever going to...
The constellation Aquarius is one of the Zodiac signs. It is universally associated with water. The translation is "The Water Bearer". I chose this sign because I really like the ocean and swimming and just water in general. The stars in Aquarius are: Sadalmelik (Alpha Aqr), Sadalsuud (Beta Aqr), Sadalachbia (Gamma Aqr), Skat (Delta Aqr), Albali (Epsilon Aqr), Ancha (Theta Aqr), Situla (Kappa Aqr). Sadalsuud is the brightest star in the constellation.
Coming out of High School, I had in my possession the perspective that I knew everything. So I started, straight off the bat, working in a variety of menial jobs, which would have lead me to a dead end, for as the good jobs in today’s society required college degrees. So, after working for two years with a white-collar full of frustration, I decided it was time to take matters into my own ink-stained, carpal tunnel syndrome-stricken hands. I immediately gave my two-weeks notice, and pontificated about going to college.
My mom always told me about the story of my birth. It was the cold, blizzardy night of January the 4th. She had been in labor for nearly 24 hours, and when I was finally born, she was happy to have a son. Up to this day, she jokes that I have been stubborn since before I was born. That was the first story of my life, and you can bet that there were many more to come.
The Critical Identity Autobiography was a very resourceful and interesting activity. It allowed me to explore my own history and how these things have affect my lifestyle and development. I was also able to analyze and reflect on my educational upbringing. It was enlightening. I enjoyed then reading about how others’ experiences were.
Aquarius: They are Revenge killers Identity thieves Copyright thieves. They Lie say everything is new and take everything. They can use both air signs Libra and Gemini and say they are good while they act like a Gemini and say they did it first when they know Gemini said they did not do it first.
What comes to mind when you hear Rock ‘n’ Roll? It is the upbeat tempo with drums beating a harmonic tune, the electrifying sound of guitars and of course the singers, making music that connects to your emotions.
Memoir This adventure started all the way back in July 2017. I came home from a regular day at school and returned with my regular face but little did I know that it would all drastically change momentarily. I went to sit on the couch and eat some food like any other day but when I sat down my mum and dad explained to me the fantastic news, I wasn’t listening until they said “in Africa.” The first thought that scattered through my brain was, am I really going to the land of all the animals on earth? I’m sure as soon as I land there will be lions all around the airport.
Music can makes us feel different type of ways and it could also provoke on us different type of emotions. It could go from happy to sad, or to angry to mad. Since we were born we have being listening to many different type of music . Music is really related to us and our culture. Music can even be used to define us. Music has the ability to change many different situations. There is music for literally everything. For any specific occasion no matter what is there is music that goes with it. In my opinion Without music this world wouldn’t make sense. Music is so interesting and amazing that I can 't even imagine being without it.
I grew up in the 80s (born in 1977) and while I am sure that era impacted me in more ways than I am even aware of, I think that it was my own personal home life that set me on my current path. My mother was much older (she was 40 when I was born) and only had a 6th grade education. My father was 19 when I was born and had his GED. They had a tumultuous relationship for obvious and private reasons. They divorced when I was seven years old and I remained with my mother. Both parents worked in manual labor type jobs—my mother cleaned houses and my father repaired mobile homes. Neither knew how to be parents. My mother was an alcoholic who, I now believe, was also bipolar, and my father was just
The rejections came one after another, but that didn’t discourage me. Finally, my search came to an end: I found a job at a retirement home, but it was far from luxurious. I was constantly on my feet, cleaning up garbage, and getting harassed by the elderly daily. When I realized long days of work wasn’t enough to pay off the debt, I felt hopeless, once again.
The Open Boat is based off the true story of the sinking of the Commodore. Stephen Crane had a traumatic shipwreck in January 1897. After the crash on the 10-foot boat, Crane was lost at sea for 30 hours. He was later rescued and wrote 3 different writings on the sinking of Commodore (Eye). Crane’s afterthought of the sinking of the Commodore led to the short story. It was initially published as “Stephen Crane’s Own Story” (Hayes). The Open Boat is now a fictional tale written by Stephen Crane to portray his struggling experience. Dudley specifies, “In his role as war correspondent, Crane booked passage to cover the revolt in Cuba and nearly lost his life in a shipwreck off the coast of Florida in January 1897--events that would form the basis for "The Open Boat (Dudley)”. The correspondent in the story can easily be realized as the author himself. Crane wrote “The Open Boat” when the initial thought of the literary world was the realism and naturalism were the primary focus (Eye). Eye’s observation is a key point to why so many people lean toward the fiction aspect of The Open Boat.
My astrological sign is the leo, the fire sign. People describe leos as positive, kind people, who are confident in all situations; someone as bright as the sun. I was born in the year of the monkey, the year people describe as confident, yet stubborn people. To be specific, I am a wood monkey which people explain as resourceful or someone who doesn't put all their eggs in one basket. I believe these traits suit me very well as I am confident, kind, and helpful. My name comes from Hawaii, the state of beautiful beaches and sunny skies. When I hear my name I
Two-thirds of children who participate in extracurricular activities are expected to attain at least a bachelor’s degree, whereas only half of children that do not participate do (National Center for Education Statistics, 1995). Childhood is a very important time in our lives, a time when we develop many vital skills that follow us into adulthood. Some people laugh or scoff at us parents that keep our children to busy schedules. Those same people would also argue that our children should be allowed to have a childhood, to not be so tightly scheduled in their daily lives. Before jumping on that bandwagon, I would suggest doing a little research. Participating in after-school activities has shown to benefit children in many ways. Children should