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My Struggle with Weight and Body Image Although I have always been considered small, my weight has always fluctuated beyond what is considered to be in the normal range of 1 to 2 pounds. The heaviest I have ever been is 123 pounds and I hit that as a freshman in college, unlike most individuals, I was my second heaviest as a freshman in high school. As a three sport athlete I ate whatever I wanted thinking that I could burn it off on the field and being bigger, muscle-wise was better. At the…

Final Exam End of Fall Semester Fall semester has been good, full of tragedies, enjoyment, late nights and a lot of learning experiences. Personally, I have been learning a lot from the Texas ASLA Conferences. I have had the fortunate to attended to them even before I started my first studio year in the BLA program. I knew nothing and no one. Years have passed and every year I go back; I meet new people. Conversations with professional Landscape Architects have been evolved. I used to be…

Personal Timeline Part 2 (Written Portion) • First Day of School (August 24th, 2016): This is the day it all began. I never would’ve expected this year to go as quickly as it did. Although the year passed by for me quickly, it was full of drama, friendship, sadness, stress, and an overall empty feeling. The first day was nothing remarkable, just a start to something that felt new again. That’s why I always remember the first day, it snaps me out of my summer attitude and hits me hard to…

Initially, the past two weeks presented me with a new set of experiences and was definitely different in comparison to my prior weeks CBI Danforth. This was primarily due to the fact that I had a two day absence from my placement, which thus far has been the longest I have been away from the clinic. Subsequently, upon my return, I felt quite flustered at first because in the midst of my two day absence, it naturally broke the routine I had established and brought upon the urge for me to want to…

Yesterday I received a letter of dismissal from DePaul school of nursing. I am aware that my grades have been low for the last two semesters in which I take full responsibility. I write this appeal letter to explain the cause and ask you to please consider reinstating me. I wish to state that my poor grades are not due to low ability or not being able to retain the material. Neither was it procrastination to study. Instead, my grades have suffered because I have been trying to juggle between…

Task 1 : I think that Mo Farah change the most, because when he was a little boy he lived in Somalia whit a poor family. He had a rough childhood, but said himself that it was a ‘comfortable life, not easy, but not hard either.’ When he moved to England, it had been a hard change for him. He had to begin at a new school and speak English to the teacher and the classmates. I think it had to be difficult to not know how to spike their languish and still manage to live a normal life in England. He…

The Follow Through “How could you have messed up so badly?” My mother’s words rang in my ears. “How could you have done this? You told me everything was fine!” After all those awful months, all the work, it was all for nothing. I wasn’t going to Berklee anymore. I had originally auditioned back in February of 2014, hoping I would be starting school in the fall of the same year. When I got my acceptance letter, I was ecstatic. Happy as I may have been, I decided I would postpone my…

information prior to an attack, communities across the country can effectively establish policies and security measures to prevent future incidences. Lastly, security within our schools improves academic performance, it has been proven that with fewer distractions and a safer learning environment it results in higher academic achievement Finn and Servoss (2014) conducted a study to answer two questions that pertained to school security policies. The first question being, what types of schools…

Starting high school is an overwhelming feeling as it’s the last four years of schooling where it was time to look at my strengths and weaknesses in order not to fail. I never really thought that hanging out with friends would change my focus on school. Although I had every intention to pass all my classes, peer pressure got to me to where school wasn’t important anymore. I wasn’t an A straight student nor was I good at sports, but I never intended to fail any courses. Even though I didn’t pass…

Back in middle school, I was a part of National Junior Honor Society (NJHS). We were the largest class to be inducted into NJHS. Being such a large class meant we would have to raise a lot of money if we expected to reach our goal. Our goal was to raise enough money for our trip to the Lead Conference at Washington, D.C. Only one NJHS chapter before us had raised enough money to go all the way to Washington, D.C. We were determined to reach that same goal, but things don't always go as planned.…