The question of second chances is one that has become a cliché. Society has told us that the answer we give to this question is one that defines us. Many people answer “yes” when faced with this question because they actually believe they would give somebody a second chance no matter what; however, the majority […]
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“AHHHHHH!” I screamed into the phone. “Ahhhhhh!” she replied on the other side, “Oh my gosh! Really?” “Yes, really,” I confirmed. I jumped up and down with my cell phone still in my hand and I could feel that she was doing the same thing on the other side. Hi, my name is Emily. You […]
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Hardly a week into my junior year and I had already passed out on pills during a lecture. Although no charges were filed, I had been arrested a year earlier. One would think that this experience would change my self-destructive behaviors. Instead one year later I sat in a new classroom but in the same […]
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At the age of eleven I was going into my Sixth grade year at Metcalf Elementary School. Sixth grade was going to be the highlight of my Metcalf experience. I would be one of the “Big Kids”. Sixth graders owned the school and were the coolest kids ever. They got first pick for after school […]
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If I won a $20 million dollar lottery the first person I would call, unless she was present with me when I found out, would be my mom. She is the person I tell everything too. If she was with me and found out that I had one the same time that I did, I […]
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If no one was ever given a second chance there would be very few successful people in the world. Hardly anyone accomplishes a goal on their first attempt. The famous quote by Thomas H. Palmer, “‘Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try again. If at first you don’t succeed, Try, try again,” strongly supports […]
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As I get older, I tend to look back on my life in terms of separate lives instead of stages. When we’re young, we tend to wish for the the ability to bounce back and forth through time. Can’t Christmas come tomorrow? Or, that snow day was fantastic, I wish it could happen all over […]
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