Major Event Research Paper

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There's certain moments in everyone's lives where they experience something that can change them or the way they think in a big way. These types of events that happen in your life have people involved that make it a big part of it.I have had many life experiences that have made me change the ways i do things and change the way i think, but when i think about it there is one specific event that stands out in mind that has definitely changed me.

This major event in my life that changed me was visiting a neighborhood while on vacation in mexico one summer, but this neighborhood wasn't the same as any other, this neighborhood was stricken with poverty. What we were doing in this neighborhood was helping out the community, we pretty much gave these families and children food and toys and other needs. When i
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This is a problem with most people nowadays we don't appreciate what we have until we lose it or have a life changing experience, another example of my experience was seeing and playing with kids my age but they were not as clean as i was, and they didn't have clothes or shoes as nice as the ones i had on, and they some kids were playing around barefoot because they had no shoes. These types of situations just makes you stand and think to yourself how different your life is compared to the person standing next to you at that moment. I have changed in some ways since that experience because that day made me realize i needed to appreciate so many things i have and what my parents can do for me because not everyone has that, to this day i still look back and i realize more and more things i didn't when i had gone because i was still too

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