Reflective Essay: Why I Chose To Stay In Arizona

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intend to stay here in Arkansas, I plan to later move on out of here. The majority of my family are all over in the states and countries. The only ones close to me who I speak to are my two brothers and my lovely mother, but of course, like the majority of all families I can say my family and I just weird. I’ll just leave it at that. As far as any nicknames, I do have a couple that friends and family call me every now and then. Sometimes It’s “Em”, “Emiliana”, or “Mesalina”, it varies, but other that I just known as Emily.

I started my education here at Nwacc right after I graduated In the Fall the year of 2014. Last time I checked, I should be almost close to graduating with my associates in criminal justice. Afterwards, I will go on into getting my bachelors at a university, im not quite sure exactly what university. But my goal is to one day have the opportunity and be able to afford to go onto to law school.

I am a very open minded person where I don’t like sticking to just one certain thing to do instead I like to just try new things and go out there to explore. I can say one of hobbies is to just be adventurous, trying new foods, meeting new people, and finding new places. I love to travel, so I my goal is to one day travel to every state and country. I will do a little
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In my experience and I'm sure it has been like that for many others. Once I write a paper on a topic that I am interested in and I jot down all my thoughts and ideas. When I’m finished and I read it, I feel confident, the majority of the teacher, I feel that they find all these kinds of errors, then I just feel like the good paper went right down the dump. Considering that I have never been good at all those grammar and punctuation rules. Now I will admit that in high school it was worse because they just pointed the errors out and did not really help. Once I got to college, I learned a lot more and got

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