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Each morning I wake up at the brink of dawn and take a long walk to work through the heavy fog while observing the morning dew, still fresh on the grass. The route I take is much longer than necessary, but I find that nature in the waking of the city is calming to the soul. I pass through the lower East side and emerge into the alive upper East side to arrive at the office building where I work as a criminal defense lawyer. The job was offered to me by my father, one of the partners of the firm…

Over the Bike 30232 Teawoo Lim Cars brushed past me as I rode on a gray bike. It was a bit awkward and scary to ride a bike right next to automobiles. However, having ridden a bike for a year in Boston alleviated my fright. Boston’s public bike rental system—Hubway—was well organized: bike lanes were lined on sideways so that cars and bikes could move right next to each other. Before I moved to Boston, I knew bikes were a popular means of transportation. Thus, the first thing I did after I…

“......And the most confident, caring, cheerful, creative, nature loving person award goes to!.......” Can you imagine listening to that speech and then the person being announced was you!? That would be your legacy. It would be with you forever. That would be how people would know you. Think about some traits of yours, positive or negative, then take out the traits that I chose in that little speech and then put in yours. Then replay that little speech in your head and think “Is that how I want…

Walking through the slot machines while two men, one short other one tall, wearing black suits were following me. I look at all the people around me, all playing with slot machines without looking around them. It’s not so bad for me, at least I won’t feel ashamed because no one is actually looking to see what is going on. As I get closer and close to the main entrance of Chumash Casino, I look at the rose gold pink marble walls that gave the casino a royal look.. I looked at the two security…

The Week Five course materials address the various components of integrity and how it sets the foundation of the leader’s life. In our class lecture we learned that “personal integrity is where it starts” and “this is what we build all our leadership on” (Woodson, The Integrity of the Leader). Integrity is the “quality or condition of being whole, undivided, and complete” (Woodson, The Integrity of the Leader). Betty Price best describes integrity as, “to live out and act on what you say” (The…

In my life, I have been influenced by many of people across the country, but no one has quite influenced me like my dad. Influences do not always have to be of positive value; they can have a negative effect on your life. My dad has always been a part of my life, and he has always been there when I need him the most. My dad has been both my father and my friend.My dad is the most influential person in my life because he always pushes me to do my best no matter what decision I may have; he…

Friday finally came and it was my fourth day of Kindergarten and I was loving it. I walked into the classroom expecting thing to be no different than they had been the past days. I sat in my seat and patiently waited for Taylor to arrive so that I could tell her about my plans for the weekend. Still waiting and she never showed up. I began to feel and very empty feeling in my stomach like I just had been punched. Taylor wasn’t coming to school and I didn’t know how I was going to get through the…

Happy, happy, happy, that’s all the little strawberry jelly filled donut could feel. He was laying under the warm heater inside Walter’s Donut shop with his Mother and Father, when it finally happened… A nice family walked in Walter’s Donut shop, as they browsed the selection of donuts, the smallest of the bunch stopped at the mother donut, he stared with hungry eyes. ‘That one, that one!” the little boy screamed to his mother. “Those look excellent, we’ll take two!” the mother announced happily…

Life can change drastically in a single moment, one that is most often outside of our control; we can however, control our response. In May of 2016, my husband of nearly eight years chose to walk out on me; with a comment of “I’m done, I can’t do this anymore,” he walked out our door and with that my life will never be the same. I cannot control my husband’s choices or actions nor do I really want to, instead I have my own choices to make and those I can control. I have spent the past several…

The feeling of being terrified is fun and weird.It's fun because you feeling something new,terrified because you don't know what will happen next and it looks like you are not going to make, and weird because it right in the middle between fun and being terrified. The feeling of both in one thing and that thing is called going on a roller coaster for the first time.All roller coasters and different the size,shape and speed all goes into the fun and being terrified and the Shivering timbers is a…