How I Spent My Summer Vacation Essay

local community as well. Personal Benefit As well as offering travellers the opportunity to develop their skills, build up their CV and explore the world, volunteering can also offer personal benefits. Many volunteering organisations, including i-to-i, offer past volunteers a discount on their products, so their future travels can be a lot less expensive. In some cases volunteers offer their help because it is an issue that is close to their own hearts and if this is the case it can be even…

Afghanistan: There were many challenges in the military but I am choosing to write about one scenario that made me realize what type of person I am. Even though I had struggle all through school, I was surprisingly good at being a Marine. Once I finished my first year in the military my parents grew to be pretty comfortable with the idea of me being in the corps. I think it is because they saw that I was finally growing up. In the Marine Corps they do not care about excuses and they definitely…

feeling that I get when flying through the sky high up in the clouds is like no other. It’s like an adrenaline rush every time I look down from the window. Aviation is something that I really enjoy and I am writing why I want to pursue a career in aviation. This essay is about what I need to do in order to get into a career in aviation and what the pros and cons are to pursuing a career as a pilot. whether my future lies in aviation or anything else it’s good to think about the many aspects of…

Question 1 - What experience have you had that has given you insight into the patients you hope to eventually serve? During my paramedic education, I had to fulfill clinical hours in the emergency department at Legacy Salmon Creek. During that time, I’ve interacted with patients who have suffered life-threatening ailments, but many of my interactions were with patients who weren’t experiencing life-threatening episodes. Understandingly, the latter of these patients use the emergency department…

2 years, 10 months, and 2 days. 24,888 hours. 1,493,280 minutes. That’s how much time has passed since my dad passed away on June 3rd, 2013. And no matter how many times I talk about it, write about it, think about it, I can’t get over it. Sure, the grief has mostly gone away, but there are still these little snippets of pains. Like weeds in a garden full of flowers, veggies, and fruits. These snippets aren’t even necessarily the good kind; they’re the ones that drain the life out of the…

viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as are associated with one's native place, for instance. She is most significant to a lover. A lover of Nature is preeminently a lover of man. If I have no friend, what is Nature to me? She ceases to be morally significant" (163). For Thoreau this sort of valiantly humanistic estimation welled forward most obviously on an early summer's day. The dead of winter, we have seen, could bring out…

In the last pages of his novel, Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates describes the advantage that black people have over the Dreamers: that they know how fragile life is. Ta-Nehisi describes the dream as the suburbs, as treehouses and cub scouts. He says that the Dream “smells like peppermint but tastes like strawberry cake” (11). However the Dream rests on the backs of African Americans. African Americans never get to experience the dream because the bedding is made from their bodies and…

years of my life nothing really changed for me. During that time, I went to the same school, lived in the same house, and had the same friends. This all changed when my parents got divorced in the summer prior to junior year. My mother got full custody of my sister and I and left my father by himself; which was something so obscure to me. Because of my parents splitting up my father became a distant figure. It was a time of complete drastic change in my life. My parents fought sometimes, but I…

is a very unique school. I went to public school for 9 years until I came to Xavier. I was very aware of Xavier since two of my cousins graduated from here, Shamara and Israel Valdez. Shamara actually introduced me to Xavier and encouraged me to go. She would always talk about her school and the environment. I was curious about it. If it wasn’t for my cousin I would of probably gone to La Quinta High School, since all my friends were going there. Some of my peers from my middle school, John…

All of us got off work and we grouped up at my house. We all decided that we would take my car just for the experience, it is a very fast car that turns heads everywhere. The car is all blacked out with crazy rainbow headlights and ridiculously loud exhaust, not to forget it is a 10 second track car. So with that settled we threw everything in the trunk and we headed off, we drove the entire way there with the windows down so we could feel the warm summer breeze in our face, and the sun on our…