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When I was a little girl I owned a toy doctor’s kit and I would pretend to be a veterinarian around my house. We had three dogs and seven horses and I loved to pretend they were my patients and that their lives depended on me to save them. I always found myself watching Animal Planet and other shows that rescued and rehabilitated wildlife. Eventually I had decided that marine animals was the path I wanted to take, I became infatuated with watching shows that rescued dolphins, sea lions, and…

than any of the other indians in the region, and resembled the Caribs. The Karankawa Indians lived in the Coastal Plains region, along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Their territory extended from the west end of present day Galveston down to Corpus Christi. We know that there were several tribes or bands in this area. The Gulf Coast where the Karankawa once lived is made of many inlets, bays, and lagoons. A lot of rivers empty into the Gulf, the largest of which is the the Mississippi river.…

KASTEENE LARYME HARRIS STATEMENT OF PURPOSE As a product of a state issued education and a current educator who has confronted and overcame diversity in many forms, such as learning disabilities and cultural differences, I am dedicated to the reformation and enhancement of Literacy Education in our public educational systems throughout the United States. I have a particular interest in improving Literacy Curriculum and implementation in elementary education. By continuing to be exposed to our…

MY FAMILY During the time of preparation for Confirmation, my family was there for the journey. When I started the process of Confirmation, the first requirement I started was getting service hours. I had to volunteer at many places to get ten sessions. My parents scheduled the times I would volunteer, helped plan out my schedule, and drove me to Home Sweet Home, the SF-Marin Food Bank, and Saint Vincent de Paul. My parents also attended masses with me as my preparation for Confirmation…

Coming from a life of using the canal as a swimming pool with parents doing migrant work, struggling to make ends meet, Graciela Alvarez Bradwell turned her life completely around, going through multiple fields of work such as, cosmetology, teaching, music, and, finally, business. Through hard work and a burning desire to succeed, Mrs. Bradwell enabled herself to become the successful woman she so desperately wished to become throughout her lifetime. Approximately forty miles from the border of…

Rogerian Argument Essay The homeless need healthcare because they are the ones more prone to develop illnesses and are in the most need for health care do to the environment they are living in. This is important to everyone because of moral reasoning, if we were to not help the homeless it could go against our better judgement. It will also affect how we live because if our streets are littered with ill homeless people, we would spread disease and it will reflect badly on ourselves. Some things…

Christopher Marlowe and "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" During the 16th and 17th century, England experienced numerous events that contributed to the modern world; which includes political, economic and social occasions. Best known as the Renaissance, this movement caused a revolution in the society extremely important to its development in the religious and in the science world. Everything started when “ [Henry VIII] separated from the Roman church only so he could get a divorce from his…

The next morning came it was December 26, 2004 in just a couple of hours we will be laying my dad to rest. We had to be at Corpus Christi Funeral Home at 9am for the viewing. Following around 11am we would go in recession to bury my dad. When we got to the funeral home there were so many people. I saw some of my aunts, uncles, cousins, and extended family. I went inside to see my dad and when I walked into the room it was so quiet there was no noise. He had an American flag laid over the bottom…

I decided to try and get myself checked into a psychiatric hospital, I wanted to feel better. They told me "You aren't severe enough." When I walked out of the building, I lost it. I broke down, I screamed because I didn't even want my parents to look at me. I had one of my friends with me, he had been in one of those places before. When we got in the car, he just held me and pet my hair while I stared out the window. I was just so broken feeling. I always joke about my depression when I'm…

Although James Joyce was the first to use the religious term “epiphany” in a literary sense, it has become a main theme in many other short works. Gustave Flaubert’s protagonist Félicité from “A Simple Heart” along with Goodman Brown from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “Young Goodman Brown” both experience what could be called an epiphany. Flaubert and Hawthorne’s protagonists have a religious epiphany while in a possible dream state. The stories finish with phantasmal epiphanies where the…