A SHINY GOLD COIN
One summer, when I was little, my dad built me a lemonade stand. On sunny days I'd set up outside the local car wash with a cooler and my little black safe. I didn't get many customers but I always had fun, whether I was reading a book or adding puff paint decorations to the safe and signs. One customer I did...
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LIFE FULL OF REGRETS AND JOY
In the 4th grade, no one really talked to me that much and I felt like a big loser. I really liked this girl. Let's call her Jenny. Jenny was very pretty and nice but when I when I told her my about my freelings, everyone made fun of me. I started acting really mean to her. She hated me then. In fifth grade I was...
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DANIEL CHANDLER
Daniel is an amazing person. He has powered through the toughest losses, but he always manages to smile. His job is to take care of people. He chooses to work this job because he wants to, not for the money. He does whatever he can to make everyone around him happy. He is the most loving person I know.
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FROSWA' BOOKER-DREW
Dr. Froswa’ Booker-Drew is an author, speaker, trainer and consultant. For more than twenty years, she has offered consulting services to numerous small businesses and organizations. Personally my organization has benefited from her willingness to go above and beyond to assist start-ups as well as established...
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STRONG DETERMINATION ALWAYS WINS
It is the true story of my cousin brother named
Kaushik Mazumder, it was early sixties when he
was born and after completing two and half years
after his birth, his two legs were badly harmed
with polio, that time, in India, there was no oral
dose, vaccination ...
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KHAIRATUL SAIDU
Khairatul Saidu is a Nigerian school student born on the 9th February 1999. She is Nigeria youngest Activist. Has great passion and zeal for development. She is 16 years old. From kogi state. She was selected as a member of World Peace Caravan and a Millennium Development Ambassador. Has fought for global peace....
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WHOA IS ME...NOT!!!
My roots are ingrained in helping other people. When I was employed, my beliefs were put to the test. I was fired from my company for assisting another injured employee. The result of this firing was my election to a full-time Union Rep by my peers in 12 states, and as a result, their best interests are now...
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MIA CLAYTON
Mia Juliette has been a force of nature since birth. She has a big personality and even bigger heart. The summer before Kindergarten Mia decided she needed to change the world. She was inspired by Kid President and had a desire to help needy children in our community. Over the past year Mia had donated over...
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SHE STILL INSPIRES ME
It was 1978, I was of 10 years old and used to stay in Calcutta,
I could not forget that year as this city faced a disaster that
year, flood in Ganges river hampered the normal city life,
our school remained closed, one of school friends named Sandhya used to stay in ...
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ROBERT ZUNDEL
My hero is my husband Robert, He loved me when I thought no one would. We have been married for three years and when we first met it was difficult. I spent years in abusive relationships and I did not trust anyone. He was soft spoken and kind but yet I was afraid. I would not let him in my heart until the day he...
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NEVER GIVING UP IN SCHOOL
When I was younger back in elementary school when I was in preschool and kindergarten, I struggled in school. Mostly I had trouble with reading and writing and I mostly cried a lot at school because I didn't like school. I always get in trouble when I was younger and my parents would always get mad at me but then...
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MICHAEL AND CHRIS SHANNON AND TROKEY
Michael Shannon is a doctor that was told that a baby (Chris Trokey) had a 50/50 chance at surviving and decided to stay with Chris until he got better and he did. About 30 years later, Chris, as a paramedic, helped save a man from a terrible car accident that caught on fire. When they rushed to the hospital to...
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SHOW HONESTY
One day I was out with my family and we came back from shopping and we were on our way to our car. We had to pass the street to get to our car so in front of us was a man he was taking his phone out and he accidently dropped his money he had. I was the only one who saw this so I picked up the money so I thought...
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MY MUSIC
I started out playing a recorder in elementary, wanting to learn how to read and play music. The only thing was, I was far behind the class, so I couldn't read or playing the notes in order to make a sound. Over and over again, I tried my very best to understand and learn how to play the recorder. After time...
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READING IS THE WAY TO GO
When I was a kid I didn't like to read. I didn't get a lot of accelerated readers point. When I was in 3rd grade I used to get in trouble that I didn’t read and I didn’t have enough points. When I was in 4th grade I wasn’t in the in the gate class for the first week and then after the first week the moved me up...
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WORK HARD
I am always working hard because I want to have a good life in the future. I do my best to do my homework and play basketball. Although I have a hard time in my house because of video games, I try to finish my homework before anything else. In basketball, I try not to lose the ball and make my shots. I try my...
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CHANN JONES
Chann Jones is my mom and growing up life was hard for her but it got easier later on. My mom was born in Cambodia but only lived there for a short period of time due to the Khmer Rouge War. She had to run away with her mom and two siblings while her dad was fighting in the war. At the time my mom was seven...
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NEVER GIVE UP NEVER GIVE IN
I didn’t know what talent I had I tried everything acting, band, art but nothing. I was ready to give up. when one day we had to run the mile for P.E and I was good I was the first one done. I got a time of 6:29 my teacher was so proud of me he wanted me to try out for the track and cross country team. So I took...
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SPEECHES
I'm in 7th grade and I have an AVID class. At first, I dreading having to present and make speeches to the class. I've only had that class for a trimester, but we've done at least 6 speeches and I think I've become way better at presenting. It was really awkward and I kept making mistakes on my 2nd presentation,...
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MONEY
One day i was walking with my mom out of Target and we found a 100 dollar bill so we picked it up and we went to the parking lot and this lady seemed to be looking for something and we asked her if that was her money and she said yes, she was so glad that we gave it back to her and she gave us 50 dollars back for...
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THE HARD LIFE
My life has been rocky ever since my mom and dad got a divorce. Now I live with my dad and a horible step-mother. She was only really nice to me before she married my dad and for a little while after my mom died of liver cancer that spread. Well now I don't talk to her at all. This is all because her and her...
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LOSING YOU
My aunt and I had a very special bond. I would always fly out to Mexico to visit my aunt whenever I was on vacation. She was a teacher and I would go with her to work to help her out with the students and even taught them some English. I enjoyed spending time with her and never would've imagined losing her. But...
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BASKETBALL BROTHERS
My friends and I have a unspoken rule that every Sunday we go to the park and play basketball until the park manager closes the park which is about 7.This started about a year ago when we went one Sunday and it transformed into a weekly thing.We're all thankful that we can play together because our parents...
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JAMIE RUSH
Jamie is truly the most inspiring strong person I've ever met. She's the kind of person that is a model of overcoming adversity. Jamie has overcame a childhood and past that Would have broken any other person. Yet she today is the most beautiful Caring strongest girl. Jamie is my hero for that but not only that....
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TESS SCHWEITZER WATSON
Hi my name is Michelle Nelson and I would like to nominate a special friend of mine named Tess,
Tess has two wonderful boys, One who is in Heaven and the other is still with her, in her heart. Tess had a son who died of Cancer when he was just 7 years old, he passed away shortly after his 7th birthday, Devon...
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AMAZING MOTIVATIONAL STORY OF YOUNG EGYPTIAN MAN ANWAR ELKAMONY WHO PROVE TO WHOLE WORLD THAT NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE
During the time between day & night Anwar found himself between life & death…After his body stopped moving, a body which was accustomed to moving a lot, right and left….To running behind his lovely small ball till he caught it and beat it with his racquet… the racquet representing an extension of Anwar’s...
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MY YOUNGER HARD LIFE AS A KID
When i was in elementary school i was transferred to another school. I was mad and at the time when i went to the other school i felt like a black sheep in a white hired and at the time i was there i didn’t care about anything. During school i was shown a video that was shown to the whole class. The video showed...
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MY HERO
Everyday I am just in bed watching television or listening to music. I never had nothing to do in my life. I never had nothing like homework or nothing. My dad started to get tired of looking at me the whole time in my room. I was trying to find a sport that i would love. My whole enter life i thought that i...
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APRECIATION
Everardo Garcia
4B
5-27-15
Apreciation
“Grab the drywall” my dad said, as I grab it and take it to him. I hold the drywall while he measures it, and cuts the drywall so quickly and accurately. Then I hold the drywall up against the ceiling while, he nails the drywall to the ceiling. While holding it my...
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ESSAY
I am in 2nd period and the class was reading so I was reading like I was told to so I did and then a new kid comes to class and he came from a different school so then I remember what it was like to be the new kid in a class full of strangers. I am in school in reading class. I’m sitting at my desk quietly and...
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FRIENDSHIP
It is Monday morning and like every Monday morning I am not in the mood to be at school, I mean who wants to be at school so early anyways. As I walk in to my first period class, I sit down in my normal sit, I look up at the daily starter, it reads “Students today we will be writing about someone who once had a...
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DUNNO
I was watching TV and saw NBA Finals and it was the Miami Heat vs Ock this was back in 2012. And before the game there was a documentary about Lebron James and how his life was, and I saw how bad his life was and what he had to do to make his dreams come true. And one of his big let downs was getting cut from his...
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FRIENDSHIP
I just moved to the U.S.A, leaving all of my friends in Canada I don't know what is to come at the high school I will be attending soon. I am more focused on the yearbook than the future. I come across one of the notes Clarissa left there for me. As I read what she left for me from grade 7 tears escape my eyes...
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