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Monday, October 19, 2009
Dynamic Characters
Just as in stories, characters in real life change, grow, and learn new things. Explain and explore a moment in your life in which you were dynamic. What did you learn about yourself or the world that caused you to change?
In order to be viewed as mature in our life, we need to be able to be responsible and take responsibility for our actions. This becomes a huge growth and change in our life. Throughout my lifetime, I have went through multiple changes, extreme or small. One of the biggest changes in my life was when I learned how to become truly responsible.
When I was in 4th grade, my youngest sister was born. Her name is Ava, and around the time of her birth, I still wasn't an extremely responsible person. I did my homework and studied for upcoming assessments, but this change in my life truly assisted me into maturing. I had to take a course on babysitting, give her baths, feed her, and in general help my mom in taking care of her since my dad goes to work every day. It was a struggle at first to have all of this expected responsibility piled on me, but I was able to learn from my mistakes and be considered responsible.
Everybody goes through many changes throughout their lives. Whether it be something major or minor, we all go through many changes. One very big change for me was when my 19 year old sister got in a car accident. When I was in 6th grade, my sister Liesl was on her way to church when she missed the turn on the corner and crashed into a tree. She completely totaled her car, and it was flipped over. She was trapped in on the drivers side, but amazingly managed to get out of that side. I was in the kitchen, with all my brothers and sister, when we received the phone call that Liesl has just flipped her car. My brothers rushed to where the accident was and helped my dad with her. I was a mess at home, wondering if she was okay or going to die. I didn't know anything until they came home with news so I was a complete wreck. Fortunately, yet unfortunately for her, she only came home with a bruised nose, bruised body, and scratches all over her body. This event changed me in a huge way because, car accidents are a big deal, but when they happen within your family, you start to realize how severe it really is. I changed in the way that knowing the road is a huge responsibility and even though I knew it before, it is going to be an even bigger responsibility to me now knowing that my sister had to be the one to pay for a mistake like looking down for one split second and missing a turn.
Throughout life, everyone will go through changes that will make them a better person then they were before. Everybody is a dynamic character in their own way. Some people make obvious changes while others make changes that they, themselves can only recognize. A time when i was dynamic was when my mom had back surgery. At the time, i was ten and my brothers were 12 and 7. We all became dynamic when my mother couldn't walk, cook, clean, or even drive. My dad had to go to work so my brothers and I worked together and became young adults as we cleaned the house, cooked for each other, and took care of one another.
Dynamic characters are characters that are the ones who change. They either have a realization about themselves, or about society that makes them think differently. Dynamic characters are the link to the story that a reader needs to fully understand the story.The reader can relate to that character, because everybody's had a moment where they have changed because of a realization. I have had multiple experiences like that. For example I am the youngest in my family, and I was pretty used to having things done for me and not having to look out for anyone, not eben myself. Then my sister broke her arm. Basketball was coming up, and my parents wanted her to heal before then. Day and night was all about her, and they didn't pay attention to me anymore. I was on my own. I had to learn to take care of myself. I had to make myself food, and like ctino said "it was a struggle at first..." which it was. I had a hard time adapting to no help with anything. In addition to taking care of myself, I also had to take care of my sister. I was always getting her water, or a blanket. I was always moving and it was tough. However, as time went on, I learned to deal with it, and how to do a better job of taking care of people. So even though the lesson was hard, I'm glad that I learned it. I still use it today. Some people don't learn it until later, but they should learn sooner.
Characters that go through any type of change are viewed as dynamic characters. Humans are dynamic characters because we all grow and learn new things. The biggest change in my life was when I moved from Africa to Australia and Australia to America. The first move was from Africa to Australia. I was 4 years old when my family suddenly decided to move and I had to sit through a 16 hour plane ride. Once we got to Sydney, we had only our three suitcases and apartment that we would rent until we found a home. It turns out that the houses were not cheap at all, and house hunting ended up taking 5 years. During this time, my brother and I had to help out with chores since my parents were trying to bring in enough money to afford a house. After 5 years of living in Australia, my parents finally found a house. This house happened to be located in New Jersey. We packed up our bags once again and braced ourselves for a 20 hour plane ride from Australia to America. We arrived into a place that was very foreign to all of us. I was placed into the "fourth grade" as the Americans call it, within the first week I was in the United States. My first day of school was very scary, but I realized that I had to change my shy personality in order to fit in. I stepped into my classroom right as the announcements were on. I had no clue what was going on, and I just copied everyone else as they stood, faced the flag, and said the Pledge of Allegiance (which I mouthed for about a month until I finally realized what the real words were). A change of setting and life style was extremelly hard for me to adapt to, but I finally got used to my new home and I became a more responsible child.
Change is something that is constantly going on in our world. When i was in 7th grade, my parents and i took our annual trip to Aruba. My dad and i had just come back from Easter mass at another hotel near our timeshare at the Costa Linda, and we changed and went down to our tiki hut near the ocean. After a while we decided to go into the ocean. Even though i am an extremely good swimmer and so is my dad, he insisted that my mom and i use those styrofoam mini surfboard things, just in case. I was a little annoyed since you cant really do much while attached to a styrofoam board, so we decided to wade in. Even as we were in about 4 feet of water, a huge wave came out of nowhere and knocked us all over. It didnt really do much to my mom and i because we had the boards, and we bobbed right back up. But my dad had been hit much harder, and he was disoriented under the water. I could see him thrashing around trying to find the surface, and i started screeching at the top of my lungs "Dad! Dad!! HELP!!!!!!". My frantic cries caught the attention of beachgoers and a family friend, Jenna, helped drag my dad out of the water and onto the beach, when the ambulance was called and drove up the beach to where we were. I was still crying and yelling and trying to get to him, since i saw him going blue and wanted to help him. Thankfully they managed to save his life and he was fine, although coughed a lot for weeks afterwards. Nearly losing my dad that day really changed my perspective on life. It showed me that not living life to the fullest while you can will result in consequences, and to always appreciate and acknowledge what you are given before it leaves you.
There have been many experiences in my life that I have learned from and grown from as a person. Some of these experiences have been good and others not so good but they are the important things that help us move forward in our lives. As a result of these moments, when looking back on them, I begin to learn more about myself.
It was the first day in 5th grade at the middle school. This was a new school for us because before we were at the elementary school with the younger kids. I was really nervous and the whole day seemed so overwhelming to me. I desperately wanted to go back to the elementary school. All the work and the tests that the teachers said we would be doing scared me. The hallways were crowded with older kids whom I didn't know. Everything seemed so huge and different and as a result when school was over and I got into my mom's car I had a breakdown. I cried the whole rest of the week when I came home from school. Looking back on this now I realize that I don't cope well with change. Every first day of school seems to be difficult for me because I always seem to miss they way things were before.
Characters change in stories, and characters change in real life. Everybody as had a moment in their life in which they were dynamic. For me it was the day of September 11, 2009. My dad works in New York City, and at the time, he had been very close to the World Trade Center. When everybody started to see the smoke on the New Jersey side, people began to panic including my mom, brother, and I. I was in first grade, and I was already getting taken out of school to go to my great uncle's funeral. My mom told me that the Twin Towers had been destroyed. I knew my dad worked close and I worried. We tried calling him and he didn't pick up. I will never forget how worried I was until I saw his face, two days later. This event changed me as a person. It changed how I view the world I live in, and how I trust people. It also changed me in the way that I appreciate my dad more than ever before, because I think to myself, my dad could have died that day, but instead he is still standing right next to me.
There are many times in life when a person changes and becomes more mature. In my life, the biggest change for me was in fifth grade when my parents got divorced. I had to become responsible and help take care of my sister because my mom was going back to work. I never was very responsible before then because my parents always helped me and never really put alot of responsiblity on me. After they got divorced, I became responsible because i knew my mom needed help around the house. It was a big change for me, but I'm glad that I have become more responsible because I am better with school work and sports. It also helps me get ready for the futre when I don't have my parents to help me with everything as an adult.
In books there are dynamic characters that change through out the story. But there can also be dynamic people in real life. For example, if something traumatizing happens to someone it can change them forever. Or if something very exciting happens you might have a different look on life.
When I was 10 years old my family and I went to South Africa with my mom for a business trip. My mom was busy but she made sure she had time for us to go on a site seeing trip. One stop on out trip was going to see the townships. The townships were places where about a thousand people lived in houses that were made out of metal and cardboard. These people were very poor and they only had one bathroom to share between all of them. This obviously caused the spread of many diseases. The people living there didn't only get sick because of the bathroom many of them had AIDs. These people were dirt poor and on top of that they were sick. I really wanted to help all these people.
This changed my view on life. This experience showed me that not everyone in the world lives like we do in Mendham. There are people that need our help to survive and provide for themselves and their families. The opportunity presented itself and I started a small business where I sell jewelry that is made by women who have AIDs. I feel that I am making a big difference in a lot of these women's lives because the money I make from selling the jewelry goes back to these women to support themselves and their families.
In books there are dynamic characters that change through out the story. But there can also be dynamic people in real life. For example, if something traumatizing happens to someone it can change them forever. Or if something very exciting happens you might have a different look on life.
When I was 10 years old my family and I went to South Africa with my mom for a business trip. My mom was busy but she made sure she had time for us to go on a site seeing trip. One stop on out trip was going to see the townships. The townships were places where about a thousand people lived in houses that were made out of metal and cardboard. These people were very poor and they only had one bathroom to share between all of them. This obviously caused the spread of many diseases. The people living there didn't only get sick because of the bathroom many of them had AIDs. These people were dirt poor and on top of that they were sick. I really wanted to help all these people.
This changed my view on life. This experience showed me that not everyone in the world lives like we do in Mendham. There are people that need our help to survive and provide for themselves and their families. The opportunity presented itself and I started a small business where I sell jewelry that is made by women who have AIDs. I feel that I am making a big difference in a lot of these women's lives because the money I make from selling the jewelry goes back to these women to support themselves and their families.
a moment in my life where i became more dynamic was when i was in 8th grade last yeah. i was a quiet kid, had my friends, but i was just too average. until one day a fight between two 7th graders broke out. everyone just seemed to be standing around until i said to myself "enough of this" and stepped in to stop the fight. from that day on for about a year i got the nickname Ghandi. i made a lot of new friends and was respected throughout my family, and school.
From that moment on i learned that life isnt about being a quiet kid, or just some average person. i learned that in order to go place or make a name for yourself, all you had to do was stand out. show your not "too cool" to stop a fight, and make new frieds while your at it.
A point in my life in which i was dynamic was when my sister's best friend's mother became paralyzed in a car accident. It was about four years ago when Shane O'Hara and his family were going home from my sister's graduation party. Shane was driving and he stopped short, causing the car in back of him to ram into his car. There was something wrong with the seat his mom was sitting in and it snapped forward, breaking her back and making her a quadriplegic. From that day forward my family helped Mrs. O'Hara with everything. We visited her in the hospital, lent their family money, brought them dinners, and offered emotional support. Seeing their family go from completely normal that night to totally chaotic made me appreciate my life and my healthy family. Ever since then I've tried to always be nice to and patient with my family members because in the drop of the hat something like that could happen to them. Recently Mrs. O'Hara passed away and I will remember her as one of the most optimistic people I have ever met and I keep their family in my heart.
- Everyone goes through a myriad of different experiences in their life. You could simply live a static life and let those experiences roll by you as if they didn't happen, or you could live a dynamic life, and learn from the experiences you have faced. If you live a dynamic life, you will become wiser and grow as a person. Throughout my life I have been fairly privileged to live in a nice community. I always thought the things around you needed to be nice if you wanted to lead a happy life. However this summer my opinion about that completely changed when I walked through the French and Swiss alps. _______ -During my hike I walked from a valley, over a ridge, and back down into a valley every day. Each day we would encounter a new town that we would take refuge in for the night. Most of the towns, although incredibly isolated, had nice places to stay. However we decided to stay in the worst hostel we could find in each town. I had to sleep in high mountain huts with no heating. The beds were so disgusting we all brought sacks to act as a barrier between us and the beds. Each "bed" (they were usually just thin mattresses on the ground) was squeezed in between two other beds that random strangers would sleep in. I was stuck sleeping next to 16 random 40-year-olds in a room much smaller than our English room. But as I looked around at these people, I couldn't help but notice how happy they were. All they had in their lives was hiking, climbing and these disgusting hostels, yet they were all so happy. Seeing this really changed my view on life. I found out that you can have a great life just by doing the things you love, and that no matter how bad everything else is, you can find happiness in every situation.
As one grows older, life experiences effect and shape one's personality. this change is known as dynamics, of which everyone experiences throughout their lives. Dynamics can effect someone in a positive or negative negative manner. When I moved back to New Jersey after five years of living in Ohio, I had to go through a lot of change. This greatly effected me, since I had to re-establish myself and start anew. This gave me an opportunity to perfect my greatness, and to fix some flaw that I may possess. This flaw was kindness (This may sound weird, but it can become a problem). So my dynamic upon moving was to become a more sarcastic, independent, cynical, not-so-spineless person. Which was actually as easy as just deciding that I would be that way. This point where I became dynamic, was both good and bad. Good in ridding some problems, and bad in creating a slew of others.
A moment in my life, where I grew like a character would in a story, was when I had a fight with a close friend. I don’t recall what happened exactly, but I do remember how I felt after. I learned a lot about myself from the fight, and a lot about friendships themselves. I learned how important friendships are, and that you have to be honest in every friendship. Friendships make you responsible, because you need to be there for the other person. From mistakes I have made in the past, I know that now I am capable to be a good friend, and I hope that I am. In life, a very important quality for everyone to strive to full receive is to be able to learn from your mistakes. I truly believe that it is okay to make mistakes, a lot of them, as long as you learn from them. Even my small fight with my friend helped me 100% become a better one. Another thing I learned is that you have to defend your friends. Throughout my life I learned that to be silent, is just as bad as to say something regretful. When a friend gets hurt by someone, you must defend them and have their backs, I learned this through the same fight with my one friend. I love knowing my friends will be there for me, and I love being able for them to know it as well. Just as a character would, I developed greatly through a conflict of my life.
Everyone has a point in their life where one event makes everything change. Change can sometimes be a good thing, or also a very bad thing. One thing you always remember is how you felt about that change. For example, if you look back on a certain time period such as 4th grade, you either think good or bad. This is because there is probably one or two events that were either great or not great and that is what you will always remember.
Last year, my mom told me she had breast cancer. This was very hard for my family and i and we always did the best we could to help her. During this time period, she always told me how she was going to be okay but somehow i still got upset. This made me realize how much my mom really means to me. When i was little, she did everything for me. I honestly couldn't live without her. She is one person i really need in my life. Latter that year, my mom got surgery and she was okay. I remember that day at school when my mom got surgery, i was so scared. But in the end, she was fine. My mom is a very strong person and this event just made our whole family even stronger. This is an event that made me learn about myself and how important my family really is to me.
No matter who you are, where you live, what you background or culture is, you go through a change in your life when suddenly you learn something new about yourself or the world around you. They can be as little as going from one grade to a next, and becoming more mature. Or they can be a little bit more deep such as helping someone who is a less fortunate than you are and realizing how lucky you are, and how good your life really is. For me, a dynamic moment in my life was going from a tiny catholic school, to a big, hectic, and chaotic public school. After just my first week there, I clearly realized what kind of friends I wanted. Also, i realized how I would spend the rest of my years at school.
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In order to be viewed as mature in our life, we need to be able to be responsible and take responsibility for our actions. This becomes a huge growth and change in our life. Throughout my lifetime, I have went through multiple changes, extreme or small. One of the biggest changes in my life was when I learned how to become truly responsible.
When I was in 4th grade, my youngest sister was born. Her name is Ava, and around the time of her birth, I still wasn't an extremely responsible person. I did my homework and studied for upcoming assessments, but this change in my life truly assisted me into maturing. I had to take a course on babysitting, give her baths, feed her, and in general help my mom in taking care of her since my dad goes to work every day. It was a struggle at first to have all of this expected responsibility piled on me, but I was able to learn from my mistakes and be considered responsible.
Everybody goes through many changes throughout their lives. Whether it be something major or minor, we all go through many changes. One very big change for me was when my 19 year old sister got in a car accident.
When I was in 6th grade, my sister Liesl was on her way to church when she missed the turn on the corner and crashed into a tree. She completely totaled her car, and it was flipped over. She was trapped in on the drivers side, but amazingly managed to get out of that side. I was in the kitchen, with all my brothers and sister, when we received the phone call that Liesl has just flipped her car. My brothers rushed to where the accident was and helped my dad with her. I was a mess at home, wondering if she was okay or going to die. I didn't know anything until they came home with news so I was a complete wreck. Fortunately, yet unfortunately for her, she only came home with a bruised nose, bruised body, and scratches all over her body.
This event changed me in a huge way because, car accidents are a big deal, but when they happen within your family, you start to realize how severe it really is. I changed in the way that knowing the road is a huge responsibility and even though I knew it before, it is going to be an even bigger responsibility to me now knowing that my sister had to be the one to pay for a mistake like looking down for one split second and missing a turn.
Throughout life, everyone will go through changes that will make them a better person then they were before. Everybody is a dynamic character in their own way. Some people make obvious changes while others make changes that they, themselves can only recognize.
A time when i was dynamic was when my mom had back surgery. At the time, i was ten and my brothers were 12 and 7. We all became dynamic when my mother couldn't walk, cook, clean, or even drive. My dad had to go to work so my brothers and I worked together and became young adults as we cleaned the house, cooked for each other, and took care of one another.
Dynamic characters are characters that are the ones who change. They either have a realization about themselves, or about society that makes them think differently. Dynamic characters are the link to the story that a reader needs to fully understand the story.The reader can relate to that character, because everybody's had a moment where they have changed because of a realization. I have had multiple experiences like that.
For example I am the youngest in my family, and I was pretty used to having things done for me and not having to look out for anyone, not eben myself. Then my sister broke her arm. Basketball was coming up, and my parents wanted her to heal before then. Day and night was all about her, and they didn't pay attention to me anymore. I was on my own. I had to learn to take care of myself. I had to make myself food, and like ctino said "it was a struggle at first..." which it was. I had a hard time adapting to no help with anything.
In addition to taking care of myself, I also had to take care of my sister. I was always getting her water, or a blanket. I was always moving and it was tough. However, as time went on, I learned to deal with it, and how to do a better job of taking care of people.
So even though the lesson was hard, I'm glad that I learned it. I still use it today. Some people don't learn it until later, but they should learn sooner.
Characters that go through any type of change are viewed as dynamic characters. Humans are dynamic characters because we all grow and learn new things. The biggest change in my life was when I moved from Africa to Australia and Australia to America.
The first move was from Africa to Australia. I was 4 years old when my family suddenly decided to move and I had to sit through a 16 hour plane ride. Once we got to Sydney, we had only our three suitcases and apartment that we would rent until we found a home. It turns out that the houses were not cheap at all, and house hunting ended up taking 5 years. During this time, my brother and I had to help out with chores since my parents were trying to bring in enough money to afford a house. After 5 years of living in Australia, my parents finally found a house. This house happened to be located in New Jersey. We packed up our bags once again and braced ourselves for a 20 hour plane ride from Australia to America.
We arrived into a place that was very foreign to all of us. I was placed into the "fourth grade" as the Americans call it, within the first week I was in the United States. My first day of school was very scary, but I realized that I had to change my shy personality in order to fit in. I stepped into my classroom right as the announcements were on. I had no clue what was going on, and I just copied everyone else as they stood, faced the flag, and said the Pledge of Allegiance (which I mouthed for about a month until I finally realized what the real words were). A change of setting and life style was extremelly hard for me to adapt to, but I finally got used to my new home and I became a more responsible child.
Change is something that is constantly going on in our world. When i was in 7th grade, my parents and i took our annual trip to Aruba. My dad and i had just come back from Easter mass at another hotel near our timeshare at the Costa Linda, and we changed and went down to our tiki hut near the ocean. After a while we decided to go into the ocean. Even though i am an extremely good swimmer and so is my dad, he insisted that my mom and i use those styrofoam mini surfboard things, just in case. I was a little annoyed since you cant really do much while attached to a styrofoam board, so we decided to wade in. Even as we were in about 4 feet of water, a huge wave came out of nowhere and knocked us all over. It didnt really do much to my mom and i because we had the boards, and we bobbed right back up. But my dad had been hit much harder, and he was disoriented under the water. I could see him thrashing around trying to find the surface, and i started screeching at the top of my lungs "Dad! Dad!! HELP!!!!!!". My frantic cries caught the attention of beachgoers and a family friend, Jenna, helped drag my dad out of the water and onto the beach, when the ambulance was called and drove up the beach to where we were. I was still crying and yelling and trying to get to him, since i saw him going blue and wanted to help him. Thankfully they managed to save his life and he was fine, although coughed a lot for weeks afterwards.
Nearly losing my dad that day really changed my perspective on life. It showed me that not living life to the fullest while you can will result in consequences, and to always appreciate and acknowledge what you are given before it leaves you.
There have been many experiences in my life that I have learned from and grown from as a person. Some of these experiences have been good and others not so good but they are the important things that help us move forward in our lives. As a result of these moments, when looking back on them, I begin to learn more about myself.
It was the first day in 5th grade at the middle school. This was a new school for us because before we were at the elementary school with the younger kids. I was really nervous and the whole day seemed so overwhelming to me. I desperately wanted to go back to the elementary school. All the work and the tests that the teachers said we would be doing scared me. The hallways were crowded with older kids whom I didn't know. Everything seemed so huge and different and as a result when school was over and I got into my mom's car I had a breakdown. I cried the whole rest of the week when I came home from school.
Looking back on this now I realize that I don't cope well with change. Every first day of school seems to be difficult for me because I always seem to miss they way things were before.
Characters change in stories, and characters change in real life. Everybody as had a moment in their life in which they were dynamic. For me it was the day of September 11, 2009.
My dad works in New York City, and at the time, he had been very close to the World Trade Center. When everybody started to see the smoke on the New Jersey side, people began to panic including my mom, brother, and I. I was in first grade, and I was already getting taken out of school to go to my great uncle's funeral. My mom told me that the Twin Towers had been destroyed. I knew my dad worked close and I worried. We tried calling him and he didn't pick up. I will never forget how worried I was until I saw his face, two days later.
This event changed me as a person. It changed how I view the world I live in, and how I trust people. It also changed me in the way that I appreciate my dad more than ever before, because I think to myself, my dad could have died that day, but instead he is still standing right next to me.
There are many times in life when a person changes and becomes more mature. In my life, the biggest change for me was in fifth grade when my parents got divorced. I had to become responsible and help take care of my sister because my mom was going back to work. I never was very responsible before then because my parents always helped me and never really put alot of responsiblity on me. After they got divorced, I became responsible because i knew my mom needed help around the house. It was a big change for me, but I'm glad that I have become more responsible because I am better with school work and sports. It also helps me get ready for the futre when I don't have my parents to help me with everything as an adult.
In books there are dynamic characters that change through out the story. But there can also be dynamic people in real life. For example, if something traumatizing happens to someone it can change them forever. Or if something very exciting happens you might have a different look on life.
When I was 10 years old my family and I went to South Africa with my mom for a business trip. My mom was busy but she made sure she had time for us to go on a site seeing trip. One stop on out trip was going to see the townships. The townships were places where about a thousand people lived in houses that were made out of metal and cardboard. These people were very poor and they only had one bathroom to share between all of them. This obviously caused the spread of many diseases. The people living there didn't only get sick because of the bathroom many of them had AIDs. These people were dirt poor and on top of that they were sick. I really wanted to help all these people.
This changed my view on life. This experience showed me that not everyone in the world lives like we do in Mendham. There are people that need our help to survive and provide for themselves and their families. The opportunity presented itself and I started a small business where I sell jewelry that is made by women who have AIDs. I feel that I am making a big difference in a lot of these women's lives because the money I make from selling the jewelry goes back to these women to support themselves and their families.
In books there are dynamic characters that change through out the story. But there can also be dynamic people in real life. For example, if something traumatizing happens to someone it can change them forever. Or if something very exciting happens you might have a different look on life.
When I was 10 years old my family and I went to South Africa with my mom for a business trip. My mom was busy but she made sure she had time for us to go on a site seeing trip. One stop on out trip was going to see the townships. The townships were places where about a thousand people lived in houses that were made out of metal and cardboard. These people were very poor and they only had one bathroom to share between all of them. This obviously caused the spread of many diseases. The people living there didn't only get sick because of the bathroom many of them had AIDs. These people were dirt poor and on top of that they were sick. I really wanted to help all these people.
This changed my view on life. This experience showed me that not everyone in the world lives like we do in Mendham. There are people that need our help to survive and provide for themselves and their families. The opportunity presented itself and I started a small business where I sell jewelry that is made by women who have AIDs. I feel that I am making a big difference in a lot of these women's lives because the money I make from selling the jewelry goes back to these women to support themselves and their families.
a moment in my life where i became more dynamic was when i was in 8th grade last yeah. i was a quiet kid, had my friends, but i was just too average. until one day a fight between two 7th graders broke out. everyone just seemed to be standing around until i said to myself "enough of this" and stepped in to stop the fight. from that day on for about a year i got the nickname Ghandi. i made a lot of new friends and was respected throughout my family, and school.
From that moment on i learned that life isnt about being a quiet kid, or just some average person. i learned that in order to go place or make a name for yourself, all you had to do was stand out. show your not "too cool" to stop a fight, and make new frieds while your at it.
A point in my life in which i was dynamic was when my sister's best friend's mother became paralyzed in a car accident. It was about four years ago when Shane O'Hara and his family were going home from my sister's graduation party. Shane was driving and he stopped short, causing the car in back of him to ram into his car. There was something wrong with the seat his mom was sitting in and it snapped forward, breaking her back and making her a quadriplegic. From that day forward my family helped Mrs. O'Hara with everything. We visited her in the hospital, lent their family money, brought them dinners, and offered emotional support. Seeing their family go from completely normal that night to totally chaotic made me appreciate my life and my healthy family. Ever since then I've tried to always be nice to and patient with my family members because in the drop of the hat something like that could happen to them. Recently Mrs. O'Hara passed away and I will remember her as one of the most optimistic people I have ever met and I keep their family in my heart.
- Everyone goes through a myriad of different experiences in their life. You could simply live a static life and let those experiences roll by you as if they didn't happen, or you could live a dynamic life, and learn from the experiences you have faced. If you live a dynamic life, you will become wiser and grow as a person. Throughout my life I have been fairly privileged to live in a nice community. I always thought the things around you needed to be nice if you wanted to lead a happy life. However this summer my opinion about that completely changed when I walked through the French and Swiss alps.
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-During my hike I walked from a valley, over a ridge, and back down into a valley every day. Each day we would encounter a new town that we would take refuge in for the night. Most of the towns, although incredibly isolated, had nice places to stay. However we decided to stay in the worst hostel we could find in each town. I had to sleep in high mountain huts with no heating. The beds were so disgusting we all brought sacks to act as a barrier between us and the beds. Each "bed" (they were usually just thin mattresses on the ground) was squeezed in between two other beds that random strangers would sleep in. I was stuck sleeping next to 16 random 40-year-olds in a room much smaller than our English room. But as I looked around at these people, I couldn't help but notice how happy they were. All they had in their lives was hiking, climbing and these disgusting hostels, yet they were all so happy. Seeing this really changed my view on life. I found out that you can have a great life just by doing the things you love, and that no matter how bad everything else is, you can find happiness in every situation.
As one grows older, life experiences effect and shape one's personality. this change is known as dynamics, of which everyone experiences throughout their lives. Dynamics can effect someone in a positive or negative negative manner.
When I moved back to New Jersey after five years of living in Ohio, I had to go through a lot of change. This greatly effected me, since I had to re-establish myself and start anew. This gave me an opportunity to perfect my greatness, and to fix some flaw that I may possess. This flaw was kindness (This may sound weird, but it can become a problem). So my dynamic upon moving was to become a more sarcastic, independent, cynical, not-so-spineless person. Which was actually as easy as just deciding that I would be that way. This point where I became dynamic, was both good and bad. Good in ridding some problems, and bad in creating a slew of others.
A moment in my life, where I grew like a character would in a story, was when I had a fight with a close friend. I don’t recall what happened exactly, but I do remember how I felt after. I learned a lot about myself from the fight, and a lot about friendships themselves. I learned how important friendships are, and that you have to be honest in every friendship. Friendships make you responsible, because you need to be there for the other person. From mistakes I have made in the past, I know that now I am capable to be a good friend, and I hope that I am. In life, a very important quality for everyone to strive to full receive is to be able to learn from your mistakes. I truly believe that it is okay to make mistakes, a lot of them, as long as you learn from them. Even my small fight with my friend helped me 100% become a better one. Another thing I learned is that you have to defend your friends. Throughout my life I learned that to be silent, is just as bad as to say something regretful. When a friend gets hurt by someone, you must defend them and have their backs, I learned this through the same fight with my one friend. I love knowing my friends will be there for me, and I love being able for them to know it as well. Just as a character would, I developed greatly through a conflict of my life.
Everyone has a point in their life where one event makes everything change. Change can sometimes be a good thing, or also a very bad thing. One thing you always remember is how you felt about that change. For example, if you look back on a certain time period such as 4th grade, you either think good or bad. This is because there is probably one or two events that were either great or not great and that is what you will always remember.
Last year, my mom told me she had breast cancer. This was very hard for my family and i and we always did the best we could to help her. During this time period, she always told me how she was going to be okay but somehow i still got upset. This made me realize how much my mom really means to me. When i was little, she did everything for me. I honestly couldn't live without her. She is one person i really need in my life. Latter that year, my mom got surgery and she was okay. I remember that day at school when my mom got surgery, i was so scared. But in the end, she was fine. My mom is a very strong person and this event just made our whole family even stronger. This is an event that made me learn about myself and how important my family really is to me.
No matter who you are, where you live, what you background or culture is, you go through a change in your life when suddenly you learn something new about yourself or the world around you. They can be as little as going from one grade to a next, and becoming more mature. Or they can be a little bit more deep such as helping someone who is a less fortunate than you are and realizing how lucky you are, and how good your life really is. For me, a dynamic moment in my life was going from a tiny catholic school, to a big, hectic, and chaotic public school. After just my first week there, I clearly realized what kind of friends I wanted. Also, i realized how I would spend the rest of my years at school.
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