tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50565276574103303042024-03-05T12:29:46.772-08:00Troy McDonaldTroyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502771390631888853noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5056527657410330304.post-82577600179595093662012-12-07T12:02:00.001-08:002012-12-07T12:02:15.993-08:00What is my Pupose?<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What is my purpose?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have several purposes in life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first and most important purpose is that I was brought into this world to make it a better place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have lived eighteen years now and I have had a few purposes but I have several more to accomplish in the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had purposes when I was young that have been accomplished. As I of right now I have I have a purpose in high school leading up to college.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My purpose as a young kid was to get through elementary, and middle school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Honestly in think those years were not that great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I little kid I got in trouble a lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s the past though and I have moved on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As of right now I am in my senior year of high school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My purpose in my senior year is to get a diploma.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In order for me to accomplish that I have needed to study.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am a person where stuff doesn’t just stick in your head; I’m a person that has to study a lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t stand to get bad grades, so I have a purpose to study hard to get those good grades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things like National Honors Society push me to be the best I can be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>After High School I plan on having a purpose to go to college to receive a bachelors’ degree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My dad is a farmer and he wants me to take over the farm when I get out of college. He has told me several times to go to a community college.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I keep telling him that’s not going to happen because you can’t meet as many girls in a community college like you can at the University of Nebraska.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He got a pretty good chuckle out of that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it’s a pretty good reason if you ask me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My sister attended UNL and my brother is currently attending.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also my dad attended UNL.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For all them to attend UNL is makes it my purpose to go there and follow their footsteps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My purpose in college is to have as much fun as possible while maintaining good grades throughout my four years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I plan on going into Mechanized Systems Management to study farming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My dad has given me a purpose by wanting me to take over the farm when I am out of college.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For me not to let him down as well as the farming business all together, I need to learn everything. I need to learn how to fix things that are broken, to knowing when to buy things, and what things to buy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>While I am learning about farm stuff, my purpose is to study hard, but on the weekends I am going to have some fun while trying to meet girls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m hoping that I will find a girl that I will want to be with for the rest of my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will not come out empty handed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I meet that girl that satisfies all my needs, I will soon ask whoever it is to marry me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to have kids in the future, and I want people to say he looks exactly like you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hopefully my kids want to play sports when their older because I’m looking forward to re-living my past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I get to the point where my kids want to play sports, I am going to give them all the advice I can so they can be the best they can be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will probably end up spoiling them, because I will want them to love me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When I am out of college and got my future wife, I am going to carry on the tradition of being a farmer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m a lucky person to be able to get this opportunity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In today’s world there are many people growing up on farms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also to be able to have this given to me is just a privilege.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Land now a day is a whole lot of money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People don’t have the opportunity to start a farm business anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So pretty much the only way you can become a farmer is if it’s been a tradition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Everything I talk about is my purpose in life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life is a purpose. You are brought into this world to make a difference.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You want to think about your purposes so you can set goals. Family, school, marriage, faith are my purposes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I didn’t talk about faith but without god none of this would ever be possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Troyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08502771390631888853noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5056527657410330304.post-18497316816019670782012-11-29T09:45:00.001-08:002012-11-29T09:45:19.105-08:00Where Am I?<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">I am in Honors Composition II as of right of now, and it’s a pretty fun class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The question where am I can mean several different things form where I was in the past, where I am in the present, and where I will be in the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The past is the past and I lived a great one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As of right now the present is pretty good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m hoping that the future will be even better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where am I is probably a question that many people ask themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why I say that is because, students are always wondering where they will be in the future such as:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where they are going to go to college, where they will be in ten or so years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The main places I am now though are Aurora and Phillips, Nebraska.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also I am proud to live in a country that is protected by men and women of our military.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Right now I am in an English class that is supposed to set me up for college.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am learning about how to write papers, and how to apply my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This class helps me remember where I was in the future and the memories that it brought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love reliving the memories that were important to me, because certain ones motivate me to become a better person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It helps me think of the future more than I normally would, which helps my decisions come easier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My name is Troy McDonald and I broke my femur.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From the moment I was brought into this world it became better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am a dedicated, determined, poised, caring, and a fun person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am a person that loves playing sports, and hanging out with friends and family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One other thing is that I am a person that blieves in my faith that god sacrificed his life for us to be here today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The main thing that describes me is the sports I play.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I play football, basketball, and golf.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As of right now my career was ended due do me breaking my leg in the quarterfinals game verse Beatrice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My friend Jacob Peters was the quarterback of our class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was the most determined person that I will ever meet in my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After he passed away it broke me, because of who<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he was and that his dreams are now gone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before he passed away coach Peterson came up to me and asked if I could throw a football, because my brother use to be a quarterback, and he won the state title.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My response was to him was that I could throw.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This all happened during the baskeball season our junior year, so it would be pretty hard for me to step in Jacobs shoes and play the quarterback position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since the day that I was asked to step in was the day that changed my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I became determined and dedicated like him so that I would not let our senior class down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never before have I worked this hard to achieve something, but it was for Jacob and I wasn’t going to let him down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the summer I was working out with the coaches son Troy Huebert who was a former quarterback for Aurora as well as Hastings College.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Troy knew his stuff so he had me do many drills over and over again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m a person that doesn’t really like to do footwork drill exspecially during the summer when it’s really hot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again I wasn’t about to dissapoint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we approached our first game against McCook I became nervouse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gary Peters the father of Jacob Peters was also the person that has done his best to teach me everthing Jacob knew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anway before that game and earlier in the week he told me to not think to much and just put everthing together that you learned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nerves shot threw me when I steped onto the field for the first time being a starter at anything let alone playing one of the most important positions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When ran our first play which was a run just to get things going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few plays later he called out a fourty yard pass play which ended up being a touchdown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I let go of that ball my hands were all sweaty and you could definetely tell that I was a little nervouse because it was wobbly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After everything set in, we became confident and ended up winning that game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As of right now we have nine wins and two losses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It hurts me to know that I will never be able to play football again in my life but I can go back and say I worked my butt off and did everything I could to get us where we are now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sports is most of my life but there are other important things to such as friends and family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am a peson that loves to get along with people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To me making friends is really important because most of them will be your long time frineds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You want to have long time friends so when you meet them in the future you can talk about old memories that were both good and bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the other hand my family is important to me mostly because we are related.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love my mom and dad because they give me thing everyday and also because they have put a roof over my head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I am a famer boy that loves to help out his dad work on the farm. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I try to go out and help him while trying to learn everything I can, because someday I hope that I will be able to take over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also my father and I can get some important bonding time in which always helps out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I take over the farm I hope I can have a wife that will love me for who I am and be able to help out on the farm beside me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wants that day comes I consider most of my life complete.</span></div>
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