Dusting by julia alvarez8/6/2023 ![]() Basically, I've been working on getting hands-on world experience, and am currently looking for an internship to further my understanding of marketing, sales, and event planning. In addition, I have been running a campaign to benefit Operation Underground Railroad, an organization dedicated to destroying child sex trafficking. So, I started down the path of a self-directed education: reading books written by successful entrepreneurs and leaders, listening to life-changing, attending live events that teach success principles, and taking a few classes online. So now my high school season of life is over, and everybody I knew was asking me, "What do you want to do with your life?" I was enrolled to go to school on a partial softball scholarship with DCTC while pursuing my business marketing degree, but I decided that wasn't the path I wanted to take yet. Theater taught me a lot about the way people think, and how to work as a team to create a piece of art (a show). Pitching has been such a fun thing to learn, as it has taught me a lot about mental toughness and leadership.ĭuring high school, I got into acting and singing through AMTC, and theater through CB Productions, where I participated in two main stage productions. ![]() I became a pitcher two years into my softball career mainly because there were no pitchers on my team. When I was thirteen, I was introduced to fastpitch softball, and played for seven years. I did this for about six months and made very good money while doing so. At the age of eleven, I pitched my sale to various business owners around my city, promising them that if they put a coupon for their place of business in my booklet, I would print one hundred copies and personally distribute at least 80% of them by hand. I successfully ran this business for several years, until I started my second business - a coupon distributing business. The service I provided consisted of retrieving orders door to door on foot, buying ingredients at the store, creating a schedule for baking the muffins fresh on Saturday morning, and waking up to make and delivery them. I started my own business when I was nine years old - a muffin delivery service in my neighborhood. My parents are both members of Life Company and have owned their own business since before I was born. I grew up in a very entrepreneurial home. I also took a summer class at Dakota County Technical College, so as a result of these experiences, I have 36 college credits. Alvarez lives in Vermont and the Dominican Republic, where she visits relatives and tends the shade-grown coffee farm she started with her husband, Bill Eichner, a cookbook author and ophthalmologist.I am a 2017 home school high school graduate, and I've done PSEO at the University of Northwestern, St. She was also a finalist for the National Book Award. The author of eleven books, Alvarez has proved herself a talented and flexible writer and has won many prizes and awards, including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Josephine Miles/PEN award. Equally essential to her work is the experience of what it means to be a writer. Often her work is autobiographical, but even when not, her characters are caught between worlds: cultural, lingual, economic, national, political, and familial. The shock of being transplanted from a tropical paradise amidst an extended and well-respected family to Queens, New York, where she and her family-mother, father, and three sisters-were viewed as outsiders, informs much of her writing. Julia Alvarez, born in New York City on 27 March 1950, lived in the Dominican Republic until 1960, when her family sought political refuge in the United States.
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