College Essay Topic B: Describe a Circumstance, Obstacle or Conflict in Your Life, and the Skills and Resources You Used to Resolve It. Did It Change You? If so, How?

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When I was younger I knew a boy by the name of Jose Martinez. We were very good friends but there were so many differences among us. I felt that it was a miracle that we were friends. One specific difference that we both had were favorite soccer teams. His favorite was Las Chivas de Guadalajara while my favorite team was Las Aguilas del Club America. These two teams are rivals in their country of Mexico. By this fact, my friend and I would go to each others houses to judge each others teams. The trash-talking would never stop and we would continue to tell each other things about each other's favorite team for days. This all ended when he left for Houston. At the time of our friendship, Jose and I would always have conversations concerning about soccer. Everywhere we would meet it would be about soccer. He would go on and on about how Las Chivas were the best in there country and how they would become champions. Ever since I started to show interest in soccer I have always despised Las Chivas for being the rival team of Las Aguilas and for being a dirty team. I consider them to be dirty because the players of Las Chivas would always be looking for an opportunity to release a yellow card on one of the players of Las Aguilas. It would either be purposefully tripping on one of the players of Las Aguilas or blaming one of the players for an action they did not commit. I would always see Las Chivas as disgusting pigs instead of goats. One year when both soccer teams were having a good year, Jose would always say that Las Aguilas would end up choking at the end and not even get into the finals. My favorite team proved him wrong for not even his team made it into the finals and they did. In the finals to determine the best in Mexico, Las Aguilas triumphed and took the championship home. I basked in the glory of being able to trash-talk to my friend on how much of a

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