Can anybody please check over my paragraph in response to this prompt for a scholarship application:
Please describe how and when any unusual family or persomal circumstances have affected your achievement in school, work experience, or your participation in school and community activites.
Like many others in our area, my home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. While I consider myself lucky in the long run, I was extremely worried and stressed out during the aftermath of the catastrophic storm. My family was forced to live with my widowed aunt and her two sons. While I know they are truly angels in disguise, at the time I found my cousins aggravating and bothersome. Their annoying ways would often times put me in the worst of moods, and that attitude would carry over to school. True, I would put on a happy façade, but on the inside I was so furious with everyone and everything. My grades started to drop because of this. However, I soon realized how fortunate my family was to have
2007-03-21
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