Lauren Carter

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Lauren Carter

• Roadmap to My Life
• October 19, 1984 present

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Plano, TX1984-1986 1988-1998 2000-2003

• the sense of place refers to something that we
  all recognizeit is the place from which to
  venture out and, more important, to which to
  return. We all experience pangs of nostalgia for
  the homes of our youth. Our word nostalgia
  comes from the Greek nostos, which means to
  return home. (260)
• -Norman Crowe, Nature and the Idea of a
  Man-made World

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3513 Sage Brush Trail1988-1998

• Grew up here
• My sister, Caroline, was born here- 1990
• First dog, Dieter the dachshund
• Mom battled cancer

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Sydney, Australia1998-2000

• As E.V. Walter expressed it, People do not
  experience abstract space they experience
  places. A place is seen, heard, smelled,
  imagined, loved, hated, feared, revered, enjoyed
  or avoided. (264)
• -Norman Crowe, Nature and the Idea of a Man-made
  World

the arid times that seem like
wastelands -Wakefield, The Story of Your Life
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Plano Senior High School2001-2003

• The sense of place that a student feels in a
  classroom is incongruous with the environment of
  learning that is meant to be fostered there.
  (285)
• -Christina Shideler,
• The classrooms sense of place

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Chamberlain Ballet1988-1998 2000-2003

• the place knows youre there. It feels you.
  You will not be forgotten, cut off, abandoned.
  (272)
• -Barry Lopez, A Literature of Place

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Employment2003-2006

• Steve Madden Shoes- 2003
• EDS Federal Credit Union- 2004
• Jester City Limits- 2005
• DHFS Computer Labs- 2006

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1 Friend- Sylvia1989 - forever

• We met in Kindergarten as sibling-like
  children. (285)
• -Christina Shideler,
• The classrooms sense of place

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Hook em Horns!2003-2007
Junior Year
Freshman Year
Senior Year
Sophomore Year
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Wieners!Dieter, Heidi Wolfgang, The Races
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The Future

• What if our history does not prove to be a blind
  impersonal sequence of events over which we have
  no control, but rather reveals to us a guiding
  hand pointing to a personal encounter in which
  all our hopes and aspirations will reach their
  fulfillment?
• Then our life would indeed be different,
  because then fate becomes opportunity, wounds a
  warning, and paralysis an invitation to search
  for deeper sources of vitality. (297)
• -Wakefield, The Story of Your Life