As I continued to play I became aware of my frustrations and decided I was having "a bad pool day." ... I was trying to convince myself that I was not having bad luck and that the key to success is not letting outside distractions and/or influences affect my game. ... I did believe however that the only reason I did play bad was very bad luck. ... The downfall was that my luck in other aspects was not changing. ...
The solders that had a bad experience were traumatized beyond help. ... Lyman seemed to have all the luck and that led to Henry's resentment toward him. ... And he showed he good luck more by getting a good number on the draft where Henry got a bad one and so he signed up for the military. ...
Does God really exist? A well-known question, that has been asked so many times before. Some people of today would like to believe in so, that, it is nice to think that there is someone who will always be there to comfort you, and help you through hard times. Some say that God comes by spirit, or b...
You know what really honks me off? Shopping carts! The sad fact is, I always seem to pick out the one that has only three functional wheels. You know the one, the one that actually appears to have a will and mind of its own, the one that insist on guiding you down the isle. I used to think this was ...
Have you ever lost control over things because you haven't thought about it? It may be something you have done on an impulse. This is exactly what happened to me one weekend. It started off at a party I went to. A couple of friends and I went to go have a good time. It was a very cold night I had...
One hundred and thirty five dollars in prom tickets, a rented tux, no date, and just 2 days from the prom left me in pretty bad shape. ... Now if that wasn't bad enough, one of the other girls at my youth group that said they would go with me genuinely liked me, but because I "chose" the other girl over her, she was angry. ... With my luck, you"ll follow my advice and ruin your chance for a relationship with the girl of your dreams. ...
"Open Boat" written by Stephen Crane is a story of four men who had to abandon a ship and survive on a life boat until they reached shore. This story is told over approximately one full day. The men had to live out in the water in very bad waves for a day and had to last the night in the boat. Th...
Saida went home but was feeling very nervous deep down inside her brain she was having all these bad thoughts inside her saying "What if something happens to my Sajda, or what if she runs away with someone?" ... That night Sajda came home at about 11o"clock, four hours late before being seen by her mum, Saida was going to ask Sajda what have you been doing today, but couldn't bare the shame if Sajda was to tell the truth, and she felt like she was a bad mother and hadn't brought Sajda up the normal Muslim way of life. ... That night Sajda went to the toilet, she tried to o...
The theme that the world has an outward appearance that seems fair and perfect but really they're as Holden put it "phonies." This is shown countless amount of times in his journey through New York and even before he left. The setting is in the 1950's; so I'm pretty sure that he didn't encounter any transvestites, lesbians, or anything that extreme of phoniest. Or on the other hand he could have liked them for being as Elmemson said a "none conformist." But I doubt it, he seemed to like kids more than anything. ...
