My Life Changing Roll To some people bodyboarding is just something you do when you go down to the beach in summer, and to others it is just an extreme sport that is fun to watch on TV, but to me it is more than all of that, it is a lifestyle. When I was younger I would always go to the beach with ...
Pay It Forward The movement of Pay It Forward began about 20 years ago. To pay it forward means to do something for three other people that they can't do for themselves. Then hopefully those three people will each help three more. This is how it is supposed to work. The book of Pay It forw...
Skiing I can still remember the first time I went downhill skiing. It was a cold and dry November day . It hadn't been snowing much at the time, so most of the snow on the hills was that slick, jet blown, artificial-ice/pseudo-snow. Not exactly what a first timer likes to start on. My Parents ha...
I was six years old and the family was spending the day at my grandparent's house. From what I remember, it was a beautiful day. The sun was shining without a cloud in sight, and the temperature was just right for a nice bike ride with my dad. Being the deprived child that I was, however, I coul...
A person flips along the TV stations endlessly to discover nothing is on cable. He sees a channel that is displaying a golf tournament and decides he has nothing else to do so he might as well watch a boring sport like golf. He watches as a professional effortlessly pulls out an amazing shot and the...
BUCKLE UP There are some common misconceptions about the fatality rate of slow moving vehicles. The truth is that all driving can be dangerous, and seatbelts should be worn regardless of speed or distance traveled. I hope to convince you why you should always wear a seatbelt. Whether it's goin...
The Death Penalty Is the Death Penalty an effective punishment? I would say yes. Once a killer is executed they can never kill again, but the Death Penalty does not stop people from killing others, the only thing it does stop is killers from killing again. I think a functionalist would support t...
In class last week, we viewed a film from 1996 called "Sling Blade". It was not my first time watching it because a lot of people in my family love that movie, so we always watch it! I love this movie due to the fact that it portrayed a handicap man who had real mental issues but in a positive way....
Wrecking My First Car It happened so fast I can hardly remember what really happened. I was heading home from a party and was going to have my friend and me home before curfew. Out in the middle of no where, on some back roads, we were going home in my first car that my dad had built me, a 1967 ...
Since the beginning of time, there has always been a tenacious struggle between good and evil. In a particular famous book, The Bible, the continuous clash between good and evil remains evident throughout the work. In Herman Melville's novel, Billy Budd, symbolism, characterization, and irony are ...
It all started one beautiful March day as we left our hotel in Key Largo. The sun was shining a brilliant yellow and there was not a cloud in the sky, it was about 60 degrees and there was a slight breeze coming off of the straits. Me and my girlfriend were returning from our wonderful spring break...
Do you remember the day when you took your S.A.T's? You probably only remember the fact that you had to give up a whole Saturday that you could have spent sleeping. Or, was it the most nerve-racking day of your life? The reason that I ask is because it was on that day, November 2nd, 2002, that real...
The Greasers cared, supported and protected Pony when Two-Bit gave Pony a smashed bottle to defend himself with against the drunk Socs "He snatched up an empty bottle, busted off the end, and gave it to me, then reached in his back pocket and flipped out his switchblade- (page 52). ...
Have you ever thought about jumping out of a plane? Throughout my whole life, I do not think there have been too many life changing events. But there has been one event recently that I believe has had a major impact for the future, when I went skydiving. On the twenty first of August in 2015, my mom...
Accidents are inevitable for me. I am probably the most accident-prone child out of all my siblings. When I was ten years old I dismantled my newly grown "big girl" teeth. Prior to the accident I was having an amazing day and creating childhood memories with friends, when the accident happened I was...
The day of our driving trip had arrived. Everyone was ready to go, and looking forward to see amazing park. When we left Chicago on our way to Ohio we tried to visualize the park. When we arrived at the park we could not believe our eyes the size of it. We spent there few days and had a wonderfu...
Perfect Storm Essay In the book "The Perfect Storm", the seven fishermen had to go through many hardships to try and stay alive, because it was them against the swells. Seven fishermen didn't really know what they had gotten themselves into. They had thought it was a normal storm, like all of the...
