Today’s youth should combat negative moral issues by taking pride in who they are, not compromising their beliefs and values, and making a conscious decision to be a positive influence. Today’s youth are most negatively affected by drug and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancy, peer pressure, bullying, and trying to imitate airbrushed images from the media […]
“Hey man, chin up! It was just one point!” I said to my teammate after he shanked a pass off the court. “The games to 25. We’ll get the next point!” This game was leading us to the championship round. We had to win. In a volleyball game, momentum means everything to me and my […]
The wood of my violin used to be a deep red. It used to be polished and shiny, the rich color standing out among the other violins in the shop. I rented it a week after I had turned ten, as a birthday present to myself. I loved it more than the world, until I […]
College… it’s one of the best of instances it’s the worst of instances. You may be who you wish to be and do what you wish to do, everybody has their very own expertise. Mine will likely be totally different although. I’ll wrestle bears, cheer for sports activities groups and bleed our faculties colours. I […]
My identify is Charles Robert Kimple, and I need to be a Mound Builder. I’ve been considering which school can be probably the most helpful to me, and I imagine that Southwestern is the correct alternative. I’ll begin by telling you about myself. I’m an 18 12 months outdated senior from Sedan Excessive Faculty. My […]
In the poem Beowulf, Beowulf is recognized as the ideal hero because Beowulf’s attitudes and actions reveal him to be the strongest and most gifted warrior around. He is the main character of the epic – a Geatish hero who fights the monster Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and a fire-breathing dragon. As a youth Beowulf represents […]
sponsibility is something a person learns before they go off to college. For me, having a job all throughout high school has taught me just that. In 9th grade I got my first job at a local restaurant in town, Frank’s Place. Starting out, I worked 2-3 days a week but once I got the […]
“Mom, I don’t want to go!” In Inchon Airport, on a hot and humid mid-August day, people were busily moving as always. But when the girl cried out, people stopped moving and turned towards the scene of the girl and her mother. Her mother shook off the girl’s hands that tightly held her sleeves, but […]
2:16pm. The skinny woman in front of me had just bought two carts, $416.23 worth of food, half with a government aided food stamps program. I totaled it out, tapped sign off twice on the keyboard in front of me and ran straight into a shopping cart being loaded by a first day bagger. Singing […]
I am now a writer. I think. I have learned the things needed to be a writer; I enjoy it now. I like to sit and wonder—and write. It all seems clearer: where I want to go and who I want to be. It is all much easier now. It is hard to imagine my […]
