A Day to Remember In the spring of my freshman year in high school, in the small town of Palatka, Florida, located between Crescent City and Jacksonville, I was competing in a junior varsity softball game for my school. Little did I know what the particular outcome of that game would be. It was a ...

Star Athletes: Playing for Fame or the Game? Baseball has been America's pastime for quite sometime and it has even given a select few an opportunity for a better life. Over time people have come to question the way in which players have been viewed in both movies and the way they perform ...

A Christmas to Remember When I think back , one of my fondest memories was when I was seven. I grew up in a completely African-American black community as a child. The neighborhood was one nestled between lower middle class and the happy being poor. As a tomboy I didn't real...

A Day to Remember: Election 1994 in South Africa An old woman in South Africa walks along a dirty street, struggles under the weight of her possessions. She is tired and hot, but she pursues her goal. She wants to take advantage of her new privilege before she dies. A busy young ma...

Gerry and Julius developed an amazing friendship built on trust and respect. They learnt to appreciate the meaning of trusting a man's soul rather than their colour. They worked to overcome the racial issues and heal the conflict. In the beginning Gerry and Julius would not ack...

Never again, never again, were the thoughts that raced through my mind as my head buried itself into the toilet bowl. My body seemed to be regurgitating everything it had consumed within the last year. After a few minutes I seemed a bit recovered and tried to raise my frail body off of the floor,...

Most people think that watching seven and eight-year-olds play basketball is boring, but it is one of the most exciting games to watch. I would know because I am a coach at the Boy's and Girl's Club of Conway. It has been one of the best experiences of my life. Going to the games is also the highl...

At the beginning of this semester, I went into a classroom without the intentions of it having any impact of my life. What I did not know was that this course held not only a vision for the future but also answers to my past. Growing up, I was influenced by a society that was inhabited almost en...

Taking It for Granted Looking back on my childhood a smile comes to my face. I have many memories that I know I will cherish forever. I remember the little innocent things, like getting into my moms make-up and destroying it in the process; the things that got me in trouble, like playing salon wit...

Of the most amazing things that films can do is that they may be able to influence our way of thought, our way of life, to be overall a better person. For many years the film industry has made movies for entertainment but also for the way society may look on things. Many films have been done on s...

When people ask me what sport I play, they are always expecting something like basketball or baseball the main and more known sports. So when I say I play tennis they are seemingly quite shocked. Tennis has always been a big part of my life ever since childhood till now. In this essay I will ...

The Klu Klux Klan recruits in El Paso In the summer of 1921, the KKK showed up in El Paso. Considering the local conditions at the time, it was questionable whether the KKK would have any degree of success in El Paso. El Paso's racial tensions and the problems posed by the city's bor...

Growing Up: A Reflection Essay on Life -Michael Hof Do you remember your world when you were a small child? Can you picture a single day as a 3...

A New Look at Old Memories Rising at the crack of dawn I raced down the stairs into the kitchen to find my grandmother cooking donuts! That remains one of my fondest memories of the many summers spent at grandmother's. The smell of the freshly cooked sugar or glazed donuts was enough to...

EVIL TIME THIEVES OF TECHNOLOGY What has no wings, but knows how to fly? The answer is being used up as you read this paper. Our society today is so focused on making technological advancements that they don't notice the changes that are happening around them. Everyone is hooked up to the net, peo...

Writing Collage His tall slender build and big bright eyes are the first things I remember. I also remember that his brother looked just like him. He moved in across the street when I was eleven. He was the first guy I ever had a real crush on. He was always quiet, reserved; yet some...

VIOLENCE IN YOUTH SPORTS It's a beautiful fall day. There is a touch of autumn in the air and the azure sky contrasts the dark green grass of the peewee football field. Children line up in a mock exhibition of an NFL pro game. Signals are called and the ball is clumsily hiked and so...

I got my first Barbie when I was in the Third Grade, and I loved her from day one. She was a perfect woman in my eyes, and I played with her all the time. I had little trunks for her many outfits, and was very careful not to hurt her clothes, break her fragile high heels, or otherwise d...

A REMEMBERED PLACE I remember all too well the place known to me as my true home. The last time I was there was when I was ten years old. It was closing in on Christmas Vacation 1991 and my mother said that she would take me. It was approximately around the late teens of December when we b...

MUSIC OF THE MINDS Take a few minutes to reflect on your childhood days in school. Did you sing in the choir or play in the band? If so, do you remember the days of learning your scales by singing "Do Re Mi"? Do you recall your first Christmas concert? Do you remember your foot tappi...

When I was child, I was the one who always needed a little bit more. With sister who was two years older I needed a little more attention, a little more love, and a little more explanation about why things happen in life and my grandmother was there to give it to me everything I needed. She played t...

What it takes to have a Successful High School Girl's Basketball Team It is intense and cruel. It is vicious and competitive. It is for the love of the game. It is high school girl's basketball. Many people do not respect girl's basketball. It is a sport just like any other...

I must have stepped into Dr. Brown's DeLoren, punched the accelerator, reached eighty-eight miles an hour, and instead of going back to the future, I ended up in the 1980s. There is no other explanation. I'm back in college, striving for my degree. I'm looking at my fellow students an...

BEST MEMORY OF FRESHMAN YEAR In the beginning of freshman year it was a little scary, up until baseball season started that is. Baseball is life for me. It involves having fun, getting exercise, and competing with some of the best players around. Schaumburg is known for having some of the bes...

I listen to metal. A simple sentence but this information is also the answer to the question "What kind of music do you listen to?", for some people it means something that's not normal, bad and god knows what else. Metal music is still, even after so many years, considered by the wide public as the...