Who knew one baseball game can shape a person entire focus on their dreams and aspirations? I don't think many people realize that one simple event such as baseball game can have such an impact on a person's life. I remember my first baseball game; my dad took me to it when I was 7 or 8...

The Thrill of the Grass This storey was very short and meaningful. Throughout the storey the protagonist expresses many emotions and feelings for the game of baseball and the actual stadium itself. He loved to go to the stadium and just recap all his old memories from when he used to play and wa...

Goals are finishing points of something you are doing or trying to improve. Many people set goalsto make sure they follow through on what they are doing or like to feel satisfaction for a job welldone. Goals can be anything from excelling at your job or school to getting in shape to regainyour old f...

Brief Theory on the Psychology of Human Behavior Behavior, Is it consciously or subconsciously driven? When an individual is conscious they are aware of their feelings, thoughts, and memories ( Uba-Huang ,p.486). When one is subconscious; feelings, thought, and memories exist in the mind without...

Candy Thesis: I. Introduction A. Opening Statement B. Thesis II. Skittles A. B. I would like to think of myself as a healthy eater. I try not to eat much meat during the week and I always eat a variety vegetables. Nevertheless, I have this weakness that...

Should have spent less time looking good and more time feeling good. Should have drove the speed limit and enjoyed the scenery instead of speeding and looking for cops should have kept in contact with old freinds. Shouldn't of said i'm busy everytime my little cousin wanted me to teach him play base...

My Writing RitualsWhen describing my writing rituals the words sporadic and spontaneous come to mind. Because when I write I never really have a specific place or time of the day in which I choose to write. That all depends on when the "writing bug" actually hits me. It could be 11 a.m. in my roo...

The Catcher in the Rye In J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, the first person narration is critical in helping the reader to know and understand the main character, Holden Caulfield. Holden, in his narration, relates a flashback of a significant period of his life, thre...

One smile begins a friendship, One handclasp lifts a soul. One star can guide a ship at sea, One word can frame the goal. One step must start each journey, One word must start each prayer. One hope will raise our spirits, One touch can show you care. Often it comes down little acts of kind...

A Mother's Touch At birth he was just perfect. Cody was chubby and pink all over with big blue eyes and round little cheeks. He was the picture of adorable, with hair like cotton and the cutest little baby grin. Within a month or two, he became sickly. Although he was a happy baby, it was obv...

My Superman In your life, have you ever watched a superhero on television and thought of someone in your family? Well this might sound corny but I have and every time I would see Superman I would always think of my uncle. This is because my uncle was a lot like Superman but in the end he was only ...

Our Town, a play by Thornton Wilder, is a play that presents the most simple aspects of life. "That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those. . . of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a milli...

Separation In the book "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" by Anne Fadiman, a child named Lia Lee is taken away from her parents by Child Protective Services and placed in foster care. Because they aren't giving her medication for epilepsy. Although r...

(1) To Soto working in the vines was a low, embarrassing, dishonorable job. There was no glory to be found in it. It was cut and dry hard work. He knew however, that this was the line of work he had to do in order to obtain some sort of status. "Along with my brother and sister I picked gr...

What is justice? What is wisdom? Can the meanings of these words even be universally accepted? Every individual has their own idea of how these words are defined. These concepts, among many others, are challenged and dissected in The Republic by Plato. The Republic is a philosophical book that ...

The story starts off with Gary Lutz sitting under his big oak tree in his back yard reading his comic books. Then Gary's pain in the butt neighbor, Mr. Andretti, keeps scaring Gary by telling Gary that Mr. Andretti's beehive has gone crazy. Gary falls for it every time because Gary is afraid of b...

The Catcher in the Rye In "The Catcher in the Rye," J.D. Salinger, the first person narration is critical in helping the reader to know and understand the main character, Holden Caulfield. Holden, in his narration, relates a flashback of a significant period of his life, three days and nigh...

"The Life and times of Bartleby"Recently, I was privileged enough to read "Bartleby" a short story by one of America's foremost authors, Herman Melville. The protagonist in this story (if one decides to call him that), his name being the title, can be well described as both unique and at the same ti...

Courage It was just last year around this time when I, along with the rest of the ninth grade had to give a ten-minute biography speech on a person who had done something great, infront of the entire ninth grade. I chose Jackie Robinson, someone who had demonstrated plenty of courage by breaking tha...

You know I thought playgrounds were where we were supposed to form our first and most lasting impression. Yet, we as kids don't emphasize differences in race or skin color until adults point them out, perpetuating the unfortunate and unnecessary cycle of racism.I could not hide from his pain if he w...

Home AloneIn 1990, the hit comedy "Home Alone" was released on video. This movie is a nasty, evil,and sadistic motion picture. In the same respect, I think it is one of the funniest movies I haveever seen. For those of you who do not remember this film, it was about the McAllister family'svacation a...