It's Christmas time again, the time of hopes, joys, and forgiveness. It's the time that I always have the good feeling inside me. Every year at this moment, I like to be alone by myself to think. I think about many things that consider important to me. They're including my past, my pr...

Christmas As I slowly awaken from a deep sleep, cool air hits my squinting eyes and I have the feeling that this is not a normal day. I close my eyes again and ponder for less than a spilt second then realize that SANTA CAME LAST NIGHT!!! I throw back the covers, ignoring the cold that would have k...

"Hurry up!" Annie said to her mom as she went barreling down the stairs. "I'm coming." Ms. Mary Weston called back to her daughter. She was almost ready to go Christmas shopping when she remembered that she had forgotten to get her gloves out of her coat pocket. She found Christmas to be a ...

It was only the middle of October but I was already thrilled about Christmas being only two in half months away. I could not wait until we got our Christmas tree and the fresh scent of pine filled our house. I was only four, but had already figured out Christmas was my favorite holiday of the year...

On Friday December 6th I went to the doctor. During this visit, I was told that I was seven weeks pregnant. Words could not describe the elation and anticipation I was feeling at the reported news. Excitedly, before leaving the doctor's office I had informed my husband and entire family. I ...

This story is about how an eighteen-year-old orphan named Judy Abbott was allowed to go to college. It all began when the John Grier Home, the orphanage where she lived, had a faculty meeting, where a question of her future came up. It was decided that a trustee who only until now only sent boys to ...

A holiday story This is a story about what I thought was going to be a lonely and uneventful Christmas holiday time. I was planning to have a very quiet holiday season because my wife and youngest son were going to be in South America for the Christmas season. My reason for not going with them...

The Good Deed Many people do good deeds for a wide variety of reasons. A good deed is helping someone without looking for a reward or a pat on the back. Think about how much one receives and consider volunteering to help someone, keep busy, repay a dept...

"The Baby Girl" It was the night of December 24, Christmas Eve, of 1992. My mom, my brother, and I were sitting at the kitchen table and my dad had just gotten home. He came into the house telling me and my brother that he had just seen something flying in the sky and that if we hur...

The definition of a "perfect day" could vary greatly among many different kinds of people, so for my own personal definition of a perfect day, I could not begin to define it with just a few words. A single word such as "fun" or "exciting" simply could not come close to...

The rush is on, the stores are closing, there's no time left. WAIT get a hold of yourself, 30 minutes and counting. People scurry around with good intentions but no direction. My hands are full; my legs tired and boy do my feet ache. I maneuver my already overwhelmed limbs threw the hordes of l...

As I uncoordinatedly reached to silence my alarm, I knew that this day would be different from any other. This indescribable feeling overcame me, as if some spirit was trying to reach out to me, advising me to take advantage of this day. I wasn't sure exactly what I was going to do, but I kne...

There's more to being a man that seeing how many phone numbers you can get or who you convince to sleep with you. Being a man means bearing responsibility and accepting the consequences for your actions. This means the most to me because of my pop, Leonard Smith. He's really my little b...

My Personal Perspective Growing up I did not have much to do with God and the church. My mother and father were Lutheran, but I cannot remember going to church even once. My parents divorced when I was three and my mother met my stepfather when I was five. His family is Catholic, and when...

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...

The Gift Of The Magi In the story "The Gift Of The Magi" by O. Henry, I think that the author mainly used three of the seven elements. The three elements that I thought he, O. Henry, put to great use in this short story were plot, theme, and tone. The other four elements were used as...

Why did it have a way of staying in her mind their glassy eyes gleamed in the dull light? Empty eyes always seemed to remind reva of dead eyes. Rena was on her way home from smith collage for Christmas vacation. She was accompanied by her roommate grace Morton. It just didn't feel right if Rena...

I hate gift exchanges. I hate the mystrey, I hate having to buy something for someone you barely know, I hate recieving that gift you never wanted and having to pretend like its the golden earings or bubble bath you hoped and dreamed of. And I hate the one gift exchange that made me hate all the r...

The novel, Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte is a thought provoking book that deals with the heroine, Jane, trying to break free of the social orders of the nineteenth century, in order to free herself from the restraints of the "class" system of the time and to free her heart from her moral self. Cha...

Imagine walking into a classroom with eighteen students and you are the only one not speaking English. How would you feel? I would thing that everyone would feel scared and nervous. That how I felt when I walked into my third grade class. I felt so awkward; I thought everyone was expecting me to ...

To me, an army of one means a large group of people working together as one complete unit. I am happy to say that I am apart of an army of one because of the intense training I had to endure. I'm proud that I survived my military training both mentally and physically. Surviving my military...

Not until you realize that life itself is a beautiful thing will you really start to live. Although living combines tragedy with splendor, Life is Beautiful shows that even tragedies reflect something engaging. Even in a time of Nazi Germany, hope was still prevalent in the world and brought with it...

Atonement is a fund concept in the Jewish and Christian religions. 'Yom Kippur', the day of atonement is the most sacred day in the Jewish calendar. The need for atonement arises when an individual has committed a crime about which he feels guilty and for which he wishes to make amends, to the wrong...

THE PICTURE A picture is a wonderful thing, full of memories, great times, and much more. This picture consists of three things that play a major role in my life; my friends, snowboarding, and the snow. Each help build my life completing and making it a whole just like the world and how it goes ...

While thinking about what to write for my autobiographical essay, I looked at a special clock that I got from my uncle for Christmas. This clock was special in that it keeps track of the time by lifting up metal balls one at a time to the top with a motor that has a plastic arm and drops the ball of...