The First Day of School The night before school started I was thinking about that first day. Things went thought my mind. I couldn't really sleep my hands was sweating cold I had a weird feeling going on 1 in the morning comes up still no sleep I was just thinking about how college was go...

Life at a Boarding School Having expectations of life's pleasures in the open fields, Zitkala-Sa soon learns that what she is to receive, is a life lesson. Being different in the eyes of other's, she is subjected to the cruelties and ridicule of the white man's world. She is looke...

What is a love story? A love story is a type of story that depicts much love toward someone or some persons. In To Kill a Mockingbird the love affair was Jem and Scout. The story is on the love of a family through the great depression and one of the most racist time periods. Though there are many pr...

LIFE IS MUCH TO PRECIOUS TO TAKE IT FOR GRANTED A couple of years ago, when I was 17 years old, my parents, brother and I went to our estate, going there was one of our favorite things to do during the weekends. I was enjoying the last day of the weekend before school started in company of my par...

"Machines Are Somebody" "Rise and shine," Mom announces through the bedroom door, "Your alarm should have gone off by now. Did you set it?" I get up and check it only to find that the wake to music feature is set like always and it is the alarm that has decided not w...

Deepness of Happiness The word happiness has a lot more meaning in to it then actually looks. If someone asked me to describe happiness, say to an alien, who never heard of such a thing and had no idea what it felt like. It would be like trying to explain the taste of an apple to someone whose n...

Both the setting and final outcome of Shirley Jackson's "the Lottery" are Ironic. Jackson sets the stage of her story in a seemingly normal village. She establishes this normalness by describing the activitys of the townspeople. She tells how "The town has all the usual sights like the post offi...

Memories of final big game will last forever... The alarm will go off even earlier than usual tomorrow, but somehow it won't be so tough to get up and get out of bed. You couldn't sleep any later if you tried. You'll be awake half the night and into the morning, staring at the ceiling and ...

Jack let the last note of the song he was singing ring through the air. The D was way to flat, he thought to himself. It must be perfect! I can accept no less! He started the song over again. The last note remained flat. His face began to darken in color. He tried again. The results were no dif...

Some things are easier to remember, and some are easier to forget. I can remember my most embarrassing moment as if it happened yesterday. I've tried, over the years, to forget this moment, but it just never seems to go away. As I've gotten older, I can think back to that day and just...

A wise man once said, "For everything lost something is gained, and for everything gained something is lost." That famous statement, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, illustrates a very important fact of life. Throughout my life I have experienced several life changing events that I have gained or lost s...

The most precious things I hold dear to my heart today are loved ones-family. Every time I wake in the morning and look in the mirror to brush my hair or some other morning event, I look at the people that are not able to be here with me. When I look at this image of my family vacation I think of id...

Being having a new sibling come into the family is never easy for a five year old to handle. My sister being born was no exception. I remember being very worried that my little sister would get all the attention when she was born. I didn't think it would actually be my mom that got all the a...

Change What is change? Could anyone change? Did something happen to your life change you? Change means to become different, or to make someone or something become different. It means that anyone could change as looking, perspective, or personality. I believe everyone has ch...

There are plenty of reasons why I have joined weight training class this summer at Evergreen Valley College. I am really weak as of current times, but I want to be stronger. My friends say that I am weak too. I want to prove them wrong when I become as strong or stronger than them. I want to get big...

It was like a racecar with neon lights, eighteen-inch wheel rims, big speakers, and Chevy seat covers. Big red was a ninety-two berretta that I transformed into a beautiful masterpiece. It wasn't the way I wanted it to be yet. I still needed to tint the windows and install a new muffler. T...

While the temptation to hit the snooze bar at 4:30 a.m. would be difficult to resist for even the most disciplined early-bird, my father never flinches at answering the bell at what many consider the middle of the night. The astonishing fact is not so much the time he rises but the reason behin...

I was born and raised in Hong Kong. Living in a city that is always hustling, my life was very structured. I was always doing my homework or preparing for my exams. My schedule hadn't changed much since the day I went to school. I never had too much time to think about who I am and who I wanted...

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...

September 13, 1989, is the day I could never forget. It was a chilly, cool morning day at the Munich International Airport. Airline passengers were bustling around the gigantic airport, frantically running around to catch their flight. I was about four years old, wearing a few layers of clothing bec...

First of all I would like to thank everyone for coming out tonight for the 2001 Palo Verde graduation. I am honored to be speaking in front of the class of 2001. I congratulate all the graduates on a job well done. Sitting here shows a great deal of work and dedication. Graduation is a time to rem...

ENDER'S GAME Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card was an excellent book. It starts from Ender's point of view then shifts quickly to 3rd person. His entire reason for being born was to save the planet from the buggers, insect looking aliens. On a usual morning he is eating breakfast with his family ...

Most people around here worship Texas high school football like the ancient Greeks might have worshipped Zeus himself. For me football was just the precursor for what was yet to come; high school basketball. Giving my friends no choice but to attend every tournament and travel countless miles ...

Old Times A long time ago, back in covered wagon times, a big explosion hit the wild wild west. Unfortunately, everyone survived though it. They discovered they had to wear radiation suits or space type suits to cut down on the radiation. Every thing was just gone and there was nothing left b...

In South Africa is a town named Soweto. There are two boys who live there, they're names were Marcus and John, they were twins. They were fourteen years old and they went to a school for black children only. One time they were going home from school and they heard gun shoots, the two boys di...