1) What are the benefits if you stop smoking today? Your blood pressure, body temperature, and pulse rate will drop back to normal within twenty minutes. Smoker¡¯s breath will disappear, and carbon monoxide levels in your blood drops within eight hours. Your chance of a heart attack decrea...

A letter that seemed to heal I stared into Joey's tear-filled eyes. We sat on the cold cement of my driveway and a soft wind blew my long hair across my emotionless face. The love of my life had cheated on me. I was so hurt, but would not let Joey know. As he poured his heart out to me,...

A letter that seemed to heal I stared into Joey's tear-filled eyes. We sat on the cold cement of my driveway and a soft wind blew my long hair across my emotionless face. The love of my life had cheated on me. I was so hurt, but would not let Joey know. As he poured his heart out to me,...

Chapter I In the first chapter they went around asking people what there religion was just to kill them because they diden't like them.Asking someone what their religions is just so they can kill you is harable and mean. I think if they knew what was going to happen they would not because ...

My friend, Jayce, has a complex. Would have probably been the first words out of my mouth had I ever been caught in public hanging around with Jayce and his girlfriend, Renee. Why these words spilling out you might ask? Well, she was three years younger than he was. Which wouldn't have been...

A Life Lesson Throughout life, there are certain points that you look back on and say "what was I thinking?!" or "could I have really been that stupid?" I assure you that I have a multitude of such memories, but the one that stands out in my mind was an experience that not o...

Since the day you left, my life has been filled with pain. I wish I knew what to say to hold you again, Cause me without you drives me insane. As I sit and reminise the time we shared, I realized the finest days I ever knew, were the days I spent with you. It drives me crazy everyday, ...

Rain of Gold Have you ever notice the similarities and differences between two sisters? Well I have. Lupe and Carlota are young Hispanic girls that are trying to live their life day by day. They both have different ways of living their life. One has a different attitude than the other. They even...

Prayer is one of the pathways to the divine presence. There is a great power in prayer. Prayer gives you comfort in pain, gives you the answers you want from god, and heal to a broken spirit. Everyone pray to God in their own way. We can all pray anyway we like, as longest we do pray. There ar...

Music can be appreciated by everybody around the world. It is the world's international language. Music can be useful in many different ways for example; it can be a way for a composer to express their selves through the music that they create, or it can make you feel better when you are feeli...

The Voice Message As I lay under my warm cotton flannel sheets that Sunday night, I pondered the reason why my cell phone had not rung the entire day. I had a strange premonition that something wasn't exactly right, so my instincts told me to investigate. I struggled getting out of the comf...

Death of A Dog It was impossible to miss him. There he would be, stretched out, occupying a full 5 feet of prime real estate on the front porch - forcing everyone to negotiate his way around him . He was Bret, an Akita Alsation crossbreed, and the dog I came to know as my best friend. Bret was ge...

The whole situation stemmed from Gene's jealousy. All he did was reverse the situation, and put himself in Phineas's shoes (and his clothes). Now it was Gene who would be changed forever from Phineas's hurt and jealousy towards him. Gene almost had to make up for the fact he had hurt ...

ILL TRIP YOU IN THE TRAP OF MY HABITAT BACK TO BACK OF THE STATS YOU'LL NEVER GET WIT THAT CUS IM SO STACKED THE SHITS KINDA WHACK THE FACT OF THE FACT IS THAT IM KILL YA SLAP LIKE A HEART ATTACK SHOCK YA BACK GIVE YA ASS A PAT AND TAP THE TUBE JUST LIKE THAT I MAY BE FAT NO...

1. A Bisy Backson can be compared to a person who runs around trying to escape his shadow and his footprints. He does this because he craves a solution to this problem and cannot live with himself until he solves the problem. He may even do this until he dies, as the book suggests. A Taoist will be ...

It's funny how people do things just to prove to themselves that they shouldn't have done it. I am one of those people. I am definitely one of those people. I go out of my way to run with my shoelaces untied, just so when I fall, I could say "I knew that was gonna happen". Th...

Football is the greatest team sport of our time. The average person doesn't know what it's like what it feels like to do something so great. People don't know how much hard work and togetherness it takes to be good at football. But along with this hard work comes great glory and pride. Do you...

By looking at the characters in Of Mice and Men you can see that each character is different from the others in many ways. From the way they look, to their mannerisms, and their different thoughts and dreams they are all very unique characters. When reading Of Mice and Men, many of the character&a...

let's talk about how i wnat so badly to be home right now. how i hate that college just gets in the way of everything and how this place can be such a fucking drag. because i swear, i'm barely alive and i feel complete miserable more often that not. and no matter how hard i try, i can't seem to s...

Hasidic Jew have many extreme traditions, one is to raise a child in silence. The father only talk to his son about the Talmud and the goal of this is to help the child find their own good soul. For Reb Saunders in The Chosen, silence is a painful yet effective way to bring up his child. The si...

There's fire in everyone's eyes. No matter what, it's in disguise. If you can't see it, it's still there. It's always around, it will do it's share. With anger and envy and a lot of hate, don't get mad it's only a mistake. Why would you want to treat me this way? Have you ever thought about the thin...

Reasons to be beautiful There was a boy/a very strange/enchanted boy/they say he wandered very far,very far/over land and sea/a little shy and sad of eye/but very wise was he." This boy, who had no more than eighteen years, was born in a wealthy family. His name was Thom. His mother and ...

On the first day when reporting to work for a new job at a printing company, I saw her. Sitting in a corner of a large room full of paper stacks, printers and all of printing stuff, she looked quiet, calm, and a little lonely from my first look. "Yes, I' m feeling a bit of loneliness here. Perhaps...

It is very important for me to express to you how much you really mean to me. I know that we have been thru the storm and the rain but there is also time in which we have seen the sun. I wish I could do this in person while holding you in my arms and looking in your eyes. But since we are physi...

February 13, 1930 Dear father, I just received your letter and I am writing you back. Even if you are my father and I should take everything you tell me as good advice, I do not agree with on what you wrote me. I understand your point of view about life and values. However, I want to tell you tha...