My Day August 16, 2002 was the worst day of my life! I can never forget how I felt and how I delt with my parents getting a divorce on the first day of first grade. It was the fist day of first grade. I was all excited to start school. The day started really great, I woke up, took a shower, put clothes on and told my mommy I loved her. After I left my house, I hopped on the bus and arrived at school. I was scared but ecstatic. I didn’t know what to do so I started running around like a little
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of the worst days in history; two white men were acquitted from killing a 14 year old black boy... I almost died hearing the news, it felt like my heart was ripped out of my chest, it was a nightmare that somehow manifested itself into real life. But, it was the end, which oddly soothed my nerves a little. I remember when it all began, August 31, 1955. This day, is by far, the worst day of my life, but also one of the most memorable. The legal system had swindled me out of justice for my son, Emmett
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06/27/2015 My Greatest Creation Is You! ON OCCASIONAL EVENTS EVERYONE IS MOVED BY ONE BEYOND THEIR UNDERSTANDING EVENT THAT CHANGES THEIR LIFE EITHER FOR THE WORST OR FOR THE BEST. THANKFULLY IN MY LIFE IT WAS FOR THE BEST OF IT.WHAT I TOOK AS MY GREATEST CREATION. On The Night Of October 11th, 2014, In Victorville Ca. In The Living Room Bathroom At My In-Laws House I Finally Decide To Take A Pregnancy Test After Having Missed 3 Days Since My Last Menstrual Cycle. As I Took The Stick In My Hands Thoughts
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There are many things in my life that I wouldn't change at all. Like family, friends. But if there was one thing I would put in a glass case it would be my golf clubs. They carry memories from my days shooting over 100 and now shooting below 80. They have seen days of rain, snow, and sunshine. Even though they have had their bad days, I will never give up on them. My days of training were long and hard period but it now the tie has ended and i must put them away. My clubs are more than clubs. The
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My Beginning was terrifying my ending was sad. But I soon came to realise that what count the most in life is the middle. So don’t focus so much on the bad to take away the good as it takes the best part of the story. I felt like my life had come to an end when I was diagnosed with terminal brain tumour in 2000 I was told that I wouldn’t live past the age of 30, I had less than a 50% survival rate for the next 5 years. 10 more years passed by, most people would say to me that I should be happy,
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As I print my name across every paper I receive, it was years later that I found out the symbolic meaning behind those seven letters that make up what everyone calls me today. From the start of learning to write and know my own name, I never liked it. To me, my name, “William,” was too common. When I went to school, there would always be another boy with the same first name or a similar name like “Bill” or “Will.” I liked names that were rare and simple, but the name “William” was going to be with
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The Big Game It was 2 hours before the biggest basketball game of my life and I wasn’t ready. It all started about 2 days ago, in our playoff game. We were playing one of the best teams in the county and we were the underdogs. A whole lot of hype was generated off this game, because they were ranked 2nd and we were ranked 3rd. The last time we played them, it was at their home gym. They had the biggest crowd and it really intimidated our team and we lost by 6. This time we were taking a loss 2
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old and the option to join the band is granted to my class. Like many others, I decided to join in and play the flute. Those other people were soon to become a new family. It is hard to imagine a life if I did not decide to join. However, the ten years I have been in the band have made me contemplate the idea of whether or not it was a good choice. In fifth grade, I moved schools and gained a new set of friends. The new environment challenged my perspective as now in the new district they were just
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Literary Narrative My whole life I have struggled with acne and I would have done anything to get rid of it, so this is what I did. My best friend Jacqueline’s brother had taken Accutane and it permanently got rid of his acne so I decided to make the choice to go into my dermatologist and talk to him about going on Accutane. When the time came to come talk to him it made me realize just how dangerous this drug could be. “You will have to get blood work done and take a pregnancy test once a month
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Meredith Shaw Sickle Cell Diary – October 10, 2014 – Age 16 Today was NOT a good day. My hands and feet were swollen for most of the day which made it very hard for me to write and get to my classes during school. I am home now but pain is occurring in my joints, chest, and abdomen. And to get even worse my vision is beginning to get bad because the blood vessels are filled with sickle cells. For about a month now, my doctors have put me on a medicine called hydroxyurea. This medicine is supposed
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Life Was Ruff Everyone says a dog is a man’s best friend. This is how I met my best friend, it was another softball filled day, and we were at the park. We were not looking for a dog, but a dog was looking for us. He was the first one I picked up, and I never put him down. We had talked about getting a dog, “when the time is right, he will find us,” things like that. Bear found us at the right time. We had Bear for seven years, and he truly became my best friend. He was there for me, he listened
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lessons along the way, helping us build who we are today. Such can be said about my own life; for a person that is only twenty years old, I faced a lot of different experiences in my life, I had big moments of struggle and also happiness, but the moments that marked me more were the difficult times. So, reading the story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” from Gabriel Márquez, I could make a relation between my life and the principal character the “Angel.” This relation is not about the text itself
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make a difference in those around you. Being a nurse not only means that you will help a patient, rather that you will strive to make a difference in the life of the patient. To most people, nursing may seem as a means of obtaining money or helping people, however, to me, nursing is much more than just a career. To me, nursing is a way of life, a form of self expression and the utmost form of service. However, service is only one aspect of nursing on the surface of the lake that we refer to as nursing
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It all started on a stormy day in Chicago when I was getting yelled at by my teenage daughter because I’m apparently the worst mom in the world, well that’s what she said. I decided I needed some mother daughter time so we’re heading on North Michigan Ave toward to Water Tower Place to do some shopping because Jordyn “needs” some new clothes but she can clothe a village with as many as I buy her. All of a sudden the car in front of me starts slipping and sliding all over the place, with no place
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Life is full of good and bad experiences. In my life, I have been blessed to have more good experiences than the latter. My worst experience of my life shaped me in the best way possible. What is the worst experience? Watching my grandmother suffer and eventually die from Alzheimer`s disease. This lasted for eight years. Yes, you read that correctly. Eight years of Alzheimer`s disease in my family. I could not tell you the exact date, or year even. I can estimate. Probably 2010 or 2011. I knew this
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an impossible task, I felt as if I was staring at my downfall, staring at my most hated event; the pommel horse. As an all-around competitive gymnast, I was supposed to be good at all 6 events, however, I wasn’t. As I stood there watching some of the other competitors, all I could think and feel was that I wouldn’t be able to do what they are doing and that I was already going to fail. In my mind I only thought and why shouldn’t I, it’s my worst event. “It’s okay if I don’t do well” I kept trying
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The Best and Worst July Fourth It was an early July forth morning and I had just got back home from staying at a friends house I spent the night at. It was a grey and rainy day and all I wanted to do was sleep before the night’s festivities. I was pretty excited for the day ahead of me because it was the fourth and I love going to watch firework with all my friends and family. I just knew it was going to be a good day. So there I was cleaning my room like my mom had asked, then
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ceiling. And the only thing I could picture was my father being taken away in that ambulance. Hearing the sound of sirens in the distance was the worst thing to come home to for the Holidays. My father had being fighting cancer for the past three years, and know the worst had happen. His body wasn’t reacting well to the chemo, so all he could do was hope. And having his Mexican machismo intact he never showed if he was hurting or not. But I know who my father was. He was what you call an old school
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The Tropic of Cancer is a rowdy book that discusses, criticizes, or praises many aspects of life. The book is semi autobiographical and is more of a reflection of thoughts. I put this book on my list due to its controversial writing which seems very intriguing. πLast Days of California by Mary Miller http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/books/review/mary-millers-last-days-of-california.html Last Days of California centers on a family traveling to California in order to view the rapture. While
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growth on it and experienced the worst condition of it. The reasons that made me hate war was its difficulties left a scar in my life, have been faced odds that test patience, and learn never to give up hope and solace at any circumstance. While, the
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scrawny, clumsy kid who suffered the belt of the old man and the youthful belligerence of the students in his fifth grade class in silence. "Best memories of my life, hunting with my father. You'll see, Son. You’ll see," his voice roared, even during such potentially tender moments. Worst of mine. Worst of mine. Worst of mine. DS's father
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it brings out the worst in people because war destroys lives and relationships. In this book The Things, They Carried by Tim O’Brien we will be comparing it to Life is beautiful the movie. The Things They Carried and Life is beautiful both take place during wars. Life is Beautiful is about an Italian Jew, his wife, and his son was put into a concentration camp during world war 2. War makes us Demons/monsters because of killings and the effect it has on us. War shows the worst in us by taking away
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can't remember my life ever being absent of this unforgiving disorder, yet it took 13 years for me to realize that feeling such an extreme amount of anxiety wasn't normal. Throughout elementary school people categorized me as "shy"– a word I have come to loathe – because even then I refused to engage in a conversation longer than a quiet "hi". Teachers, peers, friends, and family always asked me why I was so quiet but I had no answer. I physically could not make words come out of my mouth, I recognized
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The water wedding is a book, which shows us how life can change in seconds. I in particular always have live in a united family, but for how long. My life can change even without me realizing it. This story has made me think about what I have in my life, and how this can change through the years to come. I learn from this book that life is a Pandora box for many reasons. The first reason is because the Pandora box is full of diversity of people how one can survive with all different cultures
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this experiment, I recorded the length of sleep and my mood the following day for five days. There is a positive correlation between the number of hours of sleep I got at my mood the following day (0.9112). The higher the number of hours of sleep and the quality of that sleep, the better my mood and overall day was. My two best feeling days were Thursday and Friday, and both those days I had more than eight hours of sleep. My mood was the worst on Wednesday, and it was most likely due to the fact
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6 February 2015 Diabadass Each day, as I awoke from my cozy bed in my oversized tshirt, I would make my way to the kitchen, casually taking my time to grab breakfast. It usually consisted of a chocolate poptart, or nothing at all. But since the day of March 16th, 2014 my life dramatically changed. I can no longer skip my breakfast, or eat chocolate pop tarts. I went from carefree Megan, to diabetic Megan. Since being diagnosed, I get up with my pump attached to me. I instantly prick my tender finger an
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beaten just because or maybe even you. Domestic violence is on the rise and gets worst day by day. My oldest sister was once a victim of domestic violence by her baby’s father, he use to beat on her on a daily basis and sometimes even choke her out until she bleeds until she got the courage one day to fight back and finally leave. I looked out at the stats of domestic violence, searched the internet and reflected on my life to see if there was any relations with it and it was quite a few that lead me
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I remember the day my parents told me we were moving up from California to Oregon. I hated them for telling me that. I was seven years old, and very naive. I never wanted to come up here, I didn’t want to leave all of my friends, or my family. I knew nobody up here besides maybe a cousin or two. I was devastated. But, with the move also came a long road trip full of adventures and some great memories that I will always cherish. I was playing out in the backyard when suddenly my mom comes up to
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overcome and accomplish was watching my boyfriend suffer in the hospital from brain swelling they couldn't determine and me being right next to him woken up to be told that he was gone. It impacted on me very deeply and I’ve learned a lot from this experience even though it's only been a month that he has been gone but he was in the hospital suffering for 4 months. His name was Derryl we were together for a year ½ it hurt really badly to sit there every day, my whole summer, at The University Of Michigan
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they should do; they convinced the teachers to let them start the “No-name Calling Party”, though the teachers did not agree at first; the Gang of Four worked as a team and they assisted each other reach their goals and comforted each other at their worst times, something every kid wants their friend to do for them. The Misfits connects with a lot of children’s lives, just like it does with mine. Lina and Doon faced even worse matters than the kids in The Misfits did. They had to find a way to save
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