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hoop…that isn’t that important if you aren’t the best type of person off the court. The biggest problem, in sports in geral, is that there is too much focus at score on the end of the game, and forgetting the importance of the effort used to score every single point on that board. There is great value in sacrificing yourself for something bigger than yourself, and unfortunately, sports have drifted from this meaning. A teams success is determined by the score at the

Cervantes I Cervantes Higuera Jessica University of the Incarnate Word English Composition I Draft #1 Why does everyone leave? Seeing your parents apart and not getting along when they’re together is hard for most kids specially when you’re 8 years old and you don’t know what’s coming next. The day my parents got divorced changed my perception of what a normal family was. Having my dad around all the time wasn’t my everyday routine. I’d see him once or twice a week so I wasn’t very much

Mark Haver March 5, 2012 Period 3 MW AP English Argument Essay Adversity has a way of bringing up challenges unexpectedly, most people shrink away from it and get consumed, but when they push through it people come out stronger than they were before. Throughout history there has always been adversity, even today there are people who struggle to cope with it in their everyday lives, but some are able to overcome it as individuals and move on. But sometimes there

Most people thought of her of a woman who will murder anyone on sight. To them, it was dangerous for her to even look at you. But they don't know anything about her. On the northern island, Mokusei, was a ship. Or simply a submarine. A yellow one. Like with her other guests, she tend to obliterate their fragile life sources, but this thing, she spared them. A odd thing. A foreign feeling to her. She had always murdered others that invade the island. It wasn't because she didn't

I believe in honesty. Webster’s Dictionary says that the definition of honesty is freedom from deceit or fraud. I believe that being honest all the time will never require you to lie. Honesty shows that you are genuine and transparent in your actions. I believe when speaking the truth you will never be “caught in a lie”. When you are an honest person, people trust you and when people trust you, you earn others respect. I believe that if you are honest you will be a much happier person and you will

1) Haiti’s political climate in the time of the first story, “Children of the Sea”, were corrupt regimes. Considering Haitian family members are being forced to bear each other 's children, or become an object on the street to showcase the dehumanization methods used by the macoutes. The population is forced into a false hope of the return of the country’s president, only to be shot or arrested on sight. Protest and free speech is not allowed against a political opposition, which is only sought to

4:30 am, my alarm wakes me from dreams of home. I 'm confused, “Where am I?”, I asked myself. Then I remembered, I 'm at the Naval Academy, Bancroft hall to be more specific. “Another day, Another dollar”, I reluctantly said for the seventh and final time. My bunkmate heard my alarm and woke with a similar reaction. “You know what today is right?”, he said to me in an uneasy voice. “Yeah, today 's wet and sandy, the so called worst day of your life. Or so I 'm told.”, I replied. “You know there 's

SARA LAYS ON THE FLOOR, weeping silently as tears are escaping from her tear ducts and flowing steadily down her sunken cheeks. The heated voices of Lieutenant Colet and his men, arguing outside her front door are wafting from one end of her home to another. She tilts her head to the side, straining her eyes to see them. Her emotional pain has taken control of her body. The feeling of loss was nothing new to Sara. It was an indescribable feeling that can leave the beholder, cripple emotionally in

Brother and college The day I let him go, the day he left me for college. It was sad but why today, I loved him and I didn’t want to let him go. What would I do without him. All I wanted was for him to stay but he was leaving me and I have to live with it. When your son, daughter, brother, or sister leaves for college you know you did good but now it’s over you won’t see them everyday. My brothers name is Nir he was so supportive. I put on my white colored cleats, and my dad comes in. says that

The wind howled as we drove vigilantly through the mountains. The winding, treacherous roads rattled our van with every turn. The sun vanished behind the arms of the trees as we ventured deeper into the mountains. Miles of vegetation swarmed on the like we were entering a jungle. The mountain peaks impaled the sky like a sword. Darkness crept and latched on to our van with every twist and turn. Fog whisked it’s way like a tidal wave through the trees. As we approached our destination, the