The Walk
“The hardest walk is walking alone, but it’s also the walk that makes you the strongest.”
Every day comes and goes as normal but what happens on those days when It takes a bit longer to get through the day. Like if I had a fall out with a close friend or family member and it has ruined my mood. I like to leave and just go a walk. Just the thought of getting outside and not sitting in the house makes me feel better about everything. Just the thought of escape helps me relax getting to know that I don’t need to bottle up my emotions in the house, I can go a walk to relieve some pain and release all the bad emotions I’m feeling. I mean yes this is typical teenager actions to fall out with friends and family and yes, a lot of them might
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I always go the quiet ways wherever I’m going, I’d rather take the quiet dark roads compared to the noisy parts of the street because the quietness helps to sooth my mood.
If I am wanting to walk somewhere specifically to even sit down I will put my music on and I’ll put a king of bouncy song on and will turn the volume right up, so I can walk down the street to the beat of the song. It helps me by taking my mind off the things that are getting to me. As if by magic within about 5 minutes I forget I’m walking, without a care in the world. I would say if you are ever down, get up and go do something it really does help.
The beach is my ideal place to go at night because it’s so relaxing, the cool wind blowing softly while i just walk by admiring the beautifulness of the waves of the water moving up slowly onto the sand. It is also good because I can go there and just walk for miles on end until I feel I am wanting to go home or I could go sit down and just watch the world pass as the tide of the water gets higher and higher, the stars are sparkling brighter than ever and the moon just sits and shines like a million stars in the night
Could you imagine having to run away from your home and your family because of a terrible war in your village? According to the Tennessee Office for Refugees, “It is a badge of strength courage, and victory to be a refugee.” In the novel, A Long Walk To Water, by Linda Sue Park, a young boy named Salva is a Southern Sudan refugee, a “Lost Boy”. He shows strength, courage and bravery when he makes his journey to escape war. Salva is stuck in his war struck village, and he needs to show these qualities if he ever wants to make it to a safe place.
In the book Breaking Through by Francisco Jimenez, the main character, Francisco Jimenez, learns to not let other people’s opinions of him affect his personality. In the beginning of the novel, Francisco tries his best to fit in and listens to his classmate’s interests so he can have something in common with them. However, as time passes, Francisco realizes that he is proud of who he is and where he comes from and learns to embrace that. Francisco and his brother, Roberto, go to a dance held at the Veterans Memorial Building every Saturday. At this dance, Francisco becomes friends with one of his classmates, Peggy Dossen.
A very important theme in the book A Long Walk to Water is perseverance. The first example that perseverance is an important theme is how Nya walks back and forth to a faraway pond 2 times a day, every day, for seven months a year without stopping. Also, on the path, there are thorns everywhere that are painful to remove. Nya only gets a small bit of water and rest even though it is very hot and dry. Even the water that Nya gets with much pain and suffering is muddy and infected with Guinea Worms.
Perseverance is an important theme in A Long Walk To Water. The first example of Perseverance is when Salva listens to what his uncle says. His uncle uses his full name, and Salva thinks of his family. Uncle tells him to only walk as far as that bush, or clump of rocks. Salva perseveres by thinking of his family.
Rough Draft Cross country is probably the simplest sport anyone will ever play. All they need is a pair of sneakers and a water bottle. The team runs together, but also as individuals. Cross country is great because even though it is hard, it will help make runners stronger and better at other sports they play.
A major theme in the true story, A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park is perseverance. Perseverance is to stay steady in what you are doing or in a purpose, especially when you are faced with difficulties. This is a perfect theme for A Long Walk to Water because the main character, Salva Dut, an 11 year old Sudanese boy, faced many difficulties and kept going. He took things ‘bit by bit, one step at a time’, a lesson he learned from his uncle that helped him get through the desert, and he applied it to his life and kept going and believing his family was alive. Even though he almost died many times, he did not give up, and he went back to his home country and helped many people have better lives by building wells and giving them clean drinking water.
There are multiple stages of grief and healing. The stages have no order, so one person may not be at the same stage as another when dealing with the same situation. The same thing applies to the stages of healing. In the novel “Ordinary People” by Judith Guest, the Jarrett family, Conrad, Calvin, and Beth are all in different stages of grief due to the loss of Buck and other reasons varying from character to character. The two main characters Conrad and Calvin move from stages of grief to stages of healing by recognizing why their grieving.
A Long Walk To Water In A Long Walk To Water, perseverance is an important theme. When things were hard Salva never gave up. The first example of perseverance is when Salva kept walking and walking and more walking with the group.
Hardships may not seem influential or beneficial, but that is exactly what they are. Although they’re not what you want to happen, they transform you into a better person. Hardships influence people’s lives by making the journey difficult and the rewards more desirable. In Enrique’s Journey, Enrique comes very close to America, but he is caught before arriving time after time.
A long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park explains the story of a boy named Salva who lives in Sudan and must flee from war and desperately trying to find his family again. First, a young eleven year old boy named Salva who lives in Sudan, is a Dinka, and in 1985, is in school one day, when his village is attacked, forcing him to flee into the bush. The group Salva was with left him, but an older lady living near by gave him peanuts and let him stay in her barn. Salva found a group of his own people and later, a man named Buksa found a beehive and they all ate the honeycomb. A boy named Marial became friends with Salva, and to Salva's joy, Salva found his Uncle, but in the night Uncle woke Salva and told him that Marial was gone.
Mess runs over people. Sometimes, they don’t get up. That’s life” which is much deeper than what I am going to get into but I relate to this because there are times where you just wanna give up on something. For example learning a new instrument or drawing. For me it was drawing, I gave up on drawing for a year or two because I felt I wasn’t good at it.
Resilience First Aid Kit-Reflection Resilience is defined as; the ability to adapt to stressful, or difficult situations. If you are resilient, you are able to adapt to situations which trouble you without major difficulties. The task was to “Create a Resilience First-Aid Kit”. My resilience first aid kit includes items that I believe will assist someone to overcome problems, stress or hard situations that may occur throughout their time.
One incident I can recount when I experienced failure was when I joined Cross Country. Since, I can remember I have always excelled at everything I did, from my academics to dance class to music lessons. When I entered into my freshman year of high school, I decided I would to join an athletic team in order to keep myself occupied outside of academics. I figured joining a sport would be another good attribute to add to my resume.
Teens should be given an environment where they feel comfortable telling someone how they feel. A key component in preventing teen suicide linked to depression is for the teens to feel socially connected to others, this protection factor has been linked directly to positive emotional health. Depression often stems from isolation, if teenagers are given a place where they no longer feel isolated, in essence, this could allow for reduction in the number of depression diagnosis’s and essentially leading to less teenage lives
No matter what kind of depression you have, the pain is the same-caused by a chemical imbalance in your brain. No matter what you 're depressed about, or even if you don 't know why you 're depressed, there are some simple things you can do to reduce your pain and anxiety, and get yourself feeling better. Simple cognitive behavior techniques and exercises can lessen pain and stimulate more productive thinking. Low-key physical and mental activity can also speed recovery.