2009 singles Essays

  • College Athletes Should Get Paid Essay

    791 Words  | 4 Pages

    The pro athletes get paid for their hard work why don't college athletes?College do as much hard work as the pros but they still do not get paid.They both compete for championships and practice almost everyday.College athletes have to wait to go to the pros to get money when they should get it now.College athletes work on their sport everyday like a job so you should get money in exchange for your work and labor. Athletes need to be healthy but how can they do that without the right food which

  • Miracle On 49th Street Book Report

    717 Words  | 3 Pages

    Miracle on 49th street To start off I would give more detail into how her mom dies and what actually went on with her specifically through the book she talks about when her mom was sick and how her mom wrote letter but that 's so it leaves you kind of confused about why her mom wrote and what was happening to her mom that made her so sick. Then what gets me is she hides in the back of a famous basketball player’s car. Who does that? It’s creepy and just wrong to hide in someone 's car, just to talk

  • Dooleon's Brother Quotes With Page Numbers

    641 Words  | 3 Pages

    Doodles brother is responsible for the death of his own brother. Three big reasons that led me to believe this is that he always wanted doodle gone from the beginning, he was ashamed and very embarrassed of having a disabled brother, and that he only helped doodle for his own personal benefit. All of those show why he left his brother in that storm to die. From doodles birth his brother never liked him or cared about him and wanted him gone. One example is “i began to make plans to kill him by

  • Giving Up Research Paper

    1131 Words  | 5 Pages

    “In order to succeed we must first believe that we can.” Finding the want to accomplish something major, or even something minor, whenever you feel like giving up is difficult. From the beginning of time people have needed motivation to keep going. When we feel like giving up a little bit of motivation makes us feel like we can do anything. Motivation can be shown through words, or even actions and can help us to accomplish anything we set our minds to. Whenever you start something and you’re really

  • Romanticism In Walt Whitman's From Song Of Myself

    973 Words  | 4 Pages

    Romanticism in ¨From Song of Myself¨ From song of myself, is a very open minded poem as the author Walt Whitman speaks so much in this poem about himself. Throughout the poem there is a variety of topics going on through every other line in where Walt Whitman declares that he is going to celebrate himself in his poem by all the personal opinions he provides in it. In this poem, Whitman explains how much he loves the world, especially nature and how everything fits together just as it should. To

  • Personal Narrative: In A Place Too Far Away

    1668 Words  | 7 Pages

    In a Place Too Far Away A lot of things can make up a person; their hair, their eyes, their figure, but it’s one’s experiences that truly make them up. People experience many different things every day. Some stick with you and form you while others fade. I am going to share how moving helped form who I am today. By convincing myself I wasn’t really moving, giving up on something I couldn’t control and learning how to fix everything all of a sudden, I got through moving to a little place a little

  • 11 Facts About Driving Under The Influence Analysis

    852 Words  | 4 Pages

    Drinking and Driving The article “11 Facts About Driving Under the Influence” states that every 51 minutes in America, someone’s life is stolen from them due to one’s selfish decision to drive under the influence. This decision does not only affect those of the lives they have deprived, but it leaves family members and close colleagues in pain and agony knowing that one’s ignorant decision, to break the law murdered their loved one. If one understands the facts, that will be stated in this essay

  • Babysitting Persuasive Speech

    804 Words  | 4 Pages

    Do you like to be in charge? If so then babysitting is right for you. When you are babysitting you feel like you are in charge of everything because most of the time the parents are out of the house and it is just you and the kids. I think two of the most challenging things to do while you are babysitting is one telling the kids no that they can’t have something or that they can’t do something that they want. The other thing that is challenging thing is telling whether they are allergic to something

  • Personal Narrative-It's Time To Go Back To School

    282 Words  | 2 Pages

    Before I made the transition to go back to school, I procrastinated by making up all types of excuses. First I said, I don’t have the money to go to school. Then someone told me to apply for a government grant. The government gave me a grant, so that took the money excuse away. My next excuse was I am too old to go back to school, college is for young people, and my mind doesn’t work like it uses to. I didn’t think I could keep up with the school work. To sum it all up, I was walking in fear

  • Discnglish And Become Successful

    614 Words  | 3 Pages

    The more you do is the more you accomplish and become successful. Because if we really look at it nobody reach their goal by not doing anything, And to become successful you have to work to your fullest potential because no one not just gone hand you anything. like a professional athlete they had to go threw a lot to get where they at today that didn't just come by not doing nothing you had to work hard and harder everyday. You just cant sit around and accomplish a goal there's no way that can just

  • Personal Narrative Essay

    461 Words  | 2 Pages

    “Brother, Brother don’t leave me! Don’t leave me!” I turned around I would never leave my brother, I apprehensively turned around keeping the hope that Doodle wasn’t hurt. Even though Doodle was kind of a virulent to me, always following me around being my shadow; I still love him even though he can irritate me. I had inferred that Doodle was hurt when I couldn’t see him anymore, I had lost all hope so quickly. Amazingly when I turned around I saw Doodle running up behind me. I had never felt so

  • Donatelli's Commitment Of Coaching Alfred

    283 Words  | 2 Pages

    Donatelli insists that “(Everybody wants to be the champion. That’s not enough.)”. He is trying to show how that if Alfred want to be a great fighter he will have to not just want to be great he will have to work for it. Donatelli need to have Alfred be determined to work hard and never give up. He needs to know that he is not wasting his time. In addition, Donatelli wants to knows more about Alfred. So he ask some question to see if he is a waste of his time, then one make him ponder about coaching

  • Example Of Paul Dialectical Journal

    587 Words  | 3 Pages

    Paul,if you are reading this it means that something wrong happened and I passed away and you have all my stuff that in the war it’s not so much and you know that my friend. I want that you keep Everything that you want, because there is no better person who can have it. May be from today my heart will not beat no more, my lungs will not breath again and I will not open my blue eyes one time more, but I know that I will be never totally gone until you, my closest friend that I had never, and my family

  • Analysis Of The Song The Worst, By Jazmine Sullivan

    976 Words  | 4 Pages

    I remember a couple weeks ago I encountered a boy I liked and I gave him my number.I hadn’t expected to make such a bold move in pursuit of love, but I did. To this day I can not believe I made such a ludicrous and spontaneous move. Usually I play everything by the book: the boys asks me for my number, not the other way around.Let’s just say I got a little bit of lyrical courage from the song “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen. Sometimes when I try to talk myself out of doing something I turn

  • Climb Rhetorical Devices

    511 Words  | 3 Pages

    There’s a quote by Nelson Mandela “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” This quote expresses “Climb” almost perfectly. Miley Cyrus wrote the song Climb released on February 10, 2009, about the self-defeating voice we all hear at times inside our heads, and the importance of believing in yourself when you face a challenge. It's about the reality that we sometimes fail, and that life is as much about the journey as it is crossing the finish line

  • Personal Narrative: Creating My Religion

    1460 Words  | 6 Pages

    Creating my own religion, this task does seem pretty fun. Well my religion would be very similar to the army and sports, it will contain structure, a need to compete/exercise, guidelines on how to treat others, and most of all it will be fun. There will be no reliance on a god/s, no prejudice against others and most of all, history will be made by each individual. And what I mean from that, yes there will be history but each person will be in charge of choosing their own paths in life. There will

  • College Admissions Essay: A Career As A Hockey Player

    827 Words  | 4 Pages

    “Coop, you’re up.” Championship game. This isn't the third period or overtime, shootout. Three people from each team get their chance at a breakaway, one on one against the goalie, and I was chosen. I had the tournament on my stick. I put my gloves on, get a couple taps from my teammates, hop the boards, and I’m on the ice. Here I am, standing at center ice with a chance to win a game we weren't even supposed to be playing in. If I score, we win the game, if I don't, we lose the game. My heart is

  • Definition Essay On Outliers By Malcolm Gladwell

    1525 Words  | 7 Pages

    When it comes to success, people have their own definitions. Some people may define success as having a job that suits them and by the joy they feel when they are in and out of work. Others may define success as having a surfeit amount of money without the need to be happy at their work. In the book, outliers, Malcolm Gladwell defines success based on the careers of the well-known and rich people and he mentions that they have achieved success because they are the best at what they do. Gladwell also

  • Personal Narrative Analysis

    444 Words  | 2 Pages

    "You can do anything for just five more minutes, only five more minutes." This is my mantra—what I mumble to myself as I run the 3.1 miles of complete pain, cross country. This is my mantra—what I tell myself as I lie in bed typing away on an English essay due in a few hours. This is what I tell myself when I am surrounded by noisy, hyper underclassmen—or by fussy babies at the nursery where I volunteer. My mantra has become a useful, inspirational aid to assist me in whatever challenges come my

  • Sex With The Beast: Poem Analysis

    696 Words  | 3 Pages

    Blessed like I sneezed All these lil beauties have sex with the beast I'm the best in the east and I'm living on the west coast Fuck niggas all gon' be resting in peace I suggest that you leave if you hating Cause I'm destined to be nothing less than a king Mufasa on these bitch ass niggas Get rich fast, pockets needs SlimFast I could make mesh out your teeth Put holes in it, get it? I'm on a roll with it Counting paper like a scroll with it Collecting money like a toll, green thumb Like a troll