Ayumi Hamasaki Essays

Introduction Chirp! Cries a gleeful river otter as it slides down a muddy slope into the water. The river otter belongs to the weasel family, with its North American relatives that include the mink, fisher, ermine, badger, wolverine, skunk, and the marten. The typical male river is about three feet long and weighs about eighteen pounds. They are even similar to their cousin, the skunks, that spray a “musk” from two glands under their tail. However the “musk” doesn’t stink, in fact it smells sweet

“Where are you Going, Where have you Been” by Joyce Carol Oates is a short story that tells of the horrors that are possible when a child is rebellious and secretive. The story’s action begins when the main character, Connie, secretly visits a restaurant when she said she was in the movies, here she sees a man and he waves at her. Later, the same man shows up to her house when her family isn’t home and is trying to convince her to ‘go for a ride’ with him, and the reader learns his name is Arnold

I'm moving gently forward, over the wild and beautiful, unexplored world below me. I'm floating in silence, and breaking it up with the sound of my breath. Above me, there’s nothing but shimmery light, the place where I've come from, and will go back to when I am done here. I'm going deeper past the wrinkled rocks and dark seaweed, toward a deep blueness where a school of silver fish wait. As I swim through the water, bubbles burst from me, wobbling like little jellyfish as they rise. I would have

What if someone 's whole life was based on a secret from someone else 's life? How could one ever live a normal everyday life? It 's simple, they can 't. Dana Lynn Yarboro is a character in Tayari Jones 's novel "Silver Sparrow," who is a secret. Her father is a bigamist which means he has two wives and one does not know about the other. Dana is the daughter of Gwen, the wife no one knows about. It is clear that is all she will ever be in her father 's eyes because he is sure to stress the importance

Have you ever seen something so majestic and awe inspiring that it simply overwhelms all thought, such instances in life are rare, however when you witness one they become one of the true moments of wonder in life. Such a moment happened to me when I visited the Grand Canyon, it was truly a marvel to behold stretching as far as the eye could see, and one witnessing it can’t help but feel unbearably small in our suddenly very big world. The Grand Canyon is one of those places in this world where you

There are many things that are memorable in everyone’s lives. Things that run constantly in our heads, or the simplest things that make us remember that special event that has occurred. In the case of the book A Death in the Delta, Emmett Till faces many disadvantages due to his race. He is a young adolescence that goes down to visit his cousins, and ends up killed. Emmett Till’s story impacted many people’s lives that are memorable today. This story is touching and gave me three memorable facts;

Caroline Hinrichs Mr. Guastella English Honors 3 December 2014 “The Last Spin”: Becoming An Individual in an Oppressive Culture “The Last Spin” is a realistic and touching story about 2 boys involved in gangs in new York and how they develop an unlikely friendship under dangerous circumstances. Tigo and Dave are two young teens involved in opposing gangs, or “clubs.” Each of them is sent to a basement room one night to settle a dispute between their clubs. They are instructed to play a morbid game-

Baby’s Day Out (1994) is a comedy that directed by Patrick Johnson, which talks about how a 9 months old baby, Bink, who is from a wealth family that abducted by kidnappers and successfully escaped from them for a “day trip” by himself in the New York City, and later reunites with his family. As a comedy, such dangerous scenes during the baby’s journey are not “funny” and make me feel nervous about, but the movie does reflect certain “typical” behaviors of a 9 months old infant. Specifically, many

Sometimes you’re too caught up in all the bad things in life to enjoy the good things. I’ve learned this the last winter when my friend jordan and I went on a snowboarding trip to the mountains. I hadn’t realized how stressful life was until this very weekend. I was violently awoken by the sound of my mom yelling, “get up you can’t make your friend wait any longer!” this was a typical morning but usually i would be getting up to go to school instead of the beautiful rocky mountains in Jasper

My arms shot up in the air as the small crowd wailed and shouted. As we ran around with smiles on our faces and achievements on our mind, we took in the fact that we finally scored our first goal of the season. I started playing on a soccer team when I was around seven, and it’s been my favorite sport ever since. It’s when I started high school that I realized soccer wasn’t as meaningful to the small school as I hoped it would be. It turned out Mendocino hadn’t had a girls soccer team for around

American Beauty American Beauty was a film released in 1999, with actors Kevin Spacey as Lester, Annette Bening as Carolyn, and Thora Birch as Jane, portraying what seems to be the stereotypical suburban family. But in as the opening scene suggests with Jane saying she wants to kill her father, this family is anything but normal. The story portrays Lester Burnham, a 42 year old man, cope with his mid life crisis, and how it also affects the people around him. By using the parts of film such as;

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”-Albert Camus Life is hard, but it's not like you didn't already know that. We all experience our own unique blend of struggles in the uphill battle we call life. And it often seems like a fools errand to take on more problems than we already have on our plate. After all, only a fool would want to take on more adversity to try and overcome. Right? We all have our fair share of shit to put up with and often

Mankind has dealt with struggles since the beginning of time. The first struggle commenced in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Even picking and eating the forbidden fruit. Human struggles continue to modern day with challenges related to war, addictions, government control and inequality. Struggles are inevitable and are consistently operating in everyone’s lives. “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender

Hi My name is Haley and I have decided to share the story of my life. I have to include my best friend Brooke because we have been together since the beginning. I think I will call my story The Rock Cycle because my friend Brooke and I are both rocks. My life began inside the Mantle. Brooke and I were a melted rock called Magma. Our life was pretty easy. Most of the time convection currents caused us to float down toward the outer core, then float up to push against the crust and back down again

It can be argued that, eventually at some point in someone's life they have to face an event that can change their views on life and force them to think about their own. There are many cases where people experience life changing events but they all react to them differently. For instance, in the narrative of “The Life of Frederick Douglass” Douglass was able to take everything slavery threw at him and use it as a type of fire that helped him want to be more than just a slave. In my case, a lived

In 2010, Thomas Balmès released his documentary, Babies, which features four newborns from Opuwo, Namibia; Bayanchandmani, Mongolia; Tokyo, Japan; and San Francisco, United States. The basis of Balmès’ film is to share the first year of the babies’ lives, but the director had no set agenda with his film. Instead, Balmès wants audiences to tease out their own meanings, and he effectively allows for viewers to do so by combining elements of observational and poetic documentary modes. Additionally,

Candide is a satire, that possesses all the subtlety of a brick to the head, instead of getting his point across quietly using complex nuances, Voltaire exaggerates to the point of impossibility, and makes it clear that he finds plenty of his contemporaries ridiculous. Voltaire was an eighteenth century enlightenment writer, and he drew inspiration from other enlightenment writers and movements. Throughout the story, Voltaire makes several arguments, but sometimes he falls short of reaching and fully

Life is full of events and experiences to share. I could talk about my experience being a Hispanic American growing up in Los Angeles. I could talk about my dad transforming me as a 1st grader from an average student to one who wants to succeed in everything he does and as much as he can. I can even talk about my failure at driving a car in the beginning which led to instilling confidence in me going into the unknown. Stories are great and entertaining, but everyone has one. Chances are you’ve read

When the going gets tough, the tough get going – meaning when the situation becomes difficult, the strong will work harder to meet the challenge. Horace said “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant”. Good times are easy for people, and rough times are hard. When times do get tough, it brings out who you really are as a person, whether that is good or bad, you discover who you really are. You also discover who is good and bad in your

Throughout life I have experienced near-death, family and personal difficulties but I have had many self-accomplishments and life-altering experiences. I grew up in a small town consumed by nature and I had a passion for skiing, however, it came with a challenge. While skiing one day, the gondola reached fifty feet above the ground, the doors malfunctioned and I fell out. I hit a tree on the way down breaking my leg, collar bone and lacerated my liver. Rushed to the hospital for surgery my parents