Park and ride Essays

without the gratifying feeling of accomplishment. It happened on our road trip this summer at Six Flags in Colorado. My cousins and I made a deal that we had to try every ride they suggested at least once. Now, this sounded like a superb deal to me for I am always up for a daring adventure and how bad could it be, they are just rides. I remember how brimful the place was, it felt like I was at black Friday with all of the parents hustling and bustling around with arms filled with shopping bags or I

Do people complain too much? When nothing goes right the way you plan it, you start to think that you don’t belong in this world. Then you start to complaint and pin out all the negative stuffs that had happen in your life. You complain about the negatives in life without looking at the positives in your life. Then you keep telling yourself that you’re not worth it. Complaining is part of human development in life. Every time something doesn’t seem right they see the wrong as a failure in life and

How Stupid I am and Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Accept Me Dear admission officer, I know it will be a boring essay for you if I tell you about how sad my life is and I didn’t want to brag about how brilliant I am either. So, to catch your attention, I have decided to write an essay about how stupid I am and reasons why you shouldn’t accept me into your school. In my first semester on primary school, I was ranked 48th out of 60 students but surprisingly, I was 15th the next semester and 7th in my third

guessed that patience would teach me so many things in life. It played an important role in my life the day I was learning how to ride a snowboard. Small lessons can help you later in life. On that cold winter’s day, I learned that practice and patience are significant things that life teaches us. “I want to try the snowboard now,” I said as I watched my little brother ride down our hill without any troubles at all. The smile on his face made me want to surpass him even more. I wanted to be better

I was gone in a week. As far as I could tell, my parents hadn’t noticed. I moved two states over, and got a job. I was homeless for a long time. I’ve got a car, and a scrungy apartment. It’s been about two years since then. No one else has approached me spouting nonsense about a chosen one. It’s mostly just the same old thing. I go to work come home eat microwave noodles, and wish I hadn’t died. The parking lot of my building is where I spend most of my time. They don’t allow smoking inside, and

When you 're a kid you would never think of almost dying at sesame place, but that 's exactly what happened to me. As my family and I entered the park, my eyes grew with amazement as I looked around me. There were zooming roller coasters, families laughing, toddlers running around with a sugar high from all the cotton candy they ate, and especially the terrifying, enormous, gray and blue water slide, I looked at the slide with fear and excitement in my eyes. I knew right then and there that I was

graduation, she did several things before applying to NASA- she became an intern for Los Angeles County Medical Center, practiced general medicine, and then joined the Peace Corps, serving as a medical officer in Africa. When inspirational Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in 1983, Jemison quickly decided to apply for the astronaut program at NASA. However, shortly after her application, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded- therefore, resulting in NASA taking a break from hiring

When we feel wronged by someone else, for something that been done to us, someone we care about or to our lineage, we seek to get revenge in one way or the other. This common mistake occurs around us in the world today. The compassionate act of forgiveness is not having the desire to punish those who offend us, or our ancestors in one way or another. Forgiveness is the quality that separates civilized human beings from animals in the wild. It is essential in overcoming anger inflicted to us by others

Do you think kids should have cellphones in school? Yes, they do need cellphones in school. one main reason is that cellphones are good for education, safety, and emergencies. That are made for children and adults to use for everyday life. Cell Phones are good for research because if there is something to research in class they can do it so they can know what the meaning of something is or to research something for a homework assignment or a project. Many parents buy us cellphones because they

Caitlin Etheridge Ms. Weeks Earth Space and Science 02/15/2018 Sally Ride Sally Ride was an amazing human being, and she was an amazing astronaut! She was born on May 26, 1951, she grew up in Los Angeles and went to Stanford University, where she was a double major in physics and English. (Space.com, 2018). Ride received bachelor's degrees in both subjects in 1973. (Space.com, 2018). She continued to study physics at Stanford, earning a master's degree in 1975, and a Ph

Ederle became the first female to swim the length of New York Bay, breaking a men’s recorded. Ederle was an Olympic Swimmer who broke records and swam the English Channel during the 1920’s. “People said woman couldn’t swim the channel but I proved they could.” History proves that Gertrude was not afraid to swim across the English Channel in 1925, made endurance swimming famous, and she built the mold of socially acceptable in swimming so woman would not be afraid to do the sport they love. Her

she was the first Hispanic woman in space. As the second woman and first Latina to direct the NASA Johnson Space Center, she deserves to be remembered. The path to becoming the first Hispanic woman to travel to space was not easy. Inspired by Sally Ride, “Ochoa joined NASA in 1988 as a research engineer at Ames Research Center and moved to Johnson Space Center in 1990 when she was selected as an astronaut.” Ochoa applied three times before being accepted as an astronaut. “Ellen Ochoa became the first

A pioneering American swimmer named Gertrude Ederle made history when she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Her accomplishment in 1926 was a turning point in women's athletics and served as motivation for a generation of female athletes. People are still motivated by Ederle's legacy as a champion of women's sports today. Ederle was born in New York City in 1905 and started swimming at a young age. She became a gifted athlete very rapidly, and by the time she was 16, she had

“History is not just what happened in the past. It is what later generations choose to remember” (Ulrich 667). These words are extracted from an essay that can be found in the journal article written by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich titled, Vertuous Women Found: New England Ministerial Literature, 1668-1735. Ulrich never expected such a phrase to arise in the way that it did, which surprised her tremendously. A quick web search for the slogan, “well behaved women seldom (or rarely) make history” resulted

Mae Carol Jemison is an extraordinary person, who despite the pain of exclusion, has burned a path through history straight to the stars. Jemison left a mark on history by becoming the first African American woman to enter space. She also inspired many girls to follow their dreams no matter how much they are rejected. Mae Carol Jemison is a African American woman astronaut in the 80’s and 90’s. She shook the world’s point of view on African American women astronauts. Mae got many awards for her work

Amelia Martinez Mrs. Aderholdt 8th Grade Language Arts 18 April 2023 Powerful Women in Science How did Katherine Johnson and the other women who worked with her at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) impact the Space Race? During the time of the Space Race, women were hired within the scientific field as computers. The “computers” were hired to calculate the complex equations that space travel and research entailed. Katherine Johnson and her female coworkers were especially

Criticism is the practice of judging the benefits and faults of something or someone. The term social criticism refers to a mode of criticism that locates the reasons for malicious conditions in a society considered to be in a flawed social structure. Every day there is a constant social criticism on the TV shows, but why will I focus on a TV show? This is because in our century, people use more TV or Internet as media of information than a physical newspaper, so is the main media for the transmitting

Even from the beginning, this film both sets itself apart with the first-person “found footage” style, while at the same time, also has the chance to be not very different at all. Personally, I believe the movie certainly achieved the former statement; setting itself apart in a number of different ways. While taking from budget-cutting idea of Eduardo Sánchez’s The Blair Witch Project, using a camera carried by a character– in this case the protagonist– it also steers away from the horror genre that

John Locke: He is the father of British empiricism. He defines morality as based on the command of God. According to Locke, the basic principles of morality are decreed by God and are self-evident. From these self-evident principles, detailed rules of conduct can be deduced with certainty as in mathematics. In other words, Locke maintains that good actions tend to cause pleasure while bad action tends to cause pain. For Locke, morality is the law of God, and God supports his laws with sanctions.

“One thing I’m very concerned about is that as African-Americans, as women, we do not feel that we have the power to change the world and society as a whole.” With her life and accomplishments, she proves that idea very, very wrong. (Mae C. Jemison Biography, 2015) Mae C. Jemison was the first female African-American to become an astronaut and go to space. On June 4, 1987 she was the first African-American women admitted into the astronaut training program. On September 12, 1992 she blew into space