The 4th Floor Essays

In my brief life, I have overcome a lot of adversity. My mom fled Mexico with her three young children to escape domestic violence. When we came to this country we had only a few personal belongings and the promise of a better future. We came to this country and lived in a small trailer with no toilet other than a bucket, and no shower except for the one that was lent to us from the kindness of a stranger, our new neighbor. As a single parent, my mother had to work day and night to support us

of four I always wanted to be a gymnast. At the age of five my mom enrolled me in gymnastics. I was in gymnastics until age seventeen. I felt it was my time to quit then because I was the oldest one on my team at the gym. My favorite event was the floor exercise because of all the different things you can do and all the different routines. What I love about it is you can start with one thing and transform it into something different by using the same skills you just learned from your previous skill

you out of commission if you aren’t careful. Ariana has trained with the suit religiously, knowing the ins and outs fully. She sneaks down the stairs to the third floor and plans her assault. “Ok, the first two guys are on opposite ends of the floor, I should be able to subdue them with no problem.” Ariana navigates her way through the floor, slowly creeping up on the soldier on the east

Everyone has a favorite shirt, they adore the way the color complements their skin tone or 1their hair or eyes. Maybe the shirt is even their favorite color, or a mix of colors. Since people have been wearing clothes, painting pictures, or decorating their homes and objects; colors have been involved. The blending of dyes and the mixing of pigments creates beautiful patterns and expresses people’s personalities and emotions. The use of color plays a big part in the story The Great Gatsby by F. Scott

The moment my neck hit the spring floor and my body shook with impact, I thought I would never have the courage to tumble again. Even with getting a concussion from tumbling I was able to still manage to get past that setback and achieve my current and future goals through practicing. I believe that practice will create courage. Starting in seventh grade I took upon a new challenge, cheerleading. I had never done anything in my life that was related to cheer other than when I was a child doing

everything is on the first floor, as they are not permitted under any circumstance to set foot on the second floor, for that is her own personal dwelling. She led them into the living room. "Now, I want this room to have wall-to-wall white carpeting with a gold trim. Please rid me of these putrid pink flooring. You can tear down the walls and rip up the floors and start anew, I don 't really care. Just fix this mess." She walked out of the room, her heels clicking on the tile floor with each step. "There

It is natural to want the best in life, to live in bliss and to never experience pain or suffering. Still, no matter how tempting that life would be, can one really call it living never to experience pain or sorrow along with joy and bliss? When the time of the ending of our life’s story comes, it is common to reflect on our past and to take in all of the good and bad that we have encountered. Gwendolyn Brooks’ calm poem, “The Bean Eaters,” displays the life of an elderly couple reflecting on the

in these villages have dirt floors. Dirt floors are not sanitary because bugs that can carry disease and harmful bacteria can crawl into the homes where the adults and children do not wear shoes to protect their feet. With concrete floors, the villagers are safer in their own homes. To build the floors, we would mix the cement with rocks, dirt, cement mix, and water; then the cement was shoveled into buckets and carried uphill to the house where it was leveled onto floor. Over a span of two days, we

Analysis of the Painting Foremost, the humanity represented by Starry Night over the Rhone is much brighter, as evidenced not only by the brightness of the windows, but the depths at which they are reflected on the river. Furthermore, the darkness of the sky is brighter than in The Starry Night, which, in the latter painting, is a symbol for depression. In the distance, the lighter blue is seen by some critics as the first signs of morning. It is important to note that here the optimism comes from

1.0 Introduction Economic system is the basic arrangements made by societies of the respective country to solve its economic problems. Basically there are three types of economic systems which are the command economic system, the market economic system and the mixed economic system. Each economy system comes with its own strengths and weaknesses (Sloman and Garratt, 2009). According to Investopedia, (2010) a command economic system is where the country’s government plans and controls all aspects

The animal rescue industry doesn't think that a girl is fit for the job. That’s why you very rarely see woman diving into freezing waters to save a dog or cat. Women are fragile said my father who believed women should stay home and take care of the kids. But i didn't care i was going to be an animal rescuer no matter what. “If you hold fast to dreams. For if dreams die. Life is a broken-winged bird.That cannot fly”(Hughes) I don't want to be a bird that can’t fly, i want to score higher than any

Wales is setting a minimum price for selling alcohol to decrease the negative externality of alcohol. Minimum price also known as price floor refers to the setting of the price higher than the market equilibrium by the government and no seller can sell the goods at a price lower than this. Alcohol is a good with a negative externality of consumption which is when the consumption of a good results in a negative external effect to the third party. By setting the minimum price for alcohol, the government

Introduction The von Thunen's model explains agricultural land use at a particular given location. It is also putting the spatial attention or importance of the economic factors rather than treating physical factors as the main forces. The distance from the market is the main factor that determines the economic rent, as it decreases with increasing distance from the market. On the other side Sinclair's model is explaining the agricultural pattern near modern urban areas. According to Sinclair's

Nowadays technology advance, we get inundated with ads from television, radio, billboards or magazine even in our computer. We can’t escape the messages is because the brands trying to attract and get the customers to buy their service or products ( Jane, 2011, online ). Most of us know that computer, internet and mobile phones are recently invented. Until 1990s advertising has more choices and print, television, radio is three of the most popular forms that advertiser like to used. Over the years

“Don Quixote” is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes, written in the 1600s. It is about a man named, Alonso Quixano, a nobleman who after reading many novels about knights decides to go out and looking for adventures fitting for a knight. He renames himself Don Quixote and takes off with his neighbor Sancho, who he calls his squire. Don Quixote seems to have an idea of what is right and wrong. He does his best to right what he believes is wrong in the name of knighthood. However, these attempts

Topic: concept of the book Beowulf is the first English literary masterpiece and one of the earliest European epics written in the vernacular, or native language, instead of literary Latin. The hero’s journey consists of three things such as, separation, initiation, and return. Beowulf cycles through all of these stages in the epic poem, so his journey does follow Campbell’s monomyth. Includes a quick synopsis at the side of the page, also has another languages on the left side of the book.

Shakespeare’s Henry V as seen in ‘The Wadsworth Shakespeare Second Edition’ presents the life of King Henry V who is indomitable to prove that he is capable of ruling England as well as France. After much conflict, both internal and external, and war Henry conquers France and triumphantly returns to England wooing Katherine, the French Princess, in an effort to link both countries by marriage. Henry V is categorised by many critics as “the most controversial of all Shakespearean histories” (Alcamo)

The 2008-drama ‘’The Hurt Locker’’, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, demonstrates the changes you go through when being at war as well as the difficulties that follows when risking your life. Not only are you put in situations, where your life will depend on comrades; you are also forced to see, experience and comprehend brutality, death and horror on a completely different level. In this film, we follow an American bomb disposal team and their attempt to co-operate. However, it appears rather unsuccessful:

efficient way possible. Picking up after careless customers that move around the products from shelf to shelf. Running freight of our hottest commodities off a truck that worked its way across the country in a matter of hours. Darting around the sales floor as swiftly as possible to fulfill customers’ needs to ensure that they come back. These are just a few of the stand out things that make hard working associates so valuable to Walmart. There are so many unsung heroes that customers take for granted

"not blameworthy," and the pondering proceeds. After a concise contention, eighth Juror brings into question regardless of whether the ground floor neighbor, an old man who had endured a stroke and could just walk gradually, could have gotten to the way to see the kid rundown the stairs in fifteen seconds, as he had affirmed. eighth Juror reproduces the floor design of the loft, while second Juror times him, and they infer that he would not have possessed the capacity to achieve his entryway in fifteen