For those who hear varied noises coming from my room: “waah,” “yahoo,” “ahhhh,” “noooo,” “dang it,” “sure” that’s the sound of individuals taking part in the online game Super Smash Bros. My older brother Joseph, his pals, in addition to myself, would spend numerous hours beating the snot out of one another on this sport. […]

The alarm clock blares at one in the morning, knifing through the silence of the night. As I roll over in the bed I hear the shower turn on, followed by the garage door opening and closing. There he goes again, I mumble to myself. The day commences with a minimum of fourteen hours of […]

As I was taking the SAT a week ago, I came across an essay question: Discuss the word Identity. Identity is a very hard topic to discuss. Identity is a state of mind that many people still do not have a firm grasp on. It’s even harder for black people. Growing up in an unjustly, […]

Final week, Marvel launched one more considered one of their star-studded films. That is no shock as they’ve a historical past of doing so with nice success. Spiderman, The Avengers, and X-Males are only a few profitable massive display screen productions that Marvel Studios had been instantly answerable for. Marvel superhero films have a tendency […]

“I know you can” was written on the pitboard as we came racing past my brother who was standing on the sidelines. One person stood in the way of my winning first overall at the Binghampton Amateur Motocross Nationals, and I wasn’t going to let him stop me. As we raced down the straight, I […]

The first time I am called beautiful by someone outside of my family is in an elderly home. I’m eager to find a volunteer position, but as there are too many working in the local Sao Paulo orphanage, I reluctantly agree to spend two hours every Wednesday in a Brazilian elderly home. I don’t like […]

Something was wrong. She had been in there for far too long. Standing outside the bathroom door, I imagined what I would see and knew it would be what I never wanted to happen. I slowly pushed the bathroom door open, and there she was. Not the girl I knew, but a total stranger. A […]

How does Sir Arthur Conan Doyle engage the reader? From analysing the texts written by Doyle, arguably the greatest writer of detective novels, we can see that he has a number of key elements to every story that engages the reader. The first, most noticeable, is that there is a strong central character, in this […]

What does taking a risk mean? It means stepping out of your comfort zone, and at times doing new things even if it terrifies you. One of the greatest risks I have ever taken was auditioning for my high school’s fall play. Not only am I a person who has no performance experience, but I […]

I sat going through the board quietly doing my work.My instructor requested how I appreciated the new college. I merely replied, “ It’s good.” I attempted to focus again on my work however acquired distracted by a cluster ofkids in the again whispering. I struggled to catch each element of the dialog however positively held […]