Descriptive Essay : ' I Won The Competition '

After 2.5 million dollars, that we paid to help you in the war. You still expect us to pay this new tax. After seven years of war, a war that we paid you through. Now you are in debt, and want us to pay more and more money, money that we don’t have. The colonists are upset because of the Stamp Act, a tax on all paper goods, to help pay England's debts. Upset and poor the colonists were determined to find a way to abolish the stamp act. Our families, our pocket books, and we aren’t used to change..

     There was a rumor rolling from ear to ear that we were soon going to be arriving. How soon? I wasn’t sure, but I decided to tidy the children up and start to repack everything. After waiting for about an hour, I heard a faint ding run down the hall way. The ship was suddenly in celebration for we had finally arrived to the end of our long journey, America! The hallways began to flood with rushing foot steps and people were

Have you ever performed the worst that you could, but still got rewarded for it? Me either. In society today, we have come to the fact that everyone should be a winner just because they were involved. How will that affect our society when these "participation winners" get to the real life, and realize they don't win no matter how hard or not how hard they work? It has become a huge argument when coming to this topic all around America, especially in school activities with ages from 3-18. If everyone were to receive a participation trophy for their performances than that will affect society greatly when these kids get into the real adult world. Based off of the article shared and developed ideas, there becomes three argumentative

Are Participation Trophies in Athletics a Good Idea? In athletic completions, you or your team doesn’t win every time. It’s a known fact that there places that can be awarded depending on performance in competition, of first, second, and third place. A part of life is that you don’t always win and is a lesson that today’s youth aren’t having to learn or experience. Every person needs to learn how to cope with losing and that can’t without experiences.

Hours later, when Topsie landed in Ireland, she thought it was the greenest country she

I had been running late all morning. At home I had had a difficult time tearing myself away from my iPod’s updates about the next day’s presidential inauguration. Then, after I had driven to campus from my home near Stony Brook, I had to take care of lots of tedious paperwork-in-the-English-Department sort of chores and I had not allotted sufficient time for the usual first day of the semester backlog at the

It was April 3, 2015. While the wind danced around picking few leaves here and there along with itself, my spirit on the other hand, marked with unease and nervousness stood in stark contrast. It was time to board the airplane for United States of America; it was time to leave India, my birthplace as well as my home for 14 years. With hopes of achieving the American Dream, my family and I would board the airplane, oblivious to the opportunities as well as hardships and sacrifices which would follow. Although the journey might seem as a physical one - of around 15 hours, it was a moral journey of understanding new cultures, new ideas, new struggles.Nevertheless, it was a journey to understand the true beauty of the world.

“Thanks I’m going to work hard!” Alaina exclaimed. It was one more week until the exam and she was never so nervous. Every time she tried to study, she would get too nervous because the exam was coming up, sooner and sooner. She told her teacher,” I’m too

Perfect competition is an idealised market structure theory used in economics to show the market under a high degree of competition given certain conditions. This essay aims to outline the assumptions and distinctive features that form the perfectly competitive model and how this model can be used to explain short term and long term behaviour of a perfectly competitive firm aiming to maximise profits and the implications of enhancing these profits further.

The bell rang, and Mrs. Heath called, “Turn in your textbooks!” Vanessa looked at the clock, signaling the end of the period. As she turned her book in, Mrs. Heath told her, “Hopefully tomorrow you won’t be as incompetent.” Vanessa ignored her and walked out of the class to hear a crash behind her. The old clock had finally fallen and shattered. About time, she thought. As she walked into the crowded halls she was almost immediately shoved against the lockers. Her books fell out of her hands and she crashed onto the

I would like to thank you so much for sponsoring me for the National American Miss Pageant. I cannot wait for pageant weekend, August 1-3. I am extremely blessed to have the opportunity to compete for the title of Miss Jr. Texas Teen. If I go on to receive this title, I will do my best to make a difference in my community, especially through my organization, Pillows for a Cause, an organization that gives pillows to children going through a rough time. I will also work hard to inspire girls from all over Texas to help others and remind them that they have a voice that can be used to make a change in their community. The (Amount Donated) that you donated is going towards my sponsor fee and other pageant expenses (hotel, tickets, optional contests,

Thursday rolled around, Jane’s phone hadn’t rung. Jim taught her never to panic, because he was often late when it came to things such as coming home from work, arriving to dinner. This time was no different, she figured he was taking the trip slowly and would call her Friday

I am getting myself prepared for the biggest game I have in my career. The 2014 State Championship game. My team had driven from Temple,Texas to San Marcos,Texas, a three hour drive. I am only a little bit nervous because I know my team can win. We are waiting for the game before us to finish so we can play our hearts out. The referee blows the final whistle, and we step on to field and warm up. We pass the ball around playing keep away. The referees call for captains. My coach tell me which side he wants and I went over. The outcome was my team got our side and kickoff which was a win-win. My coach gives my team the lineup. I am playing defense which is no surprise. We break out and take the field. The other team plays really tight, but we have played them before so we know what they are like. We pass quickly and work the ball around the field. Soon the other team is out of position ,and we score a goal. We do some more passing. Making the other team run more which makes them more tired. We take a few more shots but we miss. Half time is called and then we go back to work. The other team gets a break away and in chasing the girl. As soon as she kicks the ball as hard as she can I stick my right foot out. The ball hits my

Ally smirked as the teacher walked in shouting about getting excited about class. Who would even be happy to be here? She thought, Especially not with a teacher who wears skinny jeans. Ally shuddered at the thought of it. “Dang it,” she whispered, glancing at Brennan to see if he heard. He didn’t, thankfully. Ally just sighed as she realized what the rest of her week in second period had become. A whole

“The Winner Within” is about a life plan for team players and what it takes to be a successful team. Each chapter is based on one subject, and that subject is one of the many things that a team needs to be successful. Pat Riley shares his game plan for team players in all of life, not just on the court. All of the strategies in this book are very inspiring and motivate teamwork. I think that the first chapter in the book, ‘The Innocent Climb’, is one of the most important concepts you have to have on a team. The innocent climb is the surge that occurs within a team as they are accomplishing more because of the synergy that occurs within a team. Innocence means understanding that the team comes first and being carried along by that.