My Favorite Waste Of Time

It was a hot summer day in Hammond, Louisiana and I was pouring down sweat like I had just jumped in a pool. The game was just about to begin, me and my team was eagle eyeing the bomb squad. It was so quiet that you could hear your own sweat hitting the bench. The umpire broke up everyone’s concentration by saying, “play ball”! The defense had ran out on the field and I started rolling ground balls from 2nd to short-stop to third base. They had all made good throws back to me and then I threw the ball into the dug-out because the game had begun.

When I was younger I hated my skin color, brown as the soil on earth. I grew up surrounded by pretty girls with long blonde hair, light skin, blue eyes, and economically stabled parents who would take them on vacations

In U.S. ,Europe and many other countries. People generally want to be tan. But in other countries such as Thailand, Korea and China. They would rather be pale with a pink tone to their skin.

It is that time of the year again, prom season. Teenagers, mostly girls, prepare for weeks prior to this event. People regularly go tanning to make sure they look darker for their special day. A large amount of time, money, and effort goes into getting and keeping tanned skin. In an effort to avoid paleness, people tan to fulfill their need for confidence and beauty. But, everyone seems to avoid thinking about the consequences. Girls want to be tan to have a higher self esteem, even though studies show that tanning is horrible for a person’s health.

Being capable of doing this would be beneficial to some people because it doesn’t take as long and sitting out in the sun. There is a controlled dosage of the ultraviolet rays to reassure the consumer does not receive a large amount of UV ray, these dosages should be spread out over several sessions. A great aspect of tanning is clients get privacy in their own booth. Weight, being too white, tan lines and uncomfortable bathing suits are not an issue with the tanning beds. Another advantage to tanning is it is all year round. It doesn’t matter if it is snowing or raining outside you can still get the benefit of a captivating skin color.

A little under two years ago, one day after basketball practice, I received a call from an unknown number. It was a 512 area code, and I was curious to see who it was. I answered the phone– it was the regional president at the time, Barrett Dover, inviting me to join BBYO Lonestar Region. Even though I didn’t know Barrett that well, or know much about BBYO at all, this call was what led me to join. This personal call went a long way; for I would not be here today if it weren’t for Barrett and the 92 years of Alephs before me who have invited others to join BBYO.

It was a warm summer evening and I was on the ride to my softball practice with my mom. She helps out the coach when she can so she went to the field with me to get ready for practice. My entire team was pretty much there so I got my cleats on and started to warm up right away.After I was done warming up, I played catch with one of my teammates to loosen my arm.

I was at a flag football camp and we were playing a game called king of the hill, the coach asked me “What drill do you want to run?” I responded with butterflies in my stomach “Out” So he threw the ball. As it gusted through the wind and into my hands I caught the ball!

Furthermore, humans often think about death unconsciously, which results in an innate desire to maintain self-esteem (Jones & Leary, 1993). If someone holds their self-esteem relatively close to their appearance, which many people do, and they believe that being tan enhances their appearance, these unconscious thoughts of death will in further motivate one’s desire to uphold that self-esteem by tanning. Many people report tanning because they believe that it makes them more physically attractive, and that maintaining a good tan was a priority for them (Le Clair & Cockburn, 2001). For some, such a priority begins to consume them and we begin to face a ghastly magnification of the predominate threat of overexposure to UV light---when tanning becomes an

The first thing that many people think is that they are going to get a “base tan” to help protect them from the sun while engaging in outdoor activities such as going to the beach or sitting by the pool. What they do not know is that a base tan protects their skin the same amount that spf 3 sunblock would. According to the U.S. surgeon general, someone who gets pink after ten minutes of exposure to sun, would only increase their time to 20 or 30 minutes. David Leffell, the chief of dermatologic surgery and cutaneous oncology at Yale University

The time I was playing baseball in my backyard was exhilarating and definitely the funniest time was when I tricked my brothers into thinking I was hurt. Although I was loosing through the first 2 “innings” .My brother Josh and I came back ,but after that while I was catching I got too close to the hitter and heard a clang I was hit in the forehead with a metal baseball bat. It didn’t hurt at all but because I held my head and fell on the ground ,but my brothers thought I was hurt so when they crowded

We had all gotten ready for practice and coach told us we were going to go on a trail run. We loved trail runs because coach didn’t care how fast or slow we ran . we all loaded the bus so we could drive there I decided to sit with

Practice makes perfect. That is a saying that applies to many aspects of life, including tanning. You should get a lot of practice before you start

According to Sherrif Ibrahim and Marc Brown, in Tanning and Cutaneous Malignancy, sun exposure, at the end of the 19th century, was considered a skin protectant to cancer. Ibrahim and Brown state that before the Industrial Revolution tan skin was a sign that someone was low class because he or she worked outdoors, while “porcelain” skin was associated with high society. After the Industrial Revolution, this idea switched and those who were tan we associated with being wealthy and happy since those who were tan had enough time to lounge around outdoors. Since then, the search for a perfect tan has increased and the first indoor tanning facility opened in 1978 in America (Ibrahim &

Hughes wrote two poems that generated a lot of discussion about religion and African-Americans. One was “Drama for Winter Night (Fifth Avenue),” the other was “Goodbye Christ.” Once when Hughes was asked about