Description: There's a monster under the bed, or in this case, on the trampoline.
We jumped. We played. We screamed. We tried to kill each other. Bloodthirsty, 1 person was the monster. The rest tried to survive. It was a game that kinda went like duck duck goose. But if I would have known what would happen next, I never would have sat down. Never would have put my hands under me. Never would have played that game that day.
Drop drop monster. That's what we called the game. By we, I mean my brother Daniel, my brother Joseph (who we call Jojo), and my 6-year-old self. Jojo came up with a game where he said drop, drop, and when he said monster and tapped someone on their head, he chased them around in circles until he caught them. But, when he said drop, you had to drop down onto the floor. We were on the trampoline, and Jojo was chasing Daniel, so I sat there in the middle, with my hands under me. They kept going until suddenly, Jojo tripped. And fell. And of course, where does he fall? On me. I start to cry.
“Mommy,” I cry, “it hurts”. My Mom comes quickly from where she was on our patio. She looked at my finger.
“you're fine,” she finally answered, “go play”. I listened to her. I always do. But it hurt so bad. After 5 minutes of drop drop monster, my ring finger started getting bigger. And bigger.
“Mommy, It's getting bigger,” I told her when I went inside.
“You’re right, you need to go get an x-ray!”
“Whats an x-ray?”
“An x-ray is something where they look
In 1983, Raymond Carver introduced his short story “Cathedral” to the public. The first-person narrative takes place within the narrator’s home, where his wife is waiting upon the arrival of her blind friend Robert. The narrator, however, becomes more concerned about how Robert’s visit will affect him rather than enjoy the situation. Once Robert arrives, the narrator tries to understand the blind man, but he is unaware of what tasks Robert is capable of performing due to the narrator’s inability to “see”. In time, Robert shows the narrator the difference between looking and seeing through illustrations of a cathedral, drawn by the narrator with his eyes closed. “Cathedral’s” narrator exposes readers to anti-heroic views
It was all just a game, nothing more, nothing less. Recollection of events rewind than speeds up in my brain from when we discovered a box in my uncles to follow the instructions of the frolic going on among us. I remember how excited I was, I never played it before. By the way, I also have a question to all of you reading this...games are intended for purposes of enjoyment, am I correct? If so, is it terrible that I felt the cold sensation of terror.
Being an athletes is one of the best-paid jobs on Earth. Being that they are paid so much the cost for the consumer is very high. The prices of tickets and sports memorabilia have been steadily rising over the years. The average ticket prices for the NHL, MLB, NBA and NFL all rose 5% to 10% this year, according to Jon Greenberg, executive editor of Team Marketing Report. (Mihoces).
I attempted to wiggle my fingers, the pain throbbed worse than before. "No it hurts." I whined, the pain brought tears to my eyes. My hand was swollen and badly bruised.
Over 7,500 animals are killed in zoos because they are deemed surplus, as stated by Liz Tyson an animals rights activist. This giraffe in particular sparked a huge controversy. HIs name was Marius, he was homed at the Copenhagen Zoo and was 2 years old when the staff killed him with a bolt gun. Marius was then dissected and fed to lions in front of ongoing zoo goers. What got people fuming is that he was a healthy, young giraffe. Therefore I believe the killing of Marius should not be justified.
The cost of college tuition is continually on the rise and has placed many burdens on high school students as well as their families. Some of the burdens that are placed are a result of parents putting pressure on their children to earn scholarships. Some of the burden is a result of students putting pressure on themselves to earn scholarships. Then, there is the burden of high college debt once the student graduates. Is this pressure really helping our students or is it hurting them? The bottom line is college tuition is skyrocketing out of control and something must be done before it destroys our families and our children.
With NFL Players kneeling everywhere and soldiers feeling unappreciated, our country is in shock. It all started by a player named Colin Kaepernick, a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, in 2016. This event persuaded numerous NFL players to continue this process. One by one, players all over the league began to protest to call attention to the issues of "racial inequalities and police brutality". With mixed reviews of this protest, I believe that kneeling during the National Anthem of the United States of America is disrespectful because it is abrasive, selfish, and hurtful. Also, I am not sure that all of those protesting in this manner know the true meaning of our national anthem or the flag that represents our freedom.
The following day we gathered a group of people to engage in a game we planned to call Manhunt. This game played in the dark involved the ultimate sense of awareness. The object of this game was for a group of people to use their vehicles to drive at night time to find and shoot strategically placed teams of opponents. These teams would then run through the neighborhood from one destination to another. Later that day we initiated the game with 2 teams of people with 4 people on each team, which included my friend John and I on the same team.
Her hand was bleeding again. This time, it was the skin on the inside edge of her thumb, right where her mother used to put electrical tape to stop her from biting, which never worked.
In conclusion gangs are a violent reality that people have to deal with in today's cities. What has made these groups come about? Why do some kids feel that being in a gang is an acceptable and prestigious way to live? There are many different theories to these questions. On the surface, gangs may appear to be shallow and materialistic; a result of human beings' personal wants, but there are speculations that are more profound. In reference to the way humans are influenced in society, there is valid evidence to distribute blame at negative forces of economic disadvantages, capitalism, and the media.
Source: CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Health, United States, 2002. Flegal et. al. JAMA. 2002;288:1723-7. NIH, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults, 1998.
The basement was dark and creepy at night or when it was dark, so I always made sure that the light was on when I went down the stairs. The times when the lights weren’t on I’d always sprint up the stairs and never look back, because you never know what could be following you. Once you got the lights on though the basement was a pretty cool place. It was a huge room with a couple couches and a pool table in it. There was an opening in between the pool table and couch sitting area where me and my brothers would play tackle football when we were kids, until one day when I got tackled and cracked my head open on the pool table. After that mom didn’t really let us play football in the basement. The basement is kinda where me and my brothers lived when we were hanging out at
“Your assignment is to write a persuasive essay and present it to the class in a week. You will be graded based on how convincing it is. Today we will be choosing topics,” announced Mr. Bowerbank, my 7th grade English teacher and ruler of classroom 110. My class simultaneously groaned at the prospect of work. I simply lifted my head with intrigue as it was already May and about time we had our first essay. He then proceeded to give examples of topics we could choose and gave us some time to think before we had to tell him our topic. My classmates were already rushing to tell the teacher their idea lest someone else steal it. That meant the usual abortion, death penalty, or drug use topics were out. I really couldn't think of anything and the teacher was slowly making his way through the remaining students like an executioner beheading criminals in a line. I have always thought that he would make a marvelous supervillain if he had a curly mustache, a tophat, and a cape. Eventually my name was called. I slowly dragged myself over to his desk. Even sitting down, he still seemed to tower over me. “What is your topic Cindy?” As usual in such desperate times, my mind turned to food. “Waffles are better than pancakes.” I figured that a waffle was just a differently shaped pancake with a nicer texture. “Hmm. Excellent topic. I look forward to your essay!” I survived to live yet another day.
Why spend money that is really needed for other things? Why live uncomfortably? Why be trapped in this hole called a home that belongs to another person? Why not live free and peacefully? When a person rents he or she usually throws away money that could be used to purchase something that belongs to them. Money is not easy to come by so why pay out hundreds toward something that is not benefit to the person paying it out. There is no good explanation for making a decision like this. The best option in a situation like this is to buy a house. Buying a house is a better option than renting an apartment.
Having escaped rule from a tyrannical British government, the United States was founded on ideals of freedom and equality for all people. These fantasies of universal egalitarianism turned out to be merely that: fantasies. American history is full of stories of the oppressed struggling to get the rights they deserve and of the controversy over these issues that consequently ensues. “The Hypocrisy of American Slavery” by Frederick Douglass and “We Shall Overcome” by Lyndon B. Johnson are two speeches made confronting two of these issues. Douglass’s speech, delivered in 1852, condemns the institution of slavery and maintains that slaves are men and are therefore entitled to freedom. Johnson’s speech, on the other hand, was written in 1965 and discussed the civil rights movement. In it, he implored local governments to allow all American citizens, regardless of race, to vote. Despite the significant gap in time between these two addresses, both speakers use similar persuasive techniques, including ethos, pathos, and parallelism, to convince their audience that change needs to be implemented in America.