A Hard Road

Have you ever thought about sports performance having to do with mental strength or with physical prowess? Doping is a choice that some athletes make to give them a competitive "edge".A downside is that some people may have the concern that mental strength is more needed and important than physical strength or physical prowess is more important than mental strength, and some believe that it is equally important. It is common that, some people would support the claim of which mental strength is more

Conflict arises from differences. It occurs whenever people disagree over their values, motivations, perceptions, ideas, or desires. If you are out of touch with your feelings or so stressed out that you can only pay attention to a small amount of emotions, you will never be able to understand your own feelings. It is important to know that if you do not understand your own needs you will have a very difficult time communicating with other people. In my own personal life in the past 6 months or

In the short fiction A good man is hard to find written by Flannery O’connor The family goes on a road trip to Florida, and the grandmother doesn’t want to go because there is an escaped murderer who is told to be headed to Florida. There are many different views of the story, but most of them revolve around the underlying religious message. The author uses foreshadowing, and irony to show what this story portrays. O’connor is from the south and is catholic. The grandmother in the story is a big

said “It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she says is figuring out what you are willing to give up to do the things you care about.” This quote means, make sure you are willing to give up something for what you care about and believe because you will have to give things up. This statement is true because if someone believes in something they be willing to give something up or that person doesn’t really care or believe in it. Both “Untraveled Road” by Thousand

understanding. In “The Road Not Taken,” he describes what many people encounter daily with decision making. This poem talks about choices we make by comparing them to a folk in a road that may seem less or often traveled. Many people are confronted with choices in their everyday life, which could affect them long term whether it is negative or positive. The options we decide on can determine what our future and present life holds whether it is good or bad. In Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken”, Frost

Adolescence is a bumpy and unknown section of the road known as life. Both the short story “Marigolds” by Eugenia Collier and the poem “Hard on the Gas,” by Janet S. Wong relate to the theme that “the road to growing up and maturing isn’t always smooth”. “Marigolds is the story of an adolescent who is growing up in the Great Depression. Through hard experiences and tumultuous emotions, the narrator learns that growing up is full of ups and downs. “Hard on the Gas” is a poem about a grandchild driving

four wheeler to school or work and not having anyone blink an eye. The law says that paved roads are built for cars and trucks and that four wheelers are too hard to control and are not safe to ride on roads. Although the law says four wheelers are not allowed on roads, they should be because most can go just as fast as cars and trucks, they get better gas mileage, but they are not safe to ride on paved roads. The average speed of four wheeler goes 52 mph, there for they can keep up with cars. If the

lazy and choose the easy way out of things, but forget that the hard way may be the best way. Both the “Road Not Taken” by Thousand Foot Krutch and Untraveled Road by Robert Frost both deal with the idea of “what is right is often forgotten by what is convenient”. By not taking the easy way out, a person might have a better outcome in the end. In the poem “Road Not Taken” the author Robert Frost is writing about two roads and he is trying to pick one. They both look fair and so he picked

in "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" Flannery O' Connor uses symbolism to give more meaning to her short story. O'Connor writes a story of a Grandmother versus a Misfit, or good versus evil. This short story is about a family going to Florida, who takes a turn down a dirt road, which only causes them to get in an accident, and be found by the Misfit. This encounter prevented them from ever arriving Florida, because the Misfit ends their lives. Using symbolism, O'Connor creates a story with much meaning

Cross road Life is like a cross road, you can take different paths. Just like freshmen year when i had to either get passing grades to play football or not be eligible to play for bad grades. For this season in football i started late because i had stitches in my nose and could not be active for a week. So that made me want to work ever harder to be starting on the team. It was long hard practices but i had to push through to accomplish my goal. The last game i played the most i ever had in a