Little League

What is the difference between a professional soccer player and a Surgeon? One of these two people save lives for a living and makes a little over $500,000 a year (Smith, Forbes), the other makes millions of dollars more for kicking a ball into the back of a net. It’s not difficult to guess which is which. The hard part is making the realization that this is not only an injustice but an incredible problem. There is no question about it, athletes are paid much more than they should be. The fact

Ivy League schools are prestigious institutions that accept only the top students in America, and they challenge their students in all classes. These institutes represent the best education and produce some of the most successful people in America. It is an honor to be accepted to any Ivy League, but attending does not come cheap. With huge tuition costs, coursework, stress, and pressure, some wonder if it is worth the work. As someone who has worked in admission at Yale, Deresiewicz knows what is

The Great depression was not the main reason that the league of nation was a failure. The league of nation was already a failure before the great depression started. So, the league of nation was not failing because of the great depression. There was other reason that the league of nation was failing. So, the great depression was not significant to the league of nation all. The reason that the league of nation was failure is because they were not stronger and they didn’t have their own army. They

I reluctantly took a step back as I stared at the commodious bleach white building towering above me. I have not been here for years and I instantly feel my stomach erupt in butterflies. Today was the first day of my volunteering program at the University of Florida. I stand outside in the clammy incalescence Florida weather dredging to go inside the enormous superstructure that reads HOSPITAL in big red letters. My first impulse is to turn around and whisk back home, but all I can hear is my mother’s

It is then I wonder how I even ended up in a job that requires one to be compassionate and charismatic all the time. Those days when you can’t seem to pull yourself out of a funk I remember. I remember the little blonde head of a stubborn, talkative child. She never seems older than five and she is always, always clutching a tiny Snow White doll. She has incandescently blue eyes and she smiles regardless of what has happened. The kind of kid who can’t seem

Ghosts by Naomi Wood The short story by Naomi Wood was written in 2012, and is about Pia, who is a middle-aged woman and the day where the short story takes place, is her 40th birthday. In this story we meet Pia, her partner Daniel and random people from the streets and of course Pia is our main character. The short story starts in the middle of Pia’s day, she just finished working and she is about to leave the car park at work. She is on her way home, where her partner Daniel waits to take

Elle McGinnity 4 November 2014 Mrs. Siragusa Period 2AC Paper #2: Personal Narrative Pain is a funny thing. Sometimes it strikes suddenly, a lightning strike in a quiet blue sky. It tears through you and for a few seconds you cannot breathe; cannot think. This was different. This pain was patient and slow. It crept up on me; starting as just an annoying dull ache in my hip. Gradually growing confidence, steadily growing until the roar of the pain became so loud, I could not focus

On August 6th, 1945, at 8:15 Japan time, the United States dropped an atomic bomb named “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, Japan. Little Boy was dropped from the Enola Gay, from 31,000ft and detonated at 1,900ft above Hiroshima. Dropping the atomic bomb destroyed the city, ruined and negatively changed people’s lives, and killed thousands of people. Some say it was necessary to drop it because of the lives it saved. It didn’t save lives. It was unnecessary to drop the atomic bomb because of the amount of

Alcott’s novel “Little Women” displays interesting qualities from her characters that represent aberrance and independence; Alcott challenged conventional beliefs about how women should behave in the 1800s. Similar to Alcott herself, the main character was determined to become a writer “despite the fact that popular portrayals of working women during the era often pictured them as socially deviant” and was considered unfit to become a motherly figure (Alcott, Louisa May). She wrote Little Women as a “‘moral

As a person ages, their perspective on life changes. A person eventually develops the ability to analyze, understand the importance of lack thereof of things, and not take offense at all the little things in life. Your perspective also changes through the dropping of preconceived ideas and by experiencing new situations. As you age, your ability to analyze a particular situation develops drastically. When you are young, you think that there is one plain cut, simple, black and white answer, but as