My Lai Essay

I woke up hearing the infuriating and pulsating ring of my alarm. I checked the calendar, another Sunday, just like any other -- hunting day. I assembled my weapons into my old black duffle bag; a silenced handgun, a military-grade pocket knife and my SR-25 sniper rifle. Wearing a pair of ripped jeans as faded as erased blue pencil markings and a grey hoodie that hugged every crevice of my muscular torso, I headed out to my old black pickup truck. Throwing the duffle bag into the passenger seat with

to drink and you being you smack my butt and I cry out in pain and continued my walk as I’m fixing my drink the dog comes up and starts humping my leg right when you started walking in and then you say “But you want let me do that” and I said, “catch me and you can hit it all night”. I ran and you started to chase me all through of house when I reached the master bed room you tackled me on the bed and flipped me over and hoovered over me and just stared me in my eyes and started to kiss passionately

The Scariest Moment of My Life I have this fear. It causes my legs to shake. I start to feel dizzy. And I blab to anyone who is nearby. As thoughts of certain death run through my mind, the world appears a precious, treasured place. I imagine my own funeral, then shrink back at the implications of where my thoughts are taking me. I am terrified of deep waters. Of course, it’s not really a fear of the water itself. Rather, it is the feeling I get in the water, the floor of the ocean or

I think it's fair to say that a majority of people in the United States get up every morning with only miniscule problems to worry about. We are not affected by a crashing economy. We don't have mass numbers of people starving to the point where they are skin and bone. We don't deal with people trying to kill us for having different religious views as them. We don't have a multitude of corrupt groups fighting for power over our nation. We don't wake up surrounded by damages of the atrocities caused

Throughout my life, I have read so many books with hundreds of storylines and plot twists that have either stayed with me or faded away as time passed. However, some books leave a lasting impression, their images playing on repeat, their wisdom influencing my own life. One of these was, Silence, by Natasha Preston. It is the first in a two book series that I will always remember. The main character’s experiences and the way in which she handled them lingered in my mind and impacted my own experiences

By : Solomiya Plugator Over the course of my short life, I have been to every imaginable world. Of course, these simply exist in my mind. My mind, that tends to wander off to more places than anyone has ever been to. Using my mind as an example I have decided that I want to break out and travel the world, as many people on this planet do for one simple reason. They believe that by getting lost it is possible to find yourself. Questioning this theory that many seem to have engraved into their

Back in my hometown, Medford Massachusetts, I work at a local popular sub shop. This sub shop has people coming from all neighboring towns just dying to try one of our famous subs. I work here as a chef with a small crew of around 6 total workers who are all very close to each other. I have been working here for a while, and I have seen workers come and go, but the one thing I realized is that I’ve never seen/heard of a girl working here before. I figured I would bring this topic across to my boss,

A meaningful life means finding happiness in everything you do. It means enjoying and sharing time with your loved ones and having a purpose in life. To find happiness, we must go through different tribulations and situations, where sometimes life doesn’t seem to be easy. Happiness is an art that can be learned. It describes a deep sense of inner well-being, peace and vitality. You must know that even from your worst moments there is something good to take out of it. If we really want to be happy

In the speech that I just watched Admiral McRaven first talked about the importance of making my bed in the morning. His lesson behind making my bed in the morning stood for the little things. I believe what he said because I believe the little things do add up. The little things will inspire me to do bigger things and then those things will inspire me to do even bigger things and before I know it I will be doing huge things that will affect the whole world. During the speech Admiral McRaven talked

Plato describes beauty in the Phaedo as being “radiant among other objects” , while the other virtues remain murky in relation to it. Plato’s declaration of beauty’s radiance indicates that it is significant. Beauty is observed most clearly by use of vision, which “is the sharpest of our bodily senses” . Plato explains that “beauty alone has this privilege, to be the most clearly visible and the most loved” . Because of the way in which beauty stands out among the other virtues, Plato confirms