Chance

A new year means a new beginning. It is a mystery what this beginning has in store, so many people have rituals to secure a lucky new year. Vietnamese New Year(Tet) is practiced to ensure a lucky new year . Before any celebration is held, it is crucial that one’s house is tended properly to bring good fortune. The house must first be thoroughly cleaned from top to bottom. It is believed that by sweeping the floor, that one is sweeping away the bad luck from last year. Hence, it is common for brooms to be widely sold during this time. It is must be noted, however, that sweeping on the day of Tet itself is considered bad luck because one may be sweeping away the new, good luck. Once the house has been cleaned, it must be decorated. Red and yellow can be seen plastered all over the walls of the household in the form of hanging decorations, since they are considered lucky colors. Among the red and yellow are banners hung for good luck that say “Chuc Mung Nam Moi”, meaning “to welcome a lucky new year”. Along with the banners are flower blossoms displayed in large vases. These flowers include apricot blossoms (hoa mai) and peach blossoms (hoa dao). Hoa mai are yellow blossoms grown in Southern Vietnam and are symbols of new life and abundance. Each petal is thought to quantify fortune. Thus, the more petals a flower has, the more valuable and luckier it is. Hoa dao is grown in the North and is pink in color. They are symbols of protection and assure security over the families.…

action or behavior performed to produce some sort of effect such as: improved fertility or increased luck. A taboo is an object or action that is avoided in fear of transgressing or producing some undesired outcome. A fetish is an object with a supernatural or magical meaning attached to it. A fetish is believed to have some power such as: granting good luck or making the bearer a better speaker. Gmelch shows that in the context of baseball, ritual, taboo, and fetish were common in pitching and…

Have you ever been in a situation where you had stood there trying to explain to your parents why you had failed a test that you were well prepared for, I suppose you look around the room as if you could escape the question overall because you simply can’t find a justified response. It happens to everyone at times which is normal but for me I’ve always had bad luck, it followed me wherever I went, from one hometown to the other. It would make sense to say no change ever brought a change in luck.…

That second chance that I was given in my audition should have never happened. In an All State audition, things like that do not just happen on a regular basis. The professional recorders do not make mistakes. However, when I realized that I had a chance to redeem myself, I had to take a deep breath and focus on the task at hand. I now knew that the possibility to fail was an option, and I was not going to let that happen, This audition meant too much to me. Singing with all my heart, I tried to…

believes in the American dream. Hope is a dangerous and moronic word that teaches people they can better their lives with hard work and persistence. But in the end your either on top or on bottom and who would put themselves in a situation where there is a high chance of failure and a small chance of victory. Susan K Perry states in “Can Hope Be Bad” published in 2013, “that hope is a positive emotional force for creating a desired future”, but in reality, people don’t have the power to better…

2014 and my softball team had the opportunity to play in the state championship tournament. We had already competed in the district championship, and we beat our rivals, Kennebunk, to win the title. In the past Kennebunk had beaten us in the championship game multiple times, and now we had our chance. After a short time, we had to pack up and go to Hermon, Maine for the state tournament; where we would spend one week together in a campground. The Hermon team was hosting the state championship…

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such a superstition, but he knows that they need to get going. So he lets Jim think that the caterpillar is bad luck. They keep walking back to Miss.Watson 's on the grass plains until the sun comes down, getting close to Miss Watson 's. “ Say Huck I think we should call it a day and make camp.” “ But we 're only twenty minutes away from her house, we can’t stop now.” Jim says, “ fine but don’t say that I didn’t warn you earlier about the bad luck from the caterpillar having five leg’s.” …

The Malchance Brothers “Get up. It 's time for school!” yelled Mrs.Malchance. One of the two 13-year-old short and frail brothers named Nathan prepared to get out of bed, until he realized that he was already out of bed on the floor face down. He had rolled over off their bed in his sleep. The other brother Lucas had slept weirdly and had a large amount of aching pain in his back due to it. “Hey Nathan how did you sleep,” Lucas asked. “Not very well, I fell off my bed during the night” Nathan…

Winner Messages (A Discussion on the Three Messages from Rocking Horse Winner) Rocking Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence was published in 1926. Rocking Horse Winner is based on a young boy presented with a father that is “unlucky” and a mother that is greedy. Both parents collide and build something in their child that makes him want to make his mother happy with money, and become “lucky”. The young boy finds his way of being lucky, is in horse races and betting on the winner. He bets more and…