Rock Mills and Rudys pizza Fireworks in the summer, we woke the neighbors Late July nights And day long hikes First time burned in the Honda Civic Going 100 in the snow We crashed, oh no That half built tree house destroyed in the storm exploring was the norm Reached the top of Old Rag and White Oak And then there was Libby God I hated her But you grew And moved away Take me back to the good old days.…
The Last Lecture Randy states “We cannot change the the cards we are, dealt just how we play the hand.” Randy really emphasizes this throughout the book. The Last Lecture goes through many stories of how Randy rethought his priorities in life after getting diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. This made me also rethink my priorities when I was reading The Last Lecture. Randy always has a different approach on life.…
A Long Way Gone Essay The effects of the Civil War were very traumatic; people would be captured and sent back to their villages with arms or legs cut off. Ishmael Beah wrote a book called “A Long Way Gone” which is a memoir about his memories from the war because he was forced to be a boy soldier. The civil war in Sierra Leone was a very cruel war that took place from 1991 to 2002. The R.U.F. was a rebel group from the war and they would capture little boys, train them to kill people, and drug them to not feel sympathy and make them have a lot of energy.…
Adams Richard has been rejected many times by many different company to publish his book, but until his seventh try he got finally got it published (Sainsbury Lisa). The book that he had try to published called Watership Down. When it was first published it he started to gain fame and winning award. As a man who was born in Newbury, England in 1920’s for many years Richard attend school in Horris Hill school later went to Bradfield for college (Varela R. and Varek R.). During college Richard was called up to join in the British Army, to serve as a Royal Post Guard against the Germany.…
Theme song I remember when my football coach showed me Don't Blink for the first time around 10-11 years old. At the time I was thinking it was a good song, but as the years start passing by the song started hitting me in personal ways. Life flashes right in front of you and it's like you don't even realize it until everything is gone. Life shouldn't be taken for granted, and should be fulfilled with everything you have ever wanted.…
In 1971, while appearing on the Johnny Cash television show, Neil Young decided to record an album. Elliot Mazer suggested that Young, the founding member of Buffalo Springfield and member of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, record it with him at Quad Studios. Mazer quickly assembled a studio band that consisted of Kenny Buttrey, Tim Drummond, Ben Keith, and Jack Nitzche along with “back-up vocalists,” Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor, to record Young’s quintessential and ground-breaking album, Harvest. The 1972 release featured two top-selling singles and Young mainstays, “Heart of Gold” and “Old Man.” “Heart of Gold” is Neil Young’s only number one single.…
English Essay 1 Daniel Akst begins his essay “Thrift: The Rebirth of a Forgotten Virtue” by using legendary television show host, Jack Benny’s as an example of his cheapness to show how the term “thrift” has had a negative connotation for years. He then continues to inform the readers of the outstanding national debt American household have accumulated since 1980. The kind of “thrift” that Akst is referring to is the action of not spending money (Akst 510). Akst describes spenders as the people who are embarrassed to thrift and simply flaunt their money.…
The first time I heard Riptide by Vance Joy I knew I would love it. From the opening strum of the ukulele to the nonsensical lyrics, the entire song connected with my lighthearted nature, but I could never have guessed how important the song would become to me. I spent the summer after ninth grade at a debate camp in Austin. I happened to be one of the youngest people there, so I tried to keep quiet, hoping not to make a fool of myself. Thus, over the first week I did not make many friends.…
Everyone one of you sitting in those desks are apart of this generation of pioneers and apart of the generation that will be one of the most innovative in history. Essentially all of you are going to be the trailblazers of the new entrepreneurial reconstruction, cultural metamorphosis, and an enormous technological evolution which will continue as we get older and as we exist in this great day and age. However, few are aware or are skeptical of the transformation that is happening in the United States as we speak. To prevent any further confusion I am going to define the basis of the resolution and several terms that may draw confusion. What you all are going to witness is why our generation which I narrowed down to the people born from 1998-2001 specifically, as this will be the generation that breaks the most barriers, changes the culture and essentially acts as trailblazers for and makes opportunities for others younger than us to capitalize on what we’ve created.…
Then when we got back to head to our hotel he was leaving and out of nowhere he gave us recommendations for other things on the island. As it turns out, all of those places where absolutely amazing as well. Later on in the week we were at a seafood place where we ran into and had a great conversation with the cook who made our food, and he told us that he had found out the secret to simmering egg noodles. As you can see, these people were just the greatest.…
Countless numbers of inventions are created by accident and on purpose. Such as sticky notes, potato chips, and the microwave oven. Unfortunately, many inventions were failures. These inventions were the wooden bathing suits, the snowstorm masks, and hairline brushes for bald men. Some of these inventions went up in fame and some went down without a mark.…
When I was just a toddler, I would try to climb in the dishwasher and take everything out while mom was trying to do the dishes. In order to keep me from doing that, dad needed to play video games as long as they entranced me. One of the games he played was The Legend of Zelda. Growing up with this game and spending time with my dad while he played it fueled the love I developed for this game and it’s music. The first four songs on the soundtrack of my life, composed by Koji Kondo, are songs from that video game.…
When it comes down to the songs that will play in the movie of my life, these songs would be dramatic. Every song would have a different meaning, and more attention, destruct and love in it than the last. There are certain songs that are more committed to a certain time or event that has happened. Some are due to it being the song we sang when at the time, some being the lyrics that stuck years later yet most are because of the feeling when the song is first heard. Going as far back that I can remember, most of the songs that I would hear would be on the car rides to school or camp.…
Last year during our spring break in high school me and a group of friends decided that we go on a road trip. At first we didn’t know where we were going to go but finally decided on going to Virginia Beach. We planned on staying for 5 days and then drove back up to New York. During this trip we had a lot of interesting things happen, especially to the car.…
I just listened to the song "Home Improvement" by Josh Woodward. What a beautiful song with a folk-rock tune. The song has a relaxing mood with catchy lyrics.…