My apartment complex was quaint for the Bronx; it had an older group of tenants and was unusually quiet for the city that never sleeps. And the week before I started working for City Year, I decided to find a local basketball court to play some ball. I played basketball growing up and co-captained my team at Ann Arbor Pioneer. It has always been one of my favorite pastimes. So I figured what better way to break in the neighborhood than to sink some three pointers on these Bronx ballers on a beautiful summer day!…
Michael Jordan made the world a better place. Fast forward to a half white kid living in the streets on Wadsworth. He’s about nine or ten, his beloved cousins from florida have just arrived, instantly the Bogue, Johnson annual basketball game cominced. Although the “Bogue Big Three” rained the supreme for the past several years the “Jumping Johnsons” came to the unwieldy conclusion that they would obtain the dub and the bragging-writes.…
Since students don’t pay too much attention to punctuation in their texts, then ultimately, they don’t in their writing. Cullington continued by giving another teacher’s input by stating students are forgetting to add commas and apostrophes where needed and most importantly capitalizing words at the beginning of…
After six National Basketball Association (NBA) Championships, eleven NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards and playing an astonishing fifteen seasons, Michael Jorden continues to be an inspiration for, not just me, but for so many young people. His combination of motivation, determination, athleticism, and definition to the game of basketball is the reason why he was voted as the Athlete of the Century. As with others, I am a huge fan of Michael Jordan; I bought his high top “jump man”, silhouette shoes and I wore his black and red Chicago Bull’s jersey. I remember my dad and older brother watching every one of his basketball games; he was my hero.…
A.I believe the most challenging aspect of working in protective services would be not letting your career consume you physically and mentally. Knowing that there's such a great need out there and you're not always able to help when you want to,would be the most challenging aspect to me . You wouldn't think that it affects you, but it does. The emotional strain of the job and the desire to want to help everyone can be overwhelming.…
People everyday experience confusion as to the meaning of a sentence based upon incorrect comma placement. There was actually a legal case in Maine over the misuse of commas, particularly the Oxford comma (Sullivan). The Oxford comma is the labeled “optional” comma after the last item in a list and before the word “and”. Some people believe that the Oxford comma is unnecessary, but that is simply incorrect. The usage of this particular punctuation is considered optional by many, but given the many instances where not using it would make the sentence’s meaning difficult to understand, it should be enforced in classrooms and workplaces.…
About four years ago I was playing club lacrosse for the Villanova Wildcats travel team. I was about thirteen years old when I experienced one of my first significant lessons of failure. At a young age many do not understand the importance of failures and short comings, and how it is essential to learn, grow, and improve. We think success comes easy and without trial which is not realistic. My life changing failure taught me many things: the strength of teamwork, the power of preparation and will, and how to be a better competitor.…
During finals week of fall 2014, my grandmother was starting to cook her oatmeal in the kitchen for breakfast. I was upstairs in my room packing when I heard two loud bangs. I was startled and immediately exited my room as did my brother and together we rushed down the stairs into the kitchen. My grandmother had collapsed. She had busted her nose and hit her head on the cabinets behind her rendering herself unconscious.…
I have been through so many experiences that have shaped me into the person I am today. However, there is one experience in particular that moved me in ways I can hardly put into words. My freshman year of high school, I was given the opportunity to join the Klondike FFA Milk Quality Career Development Event team. Studying and competing in this event led me to develop a fighting hunger for winning. Halfway through my first year, I realized that I did not like to lose.…
During my senior year of High School, I have dealt with a negative educational experience that has changed my life to this day. In the month of November of 2014, I was waiting for an acceptance letter from Stockton University hopefully to obtain a career in Occupational Therapy. Throughout High School I became an excellent student having a 3.9 GPA, attending various amounts of community service, and was a varsity player for lacrosse and cheerleading. While completing these accomplishments, I have dealt with a major health issue that has impacted my life. Unfortunately, my hopes of getting into the school was shattered.…
If I could pinpoint the one day that has made the greatest impact on my life, it would be a day in the fall of sixth grade: the day I decided to join my school’s band. Not just the band; I wanted to play the drums in the band, which required a screening audition, a daunting task for a sixth grader whose only experience with percussion had been banging on an out-of-tune toy drum kit in his basement. During the screening audition, the teacher said to me, “When we are done, are you willing to immediately know if you will be in the percussion program?” to which my answer was a nervous “Yeah.” He then went about the screening, which primarily involved me clapping my hands to the tick of a metronome.…
It was a long day after he had left the house. My dad told us that he would be gone for a while, but he promised he will be back. I had just completed my second grade year and it was the start of my summer vacation. After a couple of months since he left, we had decided to move to Corydon from Brownsburg. We decided to move because most of our family lived there.…
I can recall the beginning of my college exploration during my freshman year of high school. Straight out of middle school, college sounded like a crazy idea that only existed in dreams. My guidance counselor at the time was so enthusiastic for us to go to college. She was spewing out so much information to me I was overwhelmed. As a first generation college student, this all was something very foreign to me and my family— but I was intrigued by it.…
I still have nightmares about the week when I didn’t have a phone. In my senior year of highschool, my phone got stolen and it took about a week to get a replacement. That week was the longest week of my life. I found myself actually feeling sad and depressed without my phone, which is quite pathetic. When I would go out with friends, I realized just how much of our “hanging out” time actually consisted of us sitting in the same place, but in different worlds.…
This article is, in my opinion, an example of how personal narrative can sometime confuse the author’s purpose. In order to frame her arguments she discussed her experiences with her family, and specifically how she was born a twin to a stillborn sister. She explains her families lack of coping and how her family effected her life, but I failed to focus on the overarching idea that she wanted to get out because of how distracting the stories from her personal life are. Instead found myself thinking that her story was strangely personal without much justification for why it was this way. While the point of her article, the balance between truth and respect, was somewhat present overall, the sections of personal narrative that she decided to include muddled it.…