This week was fun for me because I made the soccer team and we had a fun week of practices. We had much less homework this week than the previous week which was very fortunate because my brother and I had their grade’s curriculum nights so I was not getting home until eight thirty. There were three quizzes/tests this week which was a little rough but I think I got through them well. I thought that the Socratic seminar in LA was a little bit of a dud because…
“ Micah Pistillo.” I never would have guessed that my name was the one that was going to be called. I was the one the judge raved about so much. I was the one who made her cry. I was the winner of the Editor’s Choice Award.…
I walk back to our bench after warm ups. My heart is racing as I look at the crowd, it seems like the stands are packed. I sit down as my fellow teammates form a tunnel for the starters to run through. Coach C. begins to list off the Creede starters. After he names the last Creede starter he announces, “Now put your hand together for your home Pirates!”…
There are a lot of words that come to my mind when I hear the name "Dairl Reece. " Emotions flood my brain as I consider all aspects of this one man. My grandpa is cantankerous, precise, and hard to love at times. However, he is loving, fun, and definitely follows the will of God. Dairl, or McKinley, is an average sized man.…
Ansley Haskard Coach Allen Comp III 19 January 2018 My Declaration of Independence There comes a time in every person’s life when one can no longer rely upon their parents for transportation. As we age, one major key factors binds us to our parents, and limits us the independence we rightfully deserve. That factor is that we rely upon our parents to take us where we need to go and when we need to get there, but we are limited by their schedule and their plans.…
When in the course of human events, I as a teenager, am at that point in life where I have to stop relying on my parents and am becoming more responsible with my own issues and tasks. I need to cut these ties with them and become my own person, I need to become independent. I, as a teenager, have written this Declaration of Independence to show why I am going, why I need, to become independent. I hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. In achieving life, liberty and happiness I am going to be an independent person and do as I wish to achieve my unalienable rights.…
Maybe it is okay to forget about the problems in my life once in awhile and just focus on the positives without a worry in the world. Lennie also taught me about how important it is to have friends that will run with me to the finish. George always had his back, and most people actually do not have friends like this. Someday these friends will help me in a way that I will never be able repay them. Friends are important, even when they are not necessarily on speaking terms for a…
KoKo was my only friend at first, then I met a few cousins. There was this one girl named Taliyah, Taliyah Ried , she stayed with me a lot during the summer. We would take care of Koko together and drive our four wheelers to the store and everything ! School time eventually came around.…
Monday, August 22nd, 2016, approximately 10 o’clock PM. I arrived home after a typical summer night out with my friends at the local Applebee’s, however I was greeted at the door by my already enraged father. Before I had time to take my shoes off of my feet, my father was already ridiculing me, spouting phrases such as “you’re so irresponsible” and “you cannot be trusted with anything.” Now of course there was some foul language included sporadically in those remarks, but overall I was shocked at why I was being attacked seemingly unprovoked. My father then decided to inform me that tomorrow at 8 AM I had to report to the soccer fields at Holy Ghost Preparatory School for soccer tryouts.…
Freedom Was once in America, we were once strong powerful. Then something happened our great nation fell. We are now no longer strong in the aspect of free will. We are not that great nation we once were Its sad to watch our nation fall we are used for our kind hearts us Americans expect everyone. You can see the change.…
I was not used to being clueless. Just as for many teenagers, when I got my license a new world was open to me. This was certainly a world where I had more freedom, and I had to learn how to navigate it, in more ways than one. Learning how to communicate with my parents as an adult was not easy. My new found freedom came with the catch of proving to them that I would be responsible and reliable.…
An “American” identity is created by the conflicts and tragedies that shaped our country. The day President Kennedy was shot. When Angel Island’s administration building was burned. Everything that made us who we are brought us together, it had us believe that their was a way to get past whatever situation we were in.…
Freedom, and rights for that matter, is a giant teeter-totter. You never have quite the right balance to keep it even and up in the air without your feet touching the ground. I think that I’ve had times where I’ve had my rights infringed on,that my rights and my freedom had brought up debate, but I think at some point we all do. I guess a time where I saw that freedom is more defined by the person is when I chose not to stand for the pledge of allegiance last year.…
Freedom. Everybody has their own way to define the intricate word. However, for me it’s different. Freedom was the endless lake that flowed past my house on Wall Street, emptying out somewhere in the distance. Freedom was the smile on my wife 's face, when our children hugged her goodbye.…
Cheyanne has always been there for me when I am feeling down in the dumps. We met in second grade at Prairie Elementary School in Haysville, Kansas. She was just like me in elementary school, the shy, dorky one. Neither of us had very many friends. I think that is what made the both of us become friends.…