2002 NBA Draft

“To Build a Fire” “Pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up every possibility of love, contentment, or even common sense” –C.S. Lewis. In the story, “To Build a Fire,” a man displays a lot of pride in his abilities to survive the severe cold climate across the Yukon wilderness. With this sense of arrogance, the man seems to do everything in his will throughout the journey to successfully master the inclement weather in which ultimately was a fatal mistake before the man even began the travel.…

Everyone has a different personality, and where they get it comes from the lessons that are taught to them in their childhood. The lessons people pick up shape them into who they are today. For the majority, those lessons are taught by the important adults in their lives. It was the same for Jem during his childhood. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Jem learned what real courage looks like, how to stand up for his beliefs, and what it means to be a gentleman. During Jem's childhood, he learned and saw…

This RISK project has inspired me in different ways, not always, has taking risks for me been an easy thing to do. Risk taking makes me feel like i’m not in control of the outcome and it could very much affect things that I wouldn’t like it to. This project has affected my personality in favorable ways. Being more open to risky things for me has been a valuable experience overall. I really like the idea of being able to take risks, and this project has made me realize that I can do risky things,…

Losing someone so close to you can internally and externally break you. One day you could be having a normal conversation with that one person talking about something exciting that happened in your day and the next day, they are gone. I can relate to this to a tee because I have gone through this with my mom. In my freshman year of high school, she got really sick and had a seizure in her sleep. I was the one that had found her and I was the one that called the ambulance. After a week of being…

Sneaked Out (?) Perspective often changes the truth. One who portrays an event negatively might change the story to support their view, thus taking out any positive sides of the story. Another who portrays an event positively would change the story to support their views, taking out any negative sides of the story. Is it possible to have a story with only positive sides, or a story with only negative sides? No. A perfect story is impossible. The truth is always a mix of good and bad, resulting…

In Unit 3 , there are two similar authors who write two different scenarios about democracy . They both have different perspectives and strategies that they use throughout their writing , Rose believes that in Democracy people don’t listen and Hughes’s perspective teaches you that humans need their rights and freedom. If you take the time to read “ 12 Angry Men “ , the story will amaze you with all the decisions that the jurors were making towards a 16 year old boy that was going to be…

Plato’s cage creates an image of prisoners seeing shapes of reflections from their controller. The prisoners are seeding things they believe to be real life. The prisoners can only believe what they see and are told in this cave. What the prisoners fail to realize is that the shadows they see are not the real world but the images of the people holding them captive. The reading speaks about what the prisoners are exposed to and what the world really is. The lesson to be learned from the reading…

Alex pointed his gun at Dwight. He hated him for a number of reasons he told him to go on his knees now his uncle had left to go to the Hilltop even though Rick expressed not to go at this time Alex still had Dwight on his knees and Rosita wanted Alex to kill him. "Why are you here?" Asked Alex. "Because I want Negan dead!" Said Dwight. "That woman you killed she has a name her name was Denise, and she was a doctor, and she helped people she was our friend and you killed her." Said Tara.…

FMA Ch 15- (Roy's POV) Four Weeks and a day After (November) Everyone in the office was worried sick about Ed, but Roy reassured them of his stable condition. Even rang so Ed could tell them for himself, which he did, though he did sleepily slur 'Yer-Yer, just let me sleep bastard.', if you could count that as reassurance... He had had a long day, but worked hard so he could get home to the boys and more importantly to inspect his home, he didn't want broken. He picked up some food on the way…

“He’s never learned when to keep his mouth shut,” Samuel states, before turning to me. “I heard you saved Victor’s and my boy’s life.” “News travels fast.” “Not really. I just ran into Victor. That poor boy couldn’t lie to save his life. One day, we’ll fix that.” “But I’m guessing you’re not here to thank me,” I growl. “You’re not as dumb as you look,” he states. “I’m here asking why you were there.” “Oh, just looking over last night’s footage where I was wandering around, jumping from cliff to…