2009 NFL season

Author, Steven Pressfield defines resistance as a force that drives us from doing out best, by consuming us with fear about our gifts and talents. Resistance, stops us from doing things that can be good for us because the unknown afterwards is frightening. He characterizes resistance as fast, powerful, and almost addicting. It is circling around us, and yet we have no idea when it is going to hit us. Resistance is not something that we can see, instead it is something that we can feel. A…

Kissing Flowers Now that I’m 16, grandma feels that I need to get out the house more. I work at the local clothing store downtown and I’m on the honor roll so, tonight I Decided to give it a shot. My older cousin, Karen, who is 16 as well, is taking me out to a party tonight. I’ve never been real big on partying because that’s all my mom did when she was pregnant with my little sister. “Mom you shouldn’t be drinking,” I said to her. She waddled around the house with a beer bottle in her…

Flannel heart under the tree. By; Dayton Weldin These flannel pajamas are so soft, this rocks! I cant believe mom let me open them early this year. Christmas morning is just 4 days away and dancing around my house showing my new pajamas off to all my relatives is how I choose to spend them. "Hey uncle Jeff you wanna feel my pajamas? They 're new! Mom let me open them early this year!" I beamed with excitement. He sat up in his chair and touched my sleeve with his hairy jungle arms. "Oh…

The Author Andrew Braaksma said in his article some lessons from the assembly line. That he wanted the reader to understand the difference between college life and blue collar life. He wanted to let them know from his own experience in the blue-collar life, although financially rewarding it was also a very hard life. His intentions, I feel was to prove to readers that a collage education can mean a huge difference in how hard one might have to work. The first point he wanted to make was, I think…

Analytical Essay In the book the absolutely true Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sherman Alexi goes over all of his hardships that he had when he was in high school . the book that I chose to correlate with this would be the Hunger Games because Katniss and her sister Prim go through tons of hardships under the capital Wasteland and you can make connections with family there. I will go over the similarities with the economical standpoints and how the family survives in hardships. Katniss and…

What is love? Love is the romantic attachment to another person. It is the warm butterflying feeling that lifts the spirit. An individual care more about that person than themselves. It is filled with compassion and appreciation. There multiple layers to love, but the most profound is true love. A true love is the individual that completes the other’s soul. They are one of a kind because they are the missing piece in one’s life. If apart from this person, there is no need to stay alive because…

After five days of nervous energy, at last, Malcolm is here in my apartment. I’ve uncorked a bottle of wine and prepared pasta with pecorino cheese and sausage for dinner. I pour two glasses of wine while he talks of how great it felt to drive the coast route. Something he hasn’t done in a while. And that he would have arrived earlier. Except Emese insisted to fix breakfast, and while eating, initiate him into the art of writing a screenplay. After dinner, we walk to the beach. “You seem…

Querlinks Through the eyes of shella These are the journal entries of a 10 year old girl named shella. These entries portray the feelings of this young girl and act as the sole account of what happened to this town. Children play in the streets and dogs bark in the distance as parents leave for work. All is calm and well even though world war three has been going on for five years and the U.S.A is in it. But all is not as it appears. There has been strange happenings. Disappearances. They say…

Demons by Imagine Dragons (Catcher Scene) Verse/ Hook/ Chorus Analysis When the days are cold And the cards all fold And the saints we see Are all made of gold When your dreams all fail And the ones we hail Are the worst of all And the blood's run stale Holden, as this first verse suggests, was dealt a bad hand. He has undergone traumatic events that no child or person should have to endure; he has been molested, has watched someone commit suicide, is addicted to drugs, and watched his little…

“We’re going to have to go through the back, because if a nigga sees you, they’re going to attack you.” I was quiet, my hands were beginning to sweat, and I think I was in need of the bathroom to shit. Once we got to the strip club, my eyes went wild seeing the lights flicker crazy through the floor. Weed and alcohol slaps my nose as they enter my nose making me cringe. Sky seen this. “Don’t worry you’ll get use to the smell after a while.” She grabs my hand interlocking with mine and pulls me…