Exemplification Essay

I was not prepared for the day I was told that my daughter had cancer. I froze as the words came out of her doctors ' mouth. I went numb and suddenly felt as if I were beside myself. At first, I did not believe the doctor and assumed he was mistakenly reading the papers of another patient. I wanted to pretend like the doctor had not mentioned anything at all. But, after a few minutes of letting the news sink in, I knew that I was going to have to suck it up and get through it, whatever the end…

Think of a sport. Baseball? Soccer? Football? Hockey? Basketball? What about golf? Does golf come to mind? All these sports require the person or the object move at a high rate of speed. What about golf? Neither the object or the person is moving at a high rate of speed. Golf is an activity that anyone can play at any stage in life, yet it requires an enormous amount of skill and prowess from the player. Anyone can play golf, yet it requires the player to use a combination of over 30 muscles in…

After thirteen years of school, an eighteen year old walks across a stage, receives a handshake, a piece of paper, and then enters the real world. Senior year is the year a high school student decides the rest of his or her life. He or she can decide to go to college, technical school, or straight into the workforce. For some, those thirteen years are long enough and there is no need for more schooling. In the long run, is college worth it? College degrees take time and money to receive. After…

Homosexual Bullying There are many innocent teenagers who identified themselves as being gay, lesbian, and bisexual and they have been bullied and harassed in school property and through social media from other students. Bullying is aggressive behaviors where majority of teenagers are being harassed, teased, and threatened in elementary school through high school and are repeatedly abused physically or verbally almost every day. Why should these innocent teenagers be treated differently…

For All Ages Adolf Hitler, the infamous dictator and murderer once said, “You can wipe out an entire generation, you can burn their homes to the ground and somehow they will still find their way back. But if you destroy their history, you destroy their achievements and it is as if they never existed” (Campbell). History claims that Hitler was so eager to destroy - do more than just send flames through their land, but through their culture, too. Arts and crafts has always been a major part…

Loneliness, self-pity, difficult emotions-these are excellent reasons for an addict to smoke dope in the first place. Now these reasons do not even matter anymore. The circumstances that got you started on your addiction no longer exist. You just keep doing what you are doing because you cannot stop. Life has gone on without you being present. When you are struggling with addiction, the thought of getting sober seems like an unachievable objective. Just remember recovery from addiction is…

A rite of passage is important in every culture and is present in every person’s life. It is the phases that a person goes through in their life: birth, puberty, adulthood. A rite of passage is an opportunity to grow and expand as a person to find one’s true self. However, there are some individuals that do not go through a rite of passage, resulting in unhappiness and disharmony. These individuals grow older but do not grow up. Without help, teenagers struggling to find their role in the world…

Prison Break Carmela Estrella B. Enriquez // BAJ 2-1D They locked him up in a closet for Twenty-four years but, he found a way out. He is, in fact, a mechanical engineer, bred with ingenuity and sparked with the right amount of madness. Twenty-four years he was locked up by the society’s machoism but one decision gave him the key to freedom. “I really learned how to strive hard and earn something from myself not from my parents, not from the people around me” he says. “Basically, that's my…

Once there was man with a pancake face but he didn’t like pancakes he like waffles and he was the only pancake face man and he wanted to eat the waffle people . He was the only pancake man on the earth because the waffle people eat pancake man every year and he was the last of the pancake people.So he had to keep his life away from the rest of the people .You would never think that there would be a lot of waffle people looking for a pancake man but there were. The waffle people all came to…

Being an American means creating and not destroying. It’s contributing to a better life not just for you but for those around you. It’s accepting differences that you may have with others. It’s tolerance. It’s being understanding. It’s being innovative and motivated. America should be based entirely around these ordeals but it’s not. Greed, prejudice, crime, and ignorance are what embodies America in today’s world. In 2016 alone there have been hundreds of mass shootings, dozens of mass drug…