Happiest Moment of My Life Essay

You can ask anyone what they think an iconic moment in film is and most of the time get a different answer from each person. My dad would say something from a World War II movie, my mother would say something about Julia Roberts and I would go into deep detail about the scene in Burlesque where Cher is applying Christina Aguilera’s makeup and how it transformed her character from a small town girl into a confident woman. I'm certain that scene is so iconic to me because that's what happened to…

announcement speakers came on. To most people it would seem like it was a very typical day to day event to listen to announcements; but at my school announcements were rarely ever said. My classroom got completely silent; to the point where you could have heard a pin drop. The words that came next were like an explosion and disbelief fell on all of us. “We want to have a moment of silence for a student who is no longer with us. Jonathan died last night and we want to keep his family in our…

Stevens-Point My interest in the Social Work Major emerged from personal experiences of life in an impoverished household. Early on in my childhood, I was exposed to a wide variety of instances in which a social worker was needed. My father and mother never married and separated which left my brother and I under a visitation schedule implemented by the local justice system. My mother later left my brother and I while was only ten years old and this carried a great emotional toll on my life. My…

Excitement bubbles over each passenger, and our faces radiate with joy. Anticipation blinds us from perceiving the grand distance between our vehicle and our destination. Every approaching mile draws us in more rapidly than the last. Smiling from ear to ear, my family of eight has been overcome by a wave of contagious exuberance, Our expressions sing in unison, “This long-awaited day is finally here!” The expanse of this adventure stretches much farther than the distance from our driveway to the…

bus numbers, it was the happiest mood I saw a lot of people in a long time. After we got are busses we walk down the stairs the teacher yelling at us to be quiet. The busses were down twenty feet from our door. I was running to try to get a back seat because that was where we could talk with a normal voice and not have to worry about a teacher telling you not to speak. When we got to the park I meet…

monitoring patients. I felt some fleshy thing under my foot. Was it the rat that we saw earlier? I looked down to investigate. It turned out to be the leg of a patient 's relative, sleeping on the floor next to a child with meningitis. I apologized her as I squeezed my leg between her and our typhoid patient, who lay on a mat next to her, in the overcrowded ward. There were patients everywhere. But each one was getting the best possible care and that was my only concern. Just as I came back to…

Growing up as a kid, I wasn’t into doing activities. I would always be sitting inside playing on my game console while my older brother would be playing outside every day. He would be playing all the different sports like football, soccer, running, even basketball. He would be playing basketball the most also this is how my brother got me into playing the sport I love now. Around the age of six, my brother would always come up to me saying, “Arish let's go outside to play some basketball.” I…

There are 350 million people who are battling depression and 42,773 people who lose that battle each year. I attempted to take my own life 4 years ago and to this day I’m still thankful I’m alive. Not many people can understand the struggles of depression, let alone the frustration that comes when someone suggests to me that I can just “get over it”. It’s definitely something you can only understand if you’ve experienced it yourself because sadly, there’s really no such thing as a little…

Draped around me like armor is my blanket, and clutched tightly in hand is my shield, which is the novel that I am currently reading. I sit on the porch for an hour, before I hear my friend stumbling down the stairs still trying to wipe away the sleep still in her eyes. She walks onto the porch in a way much similar to mine, but she scrunches her eyes closed as the sun shines into them. She continues walking down the stairs that lead to the beach. Closing my book, I set it down on the seat,…

mammals to metaphorically explains the realities of how delicate and cruel life can be. Sometimes, we can find ourselves encountering difficult situations. Sometimes it’s because we didn’t approach things with caution, we looked for it, or perhaps it could just be an uncontrollable thing that life tends to throw at you from time to time. Miranda does a well job of using animals and their natural instincts to explain how life is. The beginning of the poem starts of with a springbok that is…