Overcoming Adversity Essay

It’s in the bottom of the seventh; your team is down by one, bases loaded. Your team is in the meat of the lineup, and you're up next. As you step out of the dugout, you take a deep breath, and you can smell the fresh popcorn and grilled burgers. You can feel the tension from both teams, each earnestly wanting to take the win home. You’re slowly making your way up to the plate, and you're hearing the faint cheers from the fans. But the voices that stand out the most to you are those of your…

My experience in the emergency department at Legacy Salmon Creek during my paramedic education gave me insight to the patients I hope to eventually serve. During this experience, I got the opportunity to help patients suffering from life-threatening illnesses. However, the majority of the patients I worked with did not have emergent conditions. I realized that many patients visited the emergency department because they did not have access to affordable health insurance for preventative care.…

Enter Lenny, his protégé who, according to the book, will take over the bookstore and get The Pinch published. It appears that Lenny has gotten by through life by making very little effort and is working in the bookstore to bide his time until he is drafted. He is practically a squatter, and deals drugs on the side; otherwise he would have no social life to mention. Lenny appears throughout the book at the wrong place at the wrong time. He manages to find himself, during an errand, in the…

500 words max each Each of our college students brings something special to our community. What will you bring as your unique contribution to the Student U community as a College Promise Teacher? Why do you want to work at Student U as opposed to other opportunities you may have this summer? My unique contribution to the Student U community as a College Promise Teacher is providing a realization for hispanic students in the durham public school systems that getting an education and going to…

The House of the Vettii offers the world a view into an intriguing period of life in ancient Pompeii. By analyzing themes such as punishment and divine dominion over mortals, within six Greek mythology based panel paintings in the House of the Vettii’s better insights into relations between the sexes is gained. Even in the male dominated society of the first century BC punishment is more about power than gender because it was imposed by both male and female. Pompeii is a small to medium-sized…

You Be the Judge As Rick Warren once said, “We are products of our past but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” We live in a way to prevent mistakes—not taking risks, expanding our comfort zones, or jumping outside the boxes we hide in. It is always difficult to accept our failures and shortcomings, but it always has a way of teaching us valuable lessons. Our mistakes are gifts and guideposts in our learning and growth as people. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, he reveals that…

True heroic qualities stem from a person’s desire to care for or assist others in addition to themselves. Most occasions, admired heroes in today’s society are recognized for sacrificing themselves in one way or another, such as how a hero is featured on television or on the covers of newspapers. Usually, this sacrifice involves said person’s safety in order to aid another. However, the question persists, does a life or death situation have to occur to become a true hero? Heroic traits come in…

The changing and growth of children throughout their life is an inevitable thing that will happen. Scout Finch from the novel To Kill a Mockingbird is not only a child subjected to the age of racism and Jim Crow Laws, but narrated the horrible events that go on throughout. The time that they lived in after the abolishment of slavery subjects them to extreme bias on the way they viewed blacks and other races either for the better or worse. Some ideas and examples and good evidence for the cause…

While working for the Educational Opportunity Fund program, I experienced one of the most heart-wrenching moments of my life. It was a regular Thursday afternoon, I was sitting in the office with my co-Resident Assistant when I received a random phone call from my mother. I found it odd that my mother was calling me during my shift, but I picked up her phone call anyway. When I picked up the phone, she was crying hysterically, I froze and asked her repeatedly, “What’s going on?!” with sorrow,…

Growing up in a Latino immigrant family, I was always expected to go to college. However, neither of my parents had graduated high school, so they could only offer me moral support and words of encouragement. My parents engrained in me a strong work ethic, and it was the driving force of my success in school, but I needed guidance. I would see my father come home exhausted after working two jobs, and I wanted something better to help my family financially and also so that my parents sacrifices…