Sacrifice Essay

In the late summer months of 2013, I began experiencing sharp pains in the top of my abdomen; I referred to the pains as attacks. The attacks made it almost impossible for me to get comfortable; every position I tried seemed to hurt more than the last. The pain seemed never ending considering that it only occurred late at night between the hours of eleven and four. I only experienced the pain once every few weeks; sometimes it would occur for consecutive weeks, but it was rare. The pain was…

Loyalty. It makes people do things they normally wouldn’t do for the acknowledgement of another person. The house was almost finished. Nyx had spent all day setting up the wooden slats over the windows. “Don will be so pleased when he sees this,” she said to herself in almost a giggle. The house was almost a castle, it was so detailed. She dedicated every portion of the house to things Don likes; the color green, black lilies, symmetrical alignment. Everything in the house was perfect…

Most of the time people refuse treatment to self or to their love one is due to a knowledge deficit. Another cause that make people to refuse the treatment is a myth from that subject. Both the knowledge deficit and the myth require a good patient education. “Vaccine refusal is increasingly common in pediatric practices, with 89% of pediatricians reporting at least 1 parental refusal per month and 10% reporting greater than a 10% refusal rate” (Bass, 2015, p. 21). First, I would educate the…

At approximately 1234 hours on Friday, August 21, 2025, I stopped a blue 2010 Toyota on MO-350 Eastbound 0.1 mile west of the intersection of Westchester Road in Raytown, Missouri. I initiated the emergency lights on my patrol car as a signal to stop the vehicle after I noticed that the vehicle only had one license plate. The car started to stop slowly until it came to a complete stop. I then parked my car about 7ft behind the vehicle. I got out of my patrol car and started making my way…

My simple everyday chore routine quickly turned into a trip to the emergency room that I will never forget, all thanks to a Barbie bicycle and my overzealous attitude. It was a typical Saturday morning consisting of spring cleaning and the aroma of Pine Sol swept the house. As I diligently rationalized every excuse that came into my mind on how to avoid my mother’s dreaded assigned Saturday chores, I heard my mother holler for me to come into the kitchen. “Yes Ma’am?”, I timidly questioned,…

A bright blue sky hangs over a warm evening day. The smell of trees and fresh cut grass lingers in the air. Dogs run freely around the yard, cats sleep quietly in the shed minding their own business. Chickens roam eating anything they please. The warm summer breeze blows the few leaves that have fallen. A short small dirty blond girl was barefoot jumping on a trampoline. The warm breeze blows through her hair. A couple summers ago during school, Shelby jumped off of a trampoline and her knee…

The buzzing sound matched the fast pacing of my heart. As the soft yellow glow began to warm my arms through the windows. My attention turns to the white silky clouds of the African sky. I am nervous with anticipation to see if expectations of my country will be fulfilled. I am sitting next to my mum; a reserved women with sun kissed hair that has a wildness to it that doesn't match her personality. Sitting to my other side fast asleep is a brown haired boy quietly wheezing with every breath he…

In the story “The Invention of Wings”, you have two main characters that you follow, Hetty “Handful” Grimke, and Sarah Grimke. Both of their lives, big bundled up balls of yarn made up of good and ill happenings that shape the way they make their life choices and many other choices as well. For example Handful had the disappearance of her mother when she was a teenager, which led to many events like her attempting to find out what happened to her mother, thus getting her intertwined with Denmark…

Often as humans we tend to do things for the value of our sacrifice. For example, in our country American soldiers put their lives on the line knowing that the sacrifice they'll make is for the value of their country's freedom. People tend to do stupid things for what they believe is right or what they love. In the poem/book of "King Lear" our protagonist King Lear himself lets go of something that he values very much. The story begins with wanting to divide his kingdom through his three…

fighting for us. Today, October 21, 2031, is the 250th year anniversary of the surrender for the British forces at the Battle of Yorktown. There were many sacrifices made by men and women during the battles that to this day we should still be appreciative of them. The sacrifices they made weren’t just any sacrifices, they were major sacrifices. Some people put their families in danger and others put their own life at risk to fight for us. Leadership was very important in these times of…