Soccer Changed My Life Essay

“chicken-legs” or “toothpick” behind my back and sometimes even to my face. I was always being told to eat as much as I could so I could get some meat on my bones, so I did. Around my 8th grade year summer, before entering high school, my whole body changed. I’m not sure if it was me finally reaching adolescence, but I sure did change my eating habits. I finally started to gain some weight, but my body was still in shape because I have always been an athlete. I have been playing soccer for as…

Look Better, Feel Better, Live Better On just another day of hanging out with a couple of friends, my high school buddy, Taylor Reedy, asked me if I was interested in maintaining a healthy weight and being happier with my body. Without thinking about it, I answered yes. To get my attention, he told me that he found a product that could help me lose 10 pounds in just 10 days. That may sound ridiculous or unhealthy but he reassured me that it is one of the healthiest ways to lose weight. He then…

Moving from Albuquerque, New Mexico was the first impactful event of my life. When I was seven years old and almost a half, my parents told me that my family of six was going to pack up everything, leave our home, our livelihood, and move to Idaho. At this time, I was young, but I knew I was going to miss Albuquerque. Already, I knew I was going to miss the plump dappled quails who walked quickly with their wee babies toddling behind in a straight line and the skinny, all leg, roadrunners who…

that today was going to be my day. The day I break my personal backstroke record after a season of times that remained consistent. No more of this nonsense, I had thought to myself. I have worked too hard, slept to little and given up to much to settle for average. I can do this. As soon as that buzzer went off, my arms flew behind me. That momentum landed me perfectly in the water, and propelled me forward. My legs were in perfect repetition, moving nonstop while my arms imitated the…

Scout Finch takes us back and tells us about the past and how much Maycomb has changed since the Tom Robinson and the Bob Ewell case. Also, you can tell how much Scout’s thoughts changed about rumors going around about black people and Boo Radley. Based on the book “To Kill A Mocking Bird” race/culture, historical, gender, and other lens helped me understand the story, the majority of characters and how things have changed in Maycomb throughout the book. I have used race/culture lens to…

walked out my comfort zone and renewed everything in the States, I noticed that I was totally influenced by outside comments.” I wrote in one of my work ‘A Letter to my Daughter’ for this class, Bad Girls. It led me to rediscover the changes that happened silently. Not only for this one, every single reading and writing brought me different perspectives on gender and race. By linking the western culture to my experience in Asia, more and more sparks spitted out of my mind, and they consummated…

Video Games changed the World Too this day, I hear my dad tell me stories about how he used to play Pong all of the time as a kid. Now, imagining playing that game blows my mind. Many people do not know what the actual definition of video gaming is. Video gaming is an electronic game played by means of images on a video screen and often emphasizing fast action. The video game world today has drastically evolved from what it used to be. Games have evolved from little balls that went up and down,…

Where is my heart? I couldn’t help but feel small while resting in the clouds. Depositing all my trust in the machinery I sat in made my stomach sink, and I couldn’t help but feel the slightest bit nervous. Then it appeared, the country I had no idea I would fall in love with eight days later. Port-au –Prince, Haiti laid directly below me; complete destruction enveloped my vision. Four years earlier, following the earthquake that devastated Haiti, seeing it remain in ruins, made my heart sink.…

three words altered her life forever: ‘No Girls Allowed’. Lopiano cried for months. The prohibition was devastating to a girl who had dedicated her youth to a game at which she so clearly excelled. And it happened solely because she was female” (McDonagh 172). A girl growing up, falling in love with a game and ambitiously waiting to finally play on a little league team. Is now heartbroken. “When Zayra Calderon was twelve, her father told her she had to stop playing soccer with her brothers…

golf ball in the world. Also with an average of 25.25 putts per round Spieth leads the world in fewest putts per round (CBS Broadcasting Inc). Spieth also changed his pre-putt routine in order to get better reads off the greens. In order to roll the ball into the center of the cup it is necessary to have the right line and speed. When Spieth changed his pre- putt routine he was able to read the greens better therefore making more putts and becoming one of the best putters in the world (Spieth).…