Soccer Changed My Life Essay

The summer before I entered my seventh grade of middle school would introduce a trip that would change my life. The trip would be my big summer vacation right before going back to school. Many weeks before the trips time to approach I would complain to my friends about how the trip wouldn’t be exciting and how it would be another trip my mother was dragging me along to. My mother is a high school science teacher, she likes to host trips around the world for her students to sign up for and gain a…

For most situations, there is a defining moment. That moment for this story is not my own. ‘Cat’s in the Cradle’, written by Harry Chapin is a song about a father who neglects his son while he is growing up. When the child is going through adolescence, he tells his father that when he grows up, he is going to be like him. The song contains empty promises and missed opportunities. Once the child is grown up and has a family of his own, he fulfills his promise of being like his father. His does…

After all the work many businesses changed their ways and allowed disabled people to work at their associations. Another great progression during advancement in the ADA all stairs to enter a business or anything must have a ramp to accommodate for the disabled. Although the ADA isn’t always…

Sports: Do they help keep teens out of trouble? At some point every teenager falls under the ropes of peer pressure, whether it is the use of alcohol, drug use or even involved in some type of violent crime. Teenagers want to feel included in some way, and any way they can feel included teenagers tend to follow that path. I have read many articles and essays stating that teenagers involved in after school activities like sports, can lower the chances of them getting in trouble. Sports takes…

classes for at least a small portion of the day. In order to combat this, class period lengths can be changed from 70 minutes long to 60 minutes long, and the minutes shaved off from each period can be added onto the current “SOAR” period. I suggest adding this extra time to “SOAR” because it’s already used as a study hall for…

about your religion. At my age, when I was just old enough to comprehend what people said when they talked, I knew that something wasn't right. Everywhere I went I got dirty looks from people who looked lower on the scale of looking presentable than I did. Before I went to bed and prayed, the slim walls between my room and my neighbors started pounding, sending dust trickling down the wall next to my bed. My sister is younger than me, and since I was always as afraid as she was, my mother…

"Reset!" Mr. Z shouted through the obnoxious megaphone. Our mouths dry and salty, the entire band hurried lazily to their last set hoping not to be singled out. I spun around and pushed my foot forward when bam! I smashed right into a tuba player. "Sorry," I grumbled in a not so sorry tone. My head ached slightly before the incident, so now it throbbed. "No, don't worry about it. I wasn't looking where I was going." These run-ins caused an angry annoyance throughout the group. The marching band…

of fluffy pancakes as the smell of the buttery, crispy edges entered my nostrils and filled me up. My feet soon began to shake, and suddenly I found myself sitting on my bed. As I stood up the perfume of the salty, toasty, bacon strips lead me down the hall as if revealing to me the wonders of the kitchen. Once at the entrance, the chatter of my great aunts, uncles, siblings and cousins all came together as an annoying siren in my ear. The voices extremely loud and obnoxious. “can you pass me…

serene flight to the country of Haiti with my parents to teach the native children English. Upon arrival, an ivory, bulky-looking caravan drove my family and I from the airport toward the school that we were stationed to teach. As we rode on, the caravan ventured westward through the harsh, aggregated streets of Port Au Prince. Port Au Prince is the center of economic Haiti and the focal…

Seventh grade, my second year now at what I thought to be the worst school in the world. On back to school night I met a man who would change my perspective on life completely, that man being Brandon Lilly. Henry Adams once said “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” At a mere five-foot four he appeared to be a kid minus the burly lumberjack beard that he possessed. I remember being skeptical at first because I had never had a male teacher before. All of my…