A Better Tomorrow

Mentor Today For A Better Tomorrow Patrick was twelve years old and in love with the game of basketball. He spent the majority of his summer at the local high school and YMCA practicing for next year’s tryouts. Since everyone always made the team in the past, he was a little nervous about his first real test and the potential of being cut from the team. Even though the basketball season didn’t start for months, he was dedicated to being the best. That same summer, his twenty-one year old…

Once I was finished reading essays from NPR’s series “This I Believe” I found that the essay “Tomorrow will be a better day” by Josh Rittenberg to be extremely entertaining whereas some other essays lacked the ability to keep me interested. It managed to maintain my interest while still showing to be a great essay to read and analyze. The reason that I believe this is due to the fact that it does well when it comes to the point of grabbing attention with word choice, the way Rittenberg keeps…

Model Minority: Better Luck Next Time Often one’s perception of an individual could set a fixed idea of them before even meeting them. Usually race plays a huge role in how one is perceived by others. Minorities especially face this discrimination; however, there is one social group who is praised among these minorities. This social group is none other than the model minority. The model minority myth is nothing new; it’s often been used in popular culture as a background theme. One example of…

After reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me I firmly believe there are many positives and negatives that both challenge and support the Dexter Southfield mission of “Our Best Today, Better Tomorrow”. The challenging factors this book offers include whether Dexter Southfield celebrates is diversity enough and if Dexter Southfield students are able to achieve our mission through focusing their time on what interests them. Not simply going through the motions daily; bored and…

Susan Wolf‘s theory on how one live their lives is one subject that will be talked about in the days to come. She explains that the meaning to finding one’s happiness is through giving back to others in need and finding your passion. Although her statements may be true, she fails to mention anything about personal satisfaction. What is it about our personal satisfaction that would help us find meaning into our lives? Can our own personal success in life be sufficient enough to live a…

The Tomorrow series written by John Marsden is an amazing and eye-opening series, it highlights the extreme situations of war and what it can do to an indiviual and a group of people. The Tomorrow series follows a group of teenagers, in the first book they go away for a camping trip to a place called “Hell” only to return to find their easy and normal farm lifestyle ripped apart. “We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy.” Australia was invaded by an enemy country – over the course…

Blizzardstar was born on a snowy leaf-bare day. Lilysong, Blizzardstar's mother, gave birth to two kits that day. They were both named for the weather that leaf-bare, Blizzardkit and Cloudkit. Blizzardkit was born healthy and strong, but Cloudkit died from green-cough soon after being born. Lilysong raised her daughter to be a stone-cold fighter from the moment Blizzardkit was born. Lilysong believed in tough love, and she taught her daughter that her focus needed to be on the wellbeing of the…

our life is now but we can still make it better or more precious for tomorrow. No matter what love, joy and fulfillment we have now but there is alway a way and room from improvement and to make it better or more charming for tomorrow. Yesterday is already gone and we can’t make any changes for that, but we can make our today more beautiful, more meaningful, more productive than yesterday. And we can always have an opportunity to make our tomorrow even better than today. Each moment could be an…

Once upon a time, there was a family of five. The lived deep in the forest so no one will bother them. They moved to the deep side of the forest because one day they were accused of murdering someone. But really they were framed by someone they didn’t know. So they lived in the forest and stayed there. The mom and dad had three kids. Eli, who is a oldest, Hunter, Eli’s little brother, and Olivia, the youngest. Eli is eight, Hunter is six, and Olivia is five. One day the parents had to leave for…

desperation to see my hard work to life and the fire inside me provided the enthusiasm to work hours on trot on something which would one day carry humans to mars. With the last bolt in its nut, all I needed was to catch good sleep for the big day tomorrow. Howbeit, even with my eyelids growing heavy, the adrenalized me could not sleep even a millisecond, as I would picture different scenarios that could betide…