A Good Day

A day in the life of a high school student. Today was the day. It was the day that I had pictured in my head since I was a child. I remember the last day of 8th grade. A stream was flowing down out of the eyes of my friends. I would miss them. I thought that day was going to be the worst. Boy was I wrong. I was standing there that morning as my mother’s camera flashed. It felt as…

smartest kids in the entire district jealous. He blew everyone out of the water in competitions revolving around academics, such as the spelling and geography bees. Everything including academics was an easy task for him--and it made him feel really good about himself. Only 1 kid can be the valedictorian, and he was proud to represent that. But on the flip side of that, getting anything wrong shocked him like a knife in an electric socket. When he got something wrong, he’d beg, plea, and cry for…

Last year, my second year racing, I had the coolest experience happen to me. On the Sunday before a race I had to speak in my churchs's sacrament meeting. On the days leading up to the race I worked hard and prepped for the coming race. On Saturday day of the race after setting up our pit zone two people came up to me from a team in the valley wearing U of U shirts. After asking if I was from Moab they asked me if I had spoken in my ward last Sunday. I gave…

Obituary of the Good Ole Days Imagine a little league baseball coach- a middle-aged man with graying hair and the faint odor of barbecue sauce lingering on his cargo shorts. He towers over his team of scrappy second graders and looks down with disapproval. Instead of encouraging the children to play to their strengths and enjoy the game, he tirelessly ridicules the young players for having more advanced bats and gloves than he did. Back in his day, he had to make do with a wooden bat and a…

The “Good” Old Days Advertising comes in many forms: written ads, pictures, radio broadcasts, commercials, and even YouTube videos. The world is full of advertisements every day in the modern era, and a lot of advertisements really go unnoticed, and with no lasting impact to the general population. Some of the best examples of great advertisements are political advertisements created by the public, and not the actual candidate themselves. In Marianne DeMarco’s video, “The Good Old Days”, she…

I’ll never forget that day, April 20, 2006, the day my divorce became final. After twelve years of hell, I was set free. My ex-husband and I met as teenagers and fell into a whirlwind romance. At first everything was wonderful, with all those late-night drives to nowhere, ones where we would talk about our mutual love for theater and music, where we would complain about our messed-up families. For the first few months, it was ideal. Then the trouble started. Three months after we began dating…

LOOK GOOD, BUT FEEL TERRIBLE IS THE EVIL TRUTH OF RA/PsA. THESE ARE DEVASTATING AND BLEAK DISEASES THAT HIT PEOPLE IN THE PRIME OF THEIR LIFE AND SO THEY FOCUS ON RETAINING THE LIFE THEY ONCE HAD. Our respondents professed dismay that they were struck with this disease when they were young – in their 30s and 40s – at a time when they should be experiencing life all in. They long for a return to a semblance of the life they used to have, when they could just do ‘normal things.’ One respondent…

Are E-Days a good idea? More schools have started to use E-Days more often. E-Days are the homework that we do when their is a snow day and could be replacing snow days. E-Days are a great idea. This essay will discuss with the reader that E-Days are a good idea because we won’t have to make up snow days in breaks or vacations,education, E-Days save money. First, E-Days are a good idea because students won’t fall behind in classwork. Schools in Ohio have been creating blizzard bags. By using…

example, if someone is having a bad day, the witty friend comes along and make that sad person all happy and energized just be telling them a couple of funny or interesting information such as a joke, statistic or even a fun fact. They even make the day go by faster. They do that because they keep making the day fun and interesting by telling jokes and many other interesting things that make a person laugh. They also make the day go by faster by talking all day long and don’t stop. For example,…

“If you give me five dollars I will be your friend forever.” This section of the vignette Our Good Day, page 14, is an example of subjunctive mood. This is when Esperanza is listening the two girls, Rachel and Lucy, when they are persuading someone to help buy the bike that they would eventually share. Cisnero’s use of the subjunctive mood helps reveal Esperanza’s inner wishes to have friends. Esperanza then says that the prices is cheap, since she only has one friend, Cathy, and she will only…