A Good Thing

WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE When I think of an example of why bad things happen to good people, the following passage from Christopher Hitchens takes the cake. He describes in vivid detail how a young girl was victim to true evil. I don’t know if that question can ever be answered. “Now, let's take a case of someone who's been "dealt a bad hand". What about Fräulein Fritzl, in Austria? Whose father, unwilling to get out of the way, kept her in a dungeon, where she…

This game was a blowout and I did fairly good on defence only missing one tackle. On offence I did alright despite the fact that my first carry was a fumble but before I fumbled, it was a decent run. I only remember little bits of the game due to the fact that I am fairly certain I got a concussion…

ahead of all of them. Lacrosse has been around as early as the 12th century but has never really been popular since now. Lacrosse is made up of 4 positions: midfielder, attack, defense, and goalie. Lacrosse has always been my passion but there was one thing that I loved more then the sport its self. And that is the position I play which is midfield. The midfield position in lacrosse posses three major characteristics that you have to have to be successful which are speed, strength, and…

guy picked up a wallet in the street, which he doesn’t have to return anything back like many people would have done. I think this writer is kind of hard on the anonymous guy. Maybe because he have lost his wallet recently. 5. Evaluate: The only thing that I like about this article is that it have the picture of the note that the anonymous guy write for Reilly Flasherty. The guy who drop his wallet at the theater. I think the “Missing Wallet’s Contents Returned with Note Confirming Thief…

and seeing something so foreign, so disheartening, so uncomfortable, is quite frightening. Some, however, experience this misfortune on a daily basis. I am one of these individuals, and so naturally the thing that would make my world perfect is to change this. I am transgender, and so the only thing that I can envision that would make my world perfect is to be able to both be and be treated as I am inside, as a girl. Ever since I was young I have had instances of not really fitting in to the…

to Kerri Cloud from Central Park Elementary School in Monett, Missouri. Through this service, I was able to directly help one of the teachers at this elementary school. This process was very rewarding and eye opening for me. I was able to learn new things that have to do with my future career. I was also able to gain a new appreciation for teaching and…

and he looked at me. "What do you think?" I asked rhetorically, but I already knew. "I think we can slide this thing to the bottom, is what I think," he said. "Me, too," I agreed, "It beats carrying it down that rotten road another mile." The plan was to ease the litter over the side then use gravity help overcome the friction of dragging it through the dirt. It would have been a good plan had the hillside been dirt or a little less steep. It was…

The book The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien is full of twists and turns that leave the reader wondering what is true and what is not. His complex writing not only makes one question the truth, but also teaches them about what it is. Through this novel, the author teaches his audience that truth is arbitrary. To support this idea, O’Brien writes about the process and composition of storytelling, explaining that there is a difference between two types of truths which he calls “story-truth” and…

“As a man thinketh so is he”, a verse from the bible noted by my Grandmother in the interview. Providing the listener with some of my Grandma’s strength as a person and view on her life. Being able to overcome alcoholism is one thing, but becoming a counselor for chemical dependency is another. My Grandma is a very strong lady and has been a great role model for many to look up to, even me ever since I was a little kid. Simply looking at my Grandma’s history: being sober for 51 years, beating…

Understanding the Misunderstood The three short stories, "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, and "A Small, Good Thing" by Raymond Carver each create an atmosphere that is intriguing and manage to deliver a surprise at the end. Each of these stories has very different settings and plot, thus seeming uncorrelated at a first glance. However, there is a unifying theme. All three short stories portray that misunderstanding and judging others in society can…