A Good Thing

rewards set false expectancy for those who show minimum work. For example, Berdan says “We begin to expect awards and praise for just showing up — to class, practice, after-school jobs — leaving us woefully unprepared for reality”. This shows that things aren't just given to people. They have to work hard for them and they definitely won't be handed to them on s silver platter.Showing up doesn't count for work, put in the effort and do your part and maybe you can earn that reward. Just showing…

The first move was very rough for me, just the thought of moving away from everything I had ever known. I mean really from the restaurants I ate, people I knew, all the way down to the very streets. I sure would miss it all of it. It took me a long time to know even how to get around this city, aswell it took me an even longer time to know the dang state. So now I have to learn an entirely new place. I mean this was everything I ever known growing up, and now having to learn an entirely new city…

more thankful for what we have. I think that people are dissatisfied with themselves, their lives, and what they have because humans are jealous and greedy beings. That is how God has made us. We always want what we don't have, and once we get the thing that we wanted we…

When I was younger there was this barn up at the top of the hill. Me and a group of friends always wanted to go near the barn, but there was an old lady who lived up there and rumor had it that she was a mean old lady. We also heard a rumor on how her husband died. They say her husband died in a small crane when they ground around him just caved in and buried him alive. An every day we would look up at the top of the hill and look and wonder what was inside the barn because we see the old lady…

Have you ever went online shopping and the next thing you know, you are on Facebook and an ad for those gorgeous shoes are shining brightly in that sidebar looking better than ever? Eli Pariser explains why this is happening in The Filter Bubble. Ultimately, the new web is changing how we think and what we read. In this essay, I will review the book and discuss the arguments inside. Right now, we think that the information that we are looking up is general information that is available to…

The FogHorn Personal Response Life, a simple four letter word that we are all living in right now - probably the only thing that we have in common with other living beings in the world. Life, at times, a thrill ride but at times, the biggest obstacle we have to face, whether we like it or not. Life, we desire to live our life as best as we can until, we realize that there are things we can’t control, and that is our desire. Ray Bradbury suggests, desire is a complicated feeling we all have in…

When one reads “As For Me and My House,” (Ross), a book such as this can be read in multiple lights and dissected with several tools of context. In the previously studied text, “Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town,” it spoke of false fronts and who the human being actually is on the inside and how that reflects on the external environment. This book is no different, and especially so in the character of Mrs. Bentley. Mrs. Bentley, even though she is the typical, small-town preacher 's wife, she…

eyes to everything that I hadn’t seen. The teacher was kind of $famous to the students. She had traveled to the places she was teaching us about. She wasn’t just giving us the information out of a textbook, she was telling us real things that she experienced. The thing about this class was, every year, she picked a group of students to go on a trip to a different country. My year there were two trips. One to three different countries in Europe, the other to Australia and New Zealand. After…

society is one that is dehumanizing and as unpleasant as possible. Several popular books and movies describe a future society that is awful. Life as a child was great because I did what I wanted didn’t have to worry about grades and other school related things. In the story, it talks about a bleak world that I hopeless also in these stories a young person saves everyone because young bloods have more energy they also fight for what they believe in. The book anthem and the movie Maze Runner tell…

song has that quote at the end of the song to portray what would happen next. 2000 "This Is The Thing" I don't know if you notice anything different. It's getting dark and it's getting cold and the nights are getting long And I don't know if you even notice at all That I'm long gone And the things that keep us apart Keep me alive And the things that keep me alive Keep me alone This is the thing I don't know if you notice anything missing Like the leaves on the trees or my clothes all over…