A Lifetime

Maya Clowes 1 Winters Creative Writing 1 Oct. 12, 2015 Memoir A Ride of A Lifetime “WOOOOO!” The familiar students from my school hooted and hollered from the seats in front and in back of me. The ride hadn’t even begun, yet that didn’t stop them from voicing their excitement. I on the other hand sat as content as possible. Trying to conceal my mixed emotions of excitement and nervousness. I’ve always told myself that I would NEVER get on a roller coaster in my life, but here I was…

My lifetime goal is very different from my dream. Dream can be taken away for goals cannot. There are some physical element that can interrupt with achieving my dream whereas there my goal cannot be interrupted. For example, my dream is to become a great computer science engineer to change the world, but one day through an accident, something that I cannot control, I may loss my eye and never keep my hands in the engineering field this is why my lifetime goal is different. My life time goal is…

they may need to work on; however, I have a greater extent than just a few. Punctuation is the major problem I still have; nevertheless, my punctuation has become finer, but this is still not a tip-top skill of mine. In my essay “An Excursion of a Lifetime”, I had some sentences which did…

Career Development: Lifetime Employability At the ripe old age of nine, I started my very first job babysitting my neighbor’s three children. While this may not seem like a real job, by the time I was ten, I was babysitting three days after school, most Friday nights and usually at least one weekend day. My cliental, after school was actually six children ranging from 1-6 years old. Soon I found myself having to recruit my friend to help me, for a cut of my pay, in order to take the kids to the…

Darrold M. DeLeon Essay C. Considering your lifetime goals, discuss how your current and future academic and extra-curricular activities might help you achieve your goals. Although I am not the first generation to go to college I am the first to pursue a traditional four year university. My parents had humble begins growing up in the impoverished islands of the Philippines experiencing its indifferent government notoriously known for corruption, homelessness, and danger. When the Philippines…

Memories of a Lifetime All it took was five seconds. Five short seconds to watch my life flash before my eyes. As I saw that teen lying on that stretcher, that eventually turned into her deathbed, my own life flashed before my eyes. As the nurse opened the door to take the medications needed I saw one of the most gruesome scenes in my entire life. A teen laying on a stretcher hanging on to her life with all the strength she had. She had just been in a head on collision while she was driving to…

any time is communicating in some way. Verbal communication is the most widely recognized form, but an individual can speak volumes without ever opening their mouth, through nonverbal communication. In the textbook Communication: Principle for a Lifetime, Steven Beebe, Susan Beebe, and Diana Ivy give tips on how to deliver a memorable speech that utilizes effective communication. I will also analyze my classmates’ speeches to exemplify devices that make a speech entertaining and engaging. An…

In her article “A Lifetime of Student Debt? Not Likely,” Robin Wilson proposes that students have liability to ensure that they will not complete school with an intractable amount of debt. In her opinion, although many claim that student debt is the lender’s fault for supplying the money or the school’s fault for charging lofty expenses, the flaw lies in the student when they don’t take different factors into account and live inside of their means. Wilson gives an example of this by saying,…

A Legacy of a Lifetime / A Gift of Gold. Whether it's a gift for a landmark birthday, an anniversary or a special occasion, The Ardmore Legacy is the kind that will be appreciated and remembered, long after the last drop is done The quest for the consummate gift can be like searching for the Holy Grail. It needs to reflect the style and sophistication of the sender while appealing to the sensibilities of the recipient. It needs to be attractive but not understated, exclusive but not…

The Ride of a Lifetime We have all had nightmares. They could be simple things such as seeing a clown or getting swarmed by spiders, but there are the ones that truly scare you, like drowning to death. For me, my childhood nightmare of drowning to death showed up at my front door last summer. It was terrifying, but through my experiences I learned that pain is temporary, memories are forever, and that you need to understand and respect Mother Nature to the fullest before you do anything…