A Lifetime

Joyas Volardoras, written by Brian Doyle, explains how every heartbeat throughout a person’s lifetime should be valued and not taken for granted. Doyle frequently uses punctuation that mimics the human heart to explain how the heart beats and to show the importance of each beat. Doyle’s opening two paragraphs contain excessive amounts of commons, which occur every few words. “But when they rest they come to death on frigid nights, or when they are starving, they retreat into torpor, their…

graduates earn more money is college graduates earn $2.1 million in their lifetime while only high school graduates earn $1.2 million in their lifetime. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, people who graduate with a bachelor’s degree likely earn twice as much as high school graduates. The advantages of obtaining a bachelor’s degree exceeds the cost of tuition. Another reason is college graduates have $800,000 extra in lifetime earnings if attending a more expensive, well educated college.…

many students cherish. Students should definitely be allowed to play sports in schools because sports have a good effect on students lifetime and skills, people are taking more precautions, and organizations are giving money to fund these programs. Undeniably, the schools should unquestionably not ban sports from schools because they have a good effect on students lifetime and skills. Singularly,…

someones lifes purpose can be physical or mental. Within my lifetime I want to help contribute in a problem that is plaguing humanity. Currently cancer is an uprising problem within our population that is rapidly diminishing much of the human race. Cancer is a disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body. Approximately 39.6% of men and women will be diagnosed with cancer of any site during their lifetime. What I want to do later in the future is to help…

what was the “King of Kings” (10). During his lifetime Ozymandias had power and richest. After his death, he was not remembered but forgotten. Shelley on the other hand, during his lifetime had poetry. After his death, he was recognized for his great talent and is still remembered. During Ozymandias lifetime he received attention and was worshiped but at the end, his statue ended up as ruins. While Shelley was not praised for his work during his lifetime, after his passing his work was highly…

credit. Although some of the most famous inventions or ideas have gone unknown. People should not do things for recognition but for the thought of accomplishing or creating something. Some of the best writers in history were unrecognized during their lifetime for example, Scott Fitzgerald who wrote The Great Gatsby and English American novel. A friend of Fitzgerald who attended his funeral stated “When Scott died in 1940, it almost seemed as if he was forgotten. Although the Great Gatsby sold…

duration of my lifetime, and how the results of those goals ultimately helped others. At 70 years old, I can only hope that I still believe that a "successful" life is one that has continuously serviced others through compassion, care, and kindness. Although I will have many short-term, "minor" goals along the way, in the end, my long-term goal is to leave a positive impact on the lives of those I love. In the end, I define "success" as accomplishing goals. Throughout my lifetime, I want to…

Mrs. Wertz Sabrina Penton Book report Athletes and drug use Athletes using and abusing drugs was the everyday topic people talked about in the year of 2001. There were many questions that were being brought up in sports fans conversations of professional sports using drugs. One of the most frequent questions asked, and being talked about was if the professional athletes that were using performance enhancing drugs would that be…

may cause cancer, but extremely rare if it does cause cancer. Cancer cause in older people, because scientist believe that cancer happen when several genes reproduce. That why cancer often occur in older people, because cancer cell produce over a lifetime. They’re many type of cancer such as lung, skin, breast, liver cancer. The…

many challenges in a mere few years, that most never suffer in a lifetime. She lost her father as a young child during a mine incident, then became the head of the household at age eleven. Katniss volunteered for the Hunger Games in place of her sister at age 16. Also, Katniss accidently made the government angry through a small act of accidental rebellion, at the end of the Hunger Games. Most never suffer through all that in a lifetime, but our young heroine not only suffered, but survived, all…