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Kim laughed. “No, that’s not gonna happen.” “Why not? I’m sure my mom can pay for half and yours can pay for the other.” “She’s going to say no. Besides, we don’t really need to see the Jonas Brothers. We can just use the money to go out and eat…” Rica studied her friend’s face. Just a few weeks ago, she was so happy about the plan. “What’s going on?” She asked. “I thought…” “We just can’t, okay? Is that what you want to hear? Just stop talking about it already!” She shrugged. “We can still get…

parked my car and followed some people in front of me that were obviously headed to the gym like me and decked out in UA merchandise. We went in a side door closest to the parking lot. When I walked through the door, I could immediately hear the announcers and cheering fans. I could feel the vibrations of the loud pumped up music. This was the first time I had been to a volleyball since the end of my senior year, and I honestly missed it so much. I walked down a long hallway full of pictures of…

The Form in My Bag “And if you are interested in going to the spelling bee, make sure to tell your mom or dad so that they can fill out this form!” said my second grade teacher, only five years ago. As I heard those words, my ears perked up. I had gone to the spelling bee last year, and I had actually won fourth place! I got a ribbon and everything. As the day went on, my mind wandered to other things such as, what was for lunch today, and how long until I could go home. By that afternoon, I…

The historic period of the film started with Ronald Reagan as a young boy, speaking about him being a lifeguard for 7 years and pulling 77 people out of a river. Following his job in broadcasting where he became a radio announcer in his 20’s. Furthermore, he became an actor in Hollywood. Next a corporate spokesman for GE (General Electric) which was during the 1950’s before he became a politician. In addition, Reagan starred in several TV commercials and traveled to many GE plants around the…

When I first met the man that would become my husband, I told him that there was something that he needed to know about me. “I don’t jump”, I said. “I don’t throw, hit, or catch and I definitely, definitely don’t run”. It was important for me to tell him this, as this meant that at cookouts there would be no horseshoes or volleyball, there would be no office picnic baseball and there definitely, definitely would be no charity 5K runs or any other races. All of this was true, until I decided…

scrubs back in on offense after the starting quarterback was knocked out of the game on his first play, things could’ve been worst. The second string quarterback didn’t do much, but with the scrubs, they were able to run out the clock. Even the TV announcer tried to get the coach to explain what had caused, clearly his best two players, to hand in their jerseys and walk off the…

"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance" (insert citation here). These words, found in an education act passed in June 1972, are what provided women with academic and eventually athletic semi-equality. This quote, called Title IX, was proposed to give more education opportunities to young girls. At…

“And now the scores for Chicago Jazz Junior…” As the announcer is slowly saying these words, I am squeezing all of my teammate’s hands. Everyone in the arena is at a dead silent. We were the last team to skate in our division. In about four point five seconds the world will know who the 2016 US Synchronized Skating National Champions are. We all waited very impatiently starring at the jumbo screen waiting for the numbers to pop up. Squinting as hard as I can, one small number and two little…

Kurt Vonnegut expresses to his audience the dangers of an equal society and how the government is in complete control of its people through his characters, plot, and symbolism in the short story Harrison Bergeron. In this short story the free will of thinking, academic intelligence and people’s body from attractiveness to muscle power are being controlled by the government. The government has reached this harsh equality among its people by handicapping their citizens. If а person is too…

“Failure always comes before success,” that’s what they all say, but in my case, it was never like that. Some are great in basketball, and some are experts in chess, but for me, it was public speaking. I loved it, it was what defined me, what made me feel confident. When I was in preschool, I went to my first poetry recital. It was only reciting a four lines of “Humpty Dumpty”, and I pretty sure I pronounced half of the words wrong, the experience was exhilarating, and ever since then, I was…