Better Luck Tomorrow

It started out to be a sad and gloomy morning in Fire Hydrant Falls. They didn’t know it yet, but something was about to change the lives of two of their young residents forever. A news announcement stated that it was supposed to rain for four days straight, but later that afternoon, the rain suddenly stopped. Everyone was filled with joy after the sun came out. The kids all ran outside for some fresh air and sunlight. Even though after twenty minutes they were bored and went back inside to…

Jim comes back another snake came to the carcass, and then bit Jim’s heel. Jim proceeds to warn Huck, that touching a snakeskin is bad luck, which Huck wholeheartedly believes, “I made up my mind I wouldn 't ever take a-holt of a snake-skin again with my hands, now that I see what had come of it." (52). Huck is more than easy, to convince of the snake skins bad luck, and even afterwards blames unfortunate events on the lingering effects of him having touched the snake skin, when in actuality,…

Growing up, I was surrounded by many superstitious and unfounded behaviors that many of my friends and family members believed in and practiced. As it turns out, there are many superstitions and ritualistic behaviors that Poles believe in and that are incorporated into daily lives as well as in the many rich customs and traditions. One example of a superstitious routine intertwined with many ritualistic behaviors is the Christmas Eve in Poland. Although many different practices are performed on…

Lincoln. The coin that has had its design changed twenty one times. The coin that has been a part of everyday life for over two hundred years. The coin that is thought to be unimportant. What if “find a penny pick it up all day long you’ll have good luck” had no meaning? What if the penny became obsolete and no one ever had the opportunity to say “a penny for your thoughts?”. The battle to get rid of the penny has been an ongoing thing for quite some time now. Many people want to do away with…

The world heath organization (WHO) defines health as " [the] sate of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease" (Spector, 2013, p.63). Spector defines HEALTH "[as] the balance or a person both within ones being-physical, mental, and spiritual - and in the outside world -natural familial and communal, and metaphysical The ways Mexican protect themselves to maintain their health is done in variety of ways. A major contributor is Folk healing also known…

i was on my way to school. The atmosphere was so thick, so exciting. When i walked in it was almost like one of those 90’s TV shows where the football players were like the most popular guys in school. Everyone kept coming up to me telling me good luck and that they’ll be there tonight even though it was all the…

coming. Gabrielle believes that the tradition started in Vietnam, as the superstitious practice of sweeping and cleaning out the bad luck and spirits from a home in preparation for the new year. Additionally, she says that they clean the house before Tết because it is traditionally bad luck to clean on the first day of the new year because one will sweep out all of the luck for the year. The reason this tradition has stayed so constant is because Gabrielle’s grandparents, both maternal and…

were scattered in the Tiber River. As time went on, old beliefs gave way to new ones, such as how an owl hooting meant the death of a newborn. Owls were also considered to be associated with witches and ghosts. Basically owls were considered to be bad luck. An owl nesting in a house meant it was haunted and encountering an owl during daytime would supposedly cause a major misfortune. Even dreaming of an owl meant you would…

The Tomorrow series written by John Marsden is an amazing and eye-opening series, it highlights the extreme situations of war and what it can do to an indiviual and a group of people. The Tomorrow series follows a group of teenagers, in the first book they go away for a camping trip to a place called “Hell” only to return to find their easy and normal farm lifestyle ripped apart. “We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy.” Australia was invaded by an enemy country – over the course…

Blizzardstar was born on a snowy leaf-bare day. Lilysong, Blizzardstar's mother, gave birth to two kits that day. They were both named for the weather that leaf-bare, Blizzardkit and Cloudkit. Blizzardkit was born healthy and strong, but Cloudkit died from green-cough soon after being born. Lilysong raised her daughter to be a stone-cold fighter from the moment Blizzardkit was born. Lilysong believed in tough love, and she taught her daughter that her focus needed to be on the wellbeing of the…