Bleacher

If you go to the Collegiate School as an outsider, this is what you will see. Walking down West 78th street, you will eventually arrive at the school’s main entrance. You see two sets of bright red, metal doors. You enter and tell the man behind the glass that you are here for a tour. You wait in a large, air conditioned, open room for a few minutes before being a greeted by your tour guide. He tells you that he has been going to Collegiate since kindergarten and that he really loves this place.…

Title? The loud noise of noblemen screaming and cheering filled Avary’s room. She peered out her open window, observing the jousting duel that was occurring outside on the castle field. There were horses dressed in the finest golds, as well as, jousters of all noble origins. Sighing, she went back to preparing for her entrance. As a lady of the court and the grand princess of her kingdom, it was her duty to dress her best. Slowly, she placed her silver tiara on her head, tilting it at the…

When I was four years old my parents divorced. My sister (who was two years old) and I were far too young to really understand what was going on. Starting whenever my mother moved out, my sister and I were constantly switching homes between mother and father. I was equally close with both of my parents and I had a great relationship with them both. Although I had a great relationship with my mother, she had poor judgment when it came to boyfriends. With that being said, I spent most of my…

Summer ending school is near. Knowing a year ago a new chapter of my life was opening up called high school. I was just like you excited to be a freshman, but also nervous to what my high school experience would be like. During summer I took a week long course called College & careers 101. Which got you to know Topeka West better. It gave you good information on how to be successful during High School and beyond. We got to learn great organization skills. Good studying skills. How to take good…

The Death Penalty has been a hot button topic for generations. Cesare Beccaria is considered the father of criminal justice first claimed that “the use of capital punishment inherently violated the social contract” and also from the book introduction to criminology by Stephen Tibbetts “the second reason for why Beccaria felt that the death penalty was a inappropriate form of punishment was that the governments endorsing the death of a citizen would provide a negative example for the rest of…

was finally starting to get better. I could actually breathe through my lungs without coughing and feeling that nasty burn from the air when I would run. The meet two weeks before regionals was a very cold one. I remember having to camp under the bleachers just so we wouldn’t get rained and hailed on. In that track meet I was really excited because instead of running in ninety-degree weather. I was going to be running in the hail, I thought it was more exciting then running in a sunny day. I…

The bus pulled up behind the two sets of bleachers and came to a stop as the excitement on the bus died down. This was it. One by one we all marched off the bus and walked to the bench while mentally preparing ourselves for the game that was about to be played. I sat down on the grass next to the bench and began to put on my socks and shinguards. It was a beautiful, sunny, and hot day. I wouldn’t have normally minded but playing in a soccer game while it’s hot isn’t the most fun thing in the…

It’s not every day that you volunteer to be humiliated, abused, and laid on by sweaty adolescent boys. Maybe you do; I don’t know your story. The point is that I personally wasn’t a huge fan of any of these things separately, let alone all in one wrestling practice. If you asked me in middle school how I would look back on my wrestling days, and how those days would develop me over the years, I would have shrugged. That’s a confusing question, I can’t see the future, and who are you to be…

Soccer and its popularity Originated in England and brought to the Americas, soccer has become a sport that is recognized around the world. Although the Chinese claim that they have been playing the sport way before anyone else, the sport became official in England in the mid-nineteenth century. Therefore England being fully credited for the rise of the sport caused a dispute. When soccer was brought to the Americas it for sure had competition with other sports such as football which is well…

become "the great repository of national ideals, the symbol of all that [is] good in American life: fair play (sportsmanship); the rule of law (objective arbitration of disputes); equal opportunity (each side has its innings); the brotherhood of man (bleacher harmony); and more" (qtd. in Elias, "Fit" 3). Baseball's playing field itself has been viewed as archetypal--a walled garden, an American Eden marked by youth and timelessness. (There are no clocks in the game, and the runners move…