Curveball

As time advances, music becomes an evermore necessity in everyday life. Music harnesses the capability to influence behaviors and moods and even important decisions one formulates in life. An agent with that capacity must have genuine, meticulous monitoring. Choosing between more uplifting music and more degrading music can be difficult, considering that a collection of adults enjoy rap and music categories like such that contain heaps of degrading messages. After recognizing both sides, it is…

Life can throw nothing but curveballs, and that often causes people to become frustrated and lose hope. Positive music can bring that peace of mind to give those who do nothing but stress about life to loosen up a bit and not worry as much, which the body greatly appreciates. That less…

In life, we will sooner or later be thrown a curveball. Some of us will miss by a mile, some of us will miss just barely, and some of us will get a hit. There is one commonality: unexpected circumstances remind us to expect the unexpected out of life. Typically, a rising PSA is the first sign, coming well before any clinical signs or symptoms. In my mind, however, undergoing a Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) check was about as bad as anything I could imagine. That PSA anxiety hammers away at…

A Girl with a Mountain to Climb – Prompt 2 The novel, The Book Thief, written by Markus Zusak is a grand series of stories narrated by Death. The stories recall a young German girl named Liesel who faces her foster parents, Nazis, and most of all, hiding a Jew in her basement. Also, Liesel grows and develops throughout these stories in a WWII Germany. As she grows up on Himmel Street in Germany, Death himself narrates and gives the reader his perspective on each of Liesel’s obstacles, mishaps,…

A third potential way I see this article by Jessica Lahey relating to me is as a future. I may be young, but not too young to think about how my upbringing and temperament may impact my future parenting style. I think myself and others my age should take this piece and think about the magnitude of the advice the author is offering. I do not want to be the mom who puts her children at a disadvantage by never letting them stand on their own two feet. I have a strong maternal instinct and desire to…

20 May, 2016 Mettle Theodore Roosevelt said, "Life brings sorrows and joys alike. It is what a man does with them - not what they do to him - that is the true test of his mettle". It is the ability to cope with hard times and get through them without having a major melt down. I think it is hard for people to stay strong through tough situations, but I believe that is why not many people show mettle because it is so difficult. I chose this word because there are people in my family who have…

is not the only author who has chosen to bring back the memories of this time. Given this is an important novel; there are many other holocaust books you can find with basically the same information. This is why it was nice that Hasday threw in a curveball here and there to make it…

After six National Basketball Association (NBA) Championships, eleven NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards and playing an astonishing fifteen seasons, Michael Jorden continues to be an inspiration for, not just me, but for so many young people. His combination of motivation, determination, athleticism, and definition to the game of basketball is the reason why he was voted as the Athlete of the Century. As with others, I am a huge fan of Michael Jordan; I bought his high top “jump man”,…

admirable it is not adequate and does not relinquish her from the responsibility of depriving her sister and friend of experiencing true love. As the almighty powerful author, in control of anything written on the page, Briony is not in control of the curveballs life throws or the chaos that may follow but solely her actions and taking complete accountability for such…

Paul Bloom, in the article “The Baby In The Well: The Case Against Empathy,” argues that the human emotion, empathy, causes our world more harm than it does good and that humans should use reason in place of it. Bloom supports his claims by contrasting between a counter argument and examples that back up his view on empathy. The author’s purpose is to inform people about how empathy can blow situations out of proportion in order to try and make them believe that reason is much more useful in…