Drill bit

The three most amazing things in this world to me are thrilling feelings, being a part of a team, and learning something new every day so that I may constantly expand my knowledge. At ten years old, every weekend I would race down the stairs at seven o’clock in the morning because I knew that an Animal Planet “Emergency Vets” marathon would be waiting for me. I would watch one episode after another. To me they were like eating popcorn; you simply cannot stop once you’ve started! Every episode…

reading, considering how I read way more into the text and note patterns too. This is probably because you manage to drill into my head the sort of guidelines needed in order for this to happen, such as if an author thinks something is important he’ll repeat it. Due to these lessons, I changed how I wrote my essays since I became even more invested in my writing. And I became a bit more confident in my writing due to my friends who complimented my writing and you who believed in me and in my…

going to do this now? The Command Sergeant Major and other Senior Leaders came through “the Bubbles” and told us to grab our gear and move to the vehicles. We loaded on the vehicle, not really knowing if this was just a drill or not, but they were going further with this drill than they ever had in the past. Our Platoon Sergeant came out and told us that this was the real deal and that we were pulling out and moving to FT Clayton to stage. Things suddenly got…

Many schools have started with an anti-bullying approach in order to build and maintain relationships between students. Some districts have even started active shooter drills (Doll, 2014). These are two non-lethal approaches to the same issue. They’re also more controversial ways of preventing attacks. There has been debate on whether or not schools should be armed. Shooters know that schools don’t supply weapons, so it…

for the last five years and paid my college tuition. When I was fifteen I finally had enough of my parent 's cluttered house. I sat on the kitchen table, opened up an eBay account and made my first amateur attempt at auctioning off some leftover drill bits that had sat in the garage. The process was slow, the pictures were terrible and the items were priced far too low. At first, everyone was fond of at idea of an uncluttered house, but then one day, I made a sale. Falling for money was easy.…

For anyone who sat through the insufferable and laughable Ouija in 2014, you experienced a film that relied almost exclusively on jump scares, whizz-bang noises, and some of the most stilted acting and wooden dialogue this decade. The film's reliance on the "Lewton Bus" tactic, where we brace ourselves for something to scare us only to have something else reveal itself in that very moment, was used so much the movie became a joke in and of itself. And yes, sitting in the theater, I looked…

KELLER: Katie. How many times can you let them break your heart? KATE: Any number of times. (7) This was in the beginning of the book when they were just finding out about Helen’s disability, not able to hear or see. To me, this passage means that Kate still has hope, and that she is willing to do everything it takes for Helen to see and hear. This fall I have experienced a series of injuries. In total, I have missed about 10 weeks of sports. Soccer is my passion. It always has been. I love…

double standard being done here by people of today’s society (Sahl, D. & Keene, J., 2010). Society thinks that it is fine for women to get treated like the scum on the bottom of shoes and to be ridiculed by men each and every day. As the topic gets a bit deeper, teen sex has been broken down into how different ethnicity backgrounds give the “talk” and the risk that some are taking. It is not a secret that urban African Americans have a…

Everyone loves overtime. There is nothing better or more entertaining than watching two teams battle it out and go into extra time to decide the victor. However I believe that there is some serious room for improvement for overtime rules in some of the major sports leagues in the United States. In my opinion, the NFL, MLS, and MLB all have flawed overtime rules that don’t properly determine winners, and I offer changes that I believe will help even the playing field and more accurately determine…

horn. This is my mom. Bless her heart, she cheers, hoots, and hollers, but she only understands a little bit…