Hard Times

Perhaps we're intended to crave surrendering, feel like a disappointment, feel like we have no where to go. Yet in addition, possibly – each disarray will happen at the same time, before acknowledging we need and we can make a stride back and it's alright. Perhaps we have to stop for a moment, or for whatever length of time that it takes us to get recovered. It's alright to take a full breath, it's alright to take a rest. We don't need to surge everything now.…

by water once more. As I dive over the ice cold pool, dread and regret fill every moment until my body finally makes contact. For two, sometimes three, hours the situation will only worsen as I repeatedly raise my arms above my head and pull back as hard as possible. Weeks of this pass by, all for the sake of being able to travel through 100 meters of water a few milliseconds faster. Swimming has been my primary sport since the age of eight. The aforementioned training regime was a necessary…

Some things are not easy and some things are not hard to face. Life is hard to face I think that people need the time to accomplish their challenges. I know that it's going to be hard but I think that we can accomplish them. The reason that I feel that way is because I think that facing a challenge is not easy to face. Facing a challenge is a way to accomplish what you wish for. It might be hard to face and accomplish your dreams. I think that is hard facing what you have accomplished and what…

His father probably would never let him go out after that. Also, there is a rumor that Boo gets chained to his bed at nights. It would be hard for…

There was once a family of five. This holiday would be full of pain and misery, for the wife and children have lost one of their loved ones. Once upon a time they were the happiest family in town but all good things must come to an end at some point. The Jones’s family were all excited for the upcoming christmas which was a few weeks away. The family consisted of Mary the wife and Bob the father with their three children the oldest being Ryan a 16 year old outstanding multiple sport athlete,…

Assignment Part 1: Denotative and Connotative Meaning Kismet Diner is a collection of Cornetto Cupidity Love Stories, and it is a short film about following one’s heart and encouraging the youthful experience of love. Mark Nunneley directed this short film in September 2013, and it was nominated for the Los Angeles Shorts Festival and won a Manhattan Shorts Festival award and a Cannes Silver Lion. Kismet Diner is a heartwarming short film, describing a shy young diner waitress named…

I have been interested in the visual arts for a long time. I have worked on various animations in the past but something I have just come across that I love is cinematography. I was the cinematographer for a documentary recently and I captured the b-roll footage to put throughout the movie. The documentary was a group project that I did for a video production class. The footage I got was meant to be small interesting clips to cut into an interview. I have provided an edited version of my footage…

their free time to make a positive impact to the people around you. Success can also take the form of being rich and successful in the public eye. As for me, success looks a little different. When I envision a successful person I see my father and my mother. My dad is just a farmer, nothing out of the ordinary, and my mother has spent her life being a home maker raising my siblings and myself. They lead a simple life, but in fact they are so successful to me. My parents have worked so hard and…

Since In the beginning of this semester I set my goals and worked as hard as I could to achieve them. As I wrote in the "learner profile" in the first week of the semester that my aim is to reach an advanced level of being able to write a good scientific papers, criticize them, in addition to being a good presenter. Thanks to the activities the we have been through, from the academic content units to the seminars and the guided independent study I estimate that I reached a reasonable level of…

determination and unwavering perseverance. All my life I've been told that success is attainable through hard work and, more importantly, resolve. This notion is simple to conceptualize and easy to understand, but it's this mantra that led an ordinary farm boy into an extraordinary life, a different reality. My dad grew up in a rural part of China where subsistence farming was the only way of life in that time. As the only boy among 6 children, his family expected him to continue the glorious,…