How I Met Your Mother

OK “High school will be the best four years of your life!” Lie. High school has proven to be the best and worst four years of my existence. It has been an emotional rollercoaster. As every freshman when I first entered Hebron High School in fall of 2012, I was eager to finally be out of middle school finally enter the last part of schooling. Unfortunately, I didn’t know that this was just the beginning to the worst milestone in my life. My mother had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer in…

People often say “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” Describe a time when you misjudged someone based on his or her appearance or when someone misjudged you. Sometimes you misjudge people. By sometimes, I mean all the time. When you misjudge someone it is usually on their looks, but other times you think it is right to judge them by their ACTIONS. You think that if someone acts bad you have the “holy right” to judge them. Wait, but is that not what you are judging them for? Sometimes actions and…

Do you know where you come from? I don’t mean Urbandale or Johnston, I mean where you originated from. Where were your great, great, great grandparents from? I had never really give this much thought. I didn’t think it was very important, but recently that changed. One day I was sitting at home with my mom. She had just gotten home from a long double shift and was very tired. We had not spoken much that week since she worked a lot. The only noise I heard was the TV. Suddenly she spoke and…

It’s been four years since my unfortunate day, well sort of unfortunate. It was the day that I met my spouse. Now, four years can really change a person. Let’s see, I got married, had two lovely children, moved to Chicago, and started a successful business branch that supports young, talented geniuses. I considered myself the luckiest woman in the world. My children, a daughter and a son, are the best I could ask for. My son, Noah Jackson, who is twelve, is average in the required classes but…

and ultimately affects our behaviors further. Yet, it is not in simply disregarding these obstacles that we find freedom. For me, I struggled with the agony of unrequited feelings for months until I confronted the situation and received an apology. Hearing this directly from the source of my pain, I found closure through forgiveness. Through those months of suffering, I learned that holding on to resentment impeded my happiness, because it kept me in the past rather than moving forward. In order…

The life I had in Fresno, California seemed perfectly fine. I grew up as the only child and fatherless, With a single mother struggling for ends meet moving house to house living with family members and friends not knowing if we had a place to stay the next night. At the age of eight we were evicted from our apartment, for caring for my older cousin Brittney, next we moved in with my aunt. 3 1/2 months later we found our own place and finally were financially situated. At the age of nine my…

early childhood, I recall my first memory as traumatizing. This occurrence has effected how I manage through intimate relationships. It has also impacted the manner in which I parent my children. Around age 4, I witnessed domestic violence between my parents. These disputes included physical and verbal abuse between my biological father and mother. Theses instances inscribed the notion that I would never marry. I vividly remembering riding my bike in front of my home saying, “I will never…

Live the life that you want to live, but don’t complain about it if I didn’t turn out like you want it to. This been my personal philosophy since I’ve been in college. I had made many mistakes in my life, and I live by those decisions, because I was the one who made them. Many people make choices that will affect their current situation, rather than making decisions that will affect their future. It’s best to plan ahead, so that you’ll be able to have the life that you always wanted. As a…

differences in the book and the movie. This helped us better understand the characters and the book by seeing how others interpret these great reads. While reading I felt as if I related to a number of the characters in each book. In a thousand words or more I will explain how I am a character throughout the series of characters in each one of these great books. During my reading of the book Beowulf I felt that Beowulf and myself shared similar characteristics and relations. Beowulf was young…

are Cleopatra, Queen Elizabeth I, Susan B Anthony, and Michelle Obama. Without these women our society might not be the way it is now. Here’s the story about four brave women who changed history not only with their appearances, but with their actions. Cleopatra was born in 69 B.C. She became the queen of Egypt in 51 B.C. when she was only 18 years old. Cleopatra was very beautiful and could seduce many men, she was also named a goddess. While she was ruling she met Julius Ceaser and moved to…