I Will Not Bow

crept on to the spirits face so wide the soldiers could even see it at a distance. The first of the soldiers charged upon their horse. The birds dived at their horses sending them into a frenzy throwing them from their owners. Hui Li notched his mighty bow and began firing turning soldiers to ash and bone. When they thought they had over whelmed him he drew flail of obsidian and steel. He bashed and whipped his way through the army as if they were paper. The heat from his body driving the men…

interrupted the nostalgia I was feeling from lying on my bed appreciating the array of star wars posters and memories plastered on my walls. There were only a few weeks until I started university and reach one step closer to reaching my dream of being an astrophysicist. I answered "Coming!" and began to make my way downstairs, as I was walking down the stairs something in the atmosphere felt different, as if something had changed and I couldn 't quite put my finger on it. Regardless, I kept…

devoted violinist is to convey my message of passion through every bow stroke. Whenever I participate in an ensemble, whether it be the SCHS Chamber Orchestra or YOPW’s Youth Symphony Orchestra, I enter into a haven in which the excess worries of everyday life wither away, and all that stands is the music before me. With the chance to exhibit and further develop my leadership skills as section leader and assistant concert mistress, I set the example for my fellow musicians by expressing true…

I can feel the hate in the pit of my stomach, and there is not one part of me that wants to get out of bed this morning. This may sound like I am complaining about a Monday morning, but really, I am talking about waking up with depression. Getting out of bed is more of a task for me than ever this morning and I know that my day will only get worse. But will it? The mindset of a teenager with depression is awfully negative and you never know where your emotions will end up. Some days, I feel like…

At first I had trouble reading and understanding 'Body Ritual among the Nacirema’ by Horace Miner. Only after I read it through a second time did I really start to grasp the concept and the similarities to modern culture in America. I can identify with them because here where I live in Mississippi we are portrayed as a overweight state by most national media outlets.(https://wallethub.com/edu/fattest-states/16585/ (2017) These are blanket statements made by outsiders that see our state and…

The definition of the word “zeitgeist” is defined on Dictionary.com as “the spirit of the time; general trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time” (Dictionary.com, n.d.). My example of a company who utilized zeitgeist in this manner would be the Anheuser-Busch Corporation and their Budweiser ad that was aired during Superbowl XXXVI, which was only shown one time during the entire broadcast of the football game. On February 3, 2002, this commercial showed the…

Chapter five and six of bad bow was about as he grew older he learned more things. Chapter five of “bad boy” was about Walter learning new things, and some wasn’t very good lessons for example. when Walter and his friend “Johnny lightbourine, a boy close to Walter age suggested that we beat Richard Aisles , but then we read in the “Amsterdam news” about a black male who had been lynched by hanging. So we decided to hang Richard”(page 39) when Walter , and Johnny tried to hang him in the church…

He does this in the very first line when he compares his daughters room in the house to the bow of a ship “her room at the prow of the house” (line1). Metaphor comes up again with “the stuff/ of her life is a great cargo” (lines 7-8). Similar to metaphor, simile is also used twice, in lines five and six “commotion of typewriter-keys/ like a chain hauled over a gunwale” and in line 23 “drop like a glove.” I find it interesting how in the first…

sampled a number of cheeses such as limburger, harzer, weisslacker, and cambozola, commonly marketed as blue brie in English speaking countries. As we left, the girls wanted to try their luck at a pegboard sponsored by the Columbus Crew; my mother and I shared a hearty laugh when we saw that Hope and Kate had each won a beer koozie, and Julia had won a bottle opener keychain, much to their bewilderment. Before we left, we decided to try a pretzel, so we bought a large pretzel with sea salt and…

Do I really want to do the violin as a career? Do I love the violin so much that I want to spend the rest of my life with it? These questions pondered in my mind as I looked out the window in my dad's car on the way to the Heifetz Summer Music Institute. Since I am 15 yrs old and going to college soon (time flies fast), I realized I really needed to think about what I might want to do as an adult. So during the summer, I went to Heifetz to spend time with other great string musicians and…