Living Things

that he really did not regret many things about college because the experiences that he had were great experiences that taught him a lesson. If he did have to choose something, he would have chosen to have studied with more urgency his first couple of years and put more effort into his core classes for his profession. By the response that he gave me I then asked how he stayed organized in his classes?, his answer was that organization is key to succeeding so the thing that he did was study a bit…

valuable experience. As I stated above I did my shadow with Chuck Robinson, which consisted of driving around the entire county in the police truck. We went as far north as the Minnesota border and as far south as St. Joesph. We had a few calls and things to do but it was a pretty quiet night on Friday. I actually started my evening being with Jack and his mentor, Keith Briggs, who is a deputy at the sheriffs office. I was only with him for a short period of the night because I had to go with…

what we already know by looking at our parents. In reality, identity can be defined as who someone is, the name of a person, the qualities, beliefs, etc, that makes a particular person or group different from others. Identity was never such a huge thing for me since I never thought about it, but I knew it was there. Over the years, my identity always kept changing my name. My father was the one who named me. He always…

In the article, Kozol explains when an eight year old girl told him, “Dear Mr. Kozol, we don’t have the things you have. You have clean things. We don’t have. You have all the thing and we don’t have all the thing. Can you help us?” (pg. 351). We are all equal no matter where we come from nor what we look like and deserve the equal opportunities like those who have money. There is a separation in the cities…

chubby kid ready for my first year in junior high, wondering about the new exciting things waiting for me. But if I knew that the exciting things would change into nightmares, I would have never left my bed. Walking into this enormous castle of a school, I was handed a green sheet of paper with huge bolded words that spelled out my name followed by a long list of my classes. At that moment I realized that things just…

high have won multiple, very few losing season, and are proven winners, often times former high school coaches say it’s very hard to get your pay to being that high, and some say the only way to get a decent pay and stay on this job is to win. Other things about this occupation is that normally when coaches go to programs who have been losing and not winning they are setting themselves up for failure because, the losing has took a toll on the players and fans that they just don’t care, and it’s…

themselves rather than something that was just handed to them. My dad, like most men, is the kind of guy that will try to fix it or make it himself before he has to pay somebody to do it. I was curious as to how he comes up with the ideas for the things he makes. He said that he does it just like his dad taught him. He would see a picture or product he would like to try and build, then he would have to picture it in his mind, “I have to see it in my mind first,…

United States of America (U.S). I understand why people are skeptical in front of anyone who looks different, but things become hard when they react to let you know it. My first week, things began in my building when a young woman decided to skip the elevator I was in, even though she had been waiting for it. Next, I had to face the reaction of people outside, and to understand the thing that was really…

journey it expresses about struggles, disappointment, and all sorts of things we usually don 't like to talk about. In the novel it had many obstacles that most people usually endure on a day to day bases because it’s reality, it’s the truth. It isn 't bad nor good but realizing that it 's part of our society is one step closer to achieving a growth mindset. It has shown me how I could do a lot even when i’m faced with negative things surrounding me and all I have to do is keep striving for the…

Basketball is my life. Okay maybe it’s not my life, but it’s more than a game to me. It’s a big part of my life and it has been ever since I could pick a ball up. Everyday as a child, coming home from a boring day at school, the only thing I would look forward to was lacing up my sneakers, racing over to the community court, and shooting some hoops. Even in the winter, when there was snow on the ground piled up to almost as tall as I was, I would beg and plead my dad to snow plow the driveway so…