Luck

Volleyball games are a time with excitement and intensity for all ages. From digging, and sets to serving and kills, this sport has mastered the art of entertainment for all. Volleyball is one of my favorite sports. Though I don’t get to play it all year round, the memories of the events will forever stay. During these events many things do occur, like friendship, trust, and believing in yourself that you can do more. This has encouraged me to portray opportunities and do more actives.…

In our world there are many people who believe that different superstitions will help them stay safe, find love and have a happy life. However, when people ponder about politics, those ideas go away and, especially in an unknown country, the usage of superstition is thought of as a religious ritual. What if there was a leader similar to Hitler that shows the same obsession with superstition and can control a country that can be possibly thrown into another war? Based on many facts, it has been…

Jim comes back another snake came to the carcass, and then bit Jim’s heel. Jim proceeds to warn Huck, that touching a snakeskin is bad luck, which Huck wholeheartedly believes, “I made up my mind I wouldn 't ever take a-holt of a snake-skin again with my hands, now that I see what had come of it." (52). Huck is more than easy, to convince of the snake skins bad luck, and even afterwards blames unfortunate events on the lingering effects of him having touched the snake skin, when in actuality,…

Breed in a desperate attempt to try and explain the unexplainable of the time period, superstition are ramped in the Middle Ages. With the Middle Ages being an age of uncertainty and an overall lack of knowledge in the very world that surrounded the people living in this time, superstitions became apart of everyday life and could even be considered routine. While today many of the fears of the people of the Middle Ages which were the root cause of superstition are considered non-realistic and…

The short story, The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway, is about a unlucky fisherman named Santiago. Everyone in the village thinks badly about him because it has been so long since he has caught a fish. Santiago has an apprentice named Manolin. Manolin still fishes and learns from Santiago despite Santiago’s bad reputation throughout the village. After Santiago has a dream about his childhood, Santiago takes his boat out further than any other fisherman has gone before. As Santiago is…

Good evening all, I hope you all had a great afternoon/night at your dorms. As for us here in the house, we had a pretty good one. It all start it with the boys arriving to the house and finding out there was no power, while I was talking to Mrs. Rozier and Mrs. Topal about Kazuma. A little bit after arriving to the house, Brad took off to Soccer practice, while the rest of the boys were in the house. Once I was finished talking to Mrs. Rozier and Mrs. Topal, the boys asked me if they could go…

“Amigo Brothers” What is the Golden Glove Champions? Antonio and Felix both love boxing but they both have different boxing skills. Antonio and Felix are both seventh years old. They lived in the lower east side manhattan in the same tenement building. Antonio and felix both dreamed of becoming lightweight champions. When they work out, they both wear sweat shirts, shorts , towels and handkerchiefs apache style around their forehead. They both dreamt positive. they usually work out at” Boys…

Lincoln. The coin that has had its design changed twenty one times. The coin that has been a part of everyday life for over two hundred years. The coin that is thought to be unimportant. What if “find a penny pick it up all day long you’ll have good luck” had no meaning? What if the penny became obsolete and no one ever had the opportunity to say “a penny for your thoughts?”. The battle to get rid of the penny has been an ongoing thing for quite some time now. Many people want to do away with…

i was on my way to school. The atmosphere was so thick, so exciting. When i walked in it was almost like one of those 90’s TV shows where the football players were like the most popular guys in school. Everyone kept coming up to me telling me good luck and that they’ll be there tonight even though it was all the…

were scattered in the Tiber River. As time went on, old beliefs gave way to new ones, such as how an owl hooting meant the death of a newborn. Owls were also considered to be associated with witches and ghosts. Basically owls were considered to be bad luck. An owl nesting in a house meant it was haunted and encountering an owl during daytime would supposedly cause a major misfortune. Even dreaming of an owl meant you would…