Make the Difference

mind, I remembered just how much misery and pain he had brought me and I found the courage to take the plunge and knock on the door. It only takes him two knocks to answer, but before I can even take a step inside, he stops me. “I just want to warn you, the apartment,” he hesitates, struggling to finish his sentence. “What, Tanner?” I grew impatient. I knew him well enough to have some idea of what he’d done and refusing to say it wouldn’t undo the damage. Relishing in my anger, he gained back some of arrogance to reply, “I did some redecorating. You don’t need this stuff, you don’t deserve it anyway. I’m sure you don’t want any reminders of our life together that you decided to walk away from.” With my fears confirmed, I had a choice to make. I could choose either mourn the loss of my material possessions, or take a moment to detach myself emotionally from everything I owned, and remember that no matter what he did to anything inside that house, the things that matter most in life are the ones nobody can take away. When I finally entered to survey the damage, it was worse than I had imagined. Globs of peach colored paint had been splattered on the walls, some of it forming pictures such as three foot tall phallic symbols and grotesque faces. Still-wet puddles of it on pooled on the ground, smeared by his footsteps, had couch stuffing and shards of glass from the mirror he punched when I ended our relationship. “What even is this?” I ask, pointing to brown drips…

“Genes make a difference. Even if we were all raised in the same intellectually stimulating environment, we would have differing aptitudes. But life experiences also matter” This is a quote from the textbook Psychology by David Myers and Nathan Dewall. Intelligence is something complex and difficult to understand where it originates or how much a person can get of it. Our intelligence is based on our ability to learn and capability to understand our surroundings. Many people think how smart we…

Gender Makes A Difference Gender plays a major role in affecting one’s career choices, as we see in the essays “Oh, Come On, Men Aren’t Finished” by Christina Sommers and “When Bright Girls Decide That Math Is a Waste of Time” by Susan Jacoby. In the first essay, Christina Sommers talks about how women are creating their ways to pull ahead in some companies but men are still doing the hard dangerous work. Likewise, in the second essay, Susan Jacoby discusses why girls more likely tend to…

The Chance to Make a Difference. What does a person want to be in their life? People will be asked this question in so many variations and times. Since the time people are adolescence and first thinking of the world as bigger than they are, through the time they are an adult and choose to earn a college degree, there will be many obstacles and choices that are going to be made, in what you will hopefully do with the rest of your life. The career of Social Work has many variables once in the…

My personal motivation each day is to a better version of myself, to put others opinion into perspective and to make better choices that not only will help me but also help others, as a teacher, I believe this will help me set an example to my students. I want to create an atmosphere where each student feels they can make a difference. My family has always been my support team. I was very lucky to not only have my parents as my guidance, but I also had my sisters. Because of my close net…

In the future I would like to do a lot of things. I would like to make everyone happy and leave them satisfied. In the future I would like to come back to my home town to make a difference. Do things and also build different things. In the little town of Woodville there isn’t much to offer so in the future I’m going to think of things to make a difference in my community. I will build things for the kids to do or something to make them do better things in life or influence them do things with…

Although I believe it is easy to be an individual, many people believe it is simple. The reason many people think it is easy to be an individual is because many people are already very extroverted and do not care what other people think. These people have no fear to be different, and are normally looked to when individuality is in question; however, I do not believe it is easy to be an individual. Being an individual in this world is an amazing accomplishment, and should be praised more in…

Does a Dad Make a Difference? The disregard in America today for the important role of men in the lives of their children and families is destructive to our culture. American culture is trying to redefine the family in order to appease the desires of the adults rather than consider the impact their choices have on the children. In Genesis 2:24 the Bible states, “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they become one flesh” (The Holy Bible New…

One person can do something so small for someone and make their whole life change. No one realizes how much one little thing can do to change someone’s mood. You don’t have to have a lot of influence. You really just need to have faith in your power to change things. Always be kind, because you never know what some people are going through or what they have been through in the past. Making one single person smile can change their world. One person can truly make a difference. There are a lot of…

Some people feel that american society is collapsing.Jobless has hit record numbers and,many kid's do not even graduate from high school. People often asks how they can make a difference in a world that seems to be falling apart. One thing that thoughtful people can do is volunteer in there community. Every town and city have opportunities to help others in both private and public organizations. People can at least improve the world by doing community service. There are many ways a person can…