Moment

we live our lives everyday. Today people depend on their phones for everything such as communicating with others, doing their work, education, and much more. After reading the three articles the one that I agree with is, “ Trying to Live in the Moment ( and Not on the Phone)” because it talks about how a person is always on their phone and that Jenna Wortham wants to change for the good and learn not to be so much on her phone. I agree with what Jenna Wortham said everywhere a person looks…

An aha moment that occurred in chapter 13 of the book “The Running Dream” was when Fionda realized that Jessica might be mad at a girl named Merryl because she is dating the boy that Jessica's likes but really, Jessica doesn't care and just wants to move on. “After school Fiona's rolling me across campus in the direction of the courtyard when she says, “I just realized something.” “What’s that?” “Guess who wasn't at your party today?” “Uh… who?” “Merryl.” I shift my backpack in my lap. “Did I…

Magic and Merlyn Moment #1 On a warm day near the end of summer, the Wart was sitting near the tilting yard watching Kay practice his skills. Wart was feeling particularly dreary that day and decided to console in Merlyn about his seemingly pathetic dreams of being a knight, like Kay was destined to be. Wart began to go on about how he would call himself the Black Knight. “ And I should have hoved at a well or a fjord or something and made all true knights that came way to joust with me in honor…

Trio to Tennessee I have had lots of moments in my life cannot be forgotten. These moments means a lot to me, whether these are bad or good. However, that moments I will never forget it, I went to Tennessee last spring with three of my closest friends Don, Miz, and Ahmed. This trip was special for all of us. We all were excited to go, and we did make reservation for the house and the car a month before the trip We had a rental car and heading to Tennessee. We had snakes in the road…

a Mockingbird and the growing up process for many characters. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee portrays growing up by showing how characters that matured, have a fresh look at the world accordingly criticizing its flaws. Jem has a moment of development when he takes an adult approach towards a situation based on how he was raised. When Jem and Scout find Dill, Jem does something that is considered evolving when he doulbe-crosses his friend. Jem tells Dill, “You oughta let your…

Vinh Tran Changing Moments The first book I remember that had changed me was One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss. This was the first book that I could read and understand since coming to America. My family and I came to California in 2008 from Vietnam. I was 8 at that time and does not know to speak or write English yet. Seeing as I was new and does not know how to speak or understand simple English words, she gave me a dictionary from Vietnam to English and the One Fish, Two…

While there are many sections in the end of the Odyssey that fall under the category of “moments of recognition,” there seems to be a general structure to each scene. At first Odysseus tests the person’s loyalty by listening to them and determining whether they hold sympathetic views towards the suitors and whether they wanted him to return home. The next phase involves deception in which Odysseus tells a tale to conceal his true identity and then foreshadows his return in the near future. After…

There are many moments in life that I look back upon and I don't realize their significance until later. When I hurt my shoulder last year pitching and was referred to physical therapy, I was not looking forward to waking up an extra hour earlier to go to a place that I had been to five years before. When I was nine years old I was diagnosed with a collapsed vertebra in my neck that turned out to be a rare form of cancer called Histiocytosis. I had to wear a cervical collar for a year and the…

Kathleen Carroll Mrs. Loughlin Honors Freshman English 5 October 2015 One Moment Everything can change in an instant. Olivia tried to wrap her mind around that thought as she stared at the blank ivory wall of the room Matt was in. Although some things took place over a period of time, ultimately it came down to just one moment. Matthew had always been more than just Olivia’s older brother; they were best friends. Throughout their childhood, they had always been there for each other: standing…

Andrew Conforto English 101: GW Professor Mazzaferro 9/14/17 Paper 1 (Rough Draft): Life in the “Robotic Moment” Sherry Turkle’s “Selections from Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other” is a commentary on the changing view of AI, or artificial intelligence, in our progressing society. Turkle’s argument is one based in ethical and philosophical roots and challenges our current definition of what it means to be “alive”. This issue becomes more pressing the…