My Life

It is easy to slip into a state of envy when comparing your own life to someone else’s. This is due to the fact that jealousy comes when hearing of another's success without considering the hard work and dedication that was put in, the many obstacles that had to be overcome, and the pain and suffering that person was forced to endure. In the end, this comparison is hastily performed and the results are incorrect because the comparison was made between your whole journey, including both the…

Something that has shaped my life and made me who I am today is the death of my beloved brother. His name is Nathaniel Owen Cameron and in the early morning of November 22nd, 2008, my brother and a few friends were walking on a bridge that led to our little town of Trenton. Well there was someone driving home after a long day of work and started to doze off. He fully fell asleep and his car started to pull to the side of the bridge that my brother and his friends were on. Then his car hit…

Everyone’s life ceases at one point, but hers happened way too soon. Death came upon her like rain comes to a beach on a cloudless day. Almost as if life was on the fastest train ever that would not stop. Her life was taken. She was my grandma, the women who held me when I was frail, she was my sculptor. Her death caused many people's heart to shatter. My grandmother was sick, sick as in cancer. Cancer, the thing that tackles someone who is most needed in this world. Cancer is the uncontrollable…

bats are wicked and malicious animals that want to harm people. In the short stories ‘Called out’, ‘Hope for Animals and Their World’, and ‘My Life as a Bat’ all show how the people have been misguided and are now starting to realize and appreciate the truth about nature. Desert plants are beautiful and unique in their own way. The desert is an…

slip away, I thought of my fondest memories of my Nana, Vivian Johnson Rauls. She was a southern belle from Fort Worth, Texas. A black girl who went to college at the age of 15 and came up during the depression. She had long fingernails with the nail beds painted a rosy pink. She left the tips white – something I never understood but would help her do. She liked loafer shaped pumps with chunky, square heels and always got her hair done in a roller set full of ringlets. My brother and I were…

The Soundtrack of My Life is a creative project that incorporates the use of music to describe who we are. For this assignment, we have to think deeply about what songs would clearly represent ourselves, and include an explanation as to how it describes us. I have chosen three songs to analyze in this assignment, and I feel like those songs would really describe me as a person. The songs that I have chosen are: "Good Riddance" by Green Day, "Ride" by Twenty One Pilots, and "I'm Good" by The…

a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” I look at this quote as inspiration as to what it would take for me to consider my life successful in 30 years. I think what Einstein is trying to say is that life is too short to worry about what others think and constantly be trying to accumulate better “stuff”. To be truly happy one needs to look at all of what life has to offer and decided what they want out of it and not what others tell them they want. Personally, I view life as a…

rules to follow wasn’t unheard of with my family. There was always a way to behavior with friends/family, at school, at home and out in the street. Often I found myself getting into trouble because I didn 't listen and also the fact that I always found some kind of way to slipping out of having to doing something that I knew I was supposed to do. But out of all the people in my family my mom was the strictest. When expectations set high, not meaning them meant my siblings and I typical had a…

are my roots of optimism? Winston Churchill once said “For I myself am an optimist, it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.” Like him, I feel it is best to live an optimistic life. Optimism is within all of us, but for it to grow it needs to be nurtured. I have been blessed to have many sources which encourage optimism in my life,including family, friends, failures, and faith. Family is a source of optimism that many people take for granted, but I know their importance in my…

Both those feelings can be prevented by a loving and supportive family life. According to an online article written by the Mental Health Foundation titled Depression, depression can cause many negative impacts to your health, in both mind and body.Depression can show itself through many types of symptoms such as “Tiredness…