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played a critical role in my life ever since I could walk. The older I got, the more baseball has become competitive to me. Baseball is more than just a game to me, it is more like a lifestyle. Day-in and day-out, I work on my hitting stance and pitching form to better my performance on the field. No matter what anyone says, baseball is one of the greatest sports that this country has had the opportunity to partake in. Ever since I could remember, my father and I were playing catch outside. At…

Ever sense I was a young child I always had dreams of becoming a drummer. Weather it be at church every Sunday morning, or at the restaurant that had live music, I would always watch so closely. I would watch them play with such great speed and dynamics that in my eyes, seemed so easy. As I sat in church every Sunday, the only reason I really wanted to be there was to hear the music. I never really understood what the sermon was about, or why everyone loved it so much. As a young person I…

abdominal mutilations and some of their organs had been removed. This was the most vicious string of murders that London had ever seen. The killer, Jack the ripper, was originally called “the white chapel murderer” or “leather apron” and didn’t actually get the name Jack the ripper until letters were received by someone that was claiming to have committed the murders but there is no actual proof that the letters were written by him and it is actually…

for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” Without dreams, a person many times sees no hope in their future. They feel as if they are stuck in that place with no hope of ever escaping. If a person has no hope, they many times see no point in living. Without their dreams they have nothing to look forward to, and nothing to strive for in life. There is no reason for them to work hard in life, because in the end they still get nothing. In John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice…

Ever since I was 8 years old, I dreamed of making it onto a girl’s college soccer team. Every year, I would work my hardest to improve my skills to try out for my high school's girls’ soccer team. Coming from a household with only a mother to support me, I knew that I had to work my hardest to not only be the best, but to get the scholarship that would support me for the rest of the way. Little did I know that one simple snap could change everything. On a balmy Saturday afternoon in May of 2014…

high and there are many people on this earth that have never been given the chance to read and write. Whether the cause of this is war, poverty, or culture, the world is not where it should be today in terms of how many people are literate. This information was told to me constantly as a child and I believe knowing this shaped me into being the appreciative person that I have become. I’ve always kept this knowledge in my head to make sure I never take my literacy for granted and this transformed…

Have you ever seen a person wear something that makes you question why that person would wear such a thing? In The Minister’s Black Veil, a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Reverend Mr. Hooper is an excellent example to illustrate this case. I will be explaining about symbolism in things that people wear, whether it be a veil, flower, or anything else. I will also explain what I would wear to symbolize myself and how it would affect people around me, whether it be from a relative’s or…

Until I took the stage, I never knew what “ burning passion” felt like. I never understood the way people could talk endlessly about a particular subject whether it be basketball, history, chemistry, or even their pet dog. The most passionate I’d ever felt about something was how great Panera’s mac & cheese tasted but even then it was about a flicker of interest. This all changed however, when I stepped into my 1st period freshman year, Theater 1. Standing before me was a 6’2 leprechaun from…

If you asked me today if dance was ever an obstacle in my life I’d probably tell you no. In reality, dance was never really easy for me in the beginning. My journey as a dancer started all the way back to when I was three years old. Growing up, I was never really the girly type. I was more of a sports kind of girl thanks to my older brothers and dad. My mother on the other hand did not want me to go down that route, so she introduced me to the world of dance. It was a love hate relationship at…

"NO I dont think you should consider that major, you should consider being a lawyer, doctor or an engineer", this a perfect way to describe how close minded a Nigerian parent is. A lot of times there is always a lack of open mindedness in my home, the lack of the belief that being able to explore other careers is lost. This kind of pressure has caused me to seclude myself away from this type of mentality, it caused me to explore and see that there is more to life than the box I used to be…