Rowing

The bell rings, excusing high school students to lunch. Some friends invite me to get something to eat, but I decline. I’m on a mission. As I swiftly make my way to the school library, I’m on the lookout for a small, confused freshman. I find him, and sit at his table. “How did your Geometry test go,” I find myself inquiring, with a hopeful interest, “Did you remember what I told you about the Pythagorean Theorem?” This isn’t my first time in this arena. Since seventh grade, I’ve been a tutor.…

Washington Crossing the Delaware is a painting that inspires patriotism in the hearts of many across the United States. It is hanging in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and many smaller versions of it hang in the classrooms of history teachers across the nation. The painting, by Emanuel Leutze, was born out of a desire to inspire the people of Germany and it has historical inaccuracies yet symbolic depictions (Harmon). Emanuel Leutze was born in Germany in 1816 and moved to the United States at a…

Bradee Cobb Mr. Tanner 7th Period 4/22/15 Why Bad Things Happen To Good People When something bad happens to someone, most tend think about what they did wrong to have been punished. However, that may not even be the case. Bad events can happen for many reasons such as, to test one’s strength, faith, character, and courage. All of which can be lost in a hard times that may feel as if the whole world is against you. In Stephen Crane’s short story “The Open Boat,” there were 7 men on the ship,…

Hi, I am one of the men that Odysseus, my captain picked. Picked for what? Well, he picked me to go see what the land of the Lotus- eaters would be like and who would live there. I am feeling proud of that since I was one of the only three men who got to go. We are setting off to see who lived on this Lotus- eaters island. Whoa, look, there are some men like us here. They don't seem harmful. Oh, thanks for the offering for the fruit, but I'll pass. Wait, no. Food! I felt like I haven't eaten…

“Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always,” states Rainer Marie Rilke, one of the German language’s greatest twentieth century poets. Rilke was born in 1875 as an only child. His childhood was rather unpleasant; his parents placed him in a military school, hoping that he would become an officer, something unlikely to occur. Rilke’s uncle recognized that he was a highly gifted individual and had Rilke enrolled into a German preparatory school. In 1895 when Rilke enrolled…

that it changed colors. The pond water went from brown, dirty and disgusting to light green. We also went canoeing, I was in the same little boat as Joven and Audrey. While I was rowing, I needed to intentionally look at where I was going. I had the best first time canoeing. When one of the other two girls were rowing, I'd surreptitiously rock the boat to see how the girls would react. It was one of the funniest days of my life! Sadly the day ended. The next day, was the last day of…

The idea of isolation is not exclusive for immigrants and minority population, it is also in the majority population with little recognition of it, it is a big idea in the society. Isolation is a physical and psychological state that every person had to have experienced in their lifetime. Kelly and Rielly grew up in a rural neighborhood, where neighbors are fairly distant with them and separated by sparse land. Along with that, their relationship within the family are not close and on top of…

The person I decided to write my essay on was my basketball coach my senior year, Brian McIntosh. He only coached at my high school for one year, and prior to that he was an assistant coach at Emporia State University. Taking his expertise and leadership skills McIntosh helped take my team who had struggled the previous season and give them a last and successful season. He changed the atmosphere of the program and that year held the best record my school’s girl basketball team had seen in a long…

community. Created in 2000, the sport was developed to strengthen the human body while also improving its mobility. All CrossFit workouts are based on the core movements of life. These movements reflect the aspects of gymnastics, weightlifting, running, rowing and more. There are three main different kinds of workouts for both the professional and average crossfitter. Those three are the Endurance, Strength and Speed workouts. A huge factor in CrossFit is being able to workout at high…

Schomers life. This place was what introduced her to her biggest passion: Crew. We asked her how she ended up rowing. “It actually was a funny story. Every year I tried to join a new club just to try something different. I even did Rugby. The crew team was actually the only that called me back so I guess it was meant to be.” She pointed out how she was genetically…