Shook

My very first organized basketball game, three years ago, I was a scared, nervous, and excited mess. Wait, let's backtrack to weeks before the game. The level of anticipation among my team for the first game was sky-high. Our team, Purdue, hadn't known each other at all before we were grouped together. Over a span of a few brief weeks, we became quite close. Game day! I was one of the last of my teammates to arrive to the game. Coach Tom, coincidentally also my brother's name, supplied the…

His hands shook when he clicked the screen to life, and his voice wobbled as he began. He wasn’t sure what had come over him, but suddenly, the urge to jump out the window and grow wings made itself at home within him. ‘Maybe I shouldn’t’a had that gosh darned Redbull…

and flicks it off and lands in the flame of a candle. When he tries to get it out by that time it had already shriveled up. Immediately Huck knew that it was a bad thing and that it would bring him bad luck. So Huck being afraid of that immediately shook his clothes off and spun around three times. Then he tied a bit of his hair with a thread to keep the witches away. In chapter four while at breakfast Huck spills a saltcellar and to ward off bad luck he reaches for the spilled salt to throw…

As my mother would tell me on a daily basis "do not cheat". Growing up I would always listen to my mother about everything, but on Friday January 13, 2012 was the day I went against my mother's wishes, and boy did that backfired back in my face. It was Thursday night, several hours before the math test that I have been stressing and sweating about. As I flipped through the pages in my math textbook, I heard a knock on my door it was my mother with a calm and soothing look on her face. She…

respect people's opinions even If you don't agree with it. On page 392-393 389, in the book Uglies, Maddy, David's Mother, is talking to Tally about giving Shay pills. "Yeah right. That's what Tally keeps telling me. But you don't understand. "Maddy shook her head. 'Only if she wants to be cured. These are experimental, Tally. We can't give them to someone against their will.' (It is difficult to understand what is going on in this quote. More introduction is needed.) It proves the point…

high, this caused the factories’ profits to really plummet down. As everything started to become more expensive, businesses started to laid off workers which created more unemployment. Inflation and economic stagnation started to appear and quickly shook the confidence in the American Dream. Correspondingly, the Federal Reserve applied contractionary policies to fix the shockingly high inflation and unemployment that had been caused by the energy crisis. However, the recession of 1990 came and…

219). The colored man doesn't know what its like to have money, so in return he doesn't know what its like to be in the white fellow's shoes. The white fellow does rebuttal by saying, "No, you wouldn't" and he shook his head (Hughes, pg. 219). The white fellow is not happy with money in his life, because he believes you shouldn't have to spend money to have a good time. The colored fellow end the story with an interesting quote, "What do you suppose is the matter…

Alas, despite the desire for some Europeans to create a United States of Europe, I do not believe this goal is feasible. European countries have unique histories and cultures that stretch back hundreds and even thousands of years. Competing cultures lead to conflict and eventually to war. Wars have occurred throughout European history, but not until the twentieth century did a war have the ability to totally reset the previous norms in Europe. The First World War infamously nicknamed “The War to…

America has changed a lot throughout history some good changes and some bad changes. All the things America has been through just makes our hopes for the future brighter. In American history, there have been many events that have changed America; wars, terrorist attacks, and civil rights movements. Our American history is all about wars. The Civil war showed us as Americans that we can move on from the past and become united as one nation again. The Spanish- American war gave us hope that we…

This is a story that took place in 2081. It is about life where people who are above average have to handicap themselves to not make those below or who is not average feel bad about themselves. The government is the only one who does not have to go by the laws that are enforced. In this story, Harrison reveals his character in the rebellion by breaking out of jail, revealing his self to everyone and taking everyone’s handicaps off. At the beginning, the speaker says George was thinking about his…