Silent Running

Running in circles In my first year of middle school, I joined cross country. Each meet I see the pain and frustration in runners faces. It didn't matter if they were in front of you or not. Each meet was like this, except it was different people every time. Everyone is trying to triumph and persevere. It was hard for there to be a time that someone didn't try enough so you couldn't see their boiling sweaty head. When It did happen, then you could almost see they had a conflict on the inside.…

ultramarathon is a feat for anyone. Everyone thought it would be impossible for a 16 year old girl. So why not? As a varsity cross country runner I am no stranger to running. The contradictory love-hate relationship strains the mind and body like to no other. My junior year cross country began to lose its appeal. The distances, the races, and the running in general had become monotonous. I live by the phrase “To be outstanding- you must become comfortable with being uncomfortable.” I constantly…

My efforts to finish Bloomsday My finest accomplishment was completed when I was nine. This achievement was done with the help of my family's athletic ability and capability to run. They indoctrinated me to believe in running. That's why I'm a runner today. My family convinced me to do Bloomsday. At first I did not want to but they are good convincers Bloomsday is a 12k race that makes Spokane famous. People come from around the world to race in it. So I was very jubilant when I was told I was…

Jello. The blistering sun filtered through the small canopy making the suffocating temperature even more unbearable. I swiped away the sweat running down my face. Just one more mile to conquer and I would be home. My legs were screaming in protest with every pounding step I took. I wasn't an athlete no where near one and I hated to run, unless I was running away from gym class. I don't know why, but my feet never did what I wanted them to do. It was as if my body wasn't completely connected…

have days that they feel unable to wake up and run. Even though running is often not what they want to do at 5:30 in the morning, they wake up because by running a few miles a week, they are able to work up to the goals they set and the incentives that are set across the board. Due to the ever increasing amount of homeless Americans, Back on My Feet works to lower the rate of homelessness using running. Many people would not pair running and philanthropy…

was welcomed with open arms by strangers, who all we had in common was the possible interest in running. My struggle was their struggle and as team, we were in it together. A unique bond of friendship formed during those long runs; it was a unity formed by the sharing of hardships and the words of encouragement. As those early morning summer practices came and went, I found an unexpected joy in running. No longer did I feel out of place, for I found my sport, my friends, and my home. Not only…

Alcohol has been around for thousands of years, first discovered by Neolithic humans. In the late 1700s, most Americans drank alcoholic beverages and preferred these beverages to drinking water, which was often contaminated. Alcohol was never viewed as a serious problem in America until after the Revolution. In the early nineteenth century, physicians, ministers, and larger employers created the anti-alcohol (temperance) movement. This movement was the result of concern about the drunkenness of…

1. US cultural clash 1920 One of the cultural clashes during this period was on prohibition, where there was an effort to ban the consumption of alcohol. A constitutional amendment was passed that banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. This caused a major clash between those who favored the move and those who wanted it repealed. Protestant religious groups and other fundamentalists highly favored the move as they saw alcohol as a contributor to social evil.…

To begin with, prohibition revealed a number of flaws in Canadian society during the 1920s. First of all, prohibition was created due to the Temperance Movement Act which involved women who thought that it was alcohol that caused a variety of problems in everyday life. The reason why alcohol was abused before and during prohibition was mainly due to all the trauma veterans experienced during the fierce battles of World War One. Important to know, men old and young thought that alcohol is the…

Timeline 1920-1930 Political: 1. Prohibition 1918-1927 Women’s groups such as the Women’s Christian Temperance Union wanted to ban alcohol. They beloved that grain should not be used for alcohol instead it should be helping the soldiers feed. Furthermore, crime would be lowered, more production would happen and drinking alcohol was not considered religious. The farmers, churches, lodges, and merchant associations also agreed. The federal government made a decision in 1918 to…