Skating

Overall I think "Nocturne" was a well put together piece of work. It complex and challenging and deep. It was thought provoking and suspenseful. First, it was shot at night. I believe this was chosen to speak of that nothing good really happens at night. the skateboard rolling at the beginning if foreshadowing how easily it is to get knocked off your feet and life can quickly roll out of your reach. The scene then changes to a guy standing by a car dressed in dark clothing. The guy is in the…

experience helped me realize that not everyone is FIRST. On my way back from my dad’s house my dad seemed a little on edge. I asked him what’s wrong and he said he was disappointed in me. I asked why and he said it was because I didn’t tell him about my skating competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I felt bad, but I told him about it the second I found out i was going (about eight months earlier). I didn’t know what day in august, but I said it was…

When humans are categorized in society, there is an expectation that their gender is defined by their biological sex. Their social setting influences their identities to become either masculine or feminine. The media enforces their gender to meet the social norms. Candace West and Don H. Zimmerman state that “doing gender” is accomplished by the social setting, which is enforced by social expectations (West and Zimmerman, 1987, p.34). For others who do not fit the social norm of gender, they are…

Some kids are interested in video games. Some kids are interested in baseball or in musical instruments. Some kids are interested in drawing and painting, but I was not one of these kids. I was interested in skateboarding. As a kid I was captivated by professional skateboarders flying through the air, spinning around on the back wheels and . Though I lost interest in the skateboard as a middle school student over the past two years it has become an obsession again. Skateboarding…

flip, grind, and board slide. Skateboarding is not an easy skill to learn. Professionals spend years and years to get where they are at. A lot of work is required, but I am dedicated and I enjoy doing it. As long as I can continue to have fun while skating, I will not have a problem getting my work hours in. I have spent hours researching skateboarding, because I want to have a full understanding of what I need to do to reach my goal, but also because I have to do the research for this class. I…

didn't join hockey. When I first joined a hockey team it changed how I felt in this world forever. When I was about 6 years old I quit figure skating because I no longer enjoyed it. A few years passed by and I started missing being on the ice as often as I was when I was little. I told my parents and they said that they weren't going to put me back into figure skating because they knew I didn't enjoy it. I saw…

Tick tock, tick tock, he stares at the clock while heading to his destination. Upon looking at everyone he passes he sees their lifespan and focuses on the one that is coming to an end. As he walked through the wall, his figured turns the woman in bed surrounded by doctors and nurses. Tick tock, tick tock, time begins to count down. The woman yelled in pain as she struggles to give birth the life inside of her. The father sits outside the room praying for his family. Death watches as the…

This suggests that awards do have an impact on the participants and can influence them negatively. The figure skating communications organizations states whatever the goal of an athlete, motivation influences the success or failure of an individual's performance, which results in the loss or gain of self-confidence/ Merryman (2017) claims that although we must focus…

bring it back to life. The metaphor suggest to the reader just like books people can live forever as well. Another metaphor the was portrayed in the book is “I'm Skimming across the surface of my own history,moving fast…”(246) The metaphor is skating. Skating represents his memories an the things he has been through. His quote tell the reader that the stories in a selfish way were the one saving…

heart attack in their home. I cannot even imagine how hard it would be to go through what she has gone through. She has pushed through all these difficult times to become the strong woman she is today. In 2011, my grandma went skating with her sister and fell while skating. She…