The Defining Moment

off the plane, I felt like an adult for a moment. This defining moment of freedom and solitude made me realize I could go anywhere and do anything. When I arrived in my country, Uzbekistan, for my sister’s wedding, reconnecting to my past became more meaningful. Nostalgic memories were transitioning into new memories: climbing trees, picking fruits and playing jumpsies with my friends, until it got dark and I had to go home. Although, these moments still define my childhood, everything was…

I remember that exact moment. The moment where my life would change with the next step I took. Looking out the window of the airplane, I wondered how my new home, Hong Kong, would be like. So many questions were whizzing around in my head. “Will the kids at my school be nice?” “How are the teachers going to be like?” “How will I communicate with the locals there? I don’t even speak Chinese!” As the thundering roar of the plane began to fill the cabin and the safety announcements began to play, I…

During the last 15 weeks, college has taken me on a roller coaster of emotions. I have experienced happiness. I have experienced stress. I have experienced sadness. I have felt hopeless, but also invincible, all while trying to fake that I know exactly what I am doing and everything is okay. If on move-in day someone had told me I would barely spend anytime time in my dorm room with the gray walls and ugly, patterned carpet, I would not have believed them. Despite it not being the coziest or…

WWF championship, and knowing that I am now standing here as the World Heavyweight Champion is the most surreal moment of mylife. I was living my dream and I will never let it be taken from me. The next night on Raw came and I was more than ready. My little brother, Colton, is going to turn on me and join The Next Gen, the faction I am currently in a feud with. It will be a huge moment in both of our careers. Our promo was scheduled for the end of the night and would close the show with me…

Prologue: She stood there, not aware of what to do, unable to move. She opened her dry, chapped lips to attempt to let out a scream. But this time, she didn't hear her usual medium pitched loud voice, there was only silence. Fear rolled across her motionless face, copying the motion of a wave after it had crashed against the shore. Only her eyes were able to move, the rest of her was stock-still, powerless in a frozen position. Glancing around the gym, she saw her teammates and coach…

of her words still sting. I couldn’t believe it. “Excuse me? Did you, just call me a Kamikaze?” I asked, my voice filled with fear and confusion. This had to be a dream, this couldn’t be real. I repeated those words over and over again as the moment passed. “Yeah! You heard me! A Kamikaze! You’re trying to kill me right now! I bet you’re holding a bomb!” she screeched out at…

I scan through the score; my eyes rapidly swing back and forth like a metronome. With precision, I place my warm fingers on the cold black and white keys and, in an instance, I’m enraptured only with what is in front of me to begin Honeysuckle Rose by Louis Armstrong. As soon as I strike the keys, the balance of melody and base ring through the air in a symphony of sound. In my head, the cramped, but lively speakeasy erupts in an indulgence of dance. Sweat drips down the back of my neck, while…

My defining moment has not been very long ago it actually was this school year because before I was undecided on what I wanted to study in college or what I wanted to become once I had graduated. I have always known that I wanted to go into the medical field because I had a great understanding for the human body, a come from a family with a strong medical back ground from an uncle who is a doctor to my mother who is a nurse, and finally because I would love the opportunity to help people on a…

My defining moment happened my junior year at the end of my wrestling season. The moment was not what I had in mind, but it was the best thing that happened to me. Starting in 4th grade all I wanted was to make it to the state tournament for wrestling. My freshmen year came along and I started training all year long for wrestling, it was the only thing on my mind. My junior year came along and I was ready: this was my year. The district tournament was upon us. It was a Saturday, I was up…

Rockefeller was one of the titans of the industry. He was powerful, wealthy and successful. In Laurie Hillstrom’s book, Defining Moments: The Muckrakers and the Progressive Era, she stated, the Standard Oil Company controlled 90 percent of the United States’ oil production (Hillstrom 52). The Standard Oil Company was already spread nation-wide, being the lead production of oil…