The Defining Moment

smiled and laugh are gone. Faces of different types all have the same look of glazed anticipation as the look at me. I don 't need to say any speeches or give out any smiles of encouragement, because they all know the same thing as me. This is our moment. One minute till action and the music starts playing. It 's the same song we 've heard over and over again. The curtain hasn 't budged yet, but jasmine Scott is no more. My name is Reno Sweeney and I am a nightclub singer/evangelist. My…

My life’s most defining moment began on July 24th, my birthday, of 2016. I had an extremely intense breakdown after midnight while speaking to my boyfriend and a close friend. Triggered by nothing but bottled up emotions and constant anxiety, my mind was all over the place. I had no idea how to gather my thoughts. My conscience was similar to that of a concert audience, with loud, unintelligible, overlapping voices. I felt out of my body, as if I were watching myself through someone else’s eyes,…

One Defining Moment The house makes me feel safe -- cozy even. The loud chime of the large grandfather clock pressed against the wall, and the tinkling sound of wind chimes blowing along with the breeze feeds my illusion of security. I can only hope karma won’t catch up with me. I gaze at the many photos I have collected over the past year, remembering each one as if it just happened yesterday. My mind wanders, transporting me through the various memories of my life, the past mingling with the…

My defining moment would be the absence of a father in my life. I grew up without my father and my mom was always working two jobs in order to provide for me and my older sisters. my mother taught me so many things growing up without even telling me a word. My relationship with my mother was never the best til I got to college. As i grew up I never questioned why my father was never around or when he was going to come along. I felt like not having a father made me a tough cookie. I didn't have…

The Silent Generation Every generation has their own specific defining moment that makes everyone in the future look back on them in a certain way. Each generation is judged and examined by how they respond to that one defining moment, and in many cases are ripped apart because they didn’t live up to the expectations set out for them. These defining moments can be large scale for some like a World War or the Great Depression, but for others they go seemingly unnoticed until way after that…

She repulses cigarette smoking. My father repulsed my cigarette smoking, but that changed. Now he smokes a cigarette with me once in a while behind my stepmother’s back. It happened to me differently. I did not start smoking because of a life defining moment. Not in behalf of peer pressure. Not that I was interested. I smoked in spite of all of that. Me being too curious. Being too young, yes, too young. I did it, although I understood its consequences; I was aware. But I was too young to…

only single word, resilient would be the ideal fit. It may not seem as though I experienced a lot due to being that individual who would be smiling and laughing, yet, believe me, I have. I can’t just be dwelling on the past, there are many beautiful moments waiting to happen. I can 't simply be choosing not to move on, there are numerous excellent minutes holding up to happen. Those hardships that I experienced constructed me. Growing up, the idea of a dad didn’t really exist. I was one of…

Most people can pinpoint the defining moment in their life. The moment that alters a person to the core. A moment so impactful that it leaves the person questioning everything about life. Not every moment is the same or evokes the same emotional response, but every moment does leave the person one gift: a purpose in life. My moment came when I was only six. For a year, my three-year-old sister had been sick. At first we were not worried, after all, as a middle-class family, we should be…

Granny’s Defining Moment One of Granny’s most defining moments in William Faulkner’s Unvanquished is when she decides to hide Bayard and Ringo under her skirt to protect them from Union soldiers. This moment is the first of Granny’s defining moments and arguably one of the most dynamic because it introduces Granny’s willingness to defy her morals. Her unexpected actions also introduce a recurring theme in the novel, which is the act of committing something morally questionable out of necessity.…

In the year of 2004, I fell off the steps of a slide from 12 feet, and broke my arm. I can officially say that I don’t have superpowers and cannot fly. I was 6 years old when this event took place, I remember climbing up the steps with the sun in my face. I put one foot on the step, slowly followed by another. The line for the slide seemed unending, I grew tired of waiting alike many other people. Before, I headed out to the playground the teacher talked to the class about being careful on the…