The Hump

Growing up, I was faced with many adversities, just like a lot of students in California school systems. I was a female, Mexican-born immigrant, growing up in Oakland in a pretty rough neighborhood. In high school I demonstrated grit by applying myself and fighting the urge to quit and finally graduating, while the curriculum helped me, there was still many other burdens in my life apart from education. In community college, when I first began, the “Student fear factor” definitely applied to me…

that not all men are cruel. An example In the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" which shows Huck 's "heart overcoming his conscience" is when Huck returns to Jackson Island from disguising himself as a girl. Huck hurried to Jim and says, "Git up and hump yourself, Jim! There ain 't a minute to lose. They 're after us!"(Twain 80). Huck had find out the townspeople are after Jim, but he tells Jim that they are after "us." This shows that Huck sees himself and Jim as equals. Although, knowing that…

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”, said former US president, Franklin D Roosevelt. This has been proven true countless times throughout history where fear shaped humanity for the worse. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, fear is present since the beginning of the book . The boys battle against the beast is one of the major conflicts that takes place in the narrative. Their fear of the unknown, personified as the beast, causes the boys on the island to descend into…

He does not just mean that they hump around a bunch of tools used in the war, but the physical and mental burdens that come along with the war and the job of being a soldier. To this day it is so obvious that when a soldier comes back they face difficulty adjusting back to civilian life…

yourself to get it done. A positive mindset will help in many situations. As Chris Bailey (2017), writer of 5 Research-Based Strategies for Overcoming Procrastination states, “It’s easier to keep going with a task after you’ve overcome the initial hump of starting it in the first place. That’s because the tasks that induce procrastination are rarely as bad as we think. Getting started on something forces a subconscious reappraisal of that work, where we might find that the actual task sets off…

learns how to respect, love and forgive others. It also builds a solid background about teamwork skills as I learn how to get along with other members. Moreover, whenever I have difficult problems, family members support and encourage me to get over the hump. They care about me and my life; they always help me to keep going on the right track. Furthermore, my family gives me an opportunity to be who I am. In short, family is everything in my life. The relationship with friends has a strong…

Day 6: Koblenz, Germany I will spare you the tedious travel details and go directly into the one sight we saw today, Marksburg Castle, high in the hills. It looked like something out of a children’s book, with a yellow facade and tall towers trimmed with red. It wasn’t originally built for residence, but for defence. It turned residencial unexpectedly, so consequently it hadn’t the tradition comforts. The rooms were tiny and lacked significant decor. Most of the rooms were dedicated to arms, or…

“Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness”( George Eliot). In the beginning of the play Iago and Roderigo hated Othello because he had chosen Michael Cassio as his second in commander , Iago had thought that he was going to get the job. The reason why Roderigo hated Othello because Othello had married the love of Roderigo 's life. Iago and Roderigo discussed how they wanted to ruin Othello’s life. They were…

Decision Points Interpersonal relationships are what keep the human race from simply being islands apart from one another. These relationships are our reason to exist. They “shape our lives” (Edwards), and give us a reason to leave a legacy when we die. The first big interpersonal relationship that comes to mind for most people is likely the relationship with their first significant other. There are horror stories of young teens finding themselves in their first romantic relationship that…

needed to be released in the form of violence. He ruthlessly and sadistically killed an innocent baby buffalo because he needed to free the pain he felt inside. “Rat took careful aim and shot off an ear. He shot it in the hindquarters and in the little hump at its back. He shot it twice in the flanks. It wasn’t to kill; it was to hurt. [...] It was a question of pain.”(Page 75) Sadistic and cruel acts such as this are results of what war does to a person, how their mindset changes from who they…