The Hurt Locker

overwhelming feeling of fear kept me awake all night. I was barely able to pull myself through my morning routine. I couldn’t eat that morning. My stomach hurt, I felt nauseous.My palms had begun to sweat and I had an overwhelming headache.I tried to take a bite of my cereal when my brother looked up at me and said, “I bet you will be put in a locker on the first day.” After hearing what I thought would be my future, I couldn’t eat. I decided to lay in bed for the rest of…

I am perpetually inquisitive, and because of this, I love talking to people from all walks of life. Today, I want to tell you why I am so passionate about this and what I've learned. My story begins in Managua, Nicaragua where I was born; a place that to me was, and always will be, filled with magic. Ever since I was really young, my parents wanted me to have a wider view of the world. I remember a time when I was around five years old, my mom came up to me and said, “Kenia, we are moving, and…

If you look up the definition of weeds, Penn State Extension would give you many different meanings behind the word, such As, “a plant out of place and not intentionally sown, a plant growing where it is not wanted,” and many more. No matter what definition was used, weeds are plants, none the less. No matter how bad they might be for others growing with them or how different they may be, they are still plants among the flowers and the trees. People, in some aspect, are the same way. There are…

The first chapter that could be applied to The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien from How To Read Like A Professor by Thomas C. Foster would be Chapter 11: … More Than It’s Gonna Hurt You: Concerning Violence. For the most part, violence and death are everywhere in The Things They Carried. Explosions, gun shots, open wounds, all in a typical war setting that was fought by people who did not even need to be in the war. “By daylight they took sniper fire, at night they were mortared, but it was…

student steals food from the store to look cool infron of their peers, this is called deindividualization. It’s a sense of “autonomy and loss of individuality” (Aggression and antisocial behavior). Aggression is any type of behavior that is meant to hurt another individual that is trying to avoid harm. Aggression is an intentional behavior acted out towards another person; it’s not playful or on accident. An example of aggression is stabbing a random guy walking down the street. With…

Cassandra Clare once wrote,“Lies and secrets... they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.” Everyone has a secret, but, it is what a person lets a secret do to them and to others that can be destructive. In Election written by Tom Perrotta, characters in a suburban town live everyday hiding secrets from their peers, elders, and even themselves. These secrets have the potential to corrupt relationships, and morals, and they do so…

During my last two years of high school my locker was across the hall from the special education room. Every morning before I went to class two girls smiled and waved at me as I headed to class. One of those girls was Rachel. Rachel is a non-verbal individual with limited gross motor abilities, but she is one of the happiest people I know. At the end of my senior year I even became one of her respite providers. The other organization that provides respite for Rachel’s family is Camp Courageous.…

A person that has helped me grow into the man I am today is my high school baseball coach Steve Leake. From the first day I stepped on the diamond he saw something in me that nobody except my grandfather had told seen. The four years that Coach Leake and I spent together trying to capture the schools first state championship ring were some of the greatest seasons I ever played. As a new school year began I made the decision to go to a different school for high school.I began lost on that…

Devin Braddock Coach Carver Extra Credit 28 November 2016 “Remember the Titans” This paper will analyze the sociological issues that we have discussed in class and that are brought up in the movie Remember the Titans. Based on a true story, this movie covered many of the main issues of our society in the past and some that continue in today’s world. Although these issues supposedly have been overcome, many can still be observed today. Before looking at the issues, it is important to understand…

Social media has been notorious for starting different trends or wars. From the ALS ice bucket challenge to the dress color war, people always hop on the bandwagon to be like everyone else that’s participating in the trend. Most social media trends tend to be lighthearted, fun challenges or trends; however, there are some occasional trends that tend to be more serious than others, such as Kony 2012. Kony 2012 was a film produced by Invisible Children (Nelson). The film's motivation was to…