Three Days Before the Shooting

during wartime, provided that hope of returning to the ‘beautiful past’ is present. The author illustrates this theme by introducing four different characters (with no particular order) who try to survive in their city through the terror of random shooting and shelling by the snipers up on the hill,…

He went from a weak and scrawny teenage boy into a soldier fighting for his life in a matter of days. Paul and all of the other young boys had to grow up fast, they would be transformed into men. Their lives and childhood would be changed, they would be turned into mature men who fought to defend their country. They would have to learn to grow up…

The summer before my junior year I realized that I wanted to play on the varsity soccer team. Trying out for a varsity sport as a junior, with never having played on the junior varsity team as freshman or sophomore, was definitely a bold move. I was unsure if I had the courage to follow through and risk failure if I didn't make it. Encouraged by family and friends, I decided to give it a shot. When I first entered the information meeting in room 306, I immediately felt intimated…

for this assignment was the national Canadian summer sport, lacrosse. It is one of the oldest team sports in North America, being played as early as the year 1100 by First Nations peoples. The main objective of this sport is to score the most by shooting the ball into the opposing team’s goal. It’s important to note that there are differences between men’s lacrosse and women’s lacrosse. We will go over the basic rules and differences in this part of the assignment. For both men’s and women’s…

strength. Whatever it is, the longer we linger to solve our problems the more they affect us. For the last two years, I have been laying down my foundations. It has been the most bitter and hardest time in my life, but I am glad I have. My life before living in the US was comfortable. I attended the best middle school in the…

To begin, there are three questions that we should think about. The first question is, what is war? According to the Merriam­Webster dictionary, war means a state or period of fighting between countries or groups; a situation in which people or groups compete with or fight against each other; an organized effort by a government or other large organization to stop or defeat something that is viewed as dangerous or bad. The second question is, why is war a common occurrence when it comes to…

In three months, we will receive our eighteen installment of NBA video game series, NBA 2k17. A lot of expectation is riding on the game since its previous installments critical acclaimed well in the recent years and NBA Live is not releasing until 2017. As there some reviews from IGN, GameInformer and Gamespot that praised the game as the "sports video game of the year", there are some reviewers (including gamers) that criticized the game for broken to the point that last year's edition looks…

name of Ken Jackson. It has been a normal day similar to any other for Officer Jackson. He was making his usual traffic stops making sure all the civilians commuting to work that day had a valid driver’s license and registration. The day was going very smoothly for Jackson until he stopped this one car that appeared extremely suspicious. At first glance the officer noticed the car matched the description of one that been reported stolen earlier that week. Before the car approached the gate,…

the leading cause was his unhappy childhood. He was born December 24, 1939, in Fort Wayne, Indiana; by his parents Arnold Edwin Corll and Mary Robinson. Both parents were overprotective and very strict. The couple married and divorced twice; all before Corll turned 16. Corll had a hard time socializing with the children at his school. When he was diagnosed with Rheumatic Fever at age 7, it made it even more difficult for him to have friends; causing him to be excluded from…

wets the bed and, must be let out three times a night (Beard, 1996). She mentions the dog throughout the article always telling the struggles of the dog and how it is at the end of its life. She invites her friend over to get rid of the squirrels in the attic and she notices the aging of the collie as well. Beard’s friend cries when she sees it. Beards dying collie wasn’t the worst of her luck, her husband left her too.…