Tumbling

As I quickly scrambled over the massive boulders, halfway to the summit, like a big horn sheep running up a rocky mountainside, I wondered if I would be physically and emotionally capable of making it to the top. During the summer of 2013 I was faced with a huge obstacle that will forever impact my life. Being diagnosed with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (P.O.T.S) was not my cup of tea. That year was very traumatic. I remember lying in my bed every day for months and months. My cold…

shape because you are constantly doing cardio during a game or competition. Soccer is a sport that requires a lot of cardio just like cheer, which is one reason why they should respect cheerleaders. All routines require stunts, jumps, and sometimes tumbling and to execute this, strength is needed. The male cheerleaders must be physically able to lift a female cheerleader for long periods of time, and even balance her on one hand. Football players, mostly male, are not required to hold any…

Social Conditions in “Meet You In Hell” Les Standiford’s 2005 “Meet You In Hell” biography of two men, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, recalls the events after and before the bloody incident that occurred on July of 1892. The incident involving the steelworkers and Pinkerton, so called detectives, from the steel manufacturing plant in Homestead Pennsylvania came to be known as “the deadliest clash between workers and owners in American labor history” (Standiford, 28). After the dust had…

The first book that I remember someone, my mother, reading me is One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss. My mother would always read to me before bed. We would snuggle together, and I strongly believe that these experiences shaped me into the reader I am today. Also, I believed that it contributed to my love of reading. 2. Again, here is a prompt – read it, close your eyes and think about what the response should be. What is the first thing you remember reading on your own,…

of mythology and literature. The novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey, examines this theme by detailing the war between Nurse Ratched, the head nurse of a psychiatric ward, and recently admitted Randall Patrick McMurphy, a rough and tumbling redheaded gambler, conman, and backroom boxer. McMurphy constantly challenges the authority of Nurse Ratched and the ward, and defiantly rallies the other men to oppose her authority. Exhausted from McMurphy’s behaviour, Nurse Ratched plays…

Alyssa Roenigk, a senior writer for ESPN, presented an argumentative article, “Sorry, Cheerleading is not a Sport,” which opened a pivotal argument on cheerleading being classified as a sport. Roenigk states that all cheerleaders are athletes, but cheerleading should not be considered a sport. Why is this? Roenigk claims that sports teams are made to compete, to go against another team to win, not to entertain the crowd. Although Roenigk tries to persuade her audience that cheerleading does not…

The Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinbeck, depicts the adventure of Tom Joad on finding his true identity as a tenant farmer during the Great Depression. Steinbeck alternates the actual story and the intercalary chapters in order to give the background information on about what was going to happen in the real story, but also to imply his meaning of writing the book. Especially in Chapter 17, the passage explains the growing number of settlers on the side road of the highway. On the…

Everyone in this world experiences some large loss in their lifetime. “Gwilan’s Harp” by Ursula K. LeGuin, “The Washwoman” by Isaac Bashevis Singer, and “The Last Leaf” by O. Henry all starkly portray this theme. The harpist in “Gwilan’s Harp” loses her harp and then later her skills and soon after her beloved husband. In “The Washwoman”, the dear old launderer has lost the love of her son, health, and soon her life. One of the artists in “The Last Leaf” loses her hope for living when she…

Fabius stood with Scipio and Polybius again on the tower. He could feel the tension in the air, the edginess as they knew the time for action was approaching fast. Polybius pointed along the foreshore to the west, where the Roman fleet stood just out of bowshot range form the walls. “The wind is still coming from the south. Ennius is worried that it will blow the flames back over our own ships. You must give the order before the wind picks up more’. ‘That’s exactly why I don’t like him messing…

Egypt, and made everyone look at Aton as the only god. This, of course, confused everyone, and even made some people mad because Egypt was used to having many gods. That was when he changed his name to Akhenaton, which means peace of Aton. Egypt was tumbling down under his rule. All of the regions Thutmose III had won were rebelling and Akhenaton was doing nothing about it. After he died, He was removed from the king list, and his monuments torn…