Tumbling

Life is a journey whereby you meet different people, live through different experiences and experience many challenges some life altering. Self reflection is an important process as it helps you to grow and learn about yourself. It is important to understand where you have come from in order to move forward. “Reflection is an active engagement with knowledge and experience rather than being passive, staying where you are and looking back ” (Ip, 1996). The purpose of this reflection paper is to…

on an object. Not knowing what I was consequently about to carry out, I jerked my leg harder. If there was a definition for immediate regret; this would, without a doubt, be a perfect example. As I had flicked my leg hard, the Christmas tree came tumbling down, lights and all. The tree had landed, of course, right on top of the Nativity scene and had scattered all the figures around along with breaking a couple of them. While the tree had fallen, the stand also came down with the evergreen and…

but in the shadows lurked the demons which would crush my world and send my life into turmoil. By the time I was six years old my parents decided to divorce. With the divorce came the loss of home, love and security of which I knew. The walls came tumbling down around me I felt abandoned and afraid. All of my brothers and sisters scattered into the wind, they were sent to live with their other parents or family. My father was in the military and he was being…

year. These special casts were very heavy and awkward. After Kristi was done with the casts, she wore corrective shoes for four years and had to learn to walk in them (Savage 11). When she was younger, at age four, she practiced ballet, tap, and did tumbling. This led her into wanting to ice skate (Savage 13). She had obstacles growing up, one time at the mall there was an ice skating show and she was fascinated (12). She begged her mom to let her skate, but her mom said she had to wait until…

A Prominent Financial Crash What would be a disaster for the stock market would be major chaos for the rest of the nation, in terms of the market, prices, jobs, and just barely staying alive. The stock market is an important event in history because it affected countless Americans, rich middle and poor, and anything that would be linked with the crash, directly or indirectly, causing items and products to lose value greatly and rapidly. This set a chain of events which left the nation with…

that would be the end of my cheerleading career until I sat on the sideline at all the football games and I got bumped down to junior varsity. Now that was not the end of the world I was planning on building my strength back up with my stunting and tumbling while my fingers healed until I sprained…

Midway through the second quarter, as the Celtics took the ball down the court, Brandon Jennings stopped in Terry Rozier’s path. Rozier did not appreciate that, and pushed straight through Jennings, sending him tumbling to the hardwood. Both players were assessed technical fouls for their involvement. This kind of incident has become commonplace when the Wizards and Celtics play each other, and it’s a good thing. When two teams dislike each other, there’s a reason…

house at the time. In a matter of minutes, the village of Bento Rodrigues was gone. There were people running to find other friends and family members to find shelter to avoid touching the hazardous mud. I looked on as people were swept away and sent tumbling through the rapids. One moment there and the next gone, they disappeared as if out of thin air, and became one with the muck. It was so sickening to look at that I turned away and watched as the candy bar, I ate only hours earlier, came…

was a gash in the earth at least 30 feet long and 30 feet deep. As lighting had struck and Stephen and his dad both ducked so fast because it sounded like it was so close. Stephen’s dad got so startled that he had slipped and fallen down the gash. Tumbling and he hit’s head at the end of his fall, as Stephen watched him go down. Stephen quickly went down the slippery muddy rocky side as he tried to get to his father safely. He tried took for his dad but he couldn't find any sign of him anywhere…

They never teach about how to deal with depression. It just sorts of hits you. When I briskly walked into my grandparents’ house I expected to see my family at work round the conference-like table, thrashing out some sort of business deal. Instead I was met by dreary-eyed zombies, an eerie silence awash. “God it’s like a Samaritans tea party in here,” I sneered. At that moment my grandfather stumbled in. The normal sharp suit and tie had been replaced with a set of ragged pyjamas. He look gloom,…