Varsity match

My Dad My Dad has always been my inspiration ever since I was little. Some people can say the same thing, but some can say their father wasn’t like my dad. Even my dad couldn’t say that his father was his inspiration. His dad left him just when he was an eight year old boy, and would come back when he turned sixteen. Only to leave yet again and not speak to my dad until he was forty. Sitting outside on the steps as my dad and I watch our dogs run around after each other. The glow from the sun…

My blackout journey was emotionally prolonged because I thought I was going to die. My entire life is me using electronic media, with the exception of when I’m sleeping. Only being able to use my laptop for homework and nothing else, felt like I was going to break into a million pieces. I started my journey on Friday, May 20th through Saturday, May 21st. Little did I know, this was going to be harder than I expected. On the first day, when I woke up that morning, I was not excited. My first…

The top six members where the varsity which is composed of mostly seniors and some juniors. The rest was all on junior varsity with the ranks ranging from seven to fourteen. To explain the drill to the new comers, the coach used the first four on the varsity team to demonstrate. “Today we are going to practice on our overhead drill,” coach explained. The overhead drill main focus is to teach…

Foundation of Personal Communication Defensive Climate is a situation where one perceives or anticipates some form of threat and feels like they need to defend themselves from the unknown and become cautious with their surrounding and people around them. For example, your supervisor makes statements that imply that you are always late, and you know you have only been late once: you tend to be defensive. On the other hand, Supportive Climate is a state of a stress-free and healthy environment,…

Interest and Motivation: I chose the topic of how tennis affects people. When I first heard about this I-Search project, I immediately knew that I wanted to choose a topic that was related to tennis. Since tennis is one of my favorite sports, and I’m very passionate about it, I want to learn everything about this topic. I know that having tennis as a topic is too broad, so, I have decided to narrow it down. In sixth grade, I did a persuasive speech on the benefits of exercise. From that day on,…

Privilege is what I consider, an advantage a group of individuals have over everyone else in society. They can live their lives without having to modify to anything they encounter. This includes being able to go shopping, and having a plethora of options because the stores offers mainly your size. This also, includes being able to get a job because you have a “clean” appearance. A person is privileged, when they are not constantly being followed by sales associates in the store. Privilege is…

In the story, “A&P”, John Updike introduces a young boy, Sammy, who is employed in an A&P grocery and finds his awareness towards maturity, which leads to consequences. The author illustrates this through the use of detailed characterization, bravery, and consequences brought from one’s actions. The passage starts off with Sammy working when he sees three girls wearing nothing but bathing suits and labels each one individually. Later on, the girls walk up to Sammy to check out when Lengel, the…

In the short story "A&P" by John Updike, the protagonist, Sammy, quits his job at the end of the story. It is clear that life will not be easy for him after this. Although it is never an appropriate idea to suddenly quit a job, Sammy’s boredom with his job, his disinclination for his manager, and his attempt to impress the girls he felt were wronged, are feasible reasons behind his ultimate decision to quit his job. Throughout the story, there are countless instances described that could lead…

Sammy made the unjust choice of staring and ogling at the three girls. In addition to that, Sammy also creepily paid attention to even the most minute of details pertaining to the girls. He was also unjust for quitting the job that his parents helped him to get. The story hinted that Sammy did not have much of a future but rather his parents cared about his future more than him. Sammy was morally wrong for continuously staring and strangely interpreting the leader of the group’s upbringings,…

Throughout my tenure as a courtesy clerk (bagger) at Kroger, I engaged in various acts of petty rebellion. However, in my final days employed there, I had moved from fruitless anger and focused it into an organized protest, one that had an impact on both myself and the store, if only for a day. Similar to the actions Smith took in The Loneliness of The Long-Distance Runner, by Alan Sillitoe, my behavior was one that resulted from a conflict between personal principles, and a hatred for arbitrary…