When Your Heart Stops Beating

It was going to be incredibly hard for me, but I took a deep breath and sat down in my seat. I had felt an uneasy feeling in the air as we took off towards my painful, hard, and exhausting running experience that I will always remember. My heart dropped when we pull into the parking lot where I would be running my race. We got off the bus and unloaded it as we walked over to our area to set up our tent. Once that was…

Dear Mr. Wolcott, I will be telling you in this letter why recess should not be allowed in middle schools and here’s why. Do you remember back when you were in elementary school and you were at recess, and it was hectic? For example, do you remember if anyone got hurt/injured, drama, inappropriate talk, or people talking about stuff that wasn’t true about someone or you? This happens in every elementary school and I think that middle schools should not have recess for three specific reasons.…

had a very rough childhood. His stories of his childhood have influenced me a lot. He has drank alcohol and smoked cigarettes for 30 years of his life. When he didn’t drink he was a very nice guy. When he did drink he was a jerk that nobody wanted to be around. Addictions like this can completely change people's personalities for the worse. When I was about 12 years old, my father was a severe alcoholic and a hardcore cigarette smoker. One day I remember him looking for something on the…

are forgiven. We are not beating ourselves up, we are beating the enemy with the truth of God’s love and God 's word. We are using confession and repentance like a sword and stabbing the enemy with it every time until he bows and falls to the…

One has to be careful about wanting to win. It can consume you. When a rivalry is born, it can can invade a person’s life, making its presence known. If that same rivalry has the same outcome over and over, it becomes less like an invasion and more like a hostile takeover. The beating heart of my story is this: My whole life I didn’t know that Chatham was the devil hiding behind a big mask. We have lost against Chatham every single year we have played them. Not just every other year like a back…

sure of what that is. The sky is grey, something seems off. I look further down the beach and I see something that looks like a body. As I am running closer and closer, the shape begins to take form. The closer I get, the harder it becomes to run. When my eyes have completely focused on the no longer blurred shape — I realize what it is. Or rather...who it is. She is wearing a long ivory dress, no shoes, and a puka shell anklet. Her eyes are open and she won’t move. “MOM!”, I yell. “Mom you’ve…

check began my quest to find the holy grail of knowledge. On my journey, dozens of friends told me that I just needed to take a “break.” They bragged that they grasp this amazing power that allows them to easily shut their teary eyes, calm their beating hearts, and rest their weary heads at night until they felt renew in the morning. As I progress down my quest, I realize that the easiest actions in the world are sometimes the most difficult. Despite the difficulties of overcoming any mental…

29, 2017 when I decided I would beat Kilian Jornet’s time of 11 hours and 48 minutes, and it was January 10, 2018 when I finally decided to attempt the big climb. It was cold, but not as freezing as some of the other months happened to be, It was that particular Wednesday when everything went south. The day before climbing Denali, I decided to take a breather before I attempted beating the world record. My exercises and warm ups were crazy and I loved feeling that burning sensation when you…

stomach, he was going to die. Finn and the hound had traveled at least two miles when the sun started to sink below the trees. Finn pulled out his thermometer to see if the temperature had changed. His eyes had to focus on the tiny numbers for a minute before he read “negative seventeen” out loud. Finn knew he why he couldn’t feel his toes anymore. They were frostbitten and turning blue. He decided he wasn’t going to stop and try to build a fire that night. He wanted to get to wherever this…

be followed by the body paragraph, one paragraph per letter in the outline, for a total of eight body paragraphs. Jellyfish are spineless sea creatures that have many cells on their tentacles that allow them to inject their victims with toxins. When some unsuspecting creature comes into contact with these dangerous medusa, whether it be human or wild sea animals, they will trigger tiny…