Whitewater controversy

Perched on the raft, I was paddling as hard as I could. Six others and I were traveling down a huge river with plenty of sharp rocks and a strong current. Before I knew it, I had fallen off into the choppy water. I bobbed my soaked head out of the water to see my friends all laughing. I smiled back as I climbed myself back up onto the raft. For my first time white water rafting, only falling off once wasn’t half bad. In November of 2014, I spent nine days in Costa Rica thanks to a program…

Narrative Writing by : hailey lower Me, my friend gina , and my other friend Jenny were desperate for food and water . We were lost in the middle of death valley . Jenny had spotted an abandoned campground , so we all rushed over there . Finally we were there more thirsty than I’ve ever been I felt like a zombie , It felt like if you were about to pass out . Me and the girls would take any water or food we could find . We broke into some campers searching for…

It was a beautiful day with an amazing location Niagara Falls, Canada. We were by the water falls and we walked a long way to get to the boat tour. And I was super scared because I do not like anything that floats on water. I was trying to recede from the boats. And there was a super long line and in my head I was saying thank you. But my dad finds another line by so much shorter so we got to the other line. And we had to go down a lot of steps and we get on the boat eventually I definitely had…

Fourth of July is normally an exciting day, but this year mine was that and more. All of my friends and I packed up and headed to Fayetteville for a day of whitewater rafting on the New River Gorge. I had never been whitewater rafting so I was in for a thrilling experience. Gearing up for the put in was a rush of nerves to say the least. you have to get all the Personal floatation devices fit on everyone, and helmets handed out. The next thing I knew we were swiftly paddling down the river;…

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On the year of 2012 many propositions were proposed, and us as citizens got to choose whether it should, or whether it should not become a law. One proposition that was on the ballot in 2012 was proposition 35- Human Trafficking Penalties Initiative Statute. Human trafficking is well defined as labor trafficking, and sex trafficking where the victim has no say in this, and is exploited. Human Trafficking happens everywhere in the world, and although they are trying to stop Human Trafficking…

George Orwell A Comparative analysis George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945) and Shooting an Elephant (1938) both share two major characteristic features, namely politics and history. Animal Farm is mainly an allegory of the Russian Revolution which took place in 1917. All of the characters in the story represents the biggest names in the Russian Revolution and the early start of the Soviet Union. The farm itself is also supposed to represent the Russian Federation, which they fight for in the…

The justice system in today’s society can be pretty controversial. Judges and juries have to look at the facts of a case and based on their unbiased opinion, determine whether a person is guilty or not, and then determine the severity of a punishment. Because of society’s differing views, there will always be disagreements on an appropriate penalty. This concept directly relates to the punishment that was issued in Homer’s, The Odyssey. The fate of a pack of wooers who have taken over his…

I read two stories one named Confetti Girl by Diana López and the other Tortilla Sun by Jennifer Cervantes these stories were very similar. The narrator's point of view was very different from their parents point of view. Which could be a good thing or a bad thing. The narrator’s disagree with there parents causing tension throughout the family. The tension in the two stories are very different, but they still have the same concept. In the story “Confetti Girl” she has caused conflict/tension…