without my best friend by my side. She was with me through thick and thin. After every school day, she was there to greet me as I was getting off the school bus all the way up to the end of middle school. Every day I would wake up, get ready to go to school and go outside to tell her good morning, but on May 15, 2015, my best friend of 13 years was taken from me. It has been three and a half months since I have been able to talk to her and give her loving hugs. I miss being able to vent my darkest
For my Social Media essay, I went through many process works to get my best work I have right now. The Social Media essay is located after my “Eleven” packet and before my PRLs (Personal Reading Logs). Before, we started our writing, we did a class survey, read a few articles, and watched two videos on social networking that described how it impacted daily lives negatively or positively. Through the survey we did, we were able to figure the percentage of our class of how long they use social networking
At our summer Kairos training meeting, our leader told us about how she was stressed out for the majority of the past year. She realized her all the stress that was building up inside of her was due to the fact that she had not cried in a while. It was not until she shared this story that I realized I have not cried in a long time. For me crying was a burden, or something to avoid because I usually was the one being cried on not the other way around. But something happened, actually a lot of things
together, the hand shake in most business context or the greetings like “How are you” or “Hello”. Each country has its own norm of greeting and only by experiencing can we understand it. In this essay, we are going to look at the way the Spanish greet, especially kissing and the reason for that. After this essay, it is expected that the audiences will not face with the same embarrassing miscommunicating situation as below. For Helen Fisher, a kiss acts as a powerful mechanism of adaptation that is present
studies and religion depending on how addicted they are. Siers-Poisson, Judith. ‘’ Social Media is both Positive, Negetive For Youth.’’ (2013). The essay is talking about the inscurity that social media has brougt to the youth in the society.
When I was 13 year- old I used to believe in Santa Claus, I thought Santa existed. My family--- my ama(mom), My baba(dad), my older brother Abi, my younger brother Bhidya, and my elder sisters Renuka and Reawti--- moved to Arizona from Nepal. When I think of Santa, I want to learn about him and I share on computer to read that who is Santa Claus. I found out that “Santa Claus is a legendary figure originating in Western Christian culture who is said to bring gifts to the homes of well-behaved ("good"
Thousand Pictures for a Million Words,” an essay by Lash Keith Vance, the author discusses that people do not enjoy the feeling of being mentally attached to an event because they always feel the need to capture a picture of the moment. Once people begin to start using their devices, they get distracted, and the distraction interrupts the flow of the event. He says that people do not only believe in capturing the moment, but also need to have the “best” picture. Besides having to do many things
In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting myself to Huck Finn. As we all know Huck is very adventurous. I am not very adventurous. I like to stay home and do things inside my house like watch t.v. Huck doesn’t have his mom and I do. Huck doesn’t get a long with his dad but I get along with mine. He uses the word “pap” for his dad and I on the other hand say something different compared to him like “dad.” Huck doesn’t like to look nice and I do. I think looking nice is a good way to show that
failure. They failed to put a universal definition on the word, but succeeded in finding what happiness is in their life. Through writing this I am attempting to do the same and I hope to succeed in the same way that others before me have. Although my definition may be different from others, and different from what society tells me it should be, it is a definition that I believe in. Happiness is making the most out of every situation that life throws you into. "That is why, for Christ's sake,
vast number of students inside one building, the maturity of all the upperclassmen, and the way people carried themselves. I had quite a few friends, but I tried hard to fit in. Now as a senior, I am almost fully matured and on my own path with my studies and originality. I had to find my sense of originality and stop trying to copy others overtime. In my freshman year of high school in 2012, I was an average, immature kid that was fresh out of 8th grade graduation from Forest Park. When I finally