As a volleyball player, I was constantly working on getting stronger. Sometimes it would take days or even weeks to strengthen the skills I felt needed to be worked on in order make myself and my team better. Even though I may not have been able to ace a ball or spike it in the beginning or had a hard time assisting my teammates, I knew that if I didn’t give up, I would eventually achieve my goal. As I continued to play during my high school years, I ended up having to quit playing my senior year since I had become very sick and was not physically able to play. There were many games and practices that I tried to play, and I was constantly going against my body and making myself worse rather than better.
I have decided that when I perform, it is for me. Every decision, moment, and mistake is a learning experience. I learn most about myself when I am performing. I have faced fear and allowed my nerves to push me further. Walking off a stage, folding a microphone stand, or simply unlacing my shoes after a performance, for me, is done in a trance because I have left every ounce of my heart, spirit, nerves, and myself within the performance.
It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed. Your grudges, resentments, frustrations and jealousies will finally disappear. So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will expire. The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away. It won’t matter where you came from, or on what side of tracks you lived at the end.
Society is facing a bullying problem. One that has effected our youth for generations. My ideas on this matter stem from a quote by Eleanor Roosevelt, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Bullying is a problem that continues to plague the nation; however, the increased efforts to combat this problem through anti-bully assemblies have been ineffective due to their principle of punishing the bully rather than helping the victim. I have spent the last twelve years of my life in the central bullying station - public school. In those twelve years, I have witnessed all forms of bullying and have been bullied myself.
She beats herself up every day, and asks herself, why she didn’t go back. She knows that if she went back she would have a great life and a good job where she could support herself. She always relies on my step father for money. Unfortunately, I do not want to turn out like my mom. My step father didn’t get to go to college either because he took me and my mother in at a young age, so he
They can make us more alive, full of life, full of energy, happy and an optimistic person. They can be our strengths in the challenges and problems that our life is going thru. In my life, I already experience having many crushes to those people who have a nice face and a nice body. I make them as my inspirations in the school. I can complete already my day whenever I see them.
The Effects of Technology on Today’s Children Technology can be used for many things, some positive, some negative. The effects that are now being documented on children whom are left unattended for hours on end are nothing but negative. Long term damage is more prevalent in the recent studies than ever before. Researchers are finding that many parents are using the internet and other forms of technology to “raise” their children. Thus leaving small children to have free reign, and spending hours “plugged in” to any form of technology is detrimental to many areas of the child’s life.
My advices for the incoming freshman is get the work done then go out and party that way you won’t fall behind in your classes. Another good idea is to take advantage of the campus resources. The learning center is a great way for students to go to and get some extra tutoring that every student probably needs. There are a lot of nice people in there that are willing to help you in whatever you need. Also the library that we have is top of the line.
What wasn’t normal was that she was sad, very sad. I had never seen my grandmother cry, that I could remember, and even worse I had no idea why she was crying. Now I can’t believe she didn’t cry more. Then she went to the hospital for a long time for various surgeries, and plans on what to do next. My brother and I stayed at my Grandpa’s house most of the time she was up there mostly only going home to sleep and get ready for school the next day, it was weird and confusing but my grandpa was good at getting our minds off of things and keeping our spirits up when he needed to.
Thousands of children go to school every day filled with fear and trepidation; other feign illness to avoid being taunted or attacked on the way to school or in the school yard, hallways, and bathrooms; still others manage to make themselves sick at school so as to avoid harassment in the locker room. Children who are bullied spend a lot of time thinking up ways to avoid the trauma and have little energy left for learning. It is not only the bullied child who suffers the consequences of bullying. Many children who bully continue these learned behaviors into adulthood and are at increased risk of bullying their own children, failing at interpersonal relationships, losing jobs, and ending up in jail. Bystanders are also affected by bullying.