Despite the challenges I encountered, I was able to overcome them and reach the summit. I am proud that I was able to venture out of my comfort zone and see what the world has to offer. I also realized that the world is beautiful. There are so many fascinating natural features of our world that are labeled as “dangerous,” such as mountains and the danger falling, rockslides, and avalanches if there is snow; and the depths of the ocean. We have only discovered five percent of the ocean so far, and I guarantee that we will find incredible and creatures and plants.
“Wade in the water. Wade in the water, children. Wade in the water. God’s going to trouble the water,” the slaves sang as they did their daily work. Link
Once we reached the top I felt a huge weight lift off my shoulders as I looked around and could see every mountain as far as the horizon would go. There was a little shop at the top where you could buy refreshments so we bought two Dasani waters and sat down. I took the view in slowly, because I knew I had earned it. Slowly the sun began to go lower and we knew that it wouldn’t be safe to be atop the mountain at sunrise because of lightning, so we began to hike back down the mountain. On the way down our heads were held a little higher and our pace a little slower because we felt good about our accomplishment and what it meant to
“You two, get the ball down the pool and take a shot, just make sure it’s inbounds, don’t worry if you miss the goal, Kenzie will get the rebound.” My coach has barked these orders on numerous occasions throughout the year and it has never failed to give me a little thrill inside. As an athlete that tends to go unnoticed, getting acknowledgement in such an offhand way is pretty exciting. It shows me I have a place on the team, a job that my team depends on me to do. Water polo is a very difficult sport.
Ziad K. Abdennour, President and CEO of Black Hawk Partners once said, “Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three,” (Quotefancy). Odysseus, king of Ithaca and his dwindling crew have been wandering for 10 years since the Trojan War. During this time, they were involved in a series of adventures and faced many obstacles as they struggled to return home to their families. Without honest, cooperative soldiers Odysseus would never have returned home to his wife and son.
Indeed, I felt a sense of triumph reaching the place where I never thought I could with fatigue and stress of knowing that I have to get back over the same rough trail. My legs were severely sore and my lungs were congested but today when I look back on it as an epic expedition, a wide grin appears on my face and I believe it will continue to do so over the rest of my life.
I wake up from another one of my bad dreams and look over to see if Sodapop is still asleep. He’s gone. I decided to go see if Darry was home. He is gone too. I am completely alone and I just noticed that it is in the middle of the night.
Have you ever seen something so majestic and awe inspiring that it simply overwhelms all thought, such instances in life are rare, however when you witness one they become one of the true moments of wonder in life. Such a moment happened to me when I visited the Grand Canyon, it was truly a marvel to behold stretching as far as the eye could see, and one witnessing it can’t help but feel unbearably small in our suddenly very big world. The Grand Canyon is one of those places in this world where you simply must visit before you die or you haven’t truly lived yet. The Grand Canyon has widely been regarded as one of few natural wonders of the world, this statement however fails to fully encompass the truly overwhelming presence felt when in front of such an awe-inspiring location.
I began playing water polo my freshman year at Archbishop Mitty, and I never thought it would make such a remarkable impact on my life. I was thinking in the beginning, maybe I’ll just do one year, or most two, but that has dramatically changed over the past three years. I can genuinely say that I have fallen in love with the sport. I don’t want to play just throughout my high school years, I want more, I want to play in college, I want to try out for the Olympic team, and after that I want to coach others and see their passion for the sport as well. Water Polo has done a lot for me in my life, it has introduced me to my two best friends, given me an outlet, and most importantly taught me how to be a leader, My best friends play important
Once I got to the waterfall I immediately dropped my stuff at a nearby boulder and began climbing up a slope leading to the cliff. Being ahead of all my friends up the slope, I could feel my heartbeat beating harder as every step went by while simultaneously thinking "if I turn back now it'll be easier to go down the hill". But eventually I made it to the top, with the first thing that I saw was a
I, Roberta Hudson stayed at Irene and Roger Grays’ home in the last two weeks of october of 2009. Everyday Roger would come home, entering through the garage with two cans of beer and drink until he fell asleep. Irene went to work at the Viking (‘09) and was very upset and in pain from a bruised side and a knot on her head caused by Roger shoving her. I moved back to Washington, from Texas in June of 2011. I went to visit Irene and Roger.
The first person to put water in a bottle and sell it must have been a genius. How else can someone take something that is free and turn it into a multi billion dollar business? In the US a lot of people buy bottled water because they think it is better and safer for them. There is no evidence it is better for you and, indeed, it may be less safe than tap water. According to the Center for Disease control (2012)
When I was a teenager, the cool thing to do was hang out with friends, party, and drink alcohol, so I thought. My friends and I would tend to follow the crowd and it seemed to always lead to trouble. I was only 14 years old the night it all began. At the time, I could not drive so my friends came and picked me up, we all went to a house party and alcohol was there. Because we were senseless and easily influenced, we decided to try some to fit in.
Who would have thought what began as a voluntary choice to pick up a drink, have fun, be happy would end with me being diagnosed as an alcoholic, not me! Drinking to that extent was never my intention. My drinking did not always end in disaster, in the begging I was having a ball. Let me explain how drinking, defined me. Prior to drinking, I was shy, insecure, unhappy and self conscious.
One time I felt scared of a situation or someone was when I was 8 years old and I was in the lake. I thought I could swim and I went to the deep. I got scared, because I could not touch the ground. And I started drowning and trying to get up. Water started getting in my nose and then, my dad swam towards me, because he was in the water few distance away from me.
