With over 15.5 million children living in poverty in the United States, we here at AV Homes felt there was no better time than the present to lend a helping hand in bringing joy to less fortunate children during this most special time of year.…
The racetrack feels like there is a drum inside your ribcage. This feeling comes from cars turning the track and people cheering…
The social-emotional domain is most of interest to me. As Humans we interact pretty much throughout our lives, our emotions often play a large role on how we develop socially and how that ties to our emotions. From birth we gradually start to develop these relationships with the people around us. Over time this process of learning to communicate, share, and interact with others takes many years to develops. We continue to develop these skills into our teenage years, and even as young adults. So with that I do believe that the development in this domain is mostly a continuous one.…
My mother, sister, and I were driving down Highway 124 on a hot July day when my mom screamed and slammed on the breaks. Fear rushed through our bodies. Outside the car window, a short young African American man was launched into the air. As he came down, a loud boom sounded as his body helplessly rolled off the hood of the faint green Toyota Corolla in front of us. The man lay motionless in the road while we waited for what seemed like hours for the driver to exit the car. His red shirt and gym shorts were ripped. The driver of the opposing car threw the vehicle in reverse in a spasmodic action in an attempt to end the man’s life. The injured man made an effort to crawl onto the Wendy’s sidewalk, forcing his body up on the curb to evade the car. The driver drove up onto the curb and blew its tire, just barely missing the wounded man. Realizing the driver would stop at nothing, my mother drove her white suburban in front of the car, blocking the violent perpetrator from doing any further damage.…
Time is winding down and the past thirty nine weeks has been nothing short but amazing. It has been full of different emotions and feelings. From the stretching of the skin to the sudden movement I have never felt before. It was all a new experience, but the feeling was indescribable. After a restless night, the sunrise appeared before I knew it. The pain was unbearable, but after several hours and a couple of good pushes you were here. I was extremely exhausted, but the relief was absolutely amazing. At first sight I fell in love with you. Not for how you look, just for who you are. I never thought I could feel affection like this. What is this? Is this how it's assume to feel or even resemble? It's kind of insane how you, only one individual,…
I was in at Save-A-Lot a couple of weeks ago and while I was in line to check out, I overheard a lady talk about a man that was following her on the walking path behind my house. She was talking about how this man would follow her for a couple hundred feet then stop, completely strip down, and would start performing sexual acts on himself. She said that she doesn’t feel comfortable walking on the walking path anymore. We need to take action to stop these things from happening and make the walking path safer.…
On the second day of school during my sophomore year, I realized how much Wahlert meant to me. It had become my home, the place where I felt like I belonged; school almost even seemed like a break from summer. Over the summer, I had become an empty shell and spent my time at the computer wasting the time away; the only interactions I had were with my family, and on rare occasion with my best friends, when we had sleepovers. To see the people I had missed over the summer was great. All of these things felt so true in that moment.…
Samantha was my savior and protector till the struggle of social life took over our compact minds. I remember when Samantha and I first met in Kindergarten; I had just back to Fort Hood from Germany and hardly spoke English. I was the middle of the school year, kids had just come back from winter break and everybody knew each other by then but me. My new teacher had seated me next to Samantha and Sam welcomed me warmly. Sam would help me with assignments and talking to other kids and stood up for me against cruel kids when no one else would from kindergarten to third grade. I saw her as not only my best friend, but also my hero. However, Sam became more distant throughout the years and started talking to me less, but I didn't think anything…
As I slowly opened my eyes, all I saw was darkness. I try to feel my surroundings and all I touched were bars. I call out her name and all I heard back was mmm.…
His foggy sapphire blue eyes with flecks of amber flicker open for just a second and I hear him mumble before falling back asleep, curled in his sheep skin blanket. I silently curse myself for potentially waking him. A dream of fire and blood...was it a memory?…
Learning from mistakes is a key part of life. I myself have had to learn from my mistakes. Over the summer I cut my foot outside. I spent the whole night in the worst hospital, then I got 18 stitches in the bottom of my foot. It also set back my ability to play football. My mistake was going outside without shoes, now I wear my shoes all the time.…
I'm only sixteen years old and even though that sounds like a lot of years, it really isn't. But within those few years that I have been alive a few things have really developed me through defining moments.…
October 31st, 2013 in Bloomington, Illinois. It is around three o’clock in the morning. A man decides that, after having numerous alcoholic drinks, he is still in the right mindset to drive himself home. He thinks he is driving just fine – making it down the highway safely. Before he knows it, though, he plows right into a police car, T boning it, and immediately killing the officer and his service dog that were inside of the car. This man is now facing not one, but two charges of murder and a DUI. If he ever gets out of jail, it will be almost impossible for him to get a job and his insurance rates will skyrocket because of the accident. For these reasons, and simply to prevent terrible accidents like this from happening,…
Early, my day has started as like every other day, the same usual routine. However, I haven’t seen my friend Jack, which is odd since he is usually the first person to greet everyone. I asked everyone who knew Jack at the community center, we participate to help those in need, none had a clue.…
One of the earliest times that I remember committing an act of kindness was the one that made my mother the most proud. I was in the fourth grade and considering that I had just moved to a new school, I wasn't exactly the most extroverted person in my grade level. Maybe that was why everyone was so shocked to see me, of all people, standing up against a bully.…