Sweet Sixteen Research Paper
Sweet Sixteen
Janessa Russell
Brigham Young University-Idaho
Author Note
This essay was organized for Writing and Reasoning Foundations 101, Section 87, taught by Sister Owens.
Sweet Sixteen
Everyone wishes till the day when they finally turn sixteen. Well you know what that means right? Finally freedom with a car, which means no more having your mom drive you to the movies and having her pull over a block away just so you can hurry and get out of the car making sure no one saw that your own mother dropped you off. Every soon to be 16 year old doesn’t want their own mother dropping them off and honking their horn as they drive away. Well you guessed it that is my type of mom. It was a hot summer day in Utah when …show more content…
The one time that I felt like I could get away with disobeying and then I got busted. I was officially grounded for one month, which meant only driving the car to school and back. My social life became dead for the next month considering that I wasn’t allowed to hang out with friends. I learned a valuable lesson about obedience and how I should obey these rules at all times. An example of obedience is, sometimes as humans we think that we can get away with things that don’t seem that big of a deal at the time. My mom told me this story, which taught me a valuable lesson. The story was about this lady who was driving home from church. It was too much of a hassle to put her baby in his or her seatbelt properly so she thought it would be okay to hurry and drive home holding her child, considering that they only lived a block away. After a few miles she got in a car accident and the airbag killed her child immediately. If she would have only obeyed the laws and put her child in the seatbelt like she was supposed to do then she would have never lost her child who she loved so dearly. She had to live with knowing that her child would never have the opportunity to live another day. She would never be able to see her child graduate from high school, get married, and become a mother of her own children. Day by day she faces the choice that she made and she will forever regret that poor decision. So next time you disobey the rules which you were given, think about this mother and the pain that she has to go through each day. We have rules here for a reason, which will help us in the long run. Next time you get asked to do something that you know is disobedient to the rules will you do
Janessa Russell
Brigham Young University-Idaho
Author Note
This essay was organized for Writing and Reasoning Foundations 101, Section 87, taught by Sister Owens.
Sweet Sixteen
Everyone wishes till the day when they finally turn sixteen. Well you know what that means right? Finally freedom with a car, which means no more having your mom drive you to the movies and having her pull over a block away just so you can hurry and get out of the car making sure no one saw that your own mother dropped you off. Every soon to be 16 year old doesn’t want their own mother dropping them off and honking their horn as they drive away. Well you guessed it that is my type of mom. It was a hot summer day in Utah when …show more content…
The one time that I felt like I could get away with disobeying and then I got busted. I was officially grounded for one month, which meant only driving the car to school and back. My social life became dead for the next month considering that I wasn’t allowed to hang out with friends. I learned a valuable lesson about obedience and how I should obey these rules at all times. An example of obedience is, sometimes as humans we think that we can get away with things that don’t seem that big of a deal at the time. My mom told me this story, which taught me a valuable lesson. The story was about this lady who was driving home from church. It was too much of a hassle to put her baby in his or her seatbelt properly so she thought it would be okay to hurry and drive home holding her child, considering that they only lived a block away. After a few miles she got in a car accident and the airbag killed her child immediately. If she would have only obeyed the laws and put her child in the seatbelt like she was supposed to do then she would have never lost her child who she loved so dearly. She had to live with knowing that her child would never have the opportunity to live another day. She would never be able to see her child graduate from high school, get married, and become a mother of her own children. Day by day she faces the choice that she made and she will forever regret that poor decision. So next time you disobey the rules which you were given, think about this mother and the pain that she has to go through each day. We have rules here for a reason, which will help us in the long run. Next time you get asked to do something that you know is disobedient to the rules will you do