Ouch! It Burns!- a descriptive essay It was New Year’s Eve back home in the Philippines. I was only 6 years old‚ short‚ thin and clumsy. With my favorite striped pink shorts and white tank top with a Care Bears print on‚ I rushed outside our apartment to join other kids light some fireworks. People everywhere on our neighborhood were lighting their own fireworks and firecrackers. The sky that was usually dark was now filled with different colors of light – yellow‚ red‚ green‚ blue‚ white‚
Premium Light Fireworks Color
Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there‚ and why is it meaningful to you? The earth spins at approximately 1‚000 miles per hour‚ and rotates around the sun at about 67‚000 miles per hour. Ferris Bueller once said‚ “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while‚ you could miss it”. Being a teenager‚ for me is much like the earth spinning and rotating at thousands of miles per hour. I am turning and dashing
Premium World Earth Gautama Buddha
My Drive for Science and Baking Baking for someone else is something that makes me feel like I am using my creative and generous nature. Honing my imaginative and skilled technique is my reward although making someone happy with my baked goods is what I set out to do. Likewise‚ science is a subject that allows me to use trial and error with my problem solving skills to pursue my dream of becoming a Physicians Assistant. For me‚ baking and science are driven by my enthusiasm; I am passionate to
Premium Baking Cooking Pastry
first steps. After that‚ my life was like a roller coaster! When my Mom was in the military‚ we moved around a lot‚ we discovered a lot of new places and meet a lot of new people. When I moved to Virginia it started to feel like my life was actually starting to begin. When I started Middle School‚ I got braces‚ I met some friends and then I eventually started High School! But that wasn’t the best part of my life‚ the best part of my life is when I got accepted into the college of my dreams! When I started
Premium College High school Debut albums
was known and respected by almost every art enthusiast on the face of the planet. Pablo Picasso‚ born Pablo Ruiz Picasso‚ came into the world on the 25th of October 1881 in the southern Spanish town of Malaga. Pablo was an artist from early in his life - he was a child prodigy. He began his career as a classical painter. He painted things such as portraits and landscapes. But this style didn ’t satisfy Picasso‚ he was a free man and wanted to express himself and ultimately leave a lasting mark on
Free Pablo Picasso Cubism Fascism
day in college. I was so excited in meeting new people. College felt like a liberation for me since I was far away from my family. It was my first time to be separated from them. It was a bit difficult at first to be with people I never knew. I didn’t know how I should behave just to fit in. But eventually‚ everything went smoothly. I met wonderful friends whom are still my best buddies even until now. Every time we would meet up‚ we will never fail to recall how we were back in college; how we
Premium Debut albums Secondary education High school
My Biggest Annoyance "Studying" In my life‚ I deal a lot with annoying things‚ but what I find to be the most frustrating is studying. One fact about studying that makes it the most frustrating is homework. Homework without critical questions doesn’t exist in AUS‚ so when doing my homework‚ I face a lot of critical questions that cannot be solved and I get stuck on them because they need more thinking and effort than the rest of the questions. After sitting for three hours struggling to find solutions
Premium Study skills Homework Problem solving
There are many things that cause stress for college students; family pressure‚ relationships‚ peer pressure and work pressure. The first reason that causes a lot of stress for college students is family pressure. The college students get pressure from their families to perform well in their studies. In this competitive world‚ parents expect good performance and excellent grades from their children. For example‚ a student who just entered college after high school has to adjust in the new
Premium University Peer group Student
Life in the college world College seems to make life more difficult. In high school we didn’t have to focus too much academically because our hand was being held. College is all about you. Students make decisions based on their own needs. Sometimes those needs are not always our smartest moves. Responsibility‚ stress and financial troubles are one of the many issues that can make life frustrating for a college student. Responsibility should be learned at a young age. We don’t completely
Premium
Amistad and the story “Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano” have many similarities. The three similarities between the story and Amistad are the ways that the slaves were treated‚ the conditions of the ships‚ and the reactions of the slaves. In both the movie and the book slaves had to overcome horrific conditions to be freed‚ In the movie the main character Cinque was captured sold and thrown onto the Amistad and into the life of slavery but yet he was fought for and he finally
Premium Slavery Slavery in the United States