Farmington‚ New Mexico 2003‚ 11 years old and in love with my broken down racehorse‚ his name was Gentleman or “Gentleman Hawk” according to his papers. We had gotten Gentleman from a sale barn for a measly 400 dollars‚ he was in real bad shape but my father and I nursed him back to health. When Gentleman was at full health I would run him across the pasture‚ back and forth until it was dark or my parents called me for supper‚ it was a time in my life with few worries and very little stress but this horse
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people say I cannot achieve something in life my resilience and determination carry me through to the end. In the face of failure I am not a person who will crumble and give up as that is the easy way but instead fight as hard as I can to achieve my goal in life. When people in my life do the wrong thing it is easy to follow in order to be accepted but instead I act against it and my morals say it is wrong and no matter how much they try to make me do it my answer is always no. 4. I am a person
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because no one has just one thing that makes them who they are. Creating one’s identity is a continuous labyrinth of ideas‚ likes‚ dislikes‚ and other factors that somehow end at one person and affect their whole character. Having read Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama over the summer‚ I found out how he formed his true identity through the knowledge he gained of the different events and episodes of his life. Some people find out who they are at a very young age
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representation of his father’s life in Romulus my Father in the early chapters of the memoir‚ and how his choice of language‚ style‚ voice and the use of the memoir influenced your response to his story so far In the early chapters of the memoir Gaita gives us images and ideas that he himself acquired from his father‚ for example ‘Though the landscape is one of rare beauty‚ to the English or European eye it seems desolate and even after 14 years my facer could not become reconciled to it’ is a quote
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Life without Television When my family’s only television set went to the repair shop the other day‚ my parents‚ my sister‚ and I thought we would have a terrible week. How could we get though the long evenings in such a quiet house? What would it be like without all the shows to keep us company? We soon realized‚ though‚ that living without television for a while was a stroke of good fortune. It became easy for each of us to enjoy some activities alone‚ to complete some postponed chores
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A Dreamers Dream When you think of America or an American‚ one thing usually comes to mind to describe the life of an American in general‚ success. For many people the American Dream is a goal of having either a nice house‚ a car‚ a family‚ maybe even a business. The American Dream should be a dream of achieving a stable life when dealing with money and even your own job. It is a dream of living a debt free life and getting a higher education if you choose to. The dream should not involve the
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the question: Losing a loved one is like having a rug swept out from underneath you. No warnings. You make plans for the day‚ and don’t think twice about how those plans can be taken away in the blink of an eye. I had talked to Cory on the phone a half hour before he died; he phoned to tell me he was on his way to my house from work. I had also spoken to Johnan the night before his death. I never thought much about it myself‚ until I was faced with the shock‚ and the truth of both my cousin’s deaths
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According to the article satellite images reflect that the Amazon rainforest is diminishing at an enormous rate. About 10‚000 square miles of this beautiful forest is being lost to pastures for grazing‚ soybean plantations‚ and illegal logging. Since the year before there has been a forty percent increase in the deforestation of the Amazon forest. The Amazon is the world’s largest tropical rainforest. They expect this horrible trend to only become worse. Some conclude that if the forest is not
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The article‚ The grief of losing a pet is traumatic and universal. So why don’t we talk about it?‚ written by Eliza Henry-Jones for the Guardian‚ urged readers to ask themselves a question about how they perceive others who have just lost a pet. Do they comfort them‚ or do they reduce the meaning of their loss? The author made the argument that losing a pet can feel almost as terrible as losing a family member‚ yet‚ society does not provide those grieving the loss of a pet with the same support
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As the days go by I feel your light dimming and it breaks my heart. Laura Diaz words cannot explain what you mean to me and as the clock ticks down I’m realizing more and more what I’m losing when you are gone. First‚ I’m losing a cheerleader. No matter what I did you were always there to cheer me on even ifI didn’t reach the finish line you were there to comfort me and remind me to keep going. Second‚ I’m losing my game show partner. People can only imagine how many nights we had competing against
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