"Mommy, Mommy, I see a train!... Michael had loved trains ever since he laid his eyes on one. Michael couldn't even count the amount of stuffed train characters he had sitting on his warm bed at home, or the amount of toy train tracks, and train sets he had. ... "Don't worry Mikey, there will be plenty more trains that you will see later on.... As hard as she tried, she couldn't keep the tears from streaming down her pale face. ...

• Word Count: 1100
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

He has provided me with the mental intensity to train hard and to work harder than everyone else. ... When he tells me to train hard because hard work will pay off, I am glad I listened and I feel that I owe it to both my grandfather and myself. He has always told me that when you work hard, good things will happen for you, and I have already found this to be true. ...

• Word Count: 609
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

I also worked with a trainer for a little while. ... Even though it was a lot of hard and strenuous work, I had so much fun at the same time. ... After all that hard work that summer, it finally paid off. ... It just takes a little bit of hard work and some time and you"ll have the potential to be successful. ...

• Word Count: 390
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The train tracks lining the edge of the forest are like shiny silver teeth reflecting the moonlight, grinning at him with evil intent. The cold hard steel of the track like that of prison bars, the train howling in the distances curls his toes and only teases at a chance of escaping this place. "No train ever comes". ... Years into the same dream Gary invites Mikal to join the family, to follow them across the train tracks, into the forest where their real lives take place. This time the train tracks have a very different feel to them; they are glimmering, beckoning Mikal to follow his ...

• Word Count: 1192
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

As an athlete undergoes discipline and strict training for his race, I have also strictly trained and disciplined myself for this position I am running for. ... If you elect me as your state officer, then I would be presented with a new race, one which requires hard work and dedication, which I am fully capable of. ...

• Word Count: 310
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

Where the red fern grows By Trevor Conlow Where the "Red the Red Fern grows" By Wilson Rawls is a tale of unending courage, and an undisputed love for a boy and his dog. Billy is a young boy who lives near the Ozark mountains. He has a loving mother, a hard working father, and three little siste...

• Word Count: 336
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

​Genie was a girl, born in 1957, who was locked up and kept isolated from the world all of her childhood. During the time she was locked up in a room, she was strapped down to a potty-chair, and when she'd make noise, she'd be abused. When she was found, her parents were taken into custody leading...

• Word Count: 543
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

At the University of Culinary Arts, the fifth top ranking culinary art school in the world, I was top of my class; I had trained for five years with master chefs. ... At first it was hard being one the first restaurant to serve Italian, Mexican, and Chinese. ... I didn't realize before I met the genie that I was going to work long and hard to be a success. ...

• Word Count: 459
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

We must now be worried to board a plane, train, or step on a fabulous cruise ship. ... It's also not hard to see the increased racism that has come about following the catastrophes of September 11th. ...

• Word Count: 434
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Since the first time I enrolled in swimming classes until fifth grade, I trained hard and always did my best. ... While I was waiting for the judge to call out the competitor's name I saw Coach Meyer, my trainer for so long, far away coming toward me accompanied with my family. ... I focused on the water splashing, everyone going fast, breathing hard, coordinating arms and legs, and encouraging screams. ...

• Word Count: 1032
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Think harder. We want you to think harder and have more insightful thoughts in this English class. ... A trained movie veteran will notice that Radio is by all accounts harmless, and the knuckles are just a thing of show. ... I fell good about the product of my challenge and hard work. ...

• Word Count: 754
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Societal Pressure "Hooked on Credit" Hooked on Credit Becoming of legal age was the beginning of a whole New World. For me all these new responsibilities hit me like a train wreck. The pressure of college is not the only thing that I had to learn to handle. Credit card vendors were out like v...

• Word Count: 553
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

I learned quickly that caring for Christopher was a lot of hard work. ... Which I must confess at first were not that bad but as he got older got worse till finally he was potty trained and could handle things without my help. ...

• Word Count: 487
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

My Dear Katherine, I have not written to you in a long time, but I have been thinking of you every single day. Since last I wrote to you, I had a fractured arm- which is completely healed. We have just come out of the trenches after being in for six days and up to our waists in water. The war is go...

• Word Count: 524
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

So it wasn't all hard work - sometimes fun and games took over. ... It was really hard for grown ups to get us to eat dinner or to do other things after all of us got together to play. ... Anywhere you turn you hear noise - cars, people, airplanes and trains. ...

• Word Count: 739
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The gym is where I go to not only train but to find freedom within a free life. ... It is addictive like a drug that hooks me in and makes quitting a hard thing to do. ... I put my clothes on and reviewed my workout log before every hard struggle. ...

• Word Count: 784
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

There she takes the train, which takes her to another bus station. ... After that, she does the same routine, bus, train, bus, to arrive home at eight, maybe nine if traffic is bad. ... But she had her mind set to be a graphic designer and nothing would stop her, She say "It was hard knowing my parents didn't stand by my side. ...

• Word Count: 900
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Lewis, said that she watched me at school, and saw me and it appeared that I was busy, but in reality I was in my own little world, dreaming of trains, and baseball, and ninja turtles.Well see come to find out, she looked and my work book and I hadn't done any work at all. ... Well I learned that all this hard work in school was going to pay off in the end, but still I didn't like it. ... Chapter 2: Life As I Knew It Life as I knew it so far was great, but now to introduce my family, First lets start off with dad, I would say that he was a working stiff, I mean he works really hard at what...

• Word Count: 1186
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Thanks to theonlinemom.com/, research shows that teens work harder and are not afraid to fail or take a few chances in order to achieve their ultimate goals in the game and in reality. ... You train him, get him better by choosing what ability you want him to get better at and it would have these other interactions with other characters from the game. ... If they work hard or see an obstacle in the way of their success they'll work harder because they learned that the bigger the problem the bigger the reward. ...

• Word Count: 934
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

A young man, wrapped up in the world of amateur boxing, is busy trying to prove his hard-headedness to his family, friends, and most of all, himself. ... Before he even knows it, he has lost Peg, his best friend, his trainer, and the respect of his mother. ...

• Word Count: 647
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The dress was a Tiffany's A-line strapless dress with a little train. ... We had a really hard time deciding what would go with yellow and he feared that my dress would be ugly because of the color. ...

• Word Count: 745
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Imagine being trapped on an undiscovered island after a plane crash, at the young age of twelve. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a boy named Ralph is placed in this situation. He is charismatic and logical when it comes to ideas for order on the island. Ralph is also fair for the most part ...

• Word Count: 728
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

But his new employee (Jake Hoyt) is being trained to be a wolf on the streets and not a rabbit. ... Jake might of did all the bad cop like things that Alonzo pressured him into doing but in the end all good cops come out on top by following his morals, values, and doing what's right no matter how hard Alonzo tried put bad cop mentalities in Jake, Jake still did what a superb cop would do and that's do what is right and follow your heart. ...

• Word Count: 801
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Robert Jordan was a loyalist during the Spanish Civil War, and is sent behind enemy lines to blow up a bridge so a larger attack by the republicans can take place. Jordan meets Pablo the leader of a group of guerillas. The guerillas come to help assist in their mission to blow the bridge, but a sno...

• Word Count: 726
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The train, should it match the dress with the same pattern, or is it solid. ... The special purse is hard to pick out because the bride wants it to be very unique, in many ways. ... How hard could this process be, picking out a single piece of clothing? ...

• Word Count: 1269
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School