It was the night of the Spanish Honor Society induction ceremony. ... Once I heard what I had to do, my heart practically stopped and I imagined what it would be like to speak in front of hundreds of parents the night of the induction ceremony. ... As night turned to day, and the hours leading up to the ceremony rapidly ticked down, my nerves started working up again. ...
Another example of loss of innocence is when Gene feels that Finny is pressuring him to blow off studying to attend Leper's ceremony jump. Gene breaks his own personal rule of academics when he blows off studying to attend the ceremony with Finny. ... Finny pressures Gene into skipping his studies to go to attend Leper's ceremony jump which leads to the accident causing Finny to break his leg. ...
I remembered the long and boring drive we took to get to the church where the ceremony took place. ... It seemed like the ceremony lasted for hours while we sat there dead silent. ... After the church ceremony, everyone went home to change for the dinner party that happened later that night. ...
The Day of the Dead The Day of the Dead or Dia de Los Muertos, is an ancient festivity that has been transformed through out the years, and was intended for pre-Hispanic Mexico. It is a time when families remember their dead and the continuity of life. This festival is considered to many to be the ...
As a little kid, I was always dreaming about being that soldier that would one day come home from a war and be considered a hero. Well sadly it dose no happen like that any more. If it dose, it is not an every day thing. What happened to all the other people who come home from a war and just move on...
Okonkwo Okonkwo is the central character in the novel. He is the leader of the clan in Umuofia. He grows up with a considerably lazy father who was known throught his village as a failure. Okonkwo considered him to be a complete embarrassment and vowed to never be like him....
The plot of my story is about two gods that were going to marry but when they got to the wedding ceremony so that the god of marriage could make them husband and wife, the god of marriage turned at them with a sad face and told them that their marriage would not last for long because Eurydice was going to die. ...
A Lesson to Remember I"m fairly sure that everyone in this world at one time or another has learned a valuable lesson. I personally have learned one about alcohol that I will never forget. An incident happened about ten years ago, one that I"m not proud of, but at the...
Days, weeks, months, and years later, a person's emotion might change. When this happens it becomes a hard decision, and may hurt ones feelings. One emotion that changes is "love"; love can last as long as you want to, but does it last forever? It all depends on how you react to situations, and how ...
Nine years ago, when I decided to choose cheerleading over basketball, I would have never expected how drastically cheer would change my life. The life lessons learned are uncountable but the season that rocked my world was my final one. My senior year we had to physical and mental ability to win a ...
Rosa Montano, 23, is an average college student. She lives with her mother and is the older of her two siblings. Also, Rosa is the first one to graduate from college. For the last four years, she has been in what she described as a daily struggle. In the island of Puerto Rico, a 65% of college stud...
