According to Judith Harris, who wrote an article on her thoughts about parents really mattering, she thinks that peers matter much more than the parents. ... Now when I look back on my middle school years, I realize that my parents really did not play a part in my life at all and if I was writing this back then, I probably would have agreed with the statement, but looking at it now "the long run later, I see that my parents really played more of a role in my life than my peers. ...

• Word Count: 505
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

I saw boundless potential in my computer, at first with what now would be feeble tasks like playing games, basic word processing, and browsing the internet; with time I developed a better understanding and found other useful functions. ... To keep track of our customers I wrote a program in C++ to store their information. ... Computers play a progressively more important role in our lives and this trend is not likely to expire. ...

• Word Count: 522
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Salinger wrote The Catcher in the Rye in the 1950s. ... Holden always saw himself catching these children who were playing on cliff above a field of rye. ... The book that he wrote The Catcher in the Rye is really just is book about complaints. ...

• Word Count: 901
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Arthur Miller wrote a brilliant play about one man's quest for fame and fortune that led to his demise. ... Willy believes that when Biff played football in high school, he was the most popular kid in school. ... At the end of the play the reader learns that Willy's company has taken him off of salary and he worked solely on commission, but he does not tell his wife. ... While playing cards with Charley he has a fantasy of when Ben came to see Willy and told him about how he went to Africa and came out of the jungles with diamonds. ... The downfall of Willy Loman was caused by h...

• Word Count: 680
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The author Ben Joravsky wrote the book. ... Arthur was playing against guy's three years older than he was and he was still the best in the neighborhood. ... Joe's would be able to pay Arthur's tuition if he played basketball for them. ... Additionally, he ripped cartilage in his knee and some schools were wondering if he could ever play again. ... Arthur and William still play pick-up games down at the playgrounds they became great. ...

• Word Count: 720
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Thurber also wrote about the special treatment of jocks at Ohio State. ... When I played football in high school, the special treatment my teammates and I would receive the week of an important game was incredible. ...

• Word Count: 612
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

This part of the book plays a crucial role in Hucks self-discovery. ... At last I had an idea; and I says I"ll go and write the letter - and then see if I can pray. (205)" When Huck wrote the letter his conscience felt clean and he felt releived. " I felt so good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now." Huck has a very difficult time with this situation because religion played a big part in everyone's life. ...

• Word Count: 727
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

After playing two years at the university, the player was drafted into the NBA. ... Response I think Petrie wrote a very good essay. ... I don't think it's fair to say that someone doesn't deserve extra treatment because they chose to play a sport. ... Students who play in the band, have jobs, or are married are trying to balance many tasks too. ... For some of the athletes, the school is paying them to play a sport, as well as get an education. ...

• Word Count: 945
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

When I was in Grade 7, I was selected to be the Vice-Head boy of the school and in the same year I wrote my ZIMSEC public exams and I obtained six units. ... At ordinary level I wrote twelve subjects and I obtained eleven 'A's and a C, breaking the school record. ... I joined the school's senior baseball team and I enjoyed playing for the team. ...

• Word Count: 1164
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Timmy and his family prayed he would get a scholarship to play football in college. ... Based on Timmy's sophomore and junior years of football at Sino High School, most people were pretty confident Timmy would be offered a scholarship somewhere to play football. ... In Timmy's first football game of his senior year, Timmy broke his leg and couldn't play another game for the rest of the season. After his injury all colleges lost interest in recruiting him to play football for them. ... They wrote each other, and told each other about the chaos in both their count...

• Word Count: 1045
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Well I complied and when the weekend came I did not call that person and I ignored them so I could go play basketball with friends. ... I changed quickly and wrote letters to everyone I disappointed and upset. ...

• Word Count: 742
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

At school was the only time I ever wrote actual papers or sentences. ... When writing, I would prefer to write fiction, I tend to receive motivation or material from when I was very young and used to play with sticks and make believe in the woods where the woods soon became a new world that no one has ever seen. ...

• Word Count: 652
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Even though I only have been playing football since high school I have noticed that is the second greatest thing that has ever happened to me first being my mom. ... You may think that I seem like such of a boring person in the way that I only wrote about football and family but the way I see it is that those two things are the only things that I need make me who I am. ...

• Word Count: 633
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

I wrote my first full-length story for the first time in third grade. ... Staying indoors has always been more comfortable to me than playing around outdoors. So, while all the other kids were playing out in the park, I would be cradled up in my room reading. ...

• Word Count: 1078
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School