The shuddering sound of thunder raked across the windshield as the rain slapped the windows with the rat-tat-tat of a machine gun. On the side view mirror, the raindrops molded into a pattern like a stained glass window. I remember my stomach turning cartwheels in anticipation. My fingers kept knotting up like a telephone cord because I was busy fidgeting.
"How much longer?" Morgan asked in her usual incessant whine. You see, she is the Old Faithful of whiners. I can always tell when she's going to erupt.
"About ten minutes honey," came the reply from my mom.
I sat there in the car with my head hung like a condemned man awaiting his sentence. I leaned my head against the window, not daring to fall asleep. I had never been so nervous in my life! I sat there and let my mind wander like a curious kid in the Smithsonian Museum. I thought back five months.
As the fog cleared in my mind, there I was, five months before, sitting in some fancy school's cavernous gymnasium, in a tiny desk, doing some stupid test that I had been coaxed like a stubborn mule into taking. I saw myself turning each completed page, checking and rechecking, then turning in the small forest of paper, and leaving. Then the mist closed in and I was back.
Suddenly I came to the gut-wrenching realization that the car had stopped.
Everything stopped. For an instant everything, from the whisper of the wind to my sister's squawking, seemed to go mute. Well, everything except the cacophony of my beating heart.
My body went numb, and I felt like I was leaving my body and viewing myself open the car door. The very sound of my feet hitting the concrete seemed like a resonating boom that ...
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...tly walked though the hallway, through the dining room, and into the kitchen where my family had gathered.
"Go ahead son, open the big one." said my dad.
"Yeah, Yeah!" chirped my sister.
"Are you nervous?" That was my mom.
I started to pull away the top. I looked up at my parents and saw their waiting faces. I continued to rip the top of the letter. Closer and closer, more and more. Soon the letter would be open.
A manila-colored letter entered my grasp. My eyes traveled across the letterhead before I began to read the letter.
And right before the first sentence materialized, I knew I had made it. I jumped four feet high. I whooped and hollered like a monkey new to a zoo. I knew my life would be different from then on. All because of one word. "Congratulations."
In the past century, there have been many great novels written. One of which is Harper Lee's, 'To Kill a Mockingbird'. In the novel it introduces a prominent character who not only was a good father but also a well respected, and compassionate man. This person is Atticus Finch. Through all the struggles and pressures, he stands strong as a very positive father figure, making sure to educate his children with important values including equality, bravery, and knowledge.
Other symptoms, especially in children, may include general body aches, headache, stomach ache, nausea, vomiting, or listlessness. Scarlet fever usually doesn't occur with cold symptoms, such as sneezing, runny or stuffy nose, or cough.
How is the disease treated? According to the Mayo Clinic's information page on scarlet fever, the best treatment is a run of antibiotics. This is not a lethal disease if treated. A week of antibiotics of which after 24 hours you are no longer contagious. Like all antibiotic treatments make sure that the patient takes the full prescribed dosage and go the entire length of treatment even if they start to feel
Our generation has a bigger fight than the “Greatest Generation.” We are fighting a war with an ideology, not a government. We are fighting a group of people who hate us because of our love for freedom. If a draft is part of the American fabric, we should be leery of it. But at the same time, if we don’t have the men to fight this war, we will lose our way of life, a way of life that may never be regained.
To begin, this draft is about if we should make everyone go into the military. Military is soldier who fights and serves our country. They protects us from the danger who wants destroys our country. The soldiers are brave are and have amazing strength. Some people doesn't have that ability. Thomas Jefferson thinks that everyone should go or experience the war so the military can increase tremendously. I think that we should not make all citizens to fights in wars.
This awareness came to me while talking to my role model, my uncle. My uncle had spent all of his life as a detective in Russia and when he visited me several years ago he gave me good advice about my future plans. He encouraged me to look into a couple areas of the law enforcement field and I immediately fell in love with the idea. After doing some research, I set my goals on becoming a distinguished lawyer, one that could help people in need of legal advice, fight for them legal battles and maybe even save their futures. I believe this noble goal is worth any hardship and I am willing to do whatever it takes to achieve it.
With music blasting, voices singing and talking, it was another typical ride to school with my sister. Because of our belated departure, I went fast, too fast. We started down the first road to our destination. This road is about three miles long and filled with little hills. As we broke the top of one of the small, blind hills in the middle of the right lane was a dead deer. Without any thought, purely by instinct I pulled the wheel of the car to the left and back over to the right. No big deal but I was going fast. The car swerved back to the left, to the right, to the left. Each time I could feel the car scratching the earth with its side. My body jolted with the sporadic movements of the car. The car swerved to the right for the last time. With my eyes sealed tight, I could feel my body float off the seat of the car.
It has long been a controversial topic of debate in the United States, whether or not our young men and women should be required to serve in the armed forces. There is proof that compulsory military service would be in our nations best interest. It has historically shown to improve military preparedness, and also has evenly balanced the burden of military service. It also helps to instill a sense of duty into those who serve. From an economic standpoint, there are numerous arguments to be made in support of conscription, including government savings. Numerous scholars write in favor of the subject as well. The government has been debating this topic since the draft system was removed from our country, and many reports written also offer strong arguments in its favor. Although there are strong arguments to keep the current all-volunteer system of draftees, it would be economically and militarily beneficial to re-impose the draft.
As a whole, the United States continues to face military conflicts worldwide, especially with the more recent threats with ISIS. There are a few countries that still require young people serve up to two years of military service, such as Korea, Israel, and Chile. (“World Factbook”) Some people believe and have proposed that the United States adopt a similar policy of mandatory conscription. Gen. McChrystal states on an interview by Ron Fournier, “One of the ways we can rebuild that sense of ownership, sense of shared ownership, is through experience, and so I believe that every young person deserves—I don't think this is an onerous
On our way there, I was so nervous, I thought I wasn’t going to make it. My heart seemed like it was struggling to beat, my eyes were unfocused and staring hauntedly into the distance, and my breath was staggered and short. I could feel my hands begin to quake and become clammy. I honestly didn’t know what I was so afraid of. I tried my best to force my dazed eyes to focus on something, anything. I would stare out the window into the frosty, breezy air.
We are all familiar with internet. Since it was born to affirm the development of society, it rapidly changes our life so much. How does it impact on us? What do you think its value could be a help or a hindrance? Let?s discover the answer by now.
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The use of the Internet offers a variety of benefits to everyone. Firstly, the internet makes it easier to search things and find out information within seconds. This helps us to know what is happening in the world and around us.
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