Essays on Behavior Page 35

It was during the summer of 2010 when I finally got over my fear of waterslides. As we were getting off the bus and stood in line to get our bags checked I looked at the rides and started to get nervous. I walked up to the long white table and handed my bag to…

The church is in danger of becoming lost in a post modern desert. There is so much talk about thriving that it has over looked the initial steps of simply surviving. I’ve heard it said in the church so many times “We don’t want to just survive. We want to THRIVE! ” Of course we…

“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces…

I enter the stage, head down, not looking into the audience. I gulp, swallowing hard to breathe in breathe out. It’s almost show time. It’s, “Go hard, or go home. ” There is no turning back. The lights come on, and that means it’s time to hit every move. My body trails gracefully across the…

I can’t wait to go to high school. The whole transition from middle school to high school excites me. Now that the school year is almost over, it is finally coming up. The big transition from an eighth grader to a freshman is scary for most, but it is exciting for me. I cannot wait…

One of the hardest decision of my life. When I began to choose my career way back when I was in the 7th grade. I started because my class was sponsored by a grant called Gear Up when we started 7th grade. The grant also funded a lot of college awareness, trips, programs, websites, and…

Should I study or should I go out and do something? That was an easy question for Richard Rodriguez to answer. He was a high school kid who always chose to study over doing anything else. No one understood Rodriguez and his way of living life. Not even his own family. They would say things…

Most young people fight with their parents. Young people think their parents do not understand them, or simply that they are too old to understand a young person. Even the youth of today say: My parents have gone through their mistakes, when they were young. I want to go through my mistakes. How sad is…

Tim and I met by chance. We were working for the same company, but in two different departments. I could look over from my station and see him when he was down at the end for his line doing his hourly checks. I worked in the quality control department checking the finished product, while he…

A popular saying from an unknown source goes something like this: age doesn’t matter, but age gracefully. Could it be related to love why aging can be looking good or bad? As two persons grow together with so much love in them, loving seems a workaround. The very reason could then be the one inevitable…