Essays Tagged: "dad"

Basketball

ound and have a good time, practice on my own to practicethings I need work on, or practice with my dad and let him give me somepointers.I love watching basketball games on TV and usually watch the Kn ...

(2 pages) 43 0 4.3 Mar/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

How I learned to ski

y intense and serious sport and you should not take the excitment for granted.I got started when my dad entered a powder eight contest, that's when you and a partner go down the hill and make the numb ...

(2 pages) 67 0 3.7 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Generations. My parents and me.

ppear. Isaw the rage in his eyes, but had no time to react. He hit the open button, andI screamed. 'Dad!' I shouted. 'You can scratch the CD doing that!' Myparents and I very seldom, if ever, agree on ...

(2 pages) 146 0 4.5 Feb/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Life of Georg Simon Ohm

the history books by telling you as much as I could find on his life.When Georg was growing up his dad, owner of a prosperous locksmith business, wanted young Georg to study mathematics before joinin ...

(2 pages) 47 0 4.3 Nov/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Physics

Rock and Roll of the 50's

far away while their mothers left the primacy of home to fill the void in the work force created by Dad's departure. After the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the fathers and brothers re ...

(4 pages) 199 0 4.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Kurt Cobain - Historic Accounts

about 1979 to 1984. I was in my mid-30s and living in and near Montesano. My sister married Kurt's dad, Don, and also lived in Montesano.My grandfather comprehended the intelligence and individuality ...

(14 pages) 141 5 4.6 Nov/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

My first time experiencing bicycle

 Â Â Â Â Â                   After a very meaningful conversation with my dad about theold days, we came up with an object that we both remembercleary. It was my very ...  Â Â Â Â                                     My dad put together all the small pieces of the bicycle.From a butiful material that he called, 'Yo ...

(2 pages) 92 1 3.8 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Exemplification Essay detailed description about trip to grnadma's house with family/ family reunion and relate to feelings

Exemplification EssayEvery year my dad's side of the family gathers for a family reunion at my god-mother's house. My god-mothers house ... otice how long the last kilometer will take. The trees along the road seem to crawl by slower as my dad pushes his foot gently down on the gas pedal. I was sitting in the car, with the windows sealed ...

(3 pages) 346 2 3.4 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Dialog to the book "No longer at ease"

e in Umofia?I heard you work for the CivilService in Lagos,I hope it`s fun.Obi:I`m here to visit my dad and mum.It was a long time ago Ivisited them and I have something Important to discuss with them ...

(3 pages) 48 0 4.9 Dec/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

A biography or the author Arthur Miller

ys. He was born on October 17, 1915 in New York City, New York, where him, his mom, Agusta, and his dad, Isadore, lived.Arthur Miller's childhood wasn't the most exciting part of his life but it did h ...

(2 pages) 73 2 3.4 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Kid in closet

The stories consisted of a kid, a non descriptive child. Wolfgang guessed it was supposed to be his dad. The stories were of the same idea, of a kid being bad and getting punished for it. But they wer ... ee only the grotesque mind could imagine such a horror.But when Wolfgang was really menacing or his dad was drunk he would tell the story of the kid in the closet. The kid in the closet story scared W ...

(4 pages) 61 0 3.9 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Day of Surprise

eship.""I'll get it for you but... just act surprised for your mother when you open the card.""Okay dad," I answered as we walked up to the counter. My father paid for the card andwe left the store.It ...

(3 pages) 42 0 3.0 Sep/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

The Life and times of Kurt Cobain

eet banging this drum. The tiem Kurt spent living with his father, he was pamperd with all that his dad could aford to buy him. In time his drum collection turned into a whole drum set. After a while ...

(2 pages) 94 2 3.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

An essay on computer communications

I figured it out. I was rummaging through the basement, andI ran across the little blue box that my dad had brought home from work a year earlier. Could this be a modem?I asked Mrs. Rubin about it the ... es started popping up on business cards. Thoseotherwise-incomprehensible computer magazines that my dad brought home from work ran monthly stories oncommunications-program this, and Internet-system th ...

(4 pages) 119 0 3.7 Apr/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Huck Finn (by Twain) Thesis

pi River. His father strongly disliked societytherefore he lived as far as possible from it. Huck's dad brought Huck up the hard way withouta mother and instilled many of his beliefs into Huck. His da ... ly and was alwaysdrunk, his favorite saying was 'I'm not stealing it I'm just borrowing it'. Huck's dad borrowedmany things and lied his way out of many situations. He passed some of these bad habits ...

(5 pages) 70 0 3.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Mark Twain

To Dream a Little Dream. Speaks of dreams, how philosophers and the Greeks view them, and which elemnts dreams can contain. Personal experience included

was in my backyard on my tire swing spinning and swinging around. As I was swinging the door on my dad's tool shed started to open up. I then saw things that could only be described as humanoid alien ...

(8 pages) 162 0 4.1 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

"Diary of Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen

-minded, twelve or thirteen year old kid. His parents were divorced and he spent some time with his dad. He lived far away so Brian had to take a plane. From the back of the book I knew that he gets i ...

(4 pages) 61 0 4.6 Dec/1994

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Unexpected Horizons

Wow! I love going deep sea fishing on our boat. I was excited when my dad hadasked me if I wanted to go this weekend. We departed that Saturday morning after almosta week ... would be at least close to perfect before we ventured out intothe blue darkness of the open sea. My dad and I had seen the destruction careless boaterscould get themselves into, and we did our best to ... all, the long awaited perfect fishing day hadcome, at least in our minds it had.In the meantime, my dad backed the boat into the salty murky water as I got theboat ready for our day long journey. I se ...

(4 pages) 78 1 3.8 Apr/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

World War One Assignment - Empathy

Dear Mum,How are you getting on? I hope that Dad's cold is better. Send my best wishes to everyone!I am writing to you from the barracks of our r ... imb to bring the food to them from abroad past the Boche and their mines, and ships.How are you and Dad getting on at home? I hear that the Zepp. raids are getting quite bad around you. All that you n ... to God that He should keep me safe here until the Boche admit defeat, and I will pray that you and Dad are kept safe from the Zepp. raids.Lots of love,------- END SECOND LETTERDear Mum,I am still in ...

(7 pages) 53 0 3.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I

This is a monologue that I did for my Final Exam. It earned me a 94 in an Honors class. The monlogue is about a baseball game with dad.

I must have been about seven or eight. I couldn't have been much younger. It was the first time my Dad took me to a real baseball game. I guess I must have seen too many innings, because I suddenly h ... must have seen too many innings, because I suddenly had to get up and take a walk. I wasn't sure my Dad would let me go by myself, but we were within one run of tying the game and he didn't want to mi ...

(2 pages) 61 0 4.5 Aug/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers