Noah was dirt biking down the road. It was his favourite hobby. He was going around a corner and lost his balance and fell. He was a really clumsy person. Then when he looked to his right he saw a girl jogging, as she jogged past him she helped him up and asked if he was ok. He said ‘I'm ok, thanks though.’ Then she said i’ll maybe see you around and handed him her number and jogged off at a faster pace. He got up and saw that his bike was broken so he walked it back to his truck and loaded it onto the trailer that was hitched to the back of the truck. He drove back to his Mechanic shop and unloaded his bike and started to work on it. He had been a mechanic for almost 6 years now. He was 27 years old. After he fixed his bike. He went home that
night and called the number and no one answered the first time so he just shrugged his shoulders and went to bed. He got up at 6 that morning and got ready and went to work. He opened the shop and it was super quiet so he decided to call the number again this time it rang 3 or 4 times and right as he was about to hang up someone and answered. It was the girl from the previous day and she said that she lost her phone last night and couldn’t find it till this morning. So he told her where he was and asked if around 3 o’clock she would want to go for lunch. She accepted and they went to the local diner. There he met the girl and she introduced herself as Grace and she said she was a hairdresser. She seemed like a really nice girl to Noah. So he asked if she would want to get lunch again next week and she said sure. So nothing really happened that week. The next week though was a whole different story he met the girl for lunch again and she seemed like she had a whole different personality. He asked her if something was wrong because she seemed really rude like she was mad or something. She said ‘She had 2 personalities and that she is usually her nice personality but sometimes she will have a rude personality.’ Then she said she was sorry and left early leaving money on the counter to pay for herself. He called her that night and said she didn’t have to be embarrassed about it. They met up again every week for lunch and ended up dating after a couple more lunches and they both like each other's hobbies.
In “Noah Count and the Arkansas Ark” the author demonstrates the value of education as one not just in books or math. The author uses education that doesn’t just include a classroom. The Dad has been around farming for a long time and is a farmer, so he knows when it will rain. The dad uses this experience from farming to have the wits to prepare for a flood because he knows it’s coming. So, the dad has learned from experience. The son’s opinion of his dad’s sense will change throughout the story.
The Anabaptist Story, written by William R Estep. William R Estep was a teacher at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1954 to 1990. After his mission as a teacher at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary he went to another place professing teaching for four years and then retired.
The story kicks off right away as Duff is leaving his parents’ house in Richmond, Virginia. He is beginning his journey to Los Angeles to be a computer programmer. He leaves his home town in his used three-thousand dollar, white, Ford Escort. He bought the car from the owner of a pizza shop down the street strictly for the long trip. Duff didn’t care much about cars, as longs as they get him from place to place. Duff pulls onto the highway and drives for about fifteen minutes before something goes terribly wrong. A weird noise came from the front of the car and then a loud bang. The car rolled to a stop near a small exit. Duff looked at the engine, but had no hope of knowing what happened. So Duff called a tow-truck which took the car five miles west to a garage in a small hick town. The mechanics diagnosed that he had thrown an engine rod. This usually happens if the engine doesn’t get oiled enough. Duff had no idea of the last oil change since he had only had the car for two weeks.
		Mattie, the sole owner of a shop named "Jesus is Lord Used Tires", was accustomed to changing and rotating tires everyday. One day she received a customer who had driven over some cracked glass pieces on the side of the road. Mattie took standard procedures by lifting the car, taking out the tire, and finally dipping it to see if air bubbles would come up. "I'm sorry to tell you, hon, these are bad. I can tell you right now these aren't going to hold a patch. They're shot through." (page 40). Mattie was exceptionally nice to Taylor and told her to come inside and have some coffee. After drinking a cup of coffee and giving Turtle some juice Mattie came up with the idea that Taylor could work for her. Taylor being the one who doesn't like tires in the first place accepted the generous offer, but went almost nuts with the huge tire wall that surrounded her. Taylor was a good worker and didn't have any real complaints about her position, but she still had a fear of exploding tires. This fear was noticeable to Mattie. Mattie being the rough-tough but nice person, asked Taylor nicely to follow her, when suddenly Mattie threw a 5-gallon Jerry can at her. "Knocked the wind out of you, but it didn't kill you, right?" "That's twenty-eight pounds of water. Twenty-eight pounds of air is about what you put into a tire. When it hits you, that's what it feels like." (page 81).
Joseph is 13 years old and he had a girlfriend. He walked miles just to see Madeline his girlfriend. One day Madeline's parent weren’t home and neither was the housekeeper. So Joseph decide to go over Madeline’s. When he got there she told him that she was going to have a baby and both of them were on 13 years old. Joseph went
Al Candraj had nails and a few thing in his house to build something, but he didn’t have a hammer so he was in town, and when he was in town he went inside a store and saw a hammer. He right away thought that he could use the hammer to build what he wanted to build, so he grabs the hammer and slips it in his pocket. “What’s he swiped?” “A hammer.” The young man looked at Al with hatred. “Hand it over,” he’s The boy brought the hammer out of his pocket and handed it to the young man, who said, “I ought to hit you over the head with it, that’s what I ought to do.” He turned to the older man, the boss, the manager of the store. This
Israelite history from about 1200 to 1000 BC is marked by the leadership of the Twelve Judges. The Book of Judges does not give a chronological account of the time between the settlement of Canaan and the rise of the monarchy, but instead tells a series of short accounts of the Judge’s accomplishments. The Twelve Judges served the Hebrew people as tribal leaders, military leaders, arbiters of disputes, and enliveners of faith. After the death of Joshua, the Israelites fell into a cycle of sin, calamity, repentance, and deliverance. The Judges emerged when the Israelites began to fall away from their core religious beliefs by worshipping false Gods. Each time that happened, God sent a Judge to save the Israelites from destruction.
Going to the neighbor's land about two miles down the road, my dad, Kurt, had made this trip several times before. Driving along the dirt roads of good old Oklahoma, my dad was making his weekly trip to the neighbors to bale hay. Still slick from the days before, the muddy roads gave no mercy to a passing car. Gripping the road, his tires had never failed him before, but with the road in this condition, he began to slide around. Anyone who has driven on a muddy road knows that if you start to slip, you should turn your tires towards the way you are slipping. Thus, swinging your hood around and safely rolling into the ditch. In Kurt’s position, his tires were facing the wrong way and still proceeding to go farther that way. By the time he, at least, straightened them out, it was too late. The weight of his car shifted to one side and it tumbled into the ditch, rolling about four times before slowing to a rocking motion. In these scary moments, gravity proceeded to break his back and ruin his wrestling career once and for all. In the hospital in very unstable condition laid my dad. After several weeks, his health slowly got better. As soon as he was in stable condition, he insisted on going to therapy to regain his strength and his confidence. Deciding to give up wrestling was a very hard decision for him. He switched to
He didn’t see the car, which crashed into him, making him never run well again, and also making his left arm, unable to move. One morning, a strange man, named Mr. John Wilson, was picking items from trash cans around the school. John came up to Zebra, and asked where the school office was. Zebra kindly pointed out where it was. After a while, John Wilson came back to Zebra, and asked him if he wanted to be included an art class for the summer.
In the story “God is Not a Fish Inspector” the author explores the similarities and differences between an individual’s perception of themselves and perception others have about them. Throughout the course of the story the main idea suggested about how people perceive and are perceived by others is that a person’s opinion of themselves is molded by what they want to be, rather than the reality they inhabit. Likewise, a person’s perception of others is molded by what they want or know those people to be despite what they actually are.
The Parables are a section of the Matthews Evangelium in the Christian Bible. It is a common inspiration and focus for interpretation or themes during sermon.
Fraternal twins and inseparable friends, NoahandJude, live with their parents, Benjamin and Dianna. The twins grow up in a stable home environment where they are instructed in both reason and emotion, knowledge and art. Both Noah and Jude are intelligent, and well-adept in art. Their mother insists they both apply to a private high school, the California School of the Arts. Noah and Jude get along very well together, and do everything together, until they are 13. When they turn 13, differences between them become apparent. Noah positions himself as the better artist of the siblings (and as his mother’s favorite), the more rational of the siblings, and is a closeted homosexual. To prepare for acceptance into CSA, Noah spends his summer sketching models through the school’s
After reading Timothy Noah’s work, The Great Divergence, I am able to adequately analyze the content of the text and describe what the book meant to me while reading it. I would describe this book as informative, interesting, and simplistic. Noah conveys his message in a way that is easy to understand while supplying the reader with many facts about The Great Divergence, what Noah describes as the increase in wealth separation between the top one percent and the rest of the population. I described this work simplistic because Noah formatted the reading in a way that made it very easy to follow and absorb outside sources. For example, Noah described an American’s mood during the 1920’s bull market, “…he could envision an America set free, not from graft, nor from crime…,” by using a source from another author (pg 15). In that case, it was Frederick Lewis Allen, and he set the excerpt apart from the rest of the text by decreasing the text size and justifying the new margins. This
Every enduring object or idea lasts because ordinary people focused on their goal and ignored the temptation of taking the easy path that leads to failure. History illustrates that great feats require arduous labor and wise preparation. During World War II, the Allies attacked a less than fully prepared German defense in Normandy on D-Day, which became a foothold in Europe for the Allies. The Chinese spent over 1,700 years developing the 3,700 mile-long Great Wall that successfully protected their country from Mongol invaders. The key difference in the outcomes of these events lies in the determination and preparation of the opposing sides. In the end, the more prepared side exploited the shortcomings of its opposition. Many writers have gained inspiration from the effects strong wills have had on human history, and the fruit of one forgotten author has remained a staple example of the benefits of labor since the Mid-Nineteenth Century.
The first speech I choose to critique was Cory’s speech on religion and creationism. He started off his speech strong by using Monroe’s outline and including an interesting hook to grab his audience’s attention. One strength I found through out his speech was, his use of the story of Noah’s Ark. Cory used this story to prove his argument that creationism is untrue. He did this by pointing out statements made the story of Noah’s Ark that contradicted one another, and go against the science of evolution. Another strength I found was, he had very good memorization. This allowed him to seem more credible to the audience; thus, making him more persuasive throughout his speech. Moreover, these strengths within Cory’s speech contributed to the audience’s