English 1

You might think I’m just

a fifteen-year-old girl

with red hair

and green eyes

But I know I am way more than that

not a pond or plant

not a butterfly or bird

The ocean

the crashing sometimes enticing ocean

When I come home crying

I listen to the sad songs

I am the ocean

unpredictable

crushing and colliding at times

soothing and inviting at others

I’m as irritating as the seaweed

yet as beautiful as the colorful coral

When I am content

it’s like paradise

Limitless

Peaceful

Relaxing

with the calming waves

crashing into the white sand

putting every beacher in peace

But when the sun goes down

and the beach calms itself

its where my little paradise ends.

I take a deep breath

and know another day is to come

whether it be

bright and sunny

or disastrous and uncontrollable

The red-haired, green-eyed girl

is the ocean

the wondrous, unpredictable, relaxing ocean all in one trip.

Rage, panic, jealousy, misery- these are just a few emotions that people deal with on a day-to-day basis, or maybe some people only deal with them every once in a while. Or perhaps some people never have to deal with it at all. Whether a person deal with extreme emotion or not, it’s important to tame the extreme emotion in order to life a more optimistic life and for a person’s friends and family to gain trust and comfort around that person.

After dealing with extreme emotions, a person can live a happier lifestyle. For example, if a parent or teenager were to do away with their raging or jealousy, they wouldn’t have any worries emotionally. Jealousy wise, a person wouldn’t have the constant fear of someone having those new shoes that that person couldn’t afford, and that the “knock-off brand” they own isn’t sufficient for them. Instead, that person could be living worry-free, not caring if they don’t have all the new, cover-of-every-fashion-magazine-clothing. In the same way, getting rid of surprise explosions of rage or any other emotion, could guide a teen or adult towards a stress free life. They would never have to stress over what others thought about them if they didn’t have the sudden blasts of emotions, such as raging like a fire that can’t be tamed. Or being so jealous a person is like a gnawing animal just wanting more and more of what they don’t have.A person can have a positive outcome such as being worry and stress free after all the extreme emotions are dealt with.

Getting a handle on a person’s emotions can be difficult, but people want to have a trustworthy-comforting life around someone who is a stable-emotionally-free-type person. To illustrate, we see old, grumpy men on the highways of Texas that get what they call “road rage” and those “meddling kids” who drive too fast, when in reality, they’re going the speed limit! He’ll get up his steering wheel and speed up to those kids and start mumbling and yelling not even paying attention to the trembling kids in the back of truck. What the driver can’t see, is that those kids are uncomfortable to the point where they are afraid. He released his fury and scared his own children or grandchildren, proving that control of such emotions are important for the comfort of others. In addition, people want other people and their surroundings to be able to be around them without any problems what-so-ever. If an impatient mom is at the grocery store with all three of her young, rambunctious boys, she might snap and grab their arms and pull them aside. That might make the other people around that mom uncomfortable or even the two kids she didn’t pull aside. In all, it’s important to take care of these problems or short-tempered attitudes so we don’t put anyone in discomfort.

In conclusion, it’s important to deal with any kind of extreme emotion for it to allow us to be more optimistic, and live a more fun-filled life and live it to the fullest without any negativity. If a person were to tame back the lion of emotions inside, they could have more friends and family that could feel comfortable around them and trusted that the animal within them would stay calm and wouldn’t snap at any second. Dealing with an extreme emotion can be difficult and challenging, but it is important to that person and their surroundings.

 

Beep…Beep… Beep… Beeeeeep. The patient undergoing triple-bypass-surgery is leading to heart failure because of all of the blood he’s lost. The doctor’s stress level went from a five to a strong ten in such an instant. Trying and trying to her patient alive, Dr. Yoder does everything in her power. Whether in surgery or fileing out papers and/or cases, doctors have one of the most disputing jobs. Being a doctor is challenging because of the high loads of patients and the fact they have people’s lives in their hands.

Many hospitals are beginning to get higher levels of work and patients. For example, primary care doctors are typically supposed to care for around 15-20 patients a day. Recent studies have gone to show that many panel sizes include 2,000-2,500 patients-that’s way too much. Primary care doctors have no political power, so when they get loads of patients dumped on to them, they can’t really say no. They tend to care for around 24 patients with ten or more medical problems daily. In addition, doctors seem to have loads and loads of other work to do besides surgeries or taking care of people. Checking lab results, answering countless amounts of emails and phone calls, and handling all the pop-ups on their computer screen are just some of the challenging responsibilities a doctor has to do on their own time. In all, the patient and work load of doctor’s seems to be never ending, making it a challenge on them.

Being a doctor can also be challenging when they know they could be the reason someone lives or dies. For example, a young doctor is in surgery and the patient ends up dying because of the blood clot they couldn’t find nor stop. Crazy families file lawsuits for millions, blame the doctor instead of God or fate , and act as if the doctor didn’t try anything and everything to save their patient. In addition, some doctors can’t always be like the superheroes and save everyone when in in danger. If they can’t stop a patient from dying, they get to hold the weight of failure on the shoulders for a while. That challenges their minds and self-consciousness and makes them think, “Am I good enough at my job?” Being the reason someone survives or dies is a tough and challenging job to have.

Dr. Yoder’s patient died and she had to carry on with life, proceeding on with many other surgeries, continuing busy work, dealing with possible lawsuits, and on top of all that, carry the “weight of shame” on her shoulders. Being a doctor can become challenging at times, but looking back knowing you saved a life, has got to be a great feeling.

Almost every teen an adult can think of has some sort of high-tech-gadget like an iPhone or some sort of Samsung Galaxies that they can never take their eyes off of. Their eyes are glued to the screen while they scroll through the most recent “tweets”, ignoring everyone outside of their “precious” phone. Whether a is looking at new “Instagram” posts or just texting, recognize that phones have changed everything. People’s lives have been affected by cell phones positively through easy access to further our knowledge and negatively by how easy it is to commit “cyber-crimes.”

Cell phones have positively put an impact on our lives by letting it be so simple to gain knowledge with just our finger tips and handy-dandy phones. For example, if a teenager were to be needing help outside of school on Geometry, there’s thousands of apps or websites that today’s technology has provided for us. On some that we would use, we can just type in the problem and get the answers and help in a few quick seconds. In addition, cell phones have abled families and friends to connect no matter how far they live apart. On iPhone’s, a Grandma that lives in California could “FaceTime” or video-chat her grandkids that live in New York. These high-tech, new phones have positively affected the lives of every civilian that owns one.

On the negative side, phones have caused more “catfish” as MTV calls it, and kids/teens to become anti-social to the outside world. To illustrate, a catfish is man or woman who pretends to be someone they aren’t and lure people in to take advantage of them and take their money. So many people have taken advantage of also what phones and internet has brought to us that laws and TV shows are being made up for them. In addition, some kids and adults have become highly antisocial to the world outside their phones or virtual worlds they’ve entered. Some kids and teens get on their knees and cry and throw the two-year-old-Walmart-kid-fit because they get they get their phones taken away from them. They act like it is the end of the world because they don’t have their “virtual friends” to talk to. For those reasons, phones have negatively put an impact on 77% of the world that owns cell phones.

Whether a person looks at the positive or negative aspects that mobile phones have simulated on today’s generation. There are dangerous websites and people on the “web” that access everything through cell phones, especially on social networks. Cellular devices really have caused excellent improvements in our lives, but have also greatly impacted us negatively as well.