Better Than Ezra

urgency to warn the sheriff and the diligence he owed the civilian. However, one glance at the boy and he made up his mind. With a grimace, he closed the distance between them. “Much obliged. Damn outlaws ambushed me,” he said. His savior, taller than Jake first thought, slanted his chin upwards, his wide-brimmed hat cloaking his eyes. Jake moved in closer. “Most people wouldn’t pick sides. I’m lucky you did.” He stretched, offering a handshake. “Are you hurt?”

whatever level you are at. These students are missing the fact that giving great effort is a part of who I am. I have always been a student to work hard and exceed expectations. To call someone an over achiever is more of an act of jealousy rather than a reward. Being identified as an over achiever makes me feel unmotivated. When the day would come to display my work to the class, my presentations were often met with shocking faces and murmurs. The words, "she is such an overachiever" were the words

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Your homework is not done. You check the due date once again in disbelief that it could possibly be due in ten minutes. You wait in anguish until you come up with the wonderful idea that the teacher just might be willing to forgive today. Surely others have missed the deadline as well. You ease yourself into a mellow confidence as you decide to turn the assignment in blank. The teacher doesn’t buy your story of how it was not posted in a good location and hands it back to you with a zero. It is rare

story. Even though he has committed multiple crimes, he is the one still alive at the end, challenging the idea that good things only happen to good people. Towards the end, the grandmother has an epiphany that makes her realize she is not that better than the people she has looked down upon her whole life. In this text, O’Connor dismantles the superficial characteristics of what “good” men or women are actually like. The grandmother makes numerous comments about her superior appearance to make the

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this for and kept pushing. During the months leading up to this swim meet I kept trying even with school and keeping good grades. There were 8 meets during the season and I came closer to the Sectional cuts every meet. While some meets would go better than others I knew I would get the times if I kept trying. After some time I finally got my Sectional cuts, and I got nine of them. By March, I was ready for Sectionals and all the fast swimmers to come. The weeks leading up to the meet, the people who

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Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler, Pearl a mother of three kids, Ezra, Cody and Jenny try to navigate through life without her husband who left her. Cody the eldest of the children is reckless and short tempered. Ezra the youngest has a likeable personality that everyone enjoys and he constantly attempts to keep his family together. Cody being the eldest always felt that he should have been given more or the same amount of attention than his siblings. Pearl makes efforts to try to be the best mother

Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler, Pearl a mother of three kids, Ezra, Cody and Jenny try to navigate through life without her husband who left her. Cody the eldest of the children is reckless and short tempered. Ezra the youngest has a likeable personality that everyone enjoys and he constantly attempts to keep his family together. Cody being the eldest always felt that he should have been given more or the same amount of attention than his siblings. Pearl makes efforts to try to be the best mother