I Am Violently Warring For Peace

Below is a free term papers summary of the paper "I Am Violently Warring For Peace." If you sign up, you can be reading the rest of this term papers in under two minutes. Registered users should login to view this term paper.

Term Paper Title	I Am Violently Warring For Peace
# of Words	665
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	2.66

I am violently warring for peace

I am violently warring for peace. I know this is a paradox, and I'm rather
proud because it is true. Passivity has been a lifelong threat, laziness a
constant lure in my search for identity. This world begs me to succumb to
existing in the image of someone else, it asks only that I slip silently and
blindly into the niche it provides instead of carving my own. I required a
long time to work up courage to fight for the serenity I had glimpsed in hot
summer woods and in lovingly handled books read late until the early morning.
Doubt had established itself in my mind at some early age, when or why I do
not know, and I could trust any person or group more than myself. Doubt begat
fear, and fear gave birth to obscuring myself from the eyes of the world
while I was a child.

Now, I am dedicated to the fight, after over five years of fear and
immobility. I rejected the easiest way out of life, and demanded truth. I
strengthened my body as I strengthened my mind against the attacks I faced.
When I was fifteen I started Tae Kwon Do, the martial arts class that was
offered through my school. I learned more about blocking, kicking, and
punching in the first two weeks of that class than I had known my entire
life. My once powerless body, petite and thin, could knock the wind out of
someone with a well placed punch, and I could kick people taller than me in
the head. So what I could do, I did, and now my friends instinctively block
when they see me grin mischievously in their direction. I am content to know
I have taught them something useful.

Last spring for the third time in a row, I shakily accepted my teacher's hand
as he congratulated me on second place in women's division sparring. It was a
bittersweet triumph, three times now I have lost t...

This is not the end of the termpaper! Register below to see the complete version of this term paper.

Membership Plans	Credit Card	Check

1 month membership

3 month membership (You Save 50%)

6 month membership (You Save 67%)

Copyright © 2002-2007 Mid Term Papers. All rights reserved. This term papers website is used for research purposes only.
If you have forgotten your username or password, please click here.
If you like to cancel your account, please click here.

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22