Expository Essay

My English expository essay =

There are many types of balls in the world, and I mean types of balls used in sports, not referring to any other definition of a ball. Excluding the sports that involve fighting, nearly all sports are played with a ball. Sports like basketball, soccer, hockey, golf are few examples of the long list. However, the ball which has highly influenced my life is a ‘Cricket ball’ played in the sport of cricket. That is why; I believe the object that best represents me is a ‘Cricket ball’. And the reason I claim this is because I believe a cricket ball can make a life, shape a life, and give a life.

I am born in Dubai – a city highly populated with Indians, and in the modern era, the sport which has become passion for all the Indians is ‘Cricket’. However, that is not the true reason why I love to hold and throw a cricket ball. The place where I spent my entire childhood, Dubai, could be a called a ‘two-faced’ city. It is known as the ‘City of Gold’, the ‘City of Light’, but I also call it the ‘City of Iron’, the ‘City of darkness’. Being the most beautiful city in the Middle East and perhaps on Earth, it is also known to have one of the highest levels of Racism in it. Somewhere in the glow of pure gold and the spark of tall skyscrapers, Humanity is being diminishing. Majority groups tend to dominate minorities. It’s the city of ‘Us vs Them’. The dominant groups are of Hindus and Muslims, however no ethnic group like each other. I always faced the challenge of being a lone turban Sikh boy among four hundred Hindu and Muslim students in my school. I cannot recall the number of times I have been victimised of racism in my school. However, when all doors got closed, only one door opened and all the brightness came in my dark life – the door was a ‘Cricket ball’. The only way I survived in my school was by picking up the cricket ball, and play the sport, thinking it was my war against the racism in the Indian High School (name of the school I...