One sunny and partly cloudy day at about 8pm at night Jimmy got back from football practice walked into his perfectly sized front door for him and his mom greeted him by saying hey, how was football, he responded great mom I think we're going to do amazing this year after I saw how good our offense and defense is this year. A few minutes after they finished their short but sweet conversation he went up to his bathroom to…
Hunting trips are used as a bonding experience between friends and as a break from the many struggles that life contains. Although in some circumstances people’s intentions can be misguided and harmful to others. In American author Tobias Wolff’s short story “Hunters in the Snow” (1980), he looks into the moral unawareness of three friends. Three men go on a hunting trip where one gets shot and the other two blindly attempt to take him to the hospital. Wolff utilizes setting, symbolism, and characterization to convey the selfishness of the three characters and their apathy towards others.…
“Okay we only have four dollars left” thankfully there mom gave them enough money to ride the rides for free so they could spend their money on food or souvenirs. After they finished the funnel cake they realized they were thirsty so that’s what they spent the four dollars on. “Now let’s go ride all the rides” Max said “Okay” Sam said though he thought it was not a very good idea. After riding all the rides Sam felt sick, “I’m going to go to the bathroom” Sam said “Okay I will wait here” said Max. After Sam had gone to the bathroom he was walking and not looking at the ground but then he tripped.…
Good morning Mrs. Wollschalger, My name is Kieanna Brown, I am currently a sophomore at Hood College, in Frederick Maryland. Also, I am the daughter of Stephanie Brown, a special education math teacher at Lansdowne High-school. I would love to come into Lansdowne and talk to a few classes about coming to Hood and the affordability of college. I am available to come to the school from December 18-23 and stay all day long. I look forward to your response.…
This review is about the thriller Deliverance written by James Dickey. One of the main themes of the book seems to be leadership. The two main protagonists of the book are Ed Gentry and Lewis Medlock. Ed is a middle-aged graphic artist who is stuck in the daily grind that is his life, and is looking for a bit more excitement. Lewis is landlord who lives his life independently and offers Ed the change for the excitement he’s looking for by suggesting they go on a canoe on a river in Northern Georgia.…
Rachel Lemke worked as a waitress in the basement lounge of the Blackhawk Hotel. The lounge had grown increasingly popular because of its famous clientele and allegedly black market dealings. Although the lounge was a part of the hotel, when patrons visited, they felt as if they were in another world. Rachel thrived as a waitress at the lounge. She began making more money that she would have finishing her college degree and used this fact as ammo against her disapproving parents.…
October 12 1981 Dalles, Texas. A Baby was born his name was Noah brown. When he was 2 years old, he would feed his family breakfasts. They would think he is crazy so he kept on cooking but one thing he knows that they loved my food. When he was four he was cooking for my family.…
past and there was a party at the neighborhood and his friends came up to luis and they said to not talk to his other friends from the baseball team or else they won’t be his friends no more and bruce said okay that we won’t talk to them and so a week pass by and there was another party at the neighborhood and saw he his friends again and they were having a good time enjoying the music and food until a group of kids were walking to the party and Bruce remembered them from eighth grade and they are from a krew called K.M which stands for Krazy Minded Kriminal’s and so bruce told his friend that the krew from K.M. are here and so Bruce was kind of scared because anything can happened because when two different krew’s meet up there can be a fight…
Personal Narrative Rough Draft. Chapter 1 My hands were numb with my feet dipping into the freezing water. It watched under me.…
Back in the gang I was fourteen years old when I saw the perfect image and decided to back out. I was about to break into the Jamesons house. Back in the rich neighborhood, back in the gang, back before everything changed. We rode up to Fall Creek, the neighborhood. After driving through the big, confusing, dark neighborhood at night we found a house with a black plaque that said, ‘Welcome to the Jameson’s’ Jacob, Tyler, Ra’shawn, Andrew, and I walked to the back of the gray house.…
Hello! Sorry to reach out to you so late, but it was just brought to my attention that my response from discussion 11- option two was copies by a fellow student. Tavian Kilburg took my response and copied and pasted it as his response to another students discussion and just deleted the students name that I had responded too. I just wanted to bring attention to this matter in case it has happened before.…
In “Let It Snow”, David Sedaris retells a seemingly innocent story of being in fifth grade and having a week off from school because of snow days. On the fifth snow day, Sedaris’ mother has a breakdown and ends up kicking Sedaris and his siblings out of the house so she can have time to herself. Sedaris and his siblings take the opportunity to go sledding and after returning a few hours later, realize their mother is still refusing to let them inside. As day turns to night, panic sets in and the children resort to drastic measures to get back inside and Sedaris comes up with a plan. Sedaris and his siblings convince the youngest sister, Tiffany, to lay out in the snow-covered road as a way to get revenge on their mother.…
Mallory is an average 16 year old girl... She had no idea on what she thought was an average day, her life would change. ***** "Mallory get down here now!" Mallory's mother yelled at her with anger and lots of it in her tone. "who broke my vase?…
This novel takes place deep inside Nazi Germany at the time when things were at its worst. 1942 was one of the darkest years our world has come to see. Not only was it looking as if the axis powers were bound to win the war but also the first horrific details came to life from survivors from the terrible prison camps. Many of the people the reader encounters in this novel are living terrible day to day lives and are too scared to put up a fight. The people with any sort of significant powers are usually very cruel and try to make others life miserable.…
Summer has just started and Kayla is already bored, she goes downstairs to find her brother watching the television, also looking bored, so she asked him if he wanted to go for a bike ride. As they head outside, they run into their mother sitting at the kitchen table reading a book, so they let her know they are going for a bike ride and will be back before noon. They head over to their bikes by the side of the house, when they get there Kayla realizes her back tire is flat “Great, just what I need.” (NMM: rolls eyes and sighs) Kayla walks over to the shed and grabs the air pump walks back and airs up the tire.…