I Was Hoping

the day. Having few friends at Captain Shreve High School, I spent the majority of my afternoons at my friend Stephen’s house. Stephen stood an inch taller than I at five-foot four with disheveled chestnut hair sewn with blonde highlights. As he was not from Shreveport, he didn’t have anyone he trusted, or knew for that matter, leading us to become tremendously close throughout middle school, and as I had no siblings, we had become as brothers. Though we now attended different schools, we vowed to always be there for one another. We were brothers. After school finished for the day, we would meet up to play basketball, game online, or even…

about a time I felt I was living the television show Cops. Cops is a reality show where criminals are arrested. I learned that the catchy title song “Bad Boys Bad Boys Whacha Gonna do When They Come for You’’ really means something after all. Being young, dumb and doing stupid things ended with me being arrested and taken to the Polk County Jail. I learned that by making the right choices I will never end up taking two steps back again. It was almost midnight on a hot July weekend and…

State University, was crossing in a marked crosswalk when she was hit, run over and dragged 26 feet by a full-sized SUV. This particular intersection is a marked crossing with flashing lights and clearly designated painting on the street. Before she crossed, she had pressed the buttons to illuminate the flashing signals and verified that no vehicles were approaching. Sadly, the safety measures in place at the crosswalk made no difference and a serious accident occurred which severely changed her…

helps teenagers to get by is their friends. In “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton, the breakdown of family is shown through the author’s family background, through the alienation of “real” families, and through the importance of friends with the gang or surrogate family. S.E. Hinton’s family background influenced her novel. Her parents, her real family, was not supportive. S.E. Hinton did not have a good family life. Her mother abused her physically and emotionally, and her father was not very…

high number, the scan was authorized. The Nano utilized for one lady was not ever acceptable, and yet, I stared at an override giving access for just that. One patient tested with the Nano. And the weirder thing, looking over the override, it was written in code. I merely deciphered it without even realizing, my gene giving me the ability. Now why would a higher-up need a Nano and then conceal the scan from rest of the medical community? I took out the possibility of a poisoned gene pool…

Reading can be done on the computer but writing is still something that needs to be kept in practice, which the computer does not provide in any way. Writing adds meaning and in its own way, self expression. Writing shows what mood you’re in when you write a letter, if it’s rough and tense then you can tell it was written out of anger. If it’s neat and organized there was obviously a gentle mood and the rest depends on the context of the letter. A typed letter will never provide the sense of…

Review Jesus’ Son is a novel written by Denis Johnson. The genre is Fiction. It is 133 pages long and is about 14 dollars. This novel was published in 1992. This book is a novel full of different short stories that make up the chapters. The narrator is an unknown drug user that is just shifting us through different incidents that he has either witnessed or been a part of. There is no exact theme, in my opinion. Each chapter has a different story to tell with one thing in common; the feeling of…

Tap tap tap. I rolled over and glanced at the alarm clock. Its bold digital face read… 4:36. I had been tossing and turning all night, I guess it was my own fault for reading horror stories before bed. I flipped the pillow over and tried to go back to sleep. Tap tap tap. It sounded like someone knocking at the door. “Who the hell is out at 4:36 on a Tuesday morning?” I thought to myself as I blindly felt around the nightstand for my glasses. I looked over at Michael, envious that my…

On some levels, this works for him. Taking on a stance that is pro academic and pro teaching academic writing when addressing a community of academics is very likely to connect to a great number of people. The ethos of his writing is addressed first thing, through an introduction describing his role in an important debate at a respected convention, that he then tells readers was intriguing enough to his audience at the time to have a demand for him to write down his stance and better clarify…

September 30th I saw the preview of the production God of Carnage. It was written by Yasmina Reza and directed by Siena alumni, Shayne Peris. It was shown in the Beaudoin Theater in Foy Hall at Siena College. The play is about two married couples. The child of one of the couples hurt the child of the other one. They decide to meet to discuss what to do about the situation. What starts as a calm discussion, turns into a very heated debate. It turns into a very crazy evening for the two couples. …