Tears for Fears

difference was going to be made in my life. As I walked into my father’s office I saw my brother sitting there in tears and I started shaking. It was at that moment that I knew my whole life was going to change My father went on to tell me how my brother had made a decision. “Nick, your brother has something to tell you.” I already knew what was going to be said and I began crying. The tears wouldn’t stop falling I tried to hold them back but it was no use. “Nick” my brother said “I have…

I saw the deer in the cross hairs of my scope; I took one last deep breath of the crisp winter air as my dad pressured me to hurry up, and I squeezed the trigger. I had never heard anything sound so loud in my life. My heart was beating through my chest as I looked down to see blood and shattered glass everywhere. The doe I was aiming for still standing in front of me unharmed. I was shaking uncontrollably, and not from the cold, but from the sight of what I had done. The smell of black power…

Understanding the Implications of Ethnicity and Cultural Identity It was actually at my grandmother’s funeral when I first noticed the strange, almost distrustful looks that would be thrown my Uncle Ted’s way. I was sitting alone in the back of the room while my father was making his rounds- everyone thanking him for the beautiful eulogy he gave. My Uncle Ted walked over and gave me a hug. My Uncle Ted is black, from a little island in the Caribbean. As soon as he speaks and his thick…

from five fires I was holding hands with this one little girl. We walked down the road in the pitch black the stars and sounds of all the other kids surrounding us. I heard a sniffle and looked down at the little girl gripping my three fingers. Big tears cascaded down her face. I stopped on the gravel road and turned on my dying flash light then knelt down to seven year old height. “What wrong?” I asked sympathetically. “I-I miss my dad” she sniffled. I immediately didn 't think anything of…

HBO's fantasy drama "Game of Thrones" season 7 is over. Yeah, we hate that we have to wait so long for the next and final season of this amazing TV show. But it's never too early to start discussing about season 8. The fans keep busy speculating what will happen to Cersei, Tyrion, Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen as our journey through Westeros comes to a conclusion. These are 10 of the theories they came up with. ### 1. Jaime will kill Cersei https://s26.postimg.org/obkjv2g1l/pri_50333042.jpg…

Dear four year old self, I solemnly swear to always be right. And in the words of Anne Lamott, the author of Bird by Bird, “perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.” Growing up, I have learned and experienced my fatal flaw, pride. That a minor moment in time has unconsciously impacted my mindset in life. I hated the feeling of making mistakes; therefore I tried to never make any. It sounds a tad exaggerated, however, it’s true. I was three years old, when I was…

PS11Q Rudaiya Akhter Class 601 April 30,2017 The Giver : Alternative Ending They went down the hill on the sled. Faster and faster they went, the small cold crystals stinging Jonas’s face but he didn’t care because he knew that everything was going to be alright in a bit. Jonas looked around when something caught his eye. It was small and hidden but he had seen it and knew that it would bring…

“The Tantrum” by AE Stallings initially describes a situation wherein a child allegedly suffers the loss of her mother, however the poet does not explicitly state that the mother has suffered a physical death. In this poem, AE Stallings uses the extended metaphor of “the tantrum” to describe the severed relationship between the mother and child, and further builds on the melancholic tone of the poem through the use of diction. This poem describes a child’s perceived loss of her mother to world,…

When caught sight of Santa by the grinches, they quickly ran away, when came in shining his candy cane up in the air, the elves glad that Santa had come, ran up to him and cried tears of joy. After eating fresh cookies and cold milk that came Santa, the elves quickly rushed back to work, to make presents for all the nice children that had done good deeds, although the elves have suffered from the grinches, they will never forget…

The Loss CREAK went the door. My mom had just come home from the vet. She then called me from downstairs. I didn’t like the sound of her tone. Was something wrong? Am I in trouble? I dart down there to find out. I started thinking about the last time she called me like this. It was about nana dying that time. I moped around the house the rest of the day. Hopefully it’s not something related to that! When I got there mom had a strange look on her face. She and dad had just finished bringing our…