Melba is my name. I was one of the first black students in the United States to attend an all-white high school. My friends and I had to fight racism in its many forms throughout our lives. I had to transition from a being a normal teenage girl to one of the tough warriors. When i started school at Central High School, I had no idea of the strong discomfort I would had needed to face.…
Carissa Gipson Finally we found some trees and wherever there’s trees there’s water. We got out of the car and I could tell that my baby Gina wasn't doing so well. It felt like every step was draining the life out of us but I didn’t want to die so when Jenny fell to the ground with exhaustion, I helped her up but she was almost burnt by the ground.…
Profile: Heather Berry Heather Berry is a woman of faith, she is a Baptist and is a preschool teacher at Providence Baptist Church, of which seventy-five children are enrolled. Prayer is definitely an aspect of her faith that affects her everyday life, she believes that taking her prayers to god no matter how big or small is very important and that even if prayers are not answered in the way or timeframe she wants, God's timing is always perfect. "Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. "Philippians 4:6.…
What if you discovered that a loved one was a serial killer? We’ll that’s what happened to 17 year old Bonnie Stevens. Bonnie thought that she had a completely normal life until she found something that would change her forever. She found a book sitting on the kitchen table.…
I saw Sheila Brown today. She continued to exhibit paranoia and delusion. Despite her acknowledgement of ‘feeling slightly out of whack’, she was adamant that her suspicion on both of your intentions and manners were real and unrelated to her psychotic symptom. She was specifically fixated on Kimberly’s ways of talking. What concern me the most is her statement about not being hesitate to fight if anyone, including the staff, continues to disrespect her.…
“Thank you Old Lady Daniels!” I turn to face the faded white picket fence and continue to lightly skip to a rhythm, trying my best to dodge the cracks of the sidewalk leading out of the lady’s house. She sits on the wicker rocking chair on her dull porch that’s coordinates with her dull house which coordinates with this dull atmosphere. Once I start to get close to the road, I turn to face her to offer her a friendly wave. “Goodbye, Gregory.…
Today Allie has got out early after school and she went to the mall there was nothing unusual everyone was doing their own business and Allie had to use the elevator so when she got into the elevator she was alone, and she pressed to go from first to the second floor. But the elevators lights suddenly stopping working and Allie pulled out a flashlight and when the elevator started moving down, Allie started yelling for her and from the elevator pipes, which were some kind of smoke started coming out and Allie started feeling dizzy and the second she blinked she fell asleep and the gas that was coming out it was a “ fall asleep smoke bomb”. The bomb made sure that Allie was asleep for one hour.…
Gone Dear Fiona Loomis, I don’t know where you are we haven’t talked for a few days and i’m worried. For the most part I know you may not read the newspaper but someday you will. Meanwhile you told me everything, everyday until no more could be told. I didn’t feel like we were friends I felt that I like you, for intiutive mind and stories that gone for days. I don’t know if your back in the world of aquavania where you said stories are made.…
Roller Coaster with Auggie’s emotions? Great friends? Sure, you could argue that. But you could also argue that along the way, people have said things about him and to him that is so cruel, it will stick with him forever. He will not forget the looks people gave him, and the terror of even touching him.…
Wow! I can’t believe Hana and I had finally graduated and in a few months we’ll all be cured! On The Fourth of July I go over to Hana’s house to celebrate our tradition of watching the fireworks together. As i enter her house, I hear loud and forbidden music blasting out of Hana’s room. Once I entered her room, Hana confessed to me that, she is listening to illegal music and attending a party past her curfew with boys.…
Melinda begins high school as an outcast. She has no one to sit beside, no one to match class schedules with, and no one to eat with. The kids at school are angry at Melinda because she called the cops. Melinda won’t talk about what happened that night with anyone that she was raped. “she won’t say anything!…
do with you and that you have to move. ”She sobs some more and looks at Nina while she says, “ You can stay with me and Casie tonight one last night before we have to let you go away from us so that way you don't have to go back to your house alone to pack your things… ”Casie and Nina pull Amelia in for a tight hug and tell her that everything is going to be okay. Then Casie asks uneasily, “ Can we skip school to help you clean out your stuff so that way you don't have to deal with your family and it is a lot easier plus we can go out and have fun afterwards?” Nina and Amelia look at eachother and say at the same time, “ Yes we can now let's go!”…
It’s over, I beat them, and they won’t do anything to me anymore. BANG! The sound echoes in my ears as I feel a sharp pain rupture through me, I look down to see streaks of red bleeding down my white shirt. A cold, hard bullet penetrated into my chest, I cried out in anger and agony. I start to lose consciousness and saw a blurry figure standing above me, “Your deed is done,” then he disappeared into the night.…
Today I am going to talk, in very abridged form, a little bit about my experience of getting to know the amazing person who goes by the name of Cecilia Bernard, and what I have learned about her over the past three years of knowing her, which was both a fortunate and unfortunate event. Fortunate, obviously, because I got to meet her and see everything great about her. Unfortunate, though, as it took me as long as it did to meet her. What I first learned about her is that she was very open and inviting. I found this out on the way to New Orleans.…
“So you do associate with the riff-raff now and again?” Weevil spoke close to her ear over the music, from behind; she surprised him by being here, he figured he could at least return in kind. A shady dive in the ‘02, it’s exactly the kind of place she shouldn’t be but somehow always ended up. Spotting the blonde, wavy bob from across the bar, Weevil just couldn’t go back to his drink the same way. It was her, alright, but it was a version of her Weevil didn’t find wholly familiar.…