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.…
Romeo Brave Mercutio, put ye saber away and walk away. Mercutio Come on, matey, dead men tell no tales. Mercutio and Tybalt Fight Romeo Take out ye saber, Benvolio. Let’s beat down their cursed sabers before someone gets hurt!…
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.…
Long Shot [The Camera shows a sunny summer day at a park in the Hillsborough Country Classics. neighborhood. The camera zooms to the basketball courts. Sal is in his dark blue shirt, and his friend Vivek, is in his dark colored shirt. Around the scene, Victor in his red shirt and Asher, in his black shirt are seen walking.…
He had warned her about the book. Now it was too late. “She should have listened” he chanted to himself in an attempt to believe that this was not his fault. That there was absolutely nothing he could have done. He thought that if he kept saying it, then he would soon believe it.…
Romeo-- I write thee to ask thy forgiveness and pardon. I wish that I could undo what has been done to Mercutio; if I could turn back the clocks, I would. By killing Mercutio I have wronged both the Capulets and the Montagues. The city of Verona has been harmed by my actions.…
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!…
"The directions after the ally were clearly not thought out, completely fake, as if he was supposed to die in the ally. The killer must've intended to give the victim a fake map and strike in the ally. The beginning of the map made perfect sense. This was thought out, for a long time." Grayson explained.…
Sasha (Miss Lynch): Sasha, you are super talented. Sometimes you shock me in the dressing room by saying something so teenager-ish, because you play Miss Lynch so well I forget you are not an actual 40 year old women! You do an amazing job on stage performing, and you are an amazing friend backstage. You are so relatable and a sweetheart, I find myself laughing every time I’m around you.…
I’m pretty sure all of you know me .. If you don’t, let me stat off by introducing myself. I’m Shamekia Margon, soon to be a graduate of Carteret High Scool. I’m here to speak upon a couple of lessons I’ve learned. It wont be long, 10 minutes maxx… sit back and hear me out.…
"I don't know Fal's, he's had a screw loose ever since he became a vamp. My best guess is that some people handle immortality better than others and he was damn wrecked when he heard you were dead. " I was trying to make it not seem so bad what he'd done but it freaked me out and I'd seen a lot of screwed up shit so yeah, it fucking bad.…
As I wake up listening to the birds chirping I thought to myself what it would be like to be outside of the house and to make new friends. I had just moved into a new house with amazing foster parents. I just started going to a new school in New York City and the school was named Napoleon Academy. I had a hard time finding foster parents that would want to adopt me. Now, I have great foster parents named Bob and Rue.…
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.…
Melinda spoke causing her future to brighten daily. She stepped over Andy and what has happened to her and began climbing through life again. After she lets the truth out, Rachel starts to see how Andy acts. Realizing that she abandoned her best friend for an abusive, rapist. She’ll slowly begin to be there as a friend for Melinda.…