In the story of a group of girls who are out for revenge, admiration is not the best way to base your decisions off of. Throughout the short-story the readers are forced to connect with an elementary student, who is the narrator. Arnetta…
They never talk about the girls who drown. Sure, there are news reports. They display images of smiling girls in pretty dresses with bold smiles and dreamy eyes. They show a girl who may have existed. There was the beautiful girl with soft blonde hair.…
If archeologists discovered my room after its thousand-year abandonment, they would come to many conclusions about my life and culture. They could assume that I was a religious, educated student who lived in a fortunate family based off of my Christian books, textbooks, and jewelry. The archeologists may conclude that I lived in a culture with the freedom of religion and concern for the earth’s resources based on my Bibles and numerous global warming books. Furthermore, my baby teeth, carved wooden art, clothing, and pressed flowers would enable them to use carbon dating to calculate my relative age range and time period that I lived in. On the opposing end of the spectrum, they may come to drastically different conclusions as well.…
Sugar Rush It was a foggy Halloween night and I had just finished putting on my zombie costume. I was a zombie from The Walking Dead. The smell of rubber filled my nostrils as I put my mask on. A realistic scar stretched from my chin to my eye! I wore teared brown rags for my costume.…
Okay, today i want to explain how i began to realize how addiction can drastically change someone 's life and how that it 's not something to take lightly. It all begin on Watson road back in the early 2000’s. Growing up my dad was either in the city of locked in my basement. I vividly remember going down stairs in the basement as a 5 year old seeing hundreds of beer cans scattered around the floor. And that to my memory is where it began.…
In 2008, all of the female first graders, and probably even a few of the male first graders, had a crush on the same seven year-old kid (for his sake and mine I'm going to change his name to John Smith). In the years to follow, the entire elementary school would have heard of and, of course, fallen for John Smith. But for the moment I, being a naive, newly turned seven year-old, thought that I would be the one to date John Smith. So one day towards the end of the school year, my teacher announced that we would be playing heads-up seven-up!…
“I knew it was getting bad when everyone would tell me that I needed to tone it down, they would be like, ‘hey man, it’s getting out of hand.’ It was like the medication would take over my body and mind and I felt energized, I felt good. But, when you are going through that much Adderall, you know, you would run out of it.…
"I cannot understand why you should wish to leave Omaha and go back to Des Moines." Then again, these days I can understand much. The words fell before they reached her and bounced on the floor like a bucket of steel shot. She hadn't even so much as jerked her head. That's her way, I've learned.…
The Diary of a Young Girl." Studysync: Reading & Writing Companion. Sonoma, CA: BookheadEd Learning, LLC, 2015. 372-74. Print.…
The time I smoked a joint. When I was in 6th grade I thought weed was cool and fun. I was an addict and could never stop thinking about it the feeling was unbearable every time I looked at the paper I imagined rolling it up and going into the clouds. It would let me forget about my stress all the problems at home all of the people who bullied me basically me just throwing all my problems out and not caring anymore. I had no fear and the world seemed upside down in a way where I felt like the world wasn’t against me anymore a twist of fate and most important’ly a new beginning.…
Thought Question Number 4 One evening at the Centre 4 girls, seven year old Ellie thought it would be great to pick up a medium sized lizard and kiss it. When she kissed that lizard it left me in shocked state and I wondered why a little girl would do such a thing. It also left me disgusted at the thought of all that bacteria she just transferred from the animal to her mouth. Once she spun around and noticed my response to her actions, Ellie smirked and proceeded to bring the lizard closer to me, despite my pleas that she “stop playing so much.” To my dismay, she didn’t stop, but instead, Ellie proceeded to creep closer and closer with the lizard in hand.…
Hearing my name from her lips was an ecstasy that put me into bliss. I shook my head to regain my focus, “My theory?” I said incredulously. “That I’m high and hallucinating” it came out plain. Then, I realized I was gawking at her, trying to shift my gaze uncomfortably, “why don’t you answer my questions?”…
Furthermore, Cady Heron tried to fit into a group just to have friends and when she met a guy named Aaron Samuels in her math class, she dumbed herself to get his attention. She did not know that he was Regina George’s ex-boyfriend. At that time, Cady Heron was dealing with the information-processing approach: […] a development of focus on the flow of information through the cognitive system.” (11). Practically, everyone in the whole school system knew about the…
Life as a Drug Addict Most people don’t see me doing drugs but I did and it ruined my life but I survived. I use to look down on people who did drugs and I didn’t understand why they did it and why they just wouldn’t stop using them. Then, I became a drug addict…
Every Friday night I would run to my room when I heard the car door slam. I ran as fast as I could to the comfort of my blankets and my teddy bear and waited for the yelling and screaming to begin. Dad had just gotten home from the bar. He had been spending all day smoking and drinking. My parents would fight for hours on end about how my father was addicted.…