My name is Asiel Dimas and I am writing to you because you are my favorite player in the league right now. I’ve always admired you since you were drafted by the Lakers. I think you and Ingram will be the future of the Lakers. I hope in a few years you can lead the Lakers to the finals and win and not blow a 3-1 lead. I hope you can write me back when you read…
“We assemble here today, to come to a verdict on The Captured Children vs. Edward Riddle,” the Judge said, as she sat down at her chair and began sorting through loose pieces of paper on her desk. “Mr. Yosenti, bring me up to speed on this case.” The courts man nodded and went to the podium, where he cleared his throat to silence the room before he began talking. “The abductions of 16 minors took place in the late hours of December 26th, 2015. Eight girls and eight boys, all seventeen years of age, were smuggled into Argentina by a businessman from Chicago:…
This speech was delivered by Ashritha Karuturi, a sophomore in high school, at the University of Chicago as a part of the Take Action Chicago campaign to an audience of about 1,000 students ranging from high school to college from Illinois. The influential speech concerned homelessness in the United States, specifying in Chicago. It was a powerful call to action that motivated future leaders and innovators to take a stance against a condition that controls 610,042 Americans each night. The speech not only encompassed statistics and powerful personal stories but also example of ways to help cure the cause. The powerful speech carried out the goal of implementing a strong desire in youthful minds to make a difference in their community and better the nation.…
Hero’s Journey CALL TO ACTION Blip. Blip. Buzz. Text messages one after another came on Asian Name’s iPhone screen. They read, “Where are you?…
Day 1: The Blake forest is une of the most beautiful things I've seen. My friends and I were camping for the winter break before entering college, we thought we were going to have fun but that was our mistake. It was night when the real hell began, we were all sitting around the campfire telling the typical horror stories that our parents told us when we hear a branch break. "Who's there?…
I don’t know why my parents named me Jack Clover. Actually, I don’t even know why they decided to give me a name if they were just going to give me the life I have. Ever since I was younger, my parents were never home. Mom was always out, cheating with other men because my dad was an abusive alcoholic. She practically left home when I was only seven.…
Black Hawk's Surrender Speech describes the fall of the Native Americans amd his own fall as well. Black Hawk uses nalogies and metaphors to paint the fall of his people and himself. Black Hawk speaks of battles previously faught against the white men and how their advanced weapons were taking down his people one by one. He compares the bullets to birds in flight when he says,"The bullets flew like birds in the air..." Black Hawk's use of this analogy to create the image if the battle.…
Dear ……. I remember it like it was yesterday. The day I came face to face to my worst night mare. I can’t put into words the pain I felt. The pain that caused my body to shut down my heart to hide away deep into the depths of my chest.…
I stood there as the sweat ran down my palms, I looked out the lightly tinted windows from my classroom. I could see my pale skin, shaking, watching drops of sweat hit the floor. My honey-colored eyes turned dark as a marble. I watched every cop frozen with unexplainable fear in their eyes. There they stood, stiff and surrounding our school like scavenging vultures.…
Things had changed in the beast’s castle. Though the world outside was always shrouded in snow and night, the halls of the keep were always full of candlelight. Rosa and the beast rapidly became great friends with each other in the days following the shift into winter. Every day from bell to bell, they seldom left each other’s sides. “…And that’s more or less a complete history of the United States,” Rosa said, finishing her lecture on American history as they both stepped back into the entrance foyer, lit up by a restored crystal chandelier.…
“Are you alright, Aarushi?” My mom questioned, she was mortified when she saw me limping across the pale floor, crying to get to her. She briskly ran towards me, along with my dad trying to help me get to the nearest bench. I was crying, my right foot felt like hot, gushing lava, burning from the inside out, constructing everything to feel like a third degree burn. Suddenly, everything in the world turned black.…
“Abid, pass me the ball!” I screamed at my friend as we played football in the rain. He looked at me and smiled like he knew I would score a goal, and passed the ball. As soon as the football hit the net, a loud sound ruptured the air. I looked back and saw the most horrific sight of my life.…
Memoir “Oww!” I screamed when I bumped my toe against our wooden steps. When I looked down at my toe it was gushing out blood. As I walked up the stairs I was making blood footprints. “Put on a bandaid” my mother yelled.…
I had always thought of my homeland as a peaceful, unharmed land. But now looking through the window within the midst of the clouds, I saw the true scars that I had been unaware of. I had lived a life of ignorance to the outside world. Locked in a small, wooden house with enough health, and nurture to survive. I had parents who rarely visited me.…
We, as humans, have to remember that we are not invincible. We cannot think that, we cannot believe that, and most importantly, we can’t do things that we wouldn’t do if we didn’t think we were invincible. This is the day that lesson came and slapped me in the face. This is my lesson. “DING!”…