2009 deaths

English Gap of Silence I tentatively walk into the library behind Gatsby. All I notice is how spotless the furniture and books are, which only makes me more confused. I know he doesn’t come in here often yet it is so well kept. I wonder what this can be about. Maybe it’s about all these absurd rumors. Maybe he wants to know what has been said about him. I sit down on the crème chaise chair and wait to find out. Gatsby sits, posture straight. I wait expectantly. This isn’t just any…

Researcher 1: We’re recording. Researcher 2: Were recording. Researcher 1: Yes. Researcher 2: So, thank you so much for agreeing to participate in this research study and we have six questions that were going to be asking you, and um, starting with, um, telling us one of the most challenging, one of the most challenging, um infants with NES that your feeding or that you fed. RN A-3: Well, when they come, when they are admitted to the floor. Researcher 2: Uh-huh. RN A-3: Um, we try to…

"Proserpina, my love please come out and eat." I groaned to myself not again. First of all I am not his love, second doesn 't he understand I will not eat until he allows me to leave this place. Although he has been trying so hard, I feel bad to act so cold towards him, because it just really isn 't my personality. I just cannot stop thinking about what my mother is going through right now, she warned me not to go into the garden alone. And what do I do? Exactly what she told me not to, which…

This week was a little difficult not because of school because it is the week before fall break. Last year, did not have fall break due to basketball, but this year I did. (The week of September the twenty- sixth to October the second.) My mind was not on anything school this entire week, but I knew if I wanted my behavior to stick I would have to keep it up. The week was not that bad. All my teacher were taking notes and just getting ready for mid-terms after fall break. Thursday we had project…

helps enforce these attitudes in me constantly with her spirited personality. My grandmother joined me after she passed away on my tenth birthday. I didn’t know her well prior because she lived in Ontario and my family lived in Calgary. But after her death I realized that all the stories of her were true. She was a hard ass, a dominant character, with piss and vinegar in her step and a presence like no other. My grandmother wasn’t always a kind lady but she always got what she wanted and she…

Stop trying to rush time! You’ve always had trouble with this. You have always wanted to just skip the part of being a teenager to just jumping to be an adult, but that’s not how life works. In some of this your parents have a lot to do with, because they have taught you to always act mature. But the one thing they never taught you is how to be a teenager, make mistakes and just enjoy life as much as you can. So stop trying to be something that it’s just not the time for you to be. Yes, be…

stomach virus half their team had, making Ricky’s team the undefeated champions. He’d chalked up all the weird things that ever happened to him as luck, or he wouldn’t think about them again. Both of which worked fine for him. “Since your father’s death you….” “Shut up! Don’t bring him into this, you as—” “Don’t finish that.” Mr. Anderson interrupted. Ricky rolled his…

Zedina Martin Dr. Adair English 201 8 March 2018 When there is love anything is possible, not! The poem “The Passionate Shepherd to his love” is a pastoral and romantic poem by Christopher Marlowe that has a focus on the Shepherd’s love. The speaker of the poem is the Shepherd. The poem “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” is a poem by Sir Walter Raleigh in response to Marlowe’s poem. A Nymph is the speaker of the poem. Raleigh’s poem is a direct mockery of Marlowe’s poem and all the claims and…

Desiree’s Baby by Kate Chopin. In 1893, this short story was published as “The Father of Desiree’s Baby” in a magazine. Madame Valmonde and Monsieur adopted Desiree for the reason she was found abandoned when she was just a little girl. As she grew older, she found the love of her life, Armand as they had so much love for one another. They had a child, and as soon as they had the baby, the relationship turned out to be bitter and complicated. After a few months passed, Armand and Desiree…

The significance of the body “I hate my life” Fred said with exasperation, “all I do is sit around like a bump on a log while the neon fish swim happily about, and to top it all off, I look like poop and eat algae. I know this is why Phyllis the Fish Man traded me for Susan the Seahorse. Cant a plecostomus get some respect?” “Get over here Fred!” Larry cacophonously shouted, “I need you to do something for me.” Larry the freshwater angelfish always antagonized…