After Darkness Essay

make the top eight wrestlers in the state championship tournament. Most years haven’t been successful, but last year was different. In The November of 2015, on the Monday that wrestling practice was planned to start, I showed up to practice after all day at school to meet my teammates for the year and plan out the season. This year been my fourth time doing this routine. I thought I knew what I was to expect, until my coach, Esvelt, walked up to me doing his little happy dance and…

Game day. I wake up and that is my first thought. Although it is not the first game of the season, so many emotions are running through me. Western Dubuque is a great team. There is crappy weather coming our way.I need to eat breakfast. Their leading scorer is 2nd in the state for goals. All of these toxic thoughts flooded my mind. One thing I did not know that morning is that I would take the biggest emotional and physical blow later that day. The feeling I get whenever I step on to the field…

No one ever made fun of these kids again after Johnny delivered that punch. I’m sure he scared all those bullies off. I do not agree with fighting, but I was so proud that Johnny stood up for himself like that. I won’t be able to see his shining face anymore, but I’ll never forget that kid and…

Short Essay: After Dark Haruki Murakami tests the boundaries between everyday Tokyo reality and a surreal realm in After Dark. The book follows two sisters who are each present in different realities. In this novel, Murakami uses sleep as a symbol of disengagement and disassociation from the world. The plot bounces between many different locations, but centralizes around Eri’s bedroom and the love hotel, Alphaville. Takahashi discloses to Mari later in the book that his original business of…

I think that afterschool programs would be pointless. If students listen in class then they would not need an afterschool program. Schools last a long time anyway, but if schools had an afterschool program then school would be much longer than it already is. Most students would not even take afterschool programs seriously. It can also interfere with students extra-curricular activities. That is why I think that afterschool programs would be pointless. First of all, I think afterschool programs…

It is now a known fact that throughout time women have been represented in a sort of negative light. Much of the literature of the past has given women a minimal role. It was not until around the turn of the twentieth century that the role of women has evolved. This is when women characters started becoming more powerful as they were now being seen as the hero. The literary images of women have changed dramatically over centuries to reach where they currently are. One story that can provide a…

Today’s parents face a great challenge with after school resources for their children. In today’s society parents are working longer hours forcing their children to be left unattended or left with family or friends. These children could use a safe environment that could offer homework assistance, physical activities and nutritional education. Creating an after school resource center would benefit individuals in homework assistance, learning a new task, or learning to stay physically active.…

many other times I needed to take responsibility, such as cheating on an exam and getting caught for it. I also realized, that I needed to apologize to my father and mother for scaring them by making the mistake I did. I glanced at my helmet the day after my wreck, and noticed a large indent on the top posterior part, which is where I must have hit my head on the ground. I explicated to them how deeply, and truly sorry I was for trying something so dangerous and…

The majority, if not all, elementary/middle schools have an after school program. These certain programs are made for students who may have to arrive at school earlier than it starts, or stay after when everyone has been dismissed for the day. Students usually stay if their parents have a certain schedule that doesn’t exactly agree with the school schedule, or simply if the student couldn’t find a ride home. Although the after school program was made only for the benefit of students and parents,…

After hearing grandfather’s last words, telling him to “go to the island”, Jacob comes face to tentacle with the monster that had killed his grandfather. No one believes Jacob’s story about how the monster killed his grandfather. Jacob begins to get depressed…