Coming of Age Essay

Oh That Sarah Sarah Zagorac is just your normal below average young adult. Sarah is a naive girl with no friends, and no future. State Farm khakis are brighter than her future. At the end of senior year at William Harrison High School, her yearbook quote was, “When’s this due ?” “Stefen, I love you.” Vampire Diaries, “The Turning Point.” As Sarah watches this show intensely, with the lights off, she hears a thunderous bang. Sarah is home alone, so most people would go and check it out,…

Prologue The night I unfortunately was removed from my family was the worst thing that could ever happen to me. It all happened so quickly; therefore, I couldn’t do anything to stop it! Thrashing and screaming, but I went down a fighter. The diversity of masks and distorted faces that watched me thrash the way through, whispering and bickering as I had been thrown into the middle of the crowd. The rain poured down as I sat there, shakily; my breath was heavy and unsteady, sounding really…

Everyone knows what it feels like to have expectations put onto them. Expectations the come from personal experience or from other people. A need to improve and do better, have the next generation be better than the previous one. Expectations that will hopefully help to motivate someone and encourage them to be the best that they can be. Yet sometimes expectations can have the complete opposite effect on someone. Destroying them from the inside out and causing them to suddenly not care anymore.…

Bugs love me. It is an unrequited love. In the forests of North Carolina where I have spent summers since I was seven years old, it was a constant battle not to be consumed by the never ending mass of insects who rated me five-star cuisine. Maybe it was my fair skin, the light hue that drew them like a lantern in the night. Or maybe it was my fresh mint shampoo that made them think I was a part of the nature they so adored. Nevertheless I learned to coexist. It was in those forests I learned to…

ALBD essay Imagine how you would feel if you were to be sentenced to death for a crime you did not commit. It would be such a hard experience and something that would be hard to grasp and accept. Think about the people you would need with you to help you to accept your fate and become strong and brave. In the novel A Lesson Before Dying, By Ernest J. Gaines, Jefferson, a young black man is sentenced to death after before falsely accused of murder. This book is about the people including Grant…

Hatchet Head Before I realized what I’d done, “boom”, it plummeted down and hit me on the head. Minutes previous to the accident, I had been on a scavenger hunt searching for the golden hatchet, looking everywhere, up and down, left, right, but still had not found it. I heard my teammate Grace scream, “Check the Fort” I ran inside the open gate and down the long fence. Once I reached the old ladder I didn’t think twice, I sprinted up it. After quickly reaching the first floor of the fort the…

“It’s gonna get harder before it gets easier. But it will get better, you just gotta make it through the hard stuff first.”(“Quotes+about+life+getting+better - Google Search”). In order to achieve hope, one must perform actions in order to get results. This is shown throughout the entire book; it is in the beginning, middle, and end. In the beginning of the book the setting is with all of the kids crashing into the water, and making their way to the land. When they get to the land they see…

The 1970’s began a radical movement for change with the Stonewall riot and the Gay Liberation Front influenced by the civil rights movement, feminism, and antiwar movement. The GLF achieved public support for coming out in public, a new expression of pride for the community, and a growth of movement organizations. In addition, the gay rights and lesbian-feminism movements occurred in the 70’s. First, gay rights ultimately resulted in less discrimination and harassment…

goal I had for Tom was to figure out how he wanted to or if he wanted to come out as gay to his family and friends. Support groups are imperative to helping youth questioning their sexuality to become more comfortable with the possibility of possibly coming out as queer (Sue and Sue, 2009,p477). These support groups have other individuals also questioning their sexuality and going through the same situation and thus could really be helpful to Tom when he decides what his feelings mean and…

I remember when I was 5, the first time I went to a building daily for 8 hours. I sat down on the cold blue chair. In front of me was a bin of crayons, all the colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and purple. I remember sitting in the cold room and having the freedom to draw marks on my blank sheet of paper. The dye scratching against the table, colors spreading across the canvas like the sun, rising in the early morning. Then, there was arts and crafts. I remember…