Sacrifice Essay

When you stroll into an amusement park you should notice crowds of people and long lines. You should hear screaming, all the rides and pitchers pitching sales, right? Not in my case. The sun had just risen as we pulled into the empty parking lot with only the sight of the band members unloading from the yellow school bus. It was a very crisp morning so we waited in the warm car until they let us in. We finally were allowed to walk in and listen to eighth grade band perform their melodies. As we…

How to live and die in John Green’s Looking for Alaska "There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them” (Denis Waitley). The novel Looking for Alaska by John Green is about a formerly lonely boy, Miles also known as Pudge, who is the protagonist and his ultimate goal is to seek a Great Perhaps. He arrives at Culver Creek Boarding School where he is immediately swept away and pulled into a fantasy by the antagonist,…

I can remember every single detail and every event that led me to meeting some of the most fantastic people I will ever know. I remember it was November 12th, and I saw a post on Tumblr from a blog I follow, run by a transgender boy named Mikey from Vina, talking about seeing a band, FrnkIero andthe Cellabration live. I also happened to like this band, so we started talking, and I asked my mom if I could go to the concert, even though it was 2 hours away in San Francisco, and to my surprise, she…

“Three, two, one … victory,” but instead of feeling satisfaction I’m mainly feeling aggravated. This was due to the fact that I continually perished to my adversaries; as a team we did great, just some examples would be , being on the objective, seeing our enemies in effective formations, and our team worked in unison or together. I instantaneously deactivate my console and stop playing… this got progressively worse almost to the extent of enragement. I didn’t desire to have this sensation so I…

I knelt beside my bed, hands pressed together, praying for the Gods make my parents death quick and painless. I wanted my parents death so intensely, so long had I dreamed of this day. It may seem selfish of me to be asking for this, but it had been nearly four years since I'd set foot beyond these walls and my patience had long since worn thin. I did not asked to be born cursed. It was simply the fate I had been given and I blamed no one, not even the goddess Cailleach Bheur who placed this…

It had been a week since my last weird dream. I had not told anyone, and I was starting to think they were just dreams. Nothing more. It was the middle of October, and my birthday, which was coincidentally on Halloween, was coming up. It was a rare birthday to have in the Worthy Realm. Usually angels born on Halloween are just a bit crazy—or totally crazy. I was not crazy though. Well, maybe I was rather crazy—but everyone was in some way. Saturdays meant no classes, which meant I wasn’t…

BANG!BANG! Two shots ring out from the drug dealers safehouse. THUMP!THUMP! The bullets land. A young police officer looks over and notices that Detective Dan is lying in a pool of blood behind a cop car. “Sir are you okay?” Dan thought about his son, his wife, and all the good things in life, before he passed out from blood loss. The young police officer quickly called the ambulance and Detective Dan was transported to the ICU, nearly dead. Earlier that night, Thomas, Detective Dan’s son was…

Courage: A Tribute to Moral Bravery Courage is not completing and succeeding at a task, but having the moral bravery to even risk the attempt. The definition of courage, according to Merriam Webster Dictionary is “mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty.” In the book, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the value of courage outshines any other theme presented. Taking place in the 1930’s in Alabama, prejudice is still alive and thriving. This…

I was shaking in the front seat of my moms car. The clock shined a bright 7:53 in my The Man In Black eyes. 7:53, that was only seven minutes away from the bell ringing announcing that first hour had begun. I had never been late to class in my life and I definitely didn't want today to be day one. As we pulled into the school drop off zone I plunged myself out of the car, yelled bye to my mom, and sprinted into the doors of the middle school. I had to run down a long hallway to…

Quiet breezes blew against a window at the dead of a night, resembling absolute peace. It was an ordinary day in Alicante, pedestrians roaming the streets in the daytime, and vehicles busily occupying the streets in nighttime. A manor house stood in the middle of the civilization, inhabitants asleep… except for one. The figure slowly but firmly began to chip the backdoor. Nobody knew who or what this figure was. The only aspect they can decipher about this figure is that he was infamous for…