Tomorrow When The War Began Essay

It was Friday, October 2, 2015, when I stayed the night at my grandpa’s house. I do this every so often to spend quality time with this funny old man. When I walked through the back porch door around six in the evening, I could already smell the sweet aroma of syrup wafting through the air. As I approached the sliding glass door, I could see that he already had pancakes, bacon, and scrambled eggs waiting for us on the kitchen table. It was a “breakfast for dinner” type of night. I slowly opened…

him. Education has always been a big part of my family for many generations. It started with Suzie’s grandmother (my great great grandmother). Suzie’s grandmother walked Suzie and her brother to school every day and carried them across the big river. When Suzie’s grandmother died she could no longer attend school because she couldn 't get across the river by herself. After a few years had passed Suzie’s dad finally got enough money to bring Suzie and her brother to the United States.…

call.” Her face seemed to darken as I said it. I had to go. There was no way around it. “Christopher, I hate that saying. I hate this. Your leaving. You are always away.” Sometimes I’d hated it too, but it's what I need to do for us to stay here. “When?” She knew it was sometime too soon. “I have two days.” All rules are rules. At least I have more time than last time. I watched Helen walk away. Almost wet from the tears. I sat there waiting. We had been listening to the new…

the victims of accidents, diseases, and genetic conditions. They are your neighbors, your family members, and - should you live long enough - they are also you. At best, the human body is only ever temporarily able. We have no way of knowing what tomorrow will bring for us and physical bodies. We will all age and we all will injure, so in the end it’s all just a matter of what we can and can’t recover from. This has been an inevitable fact of life since the very inception of mankind. Throughout…

suffered just as much damage, as an entire nation and its attendant culture sank into a deep-seated paranoia and a frightened submission to the state, the effects of which are still being felt in Russia today. This was, not coincidentally, the era when Stalin's "cult of personality" rose to overwhelming prominence in the Soviet Union, as history was rewritten to make him the hero of every circumstance, his writings were handed out to schoolchildren with a reverence once reserved for the Bible,…

All of this ended to soon when entertainment became dull and rare. The rich were the entertainment but they wanted freedom. No one would step up and take their spot, so they became angry. And their anger only grew. It all started with a massacre. Booms and bangs were all around, screams of the injured people were all you could hear, herds of people ran threw the streets hoping for safety. It was awful , I thought it could never get worse but somehow it did. This one sided war went on for three…

It’s not like I am a bad boy or anything like that. I just failed math, not such a big deal, you know what I mean. I just know if I go home my old man would lecture endlessly about my poor efforts in math. He would always say, “I had to leave school when I was thirteen, that’s a year younger than you are now. If I’d had half the chances you have, I’d...” All that stuff that I could care less about. I wasn’t my fault that he dropped out of school at an early age. This lecture is going to end…

revealed, Meme loves to feel needed. While soon I will be able to drive myself to and from school, I know I can always depend on Meme when I need her. It was a hot and humid summer day in Georgia. I was four years old, and waiting eagerly at the bus station for my great grandmother to arrive. We had been there for about fifteen minutes, seemingly forever to my young mind when my mother pointed out Meme hobbling out from the bus that had just pulled up. I ran to meet her with a wide grin on my…

win, and I really lost badly too. Jordan was the name. I remember looking at her and thinking, ‘you silly mutt.’ “She’s my dog; nobody else's but mine...but I can share her with you guys every now and again.” my dad said with a with a wink. My dad began to let Jordan sleep with me and my brother, whose name is Cam, and we switched off every other night. So it would be a triangle: my parents, me and Cam would switch off with her. It was fun, spending long nights hiding under my blanket from the…

Karma Hi, I’m Hue Small I’m 13 years old. Recently my family was killed. It is June 12, 1863, we live in Pennsylvania. When I say “we” I mean my younger brother Trey and I. My family was really close to each other. I had 2 sisters, 1 brother and then my mom and stepdad. My family was ambushed because my stepdad was a leader of the Union Army. Trey and I were in the back of the woods fishing at a pond. We heard gunshots, we ran back towards the house there were soldiers everywhere, we stayed…