A Night to Remember

the fact that I hate flying. Once of the plane in South Carolina you are herded like cattle to a holding area were you wait forever with hundreds of other people. In waves you board a bus which will talk you from the airport to Fort Jackson. I remember the moment we got on Fort Jackson and the bus came to a stop, I looked out the window and saw the Drill Instructors (DI) standing there feet shoulder width apart, arms bent at the elbow at a 45o angle with hands overlapping behind them. This…

yesterday and will love her more tomorrow than he does today. But they become more comfortable, more secure with each other and the need for grand gestures of affection fades. It is enough for him that she stays up for him no matter how late into the night he works. It is almost a habit now, coming into his quarters to find her sitting up, expectant, and then laying his head on her lap and letting out an exhausted sigh. She uses one hand to run her fingers through his hair and he entwines his…

chose not to remember. Mandel uses Diallo’s attempt at creating a newspaper and Clark’s Museum of Civilization to express the idea that remembering the past is not only painful but also a reason for “the world [to wake] up” (264). In the settlement of McKinley’s school, a teacher unintentionally told the students that “life expectancies were much longer before the Georgia Flu”…

Figurative language and imagery set the stage for descriptive and mental pictures that readers will remember after they finish these short stories. In the short story, “The Landlady,” Roald Dahl writes about a young man named Billy Weaver was on his way to The Bell and Dragon when he felt some sort of compulsion to The Bed and Breakfast nearby. The women who had answered looked completely innocent to Billy for she was very kind. Billy then went inside and soon after signed the guestbook, but not…

PROMPT: What was the environment in which you were raised? Describe your family, home, neighborhood, or community, and explain how it has shaped you as a person. “What do you want to do when you grow up?” “I want to do homework,” said my four year old self. Well, I wasn’t completely wrong. Sometimes I think of what I said as a curse because now, doing homework feels like my full time job. Most children at that age would probably say a policeman or a ballerina. However, the only thing…

stamps I am RUINED I learned about rape when I was 9 years old I was watching degrassimwith my sister an older cousins whomwere visiting from Florida. I asked my sister what they were talking about 'when someone forces you to have sex with them'. I remember hearing the word sex and smiling embarrassingly at my cousin who adverted his eyes. I asked what is rape not knowing if it was a noun, adjective or verb. 'Lo rape' it sounds to ordinary like it would be in one of those books they use when…

midnight during the winter. white powdery snow on the ground, the night sky becomes so different in the country - its becomes like that father and farther away from the city. The stars in the city are like the city dwellers who they look down upon unwilling to come out during the night out of fear. the celestial delights of the night sky, everywhere, they surround us all the time but it's in the country, where if one looks up at the night sky the world becomes a planetarium - the specks…

perspective on many topics and my plans as a future teacher. During the service learning project I participated in many of the events offered. I helped at Caze Fall Carnival and Chili Cook-off, Boys and Girls club Halloween Carnival, and Foster Parent Night Out. I loved every single one of them. Each experience was unique in its own way and I learned something different about myself and families from each one. At the Caze Fall Carnival, I had the opportunity to work in the kindergarten booth…

Millard Fowler was about to ask his soon-to-be father-in-law a question. He went out to where he was, and caught him with a gun, about to commit suicide. Millard’s soon-to-be father-in-law did not kill himself on that night, but he did kill himself a few nights later. Suicide was a more common occurrence during the dust bowl. One major reason people would commit suicide is because of the economic strain. It was very difficult to make money during the dust bowl. People were scared that they…

He remembers when the Russians would come and how you had to be extra respectful to them. He was so happy every time he saw a Russian soldier. To be respectful of the Jewish culture, instead of calling them by numbers they called them Yireh. When the Germans…