All That You Can't Leave Behind

Rock Garden, where you can show your students our 19 large rock specimens ranging from 100lbs to nearly 1 ton. In addition, to our 5 sedimentary, 6 metamorphic, and 7 igneous rock types.” Me: I immediately raised my hand and said, “I am so sorry to interrupt, but that is just fascinating. Unfortunately, I haven 't been able to visit our Rock Garden. I hope I am not only speaking for myself, but I feel like it would be better if we can do a practice tour as a group, so we could all admire the…

Magical realism, like all genres of literature, has proponents along with adversaries. Some critics say that magical realism describes the abject in condescending ways, while others have stated that it is a genre used to escape reality, and still others believe it is complicit in oppression and does not do enough to combat the rejection of the abject. Jazz by Toni Morrison, Perfume by Patrick Süskind, and “The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother” by Gabriel…

casting a blizzard into my room. I look out the window to see who did it, but instead I see the large city of Camelot covered with ice as blue as the sky usually is, and the sky covered in massive black clouds with snow billowing out of them faster than you can say... “Yikes!” I jump out of the way as a few more feet of snow pile onto my desk in the corner.I look at the mirror to see that my brown hair is a mess. My hazel…

I Had a Nice Time With You Tonight. On the App. The article name is “I Had a Nice Time With You Tonight. On the App” and it was written by Jenna Wortham. This article is about these days communication apps and how it is a revolutionary thing. The apps become important things and people cannot live without them anymore. Also people depend on the apps to talk, to express fallings, and to be with their partner in everything and loose the face-to-face connection. Time is valuable these days and…

Behind the glamorous of successful people, they ever had a story from the beginning that they had failure to get into a success. They start from “Zero” to “Hero”. Now as the time going many young people want to reach success in their youth. Unfortunately, some young people did not consider how hard it could be to achieve success. They sometimes think successful person is success because of their luck. And sometimes when the young people meet failure in their way to success, they become…

1. When you read this poem what sorts of sounds to you hear? - When I read it, I hear like music. I feel a sound like a person is running fast and then slows. Like a strong run followed by a smoother one. 2. It is strange that this poem addresses a “you”? Is this “you” the audience? Or, do you think the speaker’s audience is wider? If the audience is wider, who is the audience or reader? - I think that the speaker is referring to all of us in general. The audience is every person who has…

creativity and combine it with my writing. Creating great stories is what the audience likes. The story may be sad, happy, romantic, you name it. Write your own story. Having your uniqueness is amazing but not everyone knows how to use it. I’ve learned that stories are made by knowing what will engage the audience. The audience in your life will be those whom have been there for you no matter what. Show them the greatness that we’ve made and will make. No story had an ending until we…

Indeed, when I was watching, almost all of the contender were great. Due to what she said, I constantly thought about it while I patiently waited for my turn. I admitted that what she said affected me and my confidence abruptly dropped at the point that I almost gave up because of the nervousness…

I PROMISE YOU, I 'M PROBABLY FORGETTING SOME IMPORTANT THINGS. With that being said, let’s begin. All of a sudden, your friend being his/her non-stop complaining of lower abdominal pain, chills, fever, and a little (which means a lot) vomiting. After a few minutes of hearing them wail and moan, you decide to do something about it. After some searching on WebMD.com and MayoClinic.org, you conclude that it has to be, without a reasonable doubt, appendicitis. Who needs a doctor when you have the…

when she couldn’t get a hold of you. I told her I would reach you for her. I am sure though, had it been really serious, they would have flown her back to the more advanced facility at the Tower here in the city.” “Oh, thank goodness! Is it okay for me to visit her in Westchester?” Lynda asked. “I’m afraid that due to the classified nature of the facility you would not be able to get through the security checkpoints.” Pepper continued, “however, if I accompany you, there would be no issue. I…