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modified wheelchair. Unlike standard ones, this one had a higher back and the foot rest went straight across. Neither of them knew how well Johnny would be able to balance on his own quiet yet and felt it would be better to be safe than sorry. “Alright, Johnny,” Dave explained as he moved the wheelchair around. “I’m going to put the wheelchair a few steps away and once we have the footrest here moved, we’ll have you sitting here. Doctor Early still wants to keep you leaning back a bit, so as…

Lord of the Flies Alternative Ending He could hear them crashing in the undergrowth and on the left was the hot, bright thunder of the fire. He forgot his wounds, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet, rushing through the forest towards the open beach. Spots jumped before his eyes and turned into red circles that expanded quickly till they passed out of sight. Below him, someone’s legs were getting tired and the desperate ululation advanced like a jagged fringe of…

Comparative Essay – Can social disabilities affect an individual’s perception of the world and how they interact with their external world? Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (TCIDN) is a murder mystery novel which takes place in the year 1998 in and around the town of Swindon, England and Sofie Laguna’s The Eye of the Sheep (TEOTS) tells a story of a dysfunctional family which is set in Melbourne’s west, Australia. Social disabilities can affect an individual’s…

towards us, but in the heat of the moment and after, I was calm. All I was thinking, “Is everyone else alright?”, before I worried about myself. Which is strange for a ten year old to think. No one was hurt despite everything. The people from the other car were fine to. Their car skidded just ahead of us and also hit the fence. The next thing I knew, there was many cars stopping to see if we were alright. An ambulance and firetruck showed up a couple minutes later. After a while my granddad…

Teenagers lie in a gaping abyss between the innocence of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. What defines a certain teenager is often how they cope with this intermediate phase. What choices do they make? Are they responsible? How do they respond to adversity? The life of Holden–the impulsive protagonist of J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye–offers a clear example of how uncertain, and frightening, this period can be. Holden ricochets between childhood and adulthood, a result of his…

Taking defense, I aimed my fist into its stomach, pummeling it as though it was a battering ram until finally, the bird crumpled. When it was apparent the peacock was no longer moving, I cast it aside. Examining my hands, I could now see they were scratched, covered in blood. What had I just done? To my horror, up above, I watched three more silver bird perches lower. I glanced to my side, now noticing the chaos ensuing all around. More peacocks were on the floor, charging, assaulting. Maidens…

“The fear of falling apart”, “Words are knives and often leave scars”, and “Don’t try to sleep through the end of the world and bury me alive. Cause’ I won’t give up without a fight” by Panic! At The Disco from their song This is Gospel is very important to me because it’s like saying no matter how hard you push and pull on me I won’t give up and that’s really encouraging to me. The way I can apply it to my life is I was bullied, cursed at, and yelled at all throughout middle school by other…

Bo Burnham is an influential comedian who incorporated both modern comedy and modern events to create songs or poems. Most all of his songs and poems poke fun at certain events or troubles and subjects that people don’t like to talk about. He uses catchy tunes and catchy lyrics to convey a hidden message or something that is interoperated in many ways. The uses of satire are prominent in all of his songs due to the hatred he has for certain aspects of the modern era. One of the ideas he uses if…

In the second to last paragraph of Tillie Olsen’s “I Stand Here Ironing”, Emily’s mother, who is the narrator of the story, gives the reader a succinct synopsis of her recollections of her life raising Emily, her oldest daughter. She recounts, in summation, the events that shaped her and Emily’s early years together, and which frame the rest of the story to that point. She explains how and why these events influenced here parental decisions, and the effect those decisions had on the psyche of…

The Money Conspiracy People always think that in order to be on top, you must be rich. Others think that money is important to the American Dream. Money is not necessary to achieve the American Dream because before there was money, people treated each other equally. In fact, money made the people turn against each other by killing, robbing, scamming, and many more terrible money abuses. My first reason to why money is not part of the American Dream is because of the bible quote, “The love of…