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The Day I Took Flight I was horrified. Not even a little bit of excitement. I did the best I could to show that I was excited. I repeated the question over and over again in my head as I walked downstairs. I could not believe it. I had no way of escaping it. It had to happen. I had to do whether I wanted to or not. Most people wouldn’t say that after someone revealed a birthday surprise. I repeated the question over one more time in my head “Do you want to take flight lessons for your…

While I was going to write a basic fluff piece hiding my true Thanksgiving experience I thought it would be better to describe the events that really unfolded over the last week. When I left Tuesday night to visit my home in Northern Connecticut looking for a little bit of peace and quiet along with tranquility of having a nice vacation surrounded by family. While I did get the surrounded by family part correct peace and quiet along with tranquility went out the window as soon as Thanksgiving…

only bedroom - both covered by plastic sheets held in place with tape, the wood casings warped and splintered” (5). This was one of the realizations that they first faced it was the first thing that they walked into, thinking that they would have an alright American house. Nothing too fancy, but something better than the worn down shelter. After they made it through the night in their new house, they went to get some food at the gas station. “Twenty-two dollars! He said when he saw me. Can you…

Animal Conspiracy Theory “Alright, so it is the night before the voting of the presidential election and the plan is that we will be breaking into the White House and hacking all of the voting systems to help Donald Trump win the election.” “No! I want Hillary to win the election. ‘Better Together!’ Duh!” “Well, that´s too bad, Jim. We already went over this. Everyone voted for Donald, so we are hacking it for Donald to win. I appreciate your autonomy, but stop being anti-Trump.” Welcome to…

It was then that Marjorie realized, that if she left Jerry here she would be no better than his mother. Except for Marjorie still being alive of course. She began to hug Jerry closer now, rubbing his back soothingly trying to calm him down. “It’s alright now Jerry, I won’t leave you here now.. not anymore” She said as she let him go. “Tell you what, would you like to come with me? And not just temporarily.” Jerry wiped away the remaining tears with his right hand as he glanced up at Marjorie.…

It’s almost like someone was wanting me to lose the competition. The fair was in four days and her feathers were everywhere in the hen house, but yet there was no blood to be seen. Waking up that morning and seeing the sun glow through my window was a good feeling, but not good enough for what happened that day. My morning routine was same as usual, get up, get dressed and go outside and feed the animals. One morning, I went outside and I look over at the hen house. Our hen house isn’t…

I woke in this unfamiliar place. There was a lot of weird equipment hovering around this room. Blood pressure cuffs were hanging on the desert sand brown walls. Disposable gloves and mask were inside the shelves with other hygienic things. Red bucket is full of revolting puke as many thoughts were gathering in my mind. Standing beside me was this gray heartbeat monitor. Catheter bags were wrapped around my firm thighs. My body was placed on the moveable place. Bleeping machines were annoying…

Nicola Yoon’s novel “Everything Everything”, is a novel about a 17 year old girl named Madeline Whitter, who just wants to live a normal life. Madeline’s father and brother got into an accident many years ago when she was just a child. After their deaths, Madeline’s mom never really recovered. As a young child, Madeline was always going to the hospital because she was always getting sick. Madeline never had anything too severe, or so she thought. Madeline was told that she had a disease called…

i wake up by the loud sound of crashing waves. i am in Zaroff's bed, lately i have not been sleeping so good but last night i did. Why am i here? What happened? it takes me a few minutes to realize what had happened the night before. i was the first person to win. Am i a winner though? i stayed on the island a few days, it got really lonely really quick. i need to leave the island before any one finds me. On my way out, i grab food, and water so i do not die of hunger or thirst. i make my…

Introduction “Cowards die many times before their death; the valiant never taste of death but once.” At the point when Caesar said this, he knew he would kick the bucket and on account of Brutus. Brutus cherished Rome and would not have liked to see Rome devastated on account of Julius Caesar. Cassius inquired as to why was Caesar to be the lord when Brutus was pretty much as honorable and awesome as Caesar.it turns out Brutus was both a loyalist of Rome and a double crosser of Julius Caesar.…