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“Mom, I’m going out with the dogs.” Andy shouted out to his mom, Amelia, as he was stepping out the door. “Alright son,” His mother hollered back, as she just remembered something,“Don’t be long I need to meet your father for lunch.” Andy’s mom, Amelia, went into the other room. “Alright, call my phone when you need me to come home.” Andy said quietly thinking that his mom would not hear him. As Andy is walking to the dog park he is wondering is this their last move to a new home or are they…

Bo Jackson Have you ever heard of Bo Jackson? Bo Jackson was a MLB player from 1986-1994 and a NFL player from 1986-1991. Bo Jackson was one of the two pro-sport players in the world. Bo Jackson had a lot of work ethic. Bo Jackson came to fame in the 1980’s as a multitalented athlete. Childhood Bo Jackson was born in Bessemer, Alabama, on November 30, 1962, and was given the name Vincent Edward Jackson. Bo Jackson was the eighth child out of ten. It was hard for his mom to support…

Running down a dark, damp alleyway trash all around me. My long red hair pulled back into a ponytail, which was unusual for me, but I had to keep it out of my deep green eyes. At the time I wasn’t sure what I was chasing, all I knew was, it had to be stopped. I had run five blocks exhausted, I stopped to take a breather. Then I heard it a bang! A loud sound behind me. I thought if the shot had come from behind me, who was the target? I looked down and saw a gaping hole through my stomach. I…

Throughout The Bluest Eye, “Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured” (page 20). The characters live in an the mid-1900s where only girls with blonde-hair, blue-eyes, and white skin are considered beautiful. Throughout The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison explains that beauty is on the inside. In the novel, the influence of popular media is unveiled through the effect…

Compare and Contrast Andrea and Linda are my best friends, they are the most amazing woman I know, yet they couldn’t be more different from each other. Each of them are successful at their jobs, both have very nice homes, and they are both beautiful with fantastic looks and great style. However that is where their similarities end. Their priorities are very different from each other. Andrea is all about her family and Linda is more into her job then a family right now. Their styles…

"Catherine! Wake up! You overslept. Don 't want to be late on the first day of school, you have 30 minutes!" My over excited mum squeaked. I was 17 and yet she acts like I am a 10 year old on their birthday. So far, I have been to literally 12 different schools in the last 3 years, so it is hard being excited for another one. After about another 5 long minutes, I decided to finally get out of bed. "Honey, you have 5 minutes before we have to leave!" My mum yelled at the top of her lungs. "You…

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to lose your parents or not have much money and be in a never ending battle? Then this book and the movie might be for you so if you don’t want spoilers I recommend you watch the movie and read the book. In this paper I will Tell you the differences from the movie and the book of the Outsiders. There are many differences and similarities in the book and the movie. The three characters that look different that the book described is Dally, Two-Bit, and…

Status quo It was X777 at the castle of Fantasia, there was a girl with silver hair and piercing emerald eyes. She was the princess of this castle and was wrapped in warmth and kindness by everyone there and her name was Yona. There were beautiful gardens which had fragrant roses which seemed to have velvety petals and scratchy stems.The halls of the palace were huge and beautiful in which the princess danced in them, she always danced under the sunlights watch and slept in the moon's…

I have a older brother Kyle and everyone thinks I look like him. We both had long hair at one point but mom had to give us a buzz cut. Kyle is a sophomore in college… I guess it’s not college it’s called an Apprentice Program. The Apprentice Program is like a College but he says it is better than a college. He is a plumber and that is why he is going to Apprentice Program. He can not work by himself on the Job I mean job not the name Job, because he is not able to until he goes there 5 years of…

28 Sept. 2015. “Burial Customs and Cemeteries in American History.” National Park Service. National Register of Historic Places, 2015. Web. 28 Sept. 2015. French, Stanley. “The Cemetery as Cultural Institution: The Establishment of Mount Auburn and the ‘Rural Cemetery’ Movement.” American Quarterly 26.1 (Mar. 1974): 37-59. Web. 28 Sept. 2015. Lundgren, Burden S. and Clare A. Houseman. “Banishing Death: The Disappearance Of The Appreciation Of Mortality.” Omega: Journal of…