Bag

When my grandfather passed away in 2008, everything changed. However, it wasn’t the actual passing of my grandpa that impacted me the most; it was the influence it had on my grandmother. My grandfather had Parkinson’s disease, and his last few years were very difficult. It got to the point where my grandmother was unable to care for him in their home, so he stayed in a nursing home for a while. When his days became more and more numbered, we decided to bring him home so he could be in a nice,…

Melissa dragged out the first bag from the big dumpster and poured it into the bathtub. It was a mushy mess and smelled as if someone died. In the tub there was tons of rubbery hamburger patties left, soggy fries and mushy bananas. We did this four more times, and found absolutely…

I had recently woken up and was still in bed. I reached over to grab my pack of Juicy Fruit and pop two pieces in my mouth. I checked my clock and it was 6:00 AM. I noticed my covers were alongside my bed. That's weird, I mean for normal people but I have a tendency for sleepwalking so I guess it’s pretty normal. “Shoot! Dammit!” I whispered as I remembered my science project was due 1st period. “Oh no no no, C’mon!” I followed up with after I opened my computer and it started to buzz and whir…

would take about 20 minutes to pick up, and then we could leave. So, my first impression of this was that it wouldn’t take the two hours assigned and we could leave in no time. I was wrong. I had filled up two trash bags within the first hour! And at the end, there was at least 50 trash bags that everyone else gathered up. That’s not even counting the pieces of Styrofoam or even the tires that were found. It was very surprising because I didn’t know one little area could get so dirty. But after…

the recruitment base. For some it may have been a long journey, but for me, it was almost in my backyard. All the kids carrying huge bags that were probably received from their high school as a graduation gift. In other countries graduates receive books or special pens. In Israel it’s a special bag for the army with the words “With Love” and the cities name. These bags are packed for two weeks as they were told to do, not really knowing whether they would be coming home this coming weekend or in…

Even though there are a multiplicity of people who hold the opposite side of the opinion about random locker searches, there are fascinating number of individuals who believe that random locker searches should be manacled. Above all, random locker searches will be an invader to students penetralia. Random locker searches can be a huge invader to the student private items. If a student of the school has some kind of distemper has to have medicine and want to keep the disease a secret, then he…

becomes greater because most of the plastic takes a long time to break down. The plastic that is in the sea will thus remain there if no one picks it up. Many sea turtles examined eaten plastic bags. Scientists believe they easily confuse plastic bags with jellyfish, which sea turtles happily munches on. Plastic bags can at worst choke turtles or be in the way of real food . Some other animals very often eaten plastic are seabirds. There are sea birds, marine mammals and turtles that have…

Being proud of who you are is an important thing to live by. In the short story of The medicine bag by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve; Martin a boy with, native American roots, is surprised by his native American grandpa. The only problem is Martin is embarrassed of his grandpa and finds out that he must carry out the tradition of carrying the medicine bag. A brown leather bag that has been carried throughout the family and stored with important things. This story is interesting and brings many…

Scarlett Skye was an average girl. She is 17 years old and 5 foot 10 inches, she had dirty blonde hair and blue eyes that are as bright as the sky. She has an oval face with peachy skin, she has slightly plumped lips and a nose that fits perfectly on her face. She has a model like body that is slim, she not weak girl, she is the strongest girl in the school. She is very athletic and very determined to win, she loves to play lacrosse, soccer, track, cross country and basketball. She was voted…

in? Nothing, thought the man, he shouldn’t open the door—but no. No, curiousity lashed out, longing to seize control—! The man had made his way across the room and he threw the door open violently, revealing a little old lady grasping a brown paper bag. Her mouth gaped in surprise for a second or two, but quickly returned to a natural looking, business-like frown, her brows furrowed and eyes bright with intent. “Detective Firstname Lastname?” she said with a heavy English; and—on seeing the…