Big Day Out

Three Little Words is a biography about Ashley Rhodes, a little girl who was born into an unsafe family. Her father died, her mom's boyfriend was abusive, and her mom is spinning out of control. In nine years, she lived with fourteen different foster homes. As she lives with somewhat loving families-in one case abusive- she starts caving under the pressure of living without her mother, until she finds the perfect family, and she learns how to say those three little words. Two year old…

The mother tells us she is a "big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands" (876). We can see a large rough woman, who wears overalls during the day and a flannel nightgown when she goes to bed. Because she compares herself to a man many times, we can picture what she looks like. She and her daughters are black, but she describes Dee as being lighter than her other daughter, Maggie. She seems to be dreaming about how beautiful Dee probably is after all these years. She continues her daydreaming…

“Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.” –Peter Hook. On one episode of Fairly Odd Parents, Timmy Turner wished that everyone would be the same. His world soon twisted into a grey, dreary place. All the characters had on the identical grey t-shirts with matching grey pants, they all lived in the same grey houses with the same grey art hanging up. They ate the same boring food as everyone else in the world. He instantaneously regretted his wish when he fathomed how…

were a baby. You were so excited that you were growing up! You were confused though. You kept asking mommy and daddy where you came from, and when will you grow up. Mommy and daddy just looked at you with their great big smile and told you every time you asked that you will find out when you are older. Pg. 11 Fast forward now you are 10 years old. Your teachers tell you about puberty. But you still have questions. When will I go through puberty? When will I get taller? Well young child,…

Conor’s Story Here is a true story that is based on war between good and evil. Year by year, the bad guys and their leader, Randle Bunch, would always come to our land (good guys) and try to take over our land, annihilate our heroes and leader Leo Phantom. Leo Phantom is a very popular and brave warrior who tries his best to protect the land, his team, his family, and citizens in the city. The evil guys, known as “The Blooded Devils”, would always lose to our heroes, known as “The Golden…

Studying here is challenging and the competition is big, but I knew that great things do not come easily in life. One has to make sacrifices, compromises, work hard to reach somewhere in life. So I knew, if I wanted people to value my abilities and make my life worthy, I needed be strong and come out of my box and so I did. This place is helping me grow up on my own, making me experienced and making me more knowledgeable than…

items needed to make a burrito. The restaurant is also equipped with machines where the customers can get fountain beverages. The restaurant also houses a dining room in which the student can eat. The dining room contains tall glass windows which look out onto the busy street of downtown Atlanta. In the dining room, there is also a table near the register where the workers sit while on break. There is also a television near this table, one of the two that are in…

he even taught him how to shoot a gun and-shoot. A shot... a shot which broke him, split him, cracked him. Here, waiting, just waiting. As the boy waited, he tried to remember how the city was when he was young. The sky was always light blue in the day, but black and star-filled in the night. The city below the sky always glowed and shimmered unlike the dusty, crumbling buildings that surround him now. His father once said that people used to…

As we finally got out of school, I met up with Jack and got on the bus. As we sat down in our regular seat, I asked Jack what the new Halo was like. “Well,” he said, ”It’s really awesome! The graphics are in 4k! They look so good! And, The story so far (I haven’t played much, so that we both don’t know what's going to happen) is amazing! It’s been thought out very well.” As Jack said all this, it only made my anticipation of the game grow…

I was hoping that one day something inside of me would just click and I would see my new plan appear right in front of me, but that never happened. There’s no big, grand story of a magical moment where I suddenly realized what exactly I wanted to be my future to be like. Part of the reasoning behind this is that to this very day, I still don’t know the answer to that question. But there did come a time when I realized that I should just examine my passions and figure out which one I could see…