Black-and-white films

Birds Town Gone wrong Long ago in birds town lived a little girl and her best friend Tommy. Over the years there has been many lords and many different rules, but never such a rule as no boys allowed like the new lord made. What happens to the boys the villagers asked. The lord soon answered, “They shall be sent to the village across the highway.” Kylie a normal teenage girl is one of the many people that were affected by this rule, as well as Sam. Kylie lost her best friend, Sam…

(AGG) Sisters have a bond like no other, so what would you do if you lost your sister or someone as close to you as Nusrat’s sister was to her? (BS-1) Once Elaine’s sister Margaret died, she suddenly disconnected herself from her friends and her faith. (BS-2) Margaret’s death also resulted in Elaine going to Faiz, where he helped her connect back with people and her religion, but when Elaine’s parents found out about their daughter converting to Islam, they wanted nothing to do with her. (BS-3)…

The highly-anticipated move into our new house was approaching in three weeks. I had been anxiously awaiting this moment, for what seemed like forever. My parents decided to begin their life on Larchwood Court, in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, six months before I was born. Now thirteen years later, it was time to move on. Although we were excited, we were immensely sad as well. We became extremely close with multiple neighbors, and had mixed emotions about leaving the helpful bunch. On one…

How many times? Its the same thing over and over again. I just feel like I'm trapped in the eternal loop that is time, repeating itself again and again until I am granted permission to die. By this point, I don't care whether I live or die, Its just the case of whether I survive my missions, or I don't. Unfortunately, in this corrupt society that we dwell in, money is everything, and for people so lacking in that area as me, we would do anything to make a buck. I work as a hit man for a very…

Girl stolen is about a 16 year-old girl named Cheyenne Wilder who is blind and is kidnapped by someone who is trying to steal her step mom’s brand-new Cadillac Escalade. She was left in the car by herself because her step mom went into the store to go get Cheyenne antibiotics for her pneumonia. The guy steals that steals the car, Griffin, doesn’t realize that Cheyenne is in the car until they are on the freeway, far away from where the car was parked. Cheyenne is freaked out and just wants to be…

Out of all the podcast examples, I think that NPR’s author interview “A ‘Cooked Seed’ Sprouts After All, In America”, hosted by Rachel Martin and featuring Anchee Min as a guest, will inspire me the most as I create my final project. The podcast discussed Min’s book A Cooked Seed, but Martin enriched the listener’s experience by interrogating Min about her life as an immigrant who moved to the U.S. from Communist China, providing the historical context that caused Min to write the novel. During…

In Hills Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway describes a couple’s decision on whether or not they should have an abortion. The man wants the abortion while the woman is being pressured and going back and forth on whether or not she wants the abortion. Ernest Hemingway uses symbolism, introduces modernism, and uses the setting as a means to compare the life or death decision and the topic of abortion as a whole. Hemingway starts off by describing the setting. The couple is sitting at the bar…

The eventful journey of Miles, otherwise known as Pudge, commenced with loneliness. Miles was a high school student from Florida with an insufficient number of friends, so he decided to attend Culver Creek, a boarding school in Alabama. The first person he was introduced to there was Chip, also known as Colonel. He and Miles became closer as they went through copious obstacles together. Miles then met Alaska. Alaska altered the way Miles viewed life, and taught him many superb things. They all…

Code Name Verity is a story about two pilots in 1943 during World War Two. One pilot, her code name Verity, is parachuted over Nazi Germany and is captured by Nazi soldiers called Gestapo and taken to an abandoned hotel that serves as a prison. Verity is forced to write down secret codes she knows which tell where British airfields are located. In exchange she receives back articles of clothing that the Gestapo has taken from her. Mattie, code named Kittyhawk, is the pilot of the plane Verity…

The Monster and Me Years ago, I made a decision to pick up and move to Hampton, VA from my hometown of Dover, DE. I had an encounter with an entity that changed my life forever. I met a monster and had no idea I would become involved with it in the way that I did.This monster was huge in size.The eyes would always glare at you;it had a sneaky demeanor. The circumstances surrounding the way we met were peculiar to say the least. We never had a formal introduction and today I understand why. Our…